Deep Breath - 8/10
Into the Dalek - 8/10
Robot of Sherwood - 10/10
Listen - 7/10
Time Heist - 9.5/10
The Caretaker - 9.5/10
Kill the Moon - 8/10
Mummy on the Orient Express - 10/10

I'm just enjoying the series. I really do not get some of the negativity. Doctor Who only survives because it is so much to so many. If you try to make it more to the few, we'd lose the show entirely. It's diversity is its strength, which mean all of the elements, even the ones you personally may not like, are fundamental pillars of the show.

Deep Breath: 6/10
Into the Dalek: 8/10
Robot of Sherwood: 6/10
Listen: 7/10
Time Heist: 6/10
The Caretaker: 8/10
Kill the Moon: 9/10
Mummy on the Orient Express: 10/10

Fantastic episode, enjoying the series a lot since The Caretaker episode. Capaldi is becoming a excellent Doctor I think. Nice to see not many scores below 9 out of 10 for Mummy, a superb episode all round.

Deep Breath: 7/10
Into the Dalek: 8/10
Robot of Sherwood: 4/10
Listen: 9.5/10
Time Heist: 7/10
The Caretaker: 6/10
Kill the Moon: 9/10
Mummy on the Orient Express: 10/10

Some very good episodes this series. I think the final 4 episodes are going to be all stellar.

Deep Breath 10/10
Into the Dalek 10
Robots of Sherwood 7
Listen 10
Time Heist 8
The Caretaker 9/10
Kill the Moon 9/10
Mummy On the Orient Express 10/10
Flatline 8/10

Deep breath 8/10
Into the dalek 8/10
Robot of sherwood 8/10
Listen 8/10
Time Heist 9/10
The caretaker 7/10
Kill the moon 7/10
Mummy on the orient express 10/10
Flatline 8/10

Felt a bit flat in places, saved by an interesting time having clara in the doctor's shoes and capaldi's moment with the boneless at the end!

Deep Breath: 8/10
Into The Dalek: 8/10
Robot of Sherwood: 8/10 (revised -0.5)
Listen: 10/10
Time Heist: 7/10
The Caretaker: 7/10
Kill the Moon: 8/10
Mummy on the Orient Express: 9/10
Flatline: 8/10

Another solid episode in a solid series. Mathieson has been a highlight and I hope FCB delivers. Missy is almost definitely the woman in the shop, now!

*recreates 12's premature celebratory dance*

Deep Breath 9/10
Into the Dalek 8/10
Robot of Sherwood 8/10
Listen 10/10
Time Heist 8/10
The Caretaker 9/10
Kill the Moon 8/10
Mummy on the Orient Express 8/10

Flatline 8/10

This was another great episode, with Jenna Coleman once again stealing the show as "The Doctor". What made this episode so powerful was the Doctor's slow realization throughout the episode of what exactly he has turned Clara into. She's addicted to his lifestyle, she's becoming more and more like him to the point where in this episode she was him and it went well. Too well. Clara has become more like the Doctor than she realised and may have lost herself in the process.

Lying to Danny, lying to him, the Doctor can only watch the person he loves most in the universe become more and more the person that he hates most in the whole universe.

Oh and WHAT THE HELL MISSY?!

Deep Breath 3/10
Into the Dalek 5/10
Robot of Sherwood 4/10
Listen 4/10
Time Heist 7/10
The Caretaker 4/10
Kill The Moon 4/10
Mummy on the Orient Express 7/10

Flatine 4/10

Well Flatline left me feeling rather...ahem...flat if I'm honest.

I think it's just one of those episode that didn't click with me. I liked the originality of the threat but it just felt all a little too odd. The supporting characters were all rather badly written if I'm honest and I can't say I thought too much of the Doctor and Clara again - there's just something not clicking with Peter and Jenna for me.

Another thing for is how after some great CGI last week, this felt like some of the worst I'd seen on Doctor Who for a long while - things felt very green-screened at times - "Jeff from Casualty's" demise and the train in the tunnel sprang out in particular for their iffyness.

I wasn't too keen on the directing either and as a whole that episode just felt flat. There were moments that I liked but it's not as good as last week's sadly from Jamie Mathieson.

Can't say that next week's has intrigued me sadly. The next time trailer was a bit so-so....

