Doctor Who "Dinosaurs on a Spaceship" Talkback (Spoiler)

[Matt Hazuda]

Doctor Who
Dinosaurs on a Spaceship
By Steven Moffat
Saturday 8th Sepember, BBC One and BBC America

An unmanned spaceship hurtles towards certain destruction – unless the Doctor can save it, and its impossible cargo… of dinosaurs!

Late talkback again. Sorry about that!

[Matt Hazuda]

I'm not sure what it was, but this episode just didn't have me like Asylum did. I liked parts of it, but as a whole, I just wasn't feeling it.

i may just need to watch it again to see if it works any better.

[The Man in Black]

Yeah it was a pretty big letdown from last week.

[HellCat]

I rather liked it. I was really annoyed how melodramatic the last season was, with the constant 'Oooh, the Doctor is gonna die!'. This season looks to be shooting instead for fun and inventive. I like the idea the Doctor is off having other adventures and ends up bringing the Ponds back when he misses them. The idea there are shorter term companions, maybe drawn from those the Doctor normally helps out in just one adventure, is a really neat idea and really plays up the idea he's an adventurer in love with life and the universe.
The baddy felt very retro Doctor Who, though not always in a good way. As for the robots- loved the designs but I question having Mitchell and Webb voice them. They're a great comedy double act but using both of them here just made me remember this was fiction every time they spoke. Would have been better if they'd used one of them and another actor so it was less meta.

[TheGunheart]

Loved this one. This season has definitely had a better sense of adventure already after last season I lost track of the number of "locked in a room with a monster"-type episodes.

[anime_guru]

I rather liked it. I was really annoyed how melodramatic the last season was, with the constant 'Oooh, the Doctor is gonna die!'. This season looks to be shooting instead for fun and inventive. I like the idea the Doctor is off having other adventures and ends up bringing the Ponds back when he misses them. The idea there are shorter term companions, maybe drawn from those the Doctor normally helps out in just one adventure, is a really neat idea and really plays up the idea he's an adventurer in love with life and the universe.
The baddy felt very retro Doctor Who, though not always in a good way. As for the robots- loved the designs but I question having Mitchell and Webb voice them. They're a great comedy double act but using both of them here just made me remember this was fiction every time they spoke. Would have been better if they'd used one of them and another actor so it was less meta.

Agree wholeheartedly. In addition for many that say its been a huge low from last week, blockbusters can be just about as camp as what we saw in Doctor Who. But I was eerily reminded of the power of the special effects and how nostalgic it felt.

Seriously,the previous doctor who wasn't ladled with an overarching plot. It was a fun ride.

But even then, we got bits of plot - especially the age of rory and amy and the time in which the doctor picks them up for a ride. It seems to me that's an interesting progression; especially to see it is heading to well...

Something...

It's sinister, it's Moffat who is ultimately in charge. So I always pay attention to tiny details