The Impossible Astronaut: 9/10
Day of the Moon: 9/10
Day of the Moon: 9/10
The Doctor Who Series 6 Scoresheet Thread
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The Impossible Astronaut: 8.5/10
Day of the Moon: 9/10
Scores on the doors so far:
TIA - 8.6488
DOTM - 9.0833
Day of the Moon: 9/10
Scores on the doors so far:
TIA - 8.6488
DOTM - 9.0833
Ok as it stands for me:
The Impossible Astronaut - 10/10
Day of the Moon - 9/10 (could be subject to change after rewatches, I thought much more of this episode second time round
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The Impossible Astronaut - 10/10
Day of the Moon - 9/10 (could be subject to change after rewatches, I thought much more of this episode second time round
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The Impossible Astronaut: 9/10
Day Of The Moon: 9/10
I didn't like the way the episode skimmed over the cliffhanger; but other than that I enjoyed it once again.
Day Of The Moon: 9/10
I didn't like the way the episode skimmed over the cliffhanger; but other than that I enjoyed it once again.
The Impossible Astronaut - 6/10
Day of the Moon - 3/10
I love Doctor Who but hated this two-parter. The second episode was the worst episode from the last 5 years IMO. Maybe my standards are too high...
Day of the Moon - 3/10
I love Doctor Who but hated this two-parter. The second episode was the worst episode from the last 5 years IMO. Maybe my standards are too high...
I'll give Series 6 a bit of a break as its started with a 2-parter but its the first occasion I have actually rated two episodes at the start of a series 'Average' consecutively on the Poll (see episode discussion threads).
Rose - Good
The End of the World - Good.
New Earth - Good.
Tooth and Claw - Excellent.
Smith and Jones - Average.
The Shakespeare Code - Good.
Partners in Crime - Good.
Fires of Pompeii - Good.
The Eleventh Hour - Excellent.
The Beast Below - Good (although may change to Excellent).
The Impossible Astronaut - Average.
Day of the Moon - Average.
My reasoning is that the episodes featured some of the best ideas we have seen since the 2005 revival. I'll proclaim now I am not on Team RTD or Team Moffat, I fully respect them both. Each have their strengths and their weaknesses, but it seems RTD was able to compromise far better with what the viewership wanted...this is something that can be attributed to the producers and such as well.
Reagrding the Series 6 2-part opener, I think it suffered the same fate as The End of Time did just over a year ago. It had far too many ideas floating around all at once, and it smacked of its writers confidence and dare I say smugness - the timey wimey 'back on personal timelines' (The Impossible Astronaut) and the ridiculously long opening segments are covered in smugness or something along those lines that makes me feel like I'm watching something that is trying to boast about how clever its being (When in this case, unlike with The Pandorica Opens there are still plot holes in whats going on). In both cases, the plot has been building for a year (with The Specials building up to EOT and Series 6 starting where Series 5 left off) but in neither case was there a neat resolution. Too many questions are not being answered, and regardless of whether or not these questions will be addressed later on in the series, some of it should be done now. Do we know who made the TARDIS explode in the Series 5 finale? Who is the puppet master behind The Alliance and the events surrounding The Pandorica? It was nice to carry the plot over to the Series 6 opener, but these weren't addressed in the story much at all. There are plot holes galore in The Silence, which has left me feeling disappointed with them (And they weren't as scary as many envisioned...the show has had far scarier things in the last few years) as a new entity. These episodes asked all these new questions, enough to keep the entire sixth series busy, what with River Song, the regenerating child, the woman in the door visor at the childrens home, the prospect of pregnancy for Amy. But on top of that, we have all the loose ends of the fifth series as well, and with the series split in half this year, the guess is that some of these won't be addressed until later on down the line. Its such a disappointing feature of the series for me, especially seeing as a number of stories were impacted by these huge developments - Flesh and Stone abandoned the Weeping Angels plot by dragging in the series arc which I found to be hugely disappointing.
I'm not usually one to complain on this scale about the show... I love Doctor Who, and will always tune in for more. But if Moffat wants to have ongoing storylines, he's got to tone down the amount of story threads he has running at once, as it otherwise eats into other stories and leaves loose ends that never seem to get tied up. I was gobsmacked at how disappointing I found both episodes, especially considering I wasn't hyped up for them anyway. Next weeks one is the first one I am actually REALLY looking forward to since A Christmas Carol. There will no doubt be people that disagree with all I have just said, and thats fair enough, it is all after all, at the end of the day opinion, and at the end of the day, its also just a television show. I just thought I'd try to summarise my sheer disappointment at this story.