Deep Breath 8/10
Into The Dalek 7/10
Robot of Sherwood 5/10
Listen 9/10
Time Heist 9/10
The Caretaker 8/10
Kill The Moon 6/10
Mummy On The Orient Express 8/10
Flatline 10/10

Deep Breath: 6/10
Into the Dalek: 8/10
Robot of Sherwood: 7/10
Listen: 9/10
Time Heist: 6/10
The Caretaker: 8/10
Kill The Moon: 8/10
Mummy On The Orient Express: 9/10
Flatline: 8/10
Well that was interesting,
The story had a very different villain, one that was probably more effective and creepy when it wasn't in solid form, the ripples that it created on the wall were really scary in the way that the villain (did Capaldi call them the Boneless or something?) could attack you from any side, which made them more threatening when Clara and Rigsby were in house, that was a great moment as for once the threat felt tangible. I liked the past two episodes simply becuase there was a lot of time put in making the threat known and fleshing it out. All the episodes before (maybe with the exception of Time Heist) have really underused or failed to make the enemy threatening. Here however not only do you feel as if the characters are in danger, there is a new type of villain trying to attack the regulars.

The story structure made it feel as if it was Doctor-lite, becuase although the Doctor featured in it, he was restricted to merely running around the TARDIS for the most part. This let Clara become a better companion as you see she can actually take control of a situation and save the day by herself, a feat in the new series only held by Her and arguably Martha (For all those people who think Rose counts, she saved the day once on her first adventure and was pretty much a waste of space in terms of independence or usefulness afterwards) Clara handles the situation well, this is partly becuase Jenna Coleman comes across as if she's taking control with confidence, not like she is scared or anything, it's believable. In my opinion she has every right to ask The Doctor to say she did well, after all the hardship she went through in the episode she deserves some recongnition. Danny appears, again, shame we've only had one real episode to flesh out his character, I said last week his presence was getting slightly annoying, my point is just reinforced this week. Hopefully he'll get some much needed development next week. Capaldi as usual performs well, nothing too notable, though he delivers some line brilliantly whilst Clara and other characters are making remarks. The supporting cast & characters were pretty standard, didn't feel there were any standout performances, the guy who played Rigsby was ok for someone who was supposedly a teenager in the story, better than Courntey at least.

A novel idea for monsters well presented in a story which gives Clara even more growth as a companion this series, there aren't any major problems, just some minor setbacks here and there, notably the less than impressive supporting cast but it's a solid entry that will hopefully stand the test of rewatching.

Deep Breath 8.0/10
Very good start for the newly regenerated Doctor.


Into the Dalek 6.5/10
Tried to do a 'Doctor Who' version of Fantastic Voyage but kinda only half worked for me


Robot of Sherwood 10/10
Real fun episode and the 12th Doctors character really fitted well with the comedy


Listen 2/10
So the Doctor is scared of something... so what ? Dull, dull, dull


Time Heist 7/10
Enjoyable episode and would like to see those characters again


The Caretaker 4/10
The monster took a back seat in this episode. It was more about Clara and Pinks relationship.
Feel not enough character development in Pink for me to care.


Kill the Moon 8/10
Good solid episode


Mummy on the Orient Express 6.5/10
Started off slow. Liked the countdown clock. Think the concept was good but execution was somewhat lacking


Flatline 10/10
Awesome episode. Really liked the idea of 2-dimentional enemies and the episode never slowed down.

Deep Breath 7
Into the Dalek 8
Robot of Sherwood 8
Listen 9
Time Heist 10
The Caretaker 8
Kill the Moon 7
Mummy on the Orient Express 10
Flatline 10

Revised some of my ratings on rewatching:

Deep Breath 9.5/10
Into the Dalek 9.5/10
Robot of Sherwood 8.5/10
Listen 10/10
Time Heist 7.5/10
The Caretaker 8/10
Kill the Moon 8/10
Mummy on the Orient Express 9/10
Flatline 9/10

I've loved both of Jamie Mathieson's episodes for DW, I hope he comes back for Series 9.

Other ninth episodes since 2005:

The Empty Child 10/10
The Satan Pit 10/10
The Family of Blood 10/10
Forest of the Dead 9/10
Cold Blood 3/10
Night Terrors 6.5/10
Hide 7/10

Deep Breath - 7.5/10
Into The Dalek - 8/10
Robot Of Sherwood - 8.5/10
Listen - 9/10
Time Heist - 8.5/10
The Caretaker - 8/10
Kill the Moon - 6.5/10
Mummy on the Orient Express - 9/10
Flatline - 8/10

Deep Breath - 8.5

Into The Dalek - 8

Robot of Sherwood - 5.5

Listen - 10

Time Heist - 4.5

The Caretaker - 8

Kill The Moon - 6.5

Mummy On The Orient Express - 9

Flatline - 8

Series 8 keeps churning out the classics!

Deep Breath - 1010
Into The Dalek - 10/10
Robot Of Sherwood - 9/10
Listen - 10/10
Time Heist - 9/10
The Caretaker - 10/10
Kill The Moon - 10/10
Mummy on the Orient Express - 10/10
Flatline - 10/10

Though honestly I think Flatline is up there at the very top of my all time favourites! It was a truly perfect episode...great unique threat, top performances from Capaldi and Coleman, great supporting cast, just beauytifully done...tense, dark but also so much fun and so many signature scenes....the shrunken TARDIS will be remembered for years! the threat so captivating and unique!

