Gave up on this series of Dr Who after episode one 

I've watched the opening two a couple of times and I'm now getting into it. Cara is making it for me at the moment.

Ghosts. 

I found this picture and think Matt Smith looks better with a tighter hair cut. Gemma always looks lovely. 

I gave up during the last series. I can't take to Capaldi as The Doctor.

I agree Yogi  

Despite his undoubted qualities as an actor, I just don't think he is making an impact as the Doctor. To me it feels like he is struggling to find a distinct personality for the character.

To be fair to PC there have been so many personality variants for the Doctor that it must be getting harder to differentiate yourself from what has gone before.

Sometimes when I watch him I al;most feel I can hear his internal dialogue which goes something like this;

"Just one more series and I can bow out quietly" or "this is not the most inspiring script". You get the general idea of where I am going with this.

Personally I really wanted PC to be an outstanding Doctor as I have always liked his output as an actor.

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Is this series of Doctor Who going to produce each story as a two parter, it seems this way at the moment and they also ran the first two as a feature length episode. Good for marketing on sell through? I seem to remember that back in the day they ran a story over more than one week. For some reason I can't recall if they did that with recent Doctors, although they did have special two parters.

I like PC as the Doctor - and I absolutely loved the first two episodes - best there's been in a long while imo.  I just worry that it's peaked already this season.

Not 100% certain, but it's looking that way. I think I read somewhere that most of them are, but not all. The Radio Times did an episode list at the start of the series and if you pair up the episodes odd/even (i.e. episodes 1 & 2, 3 & 4, etc), each pair has the same director, and most pairs have the same writer (5 & 6 and 9 & 10 are the exceptions),

And no: AFAIK they haven't done this since the reboot. The last two episodes of a series are normally a two-parter, and I think they've started a series with a two-parter in the past, but nothing to this extent.

Good spot Eugene. 

I actually prefer a two episode story structure as it gives them time to develop the narrative and give the characters more depth (no pun intended given the subject matter of the current story).

I believe it's just the first four stories (8 episodes) that will be two-parters.

Selfie with a Cyberman

I think he's a really good Dr Who and has made the Clara character far more appealing.  They definitely work better together than Cole and the previous incarnation.  Having yet another assistant carrying an unrequited torch for the doctor was getting monotonous. 

Yes, completely agree.

Do we think that PC is a guitar player in real life and they are going to work it into as many episodes as possible?

Another good episode last night.

I hope it's not a spoiler... but has anyone seen the title of next week's episode?

Apparently so...  http://www.radiotimes.com/news...guitar-in-doctor-who

I need to re-watch last nights episode as I was only half watching, probably why I found the final discussion between the Doctor and Clara a bit confusing.

I really struggled with the last series of "Doctor Who", but I'm enjoying the new series and am slowly starting to warm to PC in the role.

I didn't expect to say this, but I'm also enjoying the humour, such as the references to Clara helping the Doctor with his, er, "social skills" (e.g.t e.g. the cards in Ep.3).

It's another two parter and the title of the second part is the opposite to the first. Maisie Williams (Arya Stark in Game of Thrones), who appeared in the season trailer, is in next week's.

Oh, now I'm really intrigued!    Thanks, El 

It is intriguing. There has been speculation that Maisie Williams will become Doctor Who's next companion but it's thought unlikely as she may go into films in the States much as Carey Mulligan has. After Carey Mulligan appeared as Sally Sparrow in possibly the best ever Doctor Who episode (Blink), there was speculation that she might become a companion but that's very unlikely.

I am not a fan of  dr who, at least not since jon pertwee left, but I  know colin mcfarlanes dad - my only claim to fame!

Oh, that gives me even more to ponder!   I might have made this up, but I THINK I read somewhere that this series ends without a new companion (not that that rules anybody out, of course)      I agree about 'Blink' - brilliant episode. 

Kaffy,

If you had been another forum member I could have said you are Aimee Ponder.

From a very long time ago - vocals and guitar

I found some of that OK - heard a lot worse.

Thanks for posting El. 

The cover of next week's Radio Times:

Bumping for tonight.

I've not seen Game of Thrones. Is the character aside the Doctor really in the running for the new sidekick?

I would like a change, bring in a bloke and a robot shaped like a yoghurt pot. 

Saw these Doctor Who pics and thought they'd make a good post.

What has he created and what did he mean by: She's a hybrid?

Half Time Lord with her Time Lord tec and half Human I'd think.

Good episode last night. 

Mire technology, not Timelord. The Doctor reprogrammed it, but the device was a battlefield medical kit from one of the Mire's helmets.

I feel like I'm going to be in a group of one with my comments, but I really did not like that episode, I just thought it was poor and the acting felt pretty average too. The expression that came to mind is "going through the motions".

I was really excited about that episode when I saw the previews as the robots looked good.

Hated the yoyo stuff and did not like the Doctor pretending to be Odin.

As a character I really did not care too much for the hybrid girl and if she lived or died.

Mostly I have been enjoying and quite positive as this series has progressed and I hope (for me) that it gets back on track.

yep and me

It's rare that I can make my mind up based on one episode. If I did that I would probably watch nothing, except Fargo 2, which has started well