50 Years of Doctor Who

[Sailor Steve]

OH MY GIDDY AUNT!

As busy as I've been, it's taken me a whole week to finally get to it, but last week's episode, "Empress of Mars", was the best Doctor Who I've seen in a long time. It not only brings back the Ice Warriors in a big way, but is an extremely entertaining pastiche of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Steampunk and the original Who, with a major tie-in to a long-standing question about the Ice Warriors' conversion from bad guys to good guys, and includes an actor from the original storyline returning in the same role.

Overall an excellent episode. If you haven't seen it you're really missing out.

[Rhodes]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

OH MY GIDDY AUNT!

As busy as I've been, it's taken me a whole week to finally get to it, but last week's episode, "Empress of Mars", was the best Doctor Who I've seen in a long time. It not only brings back the Ice Warriors in a big way, but is an extremely entertaining pastiche of Edgar Rice Burroughs, Steampunk and the original Who, with a major tie-in to a long-standing question about the Ice Warriors' conversion from bad guys to good guys, and includes an actor from the original storyline returning in the same role.

Overall an excellent episode. If you haven't seen it you're really missing out.

By Rassilon's Mind, indeed!
It also made me wonder, if the previous seasons were more in this way, how great would have been Peter Capaldi run in Doctor Who!
It is by far the best doctor who episode of this doctor. The previous ones, the monk trilogy, it started ok, went fine and them the final was meh...

[Sailor Steve]

The episode was also written by Mark Gatiss, co-creator and chief writer on Sherlock (as well as playing Mycroft Holmes), so some quality was to be expected.

[Rhodes]

Originally Posted by Sailor Steve

The episode was also written by Mark Gatiss, co-creator and chief writer on Sherlock (as well as playing Mycroft Holmes), so some quality was to be expected.

Didn't knew it was by M. Gatiss. That explains a lot.
Funny, he once did a spoof sketch, with him been the doctor and at least the co-star of Matt Lucas Little Britain. Can't remember if M. Lucas was also in it.

[Rhodes]

So, what are your thoughts of the final episodes?

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by Rhodes

So, what are your thoughts of the final episodes?

Overall, I liked them, though obviously not enough to report on them at the time. Liked the origin story of the original Cybermen. They gave Bill and Nardole a good sendoff, and I'm now very interested to see the Christmas Special, especially with David Bradley playing the First Doctor.

[Jimbuna]

The new Doctor will be revealed in an hour or so and I'm thinking we will have our first female playing the part