Want to know what your guys opinion on the 50th anniversary special and how it changed the shows direction?

I really enjoyed it. It was lovely having David Tennant and Billie Piper back and John Hurt (JOHN HURT!!!!) as the 'missing Doctor' was great too. And Tom's surprise cameo was superb.

I would have loved to have had Christopher Eccleston in the episode, though, and I think it was pretty easy to see how The War Doctor had been created to fill that gap.

I also wasn't entirely convinced by the Zygon storyline. It didn't feel necessary and at times felt like 'filler', but I am assuming there was a reason for it that perhaps I just didn't get.

I watched it with my other half who's quite a good barometer as far as showing a non-fan's engagement/enjoyment of each episode. He just didn't get it at all which did make me worry it was aimed at bit too heavily at Whovians.

But I like the new 'search for Gallifrey' storyline (which I hope will be a light touch) and I thought there was some great humour and light touches throughout which made it very enjoyable over all.

I think that it may have been there to introduce the idea of the stasis cubes, so that the Doctors could use them to save/freeze Gallifrey.

Love it.

As a one off show I thought it was great,the 3 Doctors played off each other brilliantly.
I didn't think the overall story was that good but I never expect that for any multiple Doctor story,it's all about seeing them together.

As for the War Doctor idea though,not for me,I'd have prefered they'd just used Mcganns Doctor to destroy/save Gallifrey

Love it. The three doctor's dynamic would have been perfect had Eccleston said yes, but as it stands it's still pretty awesome.

The plot feels too rushed and shoe horned for me. Did they explain how the Zygons got a hold of time lord technology l, let alone know how to operate it? The whole Doctor forcing humanity to accept and play nice with an invading force never sat well with me. I mwan you'd have thought he'd have learnt his lesson the last time he did it and The Master became PM

I really enjoyed it. The War Doctor is a great use of a regeneration, and I'll always be happy to see more of him, however unlikely that is. All thirteen Doctors saving Gallifrey is perhaps my favorite scene in the whole series as well.

But the thing I liked most about it was the retcon of the Time War. While I thought it was greatly used during Ecceleston's run, I thought it became overused by the end of Tennant's, so I appreciated that it was played low-key for Smith. I know that there are people who say that the retcon was the worst thing ever, that it undoes the everything the Doctor went through, but really it's something that needed to happen eventually.

The whole Last of the Time Lords thing was honestly getting old, and it needed to be dealt with. Moffat talked about how he was looking to the show's future, and I think he didn't mean a few years from now, but maybe decades, and such retcon would be a necessary.

Can anyone honestly that that the Time War would be a relevant factor during the show's 70th anniversary? Or that the audience watching it then would even really know about it? The Time War needed to be resolved, to get the Doctor out of that part of his life and move on, and "The Day of the Doctor" was the best time to do so.

Love it.

I found it rather underwhelming.

While I enjoyed the dynamic of the 3 Doctors, I thought it was still lacking so much in most parts. I also wasn't too keen on the Zygon storyline, it felt rushed in a way.

Love it. More brilliant than I dared hope, about as close to perfect as any feature length episode of Doctor Who has been.

Loved it even more so when i watched it for a 2nd time. My only criticism was i felt the zygon story wasn't relevant to the episode.

I doubt we've seen the last of the Zygons, after all their on earth now living with us .....

Moffat's best script of the series to date. Makes Blink look really dated.

Day Of The Doctor was what the title says, A Doctor's Day, The Doctor and what his day was like, strange unusual days, it's never usual for The Doctor. I go for love not hate.

I didn't love it or hate it.

I just thought it was a huge letdown after all the hype with a lot of unnecessary subplots which slanted too much towards the New Series considering it was supposed to be a celebration of 50 years. Billie Piper was wasted in the story but on the plus side the rapport between the Doctors was good and Tom Baker's appearance was a welcome boost to what was really another average story in Moffat's Era.

The Zygon/human stand-off mirrored the Dalek/Time Lord war - neither side willing to compromise, both willing to destroy everything to survive. The only thing preventing them is the Doctor, in three incarnations - pulling a trick out of the bag to turn the situation on its head and show them a third way. Much like it takes all three Doctors to come up with a way of saving Gallifrey.