Rose - Good
The End of the World - Good.
New Earth - Good.
Tooth and Claw - Excellent.
Smith and Jones - Average.
The Shakespeare Code - Good.
Partners in Crime - Good.
Fires of Pompeii - Good.
The Eleventh Hour - Excellent.
The Beast Below - Good (although may change to Excellent).
The Impossible Astronaut - Average.
Day of the Moon - Average.
My reasoning is that the episodes featured some of the best ideas we have seen since the 2005 revival. I'll proclaim now I am not on Team RTD or Team Moffat, I fully respect them both. Each have their strengths and their weaknesses, but it seems RTD was able to compromise far better with what the viewership wanted...this is something that can be attributed to the producers and such as well.
Reagrding the Series 6 2-part opener, I think it suffered the same fate as The End of Time did just over a year ago. It had far too many ideas floating around all at once, and it smacked of its writers confidence and dare I say smugness - the timey wimey 'back on personal timelines' (The Impossible Astronaut) and the ridiculously long opening segments are covered in smugness or something along those lines that makes me feel like I'm watching something that is trying to boast about how clever its being (When in this case, unlike with The Pandorica Opens there are still plot holes in whats going on). In both cases, the plot has been building for a year (with The Specials building up to EOT and Series 6 starting where Series 5 left off) but in neither case was there a neat resolution. Too many questions are not being answered, and regardless of whether or not these questions will be addressed later on in the series, some of it should be done now. Do we know who made the TARDIS explode in the Series 5 finale? Who is the puppet master behind The Alliance and the events surrounding The Pandorica? It was nice to carry the plot over to the Series 6 opener, but these weren't addressed in the story much at all. There are plot holes galore in The Silence, which has left me feeling disappointed with them (And they weren't as scary as many envisioned...the show has had far scarier things in the last few years) as a new entity. These episodes asked all these new questions, enough to keep the entire sixth series busy, what with River Song, the regenerating child, the woman in the door visor at the childrens home, the prospect of pregnancy for Amy. But on top of that, we have all the loose ends of the fifth series as well, and with the series split in half this year, the guess is that some of these won't be addressed until later on down the line. Its such a disappointing feature of the series for me, especially seeing as a number of stories were impacted by these huge developments - Flesh and Stone abandoned the Weeping Angels plot by dragging in the series arc which I found to be hugely disappointing.
I'm not usually one to complain on this scale about the show... I love Doctor Who, and will always tune in for more. But if Moffat wants to have ongoing storylines, he's got to tone down the amount of story threads he has running at once, as it otherwise eats into other stories and leaves loose ends that never seem to get tied up. I was gobsmacked at how disappointing I found both episodes, especially considering I wasn't hyped up for them anyway. Next weeks one is the first one I am actually REALLY looking forward to since A Christmas Carol. There will no doubt be people that disagree with all I have just said, and thats fair enough, it is all after all, at the end of the day opinion, and at the end of the day, its also just a television show. I just thought I'd try to summarise my sheer disappointment at this story.
TIA 9/10
DotM 10/10
I know a lot of people seem to be frustrated that DotM raises more questions than it answers, but I personally love this aspect. It just means that there'll be more payoffs to come in future episodes!
DotM 10/10
I know a lot of people seem to be frustrated that DotM raises more questions than it answers, but I personally love this aspect. It just means that there'll be more payoffs to come in future episodes!
After a couple of watches of each episode i would say;
The Impossible Astronaut: 9/10
Day of the Moon: 9/10
DOTM gets 9 instead of a 10 due to there not being enough answers even though i know they will come later on in the series.
The Impossible Astronaut: 9/10
Day of the Moon: 9/10
DOTM gets 9 instead of a 10 due to there not being enough answers even though i know they will come later on in the series.
The Impossible Astronaut: 10/10
Day of the Moon: 10/10
After last series (maximum 8/10, average 6/10) and A Christmas Carol (2/10), this is a remarkable return to form for me.
Day of the Moon: 10/10
After last series (maximum 8/10, average 6/10) and A Christmas Carol (2/10), this is a remarkable return to form for me.
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