S08.E12: Death In Heaven

[supposebly]

I've been watching some reviews and retrospectives and learned that Matt Smith took some time to decide if he should leave. I wonder if that affected the writing in season 8. I always felt that Moffat wrote like for Eleven in season 8. Or it was simply he couldn't switch gears until later. I wonder if that's why I didn't click with Twelve. I loved all NuWho doctor's before. Or maybe it simply was Clara who made me clench and cringe from her first appearance and that never went away.

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On 1/26/2024 at 8:55 PM, supposebly said:

I've been watching some reviews and retrospectives and learned that Matt Smith took some time to decide if he should leave. I wonder if that affected the writing in season 8. I always felt that Moffat wrote like for Eleven in season 8. Or it was simply he couldn't switch gears until later. I wonder if that's why I didn't click with Twelve. I loved all NuWho doctor's before. Or maybe it simply was Clara who made me clench and cringe from her first appearance and that never went away.

I really wanted a fresh start for 12 with a fresh companion. Where his stories great? Not so much, but I liked him and I thought with the whole Clara (who had too much importance on the show)thing went on way too long. I didn't care for her with 11. I enjoyed 12 with Bill and would so much rather have had her come in much sooner. 

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On 11/8/2014 at 9:45 PM, tankgirl73 said:

Nick Frost.  As Santa Claus.  That's like getting someone named Peter Hare to play the Easter Bunny.  Or Bugs Cottontail.

I didn’t know who Nick Frost was when I first watched this, and I wondered whether it was a fake name for the episode. It does really seem like another alias for Santa. Great casting all around. Loved this whole season. Even the two episodes people consider weak weren’t bad episodes. It’s interesting seeing what the reactions were on here back at the time.

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On 11/8/2014 at 10:35 PM, alias1 said:

even if she really couldn't have known about Jenny

She could have known all that stuff if the Doctor told her, which he must have done.

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On 11/10/2014 at 9:18 PM, elle said:

You know last time it rained odd rain, the only thing that happened was a hospital wound up on the moon with a platoon of Jadoon.

Much as I love the Smith & Jones reference, the last time it rained odd rain (that I can think of), it was because a whole Family was weeping on Christmas Eve. 

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On 12/13/2014 at 1:13 PM, LiveenLetLive said:

Donna was too plain? or too old--despite the fact that she and Tenant are about the same age.

I think it was that the Doctor was too skinny (and possibly too alien) on Donna’s side, as she repeatedly put him down for that, and, on the Doctor’s side, he didn’t want romantic complications at that point in his existence.

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On 12/27/2014 at 9:44 PM, Blue Castle said:

And I sort of like that story--especially how it ends with the two of them lying identically and walking away alone. 

A nice twist on O. Henry’s “Gift of the Magi” in its way.