The other part of that, of course, is to show the earlier Doctor that his future is in safe hands, that surviving beyond the destruction of his world is not just tolerable, but worthwhile.

Personally I loved it, being in a cinema with others who enjoyed it just as much was great too (Evan an applause at the end). Not to mention the Capaldi and Bakers appearances!

The interaction between the three Doctors was excellent, bickering away like every other multi Doctor story and John Hurts War Doctor was brilliant as the voice of the older Doctors questioning what he was to eventually become.

Its actually quite interesting watching it from his perspective and carrying onto his next incarnation, the 'war survivor' Ninth Doctor (admittedly it is a tad jarring, the older effects, the terrible Auton Mickey and the burping wheelie bin etc). You can see everything he does is forced, like he's trying to become The Doctor again after so long and doesn't really feel comfortable in his skin until after 'Dalek'. Even at the end of 'The Parting of the Ways', he seems happy that although he is dying, he is dying as The Doctor again You could also use this to argue his final lines as Ten too but that's another argument.

Just my opinion of course. (And I have a tendency to read too much into things )

Do I think it was the best written story ever? No.
But do I think it achieved its intended purpose as a celebration of 50 years of Doctor Who? Yes. Absolutely.
It wasn't without flaws, but it was still an immensely enjoyable episode.

I wouldn't say I loved it but I did like it. It was ok which is a positive for me as I haven't liked a lot of moffatt era stories. The war doctor could have been Mcgann instead of Hurt. I suppose moffatt was engineering the regeneration situation so he could write in the whole new regeneration cycle plot later on. I felt the daleks and zygons were underused. Overall average.

Smith and Tennant were sublime together. I hope it isnt another 50 years untill we see them again.

John Hurt, well..It's John Hurt. Just point the camera at guy and its gold.

The humour in the 50th was delicious, especially from Smith and Tennant.

The Zygon story was the glue that connected the whole caboodle together, though it did begin to sag towards the middle.

The big WOW moments, the battles on Gallifrey, 'All thirteen of them' and the likes were great fanboy moments..

The timey wimey elements linking the 3 Doctors together worked well.

Matt Smith was phenomenal in it.

I loved using 'Rose' as The Moment.

So, as a balls out fanboy 50th. I loved it. Steven Moffats finest work for a long long time.



A few negatives...well what do you expect

Whist I fully understand Mr. Moffats 'rewriting' of the established final events of the time war as we understood them, it still all ties in nicely and makes perfect sense, so massive kudos for that. Mr. Moffat is right, The Doctor would not have pushed the button, ('A Coward, every time') But I still have a little love/hate thing going on with it that I cannot quite explain. I think there is a part of me that thinks all three Doctors should have pressed the button and that it had always been that way. I don't know, something doesn't sit right with me, but again I fully understand why it was done.

Eccleston's no show for the Regeneration. Just imagine that powerful face emerging from The War Doctor's, completely distraught at the thought of what he has just done. It would have been the icing on the cake for this fan.

But if I had to change one thing and one thing only. The frankly awful slow mo hero walk of the 3 Doctors emerging from the painting.


Those personal fanboy things aside, I thought the 50th was pretty marvellous, a truly great Who romp of an episode. I still have it on my Sat box in fact.

Loved the 3D Dalek stalks coming right out of the TV screen and the Dalek Emperor spinning away from the big bang Darth Vader style.

That's about where I am with it. War Doctor thing didn't work for me at all and it was pretty pivotal, so that limited my enjoyment quite a bit.

Love it. Loved it even more after sitting through the dreadful tripe that comprised the next episode on Christmas Day.

I really enjoyed it. Sure, it would have been nice if they'd included the classic doctors, but growing up with the new series, that didn't really bother me.

It was nice to see Billie Piper and David Tennant again, and I loved John Hurt too.

My favorite episode since Steven Moffat took over as show-runner.

John Hurt was good but, as ever, the plot was utter rubbish.