waterlilybarb

I never checked out the leak either.  

I enjoyed the episode, and quite liked the new Doctor.  Looking forward to more of him, and am curious if he'll remember where he's seen his new face before.  I'm also really curious about who that woman is that met the cyborg in "heaven". LOL!

waterlilybarb

I agree.  That was amusing.  While I really like Peter Capaldi in the role, I'm still in adjustment mode with the new Doctor, I am enjoying the bit of surliness in his nature. lol  I am very curious about the running theme re: the Promised Land and wonder what it really is.   

Also, the promo for next week looks like one that will have me creeped out for days.   I was most definitely a child who was afraid of something being under the bed at night, and any time I had to get up, I'd either try to leap from my bed to the door, or I'd climb on the other bedroom furniture so as not to touch the floor until I was as close to the door as possible.  I know it's silly, but children's fears are frequently irrational.

waterlilybarb

I thought it was funny that the Doctor thought that Clara's boyfriend was the fella who looked kind of like Matt Smith.   I also got a kick out of him calling Danny a P.E. teacher.  

Any ideas on what you think the Promised Land is, or who Missy is yet?  This time the attendant talking to the newest arrival referred to her as God, and the "romised Land" as heaven (though he said it has many names), but I'd be very surprised if the storyline was truly religious in tone.  

waterlilybarb

I just checked, and the audio is completely in sync with the video, unless it go out at some specific point in the program.  See post #1 in our Error Reporting thread for some guidelines on what information to provide when reporting an error.  Also, if you report any errors you find in that thread, they are much more likely to be noticed, since the moderators don't necessarily check every single new post in all the threads.

waterlilybarb

I liked that this episode was more like ones we're used to.  I'm getting used to the new Doctor, but Clara's change of heart seemed to come too easily after the way she acted in the previous episode.  I think she does enjoy the adventures and the travel, but she seems oblivious to the fact that the Doctor has always been a bit reckless.  The new Doctor is kind of grumpier, so it's like she's putting any negative characteristics down to his new regeneration, when those are the things that haven't changed.

waterlilybarb

Missy being the Master was one of the things I had considered, but when she initially said she was an android, and the letters spelled Missy, it threw me off.  

I was actually surprised that Clara didn't just ask the Doctor for help rather than try and blackmail him.  I think I'll be ready for a new companion because she doesn't seem to gel with the new Doctor very well.  It's like she's forgotten that he's still the same man.  Yes, he has some different personality quirks, and he looks different, but the core of him is the same.  

I'm hoping they save Danny, and that Clara decides to stop travelling with the Doctor.  I'd hate it if Danny was really dead.  That would just be a downer.  Plus, since we've seen one of his progeny in the future, his dying would change the timeline, so I'm thinking that wherever the Master is, is some alternate timeline or something like that.  

Did anyone else notice that when they went outside, it looked like they were outside of Westminster Abbey, but the clock was on the opposite side that it should have been?  That's one of the reasons I think it's a different timeline.  I've not had a chance to check out any other sites that I usually do for things others picked up, so I'm curious if others had the same thought.

edit: From the season finale, I see it was St. Paul's Cathedral, not Westminster Abbey.  Not sure why I was mixing them up.

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waterlilybarb

Unfortunately, the site does not carry the Doctor Who Christmas Specials.  Sorry.