A totally perfect episode i shal enjoy rewatching.

Next week looks like it will mellow the pace a bit...I hope it doesnt stand still the eprfect flow of episodes for Series 8....looks set (according to the DWM) to be very child focused ....but the next time trailer looked like it will be fairytale fun with the dark themes series 8 has explored...and being the penultimate story before the two part finale i suspect a few twists will occur

Either way.....I cannot believe how beautifully made and consistently excellent series 8 has been....but it has exceeded expectation.

Deep Breath: 7/10
Into the Dalek: 8/10
Robot of Sherwood: 8/10
Listen: 10/10
Time Heist: 7/10
The Caretaker: 8/10
Kill the Moon: 9/10
Mummy on the Orient Express: 9.5/10
Flatline: 8/10

A good solid episode. Nothing exceptional, mind, but it was still a coherent story with excellent performances from Capaldi and Coleman (as per) which was very enjoyable to watch.
Don't really have much to say beyond that other than I hope to see Jamie Mathieson write some more Doctor Who in future. I think he "gets" it.

Deep Breath - 8.5/10
Into the Dalek - 4/10
Robot of Sherwood - 7.5/10
Listen - 9/10
Time Heist - 8/10
The Caretaker - 9.5/10
Kill the Moon - 7/10
Mummy on the Orient Express - 9/10
Flatline - 9.5/10

[quote=allisonbm2;75160848]Deep Breath 8.5/10
Into the Dalek 9/10
Robot of Sherwood 8/10
Listen 10/10
Time Heist 8/10
The Caretaker 8.5/10
Kill the Moon 9/10
Mummy on the Orient Express 10/10 (fave so far)
Flatline 10/10

Deep Breath: 4/10
Into the Dalek: 3/10
Robot of Sherwood: 1/10
Listen: 9/10
Time Heist:2/10
The Caretaker 6/10
Mummy on the Orient Express 7/10
Flatline 10/10

Already revised.

Deep Breath: 8/10
Into The Dalek: 8/10
Robot of Sherwood: 8/10 (revised -0.5)
Listen: 10/10
Time Heist: 7/10
The Caretaker: 7/10
Kill the Moon: 8/10
Mummy on the Orient Express: 9/10
Flatline: 9/10

Rousing final act.

After Multiple Watches:

Deep Breath - 9.5/10
Into the Dalek - 8.5/10
Robot of Sherwood - 7.95/10
Listen - 11/10
Time Heist - 7.8/10
The Caretaker - 8.5/10
Kill the Moon - 9.1/10
Mummy on the Orient Express - 9.11/10
Flatlines - 9/10

Series 8
Deep Breath - 6/10 - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...2&postcount=33
Into the Dalek - 7/10 - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...0&postcount=67
Robot of Sherwood - 7/10 - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...0&postcount=96
Listen - 8/10 - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...&postcount=128
Time Heist - 8/10 - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...&postcount=148
The Caretaker - 7/10 - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...&postcount=182
Kill the Moon - 8/10 - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...&postcount=194
Mummy on the Orient Express - 9/10 - http://forums.digitalspy.co.uk/showp...&postcount=236
Flatline - 7/10

There are some episodes of Doctor Who that are just...sort of there. Largely incosequential additions, but often the word 'filler' feels unduly harsh for a show that prides itself on developing upon its characters each and every week, regardless of format. In the case of Flatlne however, it doesn't matter how many developments it chucked in or how many innovative ideas it put to the screen, it struggled to escape that 'filler' notion. Filler episodes aren't necessarily bad, but generally they're less compelling in some way or other and that is definitely true of Flatline.

