I really liked the episode...I think Capaldi is going to be great, but it's too early to say where I'd rank him...there have been some doctors that took me a whole season to appreciate before I loved them. Word has it that he really comes into his own about midway through the series.
Quote from: Ms Grace on August 23, 2014, 07:55:43 PM
And hasn't Clara (or the splintered time fragments of Clara) had interaction with all the Doctors? I found her fretting over his appearance and not understanding him to be the same person to be odd.
Well, that is the thing...it was splinters of her that met the previous doctors, and while she does seem to have received some memories of them, she certainly never got to know any of them like she knew Eleven, *her* doctor. I think she was less concerned about his appearance than she was about his personality. I felt like the show was sort of scolding a certain portion of the fanbase that has been crying about the Doctor not being young and pretty. Which I certainly saw far too much of on the internet since his casting was announced. Perhaps it was a bit too heavy handed, though. I could have done without it.
The scene with the hobo in the alley (who was the late Liz Sladen's husband, btw) was brilliant, as was the whole restaurant scene.
"I bet you don't even remember where you got that face from!" he says as he also sees his own reflection. It'll be interesting to see where they go with that.
