Doctor Who

[stokeriño]

I kind of like that they're not going to bother to explain that.

[Ant]

Wait..i thought they were going to retcon the whole 13 regenerations thing?

[stokeriño]

Maybe they'll retcon that in the Christmas special, but to be honest it's effectively been retconned already and may as well be allowed to quietly slip into obscurity.

[Lint]

I loved seeing Eccelston even if it was just archival footage

[9 to 5]

Yeah, I liked.

[Ant]

Good point. Moffatt mentioned in a recent interview that this special was going to push it forward for another 50 years.

[Hobo]

It got me in the end.

Damn.

[Cymbols]

At no point has anyone said "incidentally, the Daleks don't get wiped out properly by this so...bit crap, isn't it?".

Didn't it mention at one point that the daleks has reinforcements though, so although loads got wiped out, there would still be more. I'm not massively into Doctor Who so I could be way off.

Either way, I really enjoyed that, thought it was really good.

[Chief87]

Loved that, don't want Tom Baker explained, I'm completely fine with that ending

[Ant]

Yeah the Daleks were never completely wiped out. Cult of Skaro survived didn't they by escaping during the War

[9 to 5]

Or, the Doctor was being the Doctor and showing off.

[gunnar hendershow]

I really enjoyed it.

John Hurt was real great throughout this whole 50th anniversary.

I also was like "holy shit Tom Baker!"

[Benji]

Absolutely lost it at Tom Baker, that was the best surprise, and considering the constant changes in time they've just made, I'd say that allowing him to go to old age before regenerating totally unexplained is fine.

On the regenerations front - why would they explain the regenerations thing now when the thirteenth Doctor can have it hanging over his head for dramatic purposes? It would be stupid to take away a potential future storyline, and with Gallifrey returning I'd say that Capaldi can have some time to have that worry before 'fixing' the regeneration issue.

[Berober]

I kind of like that they're not going to bother to explain that.

"I'll explain later"

[Lineker]

Holy shit that was awesome. Need to catch up on all the episodes now!

[Ant]

Yeah good point Benji. I imagine what Moffatt was alluding to when he said that this would push it forward for another 50 years, was the hunt for Gallifrey

I was disappointed not seeing Rassilon though during the Gallifrey scenes.

[Hobo]

I found the quick cuts and the stuff that was clearly just for the 3D screenings a bit iffy but...

In the end it all worked. I genuinely was sitting mouth agape for the last few minutes I never want them to reference The Curator again.

[Lineker]

Out of interest, why would have Eccleston been so against a cameo? Genuinely don't get it.

[Ant]

He's always said he never wanted to be typecast as The Doctor.

[Lineker]

I get that, but you'd have thought that this would be the exception.

Tom Baker interview on BBC Three right now.