Doctor Who: Season 10

[Ayen]

I'm convinced Doctor Who is shaping itself according to this thread.

Talk about how Clara is as a character
Clara gets more character development

Talk about how they need another companion
New companion confirmed

Spock fan in the thread
The Doctor performs a mind meld with a Dalek

I don't know what psychic powers you all have developed, but whatever you're doing keep doing it.

[Jinx]

The companion was confirmed quite awhile ago, though!

But yeah, the three Star Trek references I noticed were "into darkness", "resistance is futile", and "mind meld". Possible there were some more that I missed.

[Ayen]

Did anyone else think Capalid looked like he wanted to say "Seriously?" when the Dalek cited the Borg line, but then remembered they were still filming so went back to scrip?

[Formalhaut]

I've never seen Star Trek, so all those references just flew by me.

[Jinx]

Formy:

Star Trek: Into Darkness was the 2013 sequel to the 2009 reboot of Star Trek.

"Resistance is futile" is the Borg's catchphrase. The Borg are cyborgs (hence the name) and, well...the saying speaks for itself! If they were going to reference ST with this quote, would've made much more sense to use it in a Cybermen episode, though, since the Borg and Cybermen are pretty similar.

The mind meld is a Vulcan ability that allows the Vulcan to share minds, feelings, and thoughts with another living being (although Spock did use it on a robot, so maybe it's anything with intelligence!).

Like I said, there could've been more references that I missed. I've been joking about the Doctor Who: Into Darkness thing since they first released the season 8 trailer with him saying that. I'm honestly not sure if I'm more or less disappointed that it actually was a ST reference.

[Lone Wolf Leonhart]

It occurred to me that yesterday was the first episode of Doctor Who without Matt Smith since the Tennant specials.

[blackmage_nuke]

If Mr Pink joins then the Doctor's Daughter just needs to have a daughter to pick up and it will be the original entourage of Elderly Timelord + two teachers + Grandaughter.

Anyway that was all right as Dalek episodes go. I like the Clara development going on.

Not sure yet if it's only people who die for Capaldi's regeneration go to 'heaven' but if it's everyone who's ever died for/because of the Doctor shows up in heaven I hope we get a cameo from Lynda with a Y (from the end of the Eccleston series). Out of all the almost-companions, she's the one I wanted most to become a companion.

[Psychotic]

I liked this episode, probably my favourite of the Capaldi episodes so far. Silly, entertaining and a lot of fun.

[Ayen]

Second week in a row I forgot Doctor Who came on today -_-

Forgot Sailor Moon was on today, too. Blah!

Edit: This was even better than the last one. They keep this up the finale is going to be amazeballs.

[blackmage_nuke]

This was actually an enjoyable episode for a filler.

[Iceglow]

Today's episode, not sure how I felt about it to be honest.

[The Man]

I loved it. One of the best episodes of Moffat's tenure as showrunner, I felt, if not the absolute best. This review highlights a number of things about it that I felt made it work really well. In a lot of ways this is a resolution of themes Moffat has been working with his entire career.

[blackmage_nuke]

Earlier today before I wacthed the episode when we walked past a person muttering crazy loudly to himself my friend commented "typical crazy sydneyer" and I said "He's probably wondering why were all ignoring the invisible spirit companion that follow us around, maybe were the crazy ones"

[~*~Celes~*~]

(SPOILER) I liked when Clara was talking to Young Doctor, saying that he will come back to the barn and he will be afraid and they showed War Doctor and I was like ":o nice" I thought it was a very nice touch.

[Shauna]

I have been enjoying these episodes of DW significantly more than I have been enjoying it for the past few years.

Don't know whether this is such low standards for the show, or whether it is legitimately good...