First and foremost, it goes without saying after last weeks triumphant episode that Jamie Mathieson is a real asset to Doctor Who. He's a high quality writer, and though the Orient Express episode was far more satisfyingly written on nearly every level, that is not to discredit Flatline as a decently written episode. Because it truly is, and nowhere is that more apparent than in Mathieson's writing of The Doctor. Perhaps it's helped to have a consistent voice across two episodes (uh, hello...two parters really were an asset!) but either way this is a writer who has gotten to grips with this Doctor relatively early on. His script balances The Doctor's personality traits brilliantly...from the comic timing to the serious drama stuff. Some people (not me) have had a problem with this Doctor being 'too mean' or 'too nasty' but he's definitely been reigned in a bit since his debut. This is a definite slow-burning series as it is, with a lead protagonist still figuring himself out this far in. It's an intriguing development, and justifies the focus on Clara's perspective this series.
When it comes to Clara in Flatline she's written similarly decently enough. Perhaps the slant of her filling in for The Doctor wasn't as effective as the episode seems to think it was however, and I don't put this down to Coleman's acting as much as it seems down to a lack of versatility and diversity in the writing of her character. Clara is usually a very vibrant, speak-aloud kind of person and that vibe was a little too absent in this story, particularly in the second half.
The supporting cast fared even worse, with the only character that made the remotest impression being the one we're not meant to like. The problem was that the one's we were meant to like weren't particularly fleshed out or memorable. The train driver who was added in during the episodes second half was given a far more substantial role than he should have been for someone so late to the game... it all felt terrible uneven on the character front and whilst the acting was believable enough there just wasn't anything engaging about what was going on between them on-screen. It was somewhat reminiscent of Fear Her in that regard, though not quite as clinically bland as that.
Outside of the characters was a story brimming with decent ideas. The shrinking TARDIS was a blend of hilarious and interesting, and is what made the episode as memorable as it was. Unfortunately it didn't sit comfortably with the threat being posed in the story, which seemed like a completely different idea at times. There was a little too much going on...between the shrinking TARDIS and the people being dissected into the walls among some of the brilliant notions that would have fleshed out whole decent episodes on their own. Combined they only served to make the plot a little convoluted when it had to begin wrapping up. It admittedly offered a very decent solution but the journey to it was very peculiar, again often due to the characters. Flatline offered up the second 'awkward' scene of this series - the first being Clara's explanation of the Skovox Blitzer as part of a play which was just embarassing, and the second here being the hairband-on-the-train scene which was just strange in how long it was drawn out - a minor problem, that, but an example of how uneasy the second half of the episode seemed to feel.
The threat itself was a very neat idea, definitely at its best in 2D-form earlier on - the scene where it began breaking down that living room was very impressively done, for instance. Although the transition into a 3D wasn't as satisfying or original, it was still rather creepy and effectively done. The Boneless were a great threat and it wouldn't be a bad thing to see them get another story some day - they're not the Weeping Angels or The Silence, but they're certainly no Chloe Webber drawing either!
Many of the issues with this episode, not that there are a great deal, are situated in its back half. And it stands to reason then that the most issues would be found right at the end, which seems to be the case. The issue here was that a number of elements seemed to feel completely tacked on, only fuelling the notion of this story as filler. The Doctor's confrontation with The Boneless was impressively delivered by Capaldi, but seemed to come from almost nowhere and was trying a bit too hard to be recognised as a scene of significance. Secondly whilst I've loved the scenes involving Missy and the Nethersphere this series as a lower-key arc that offers something to look forward to, this weeks scene involving Missy offered much less intrigue and seemed only there to remind us viewers that Missy is still there. Previously it worked because her scenes involved someone from the episode we'd been watching - Into the Dalek impressively included Missy way before it's ending, which was a great way of ensuring her appearances didn't feel like an afterthought. Here though that's exactly what it felt like and as I found with much of Flatline it was one of many, many ideas that was struggling for space in a story despite its lack of particularly interesting characters and certainly without a particularly interesting setting (although that said, Bristol makes a nice change to London and Cardiff it has to be said).
Flatline isn't a highlight of the eighth series for me. It has many funny moments, a competent story and an interesting villain and that probably gives enough reason to rewatch it sometime, but it felt somewhat cold and detached from the very coherent eighth series we've had so far. It was filler with some interesting ideas behind it, but it was somehow tonally off. As a standalone episode it does little wrong, even if it could have done more right. But Series 8 has been an interesting journey in episodes of all shapes and sizes, and I feel like Flatline was the most distant and disinterested in furthering that journey.

PROS AND CONS
+ Interesting threat with potential to return
+ Brilliant visuals, particularly the living room scene
+ The Doctor has been written very well.
- Clara was lacking her usual spark.
- Supporting cast weren't particularly memorable or likeable.
- Felt detached from the wider eighth series in some way.

FLATLINE COMPARED TO OTHER EPISODE 9's
The Empty Child - 9/10
The Satan Pit - 9/10
The Family of Blood - 7/10
Forest of the Dead - 8/10
Cold Blood - 6/10
Night Terrors - 7/10
Journey to the Centre of the Tardis - 6/10
Flatline - 7/10

Deep Breath 9/10
Into the Dalek 8/10
Robot of Sherwood 6/10
Listen 9/10
Time Heist 10/10
The Caretaker 7/10
Kill the Moon 8/10
Mummy on the Orient Express - 8/10
Flatline 8/10

Another inventive episode, again let down by insufficent backstory on the aliens and a shockingly poor resolution - sonic screwdriver, seriously? I highly appreciate the dynamics between Clara and the Doctor, they have so much more substance than most past companions, but the story needs to be fleshed out more - no pun intended.