BroadcastChic Excellent, a Must See

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HottWwjdIam There is just so much movie here. For some it may be too much. But in the same secretly sarcastic way most telemarketers say the phrase, the title of this one is particularly apt.

Melanie Bouvet The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

Dr Moo The 11th Doctor is dead. Long live the 12th Doctor! That's not the way Clara sees it though: She's upset that the young man Matt Smith that she'd been best friends with had vanished and been replaced with the older Scottish fellow Peter Capaldi and that's understandable.The main complaint people had about the casting decision of the 12th Doctor had been his age (had people forgotten William Hartnell's 1st Doctor or John Hurt's war Doctor?) and it seems Clara is present to help people with this issue make the transition. Madame Vastra is on hand to address the complaint head-on: Did you think he was young?! She asks it with an air of condemnation upon all who had a problem with the age difference and Neve Mackintosh delivers it well, but that's to be expected if her past appearances are anything to go by.It takes all of about five seconds to believe Peter Capaldi is the Doctor; I'm not sure what it is about him but whatever it is he has it. He plays the part as if he was younger and more youthful than he actually appears and comes across as if he were a naughty child who knows he'll be in trouble later but does what he wants anyway while he still can. This is a bold move but it works well thanks to the combination of the excellent writing and acting by all involved. His Doctor is much less trustworthy too: At one point he leaves Clara trapped in a room of evil robots with not even a hint of advice for her except something he said earlier, leaving her to her own devices.But it's here we see that we can still trust him as he arrives in time to save her. Ben Wheatley's direction is superb here and cannot be flawed as he calls upon his past experience to create a real sense of horror that goes on long enough that you'll probably cross the edge of your seat and fall onto the floor. His direction is great throughout actually and he may be the best director Doctor Who had ever had at this point.Moffat's script is a good one too, with dinosaurs and robots showing up in Victorian London to wreck havoc and generally be nasty and unpleasant. He works in the new Doctor in no time at all and sets up for the series 8 story arc nicely with a brilliant tease to end the episode all while allowing for Clara to actually become a proper character. While it's not perfect it does come pretty darn close and Matt Smith's closing cameo is a nice way to end, totally what the 11th Doctor would do. 9/10

NineTenElevenTwelve Peter Capaldi certainly starts his era on a high note with "Deep Breath"! While the new Doctor's personality hasn't been fully defined yet, he's still a joy to watch and is a wonderfully sharp change from Matt Smith's kinder and more welcoming Doctor. Capaldi brings a vibe of unpredictability to the role that shrouds this new Doctor in a veil of mystery. How far will he go? Where does he cross the line? I don't know and I can't wait to see how his role develops!Jenna Coleman absolutely shines in this episode as Clara Oswald. In fact, this episode is as much Clara's as it is the Doctor's. Clara's reactions to the new Doctor and the situations she finds herself in feel very believable. Her conflicted feelings about the Doctor's change bring an emotional punch to the episode and she really starts to come into her own as one of the best companions the show could ask for. As with Capaldi's Doctor, I can't wait to see how Jenna's Clara continues to develop!I've always loved the Paternoster Gang and it was a delight to see them make a reappearance for Capaldi's debut episode. All of them get a fitting amount of screen time as well as flat out awesome moments of action and dialogue.The main villains of the episode, not to give anything away, are intimidating and very interesting. They also act as a very nice reference to a previous episode (and I won't say any more than that).Overall, "Deep Breath" is just a great start for the Twelfth Doctor's era with nice emotional moments, welcome development for its characters, and several interesting surprises.

hoytyhoyty Well that's it, Moffat needs to be sacked and the BBC producers need a stern talking-to. Yet again they've managed to create a video-clip for some really boring, overbaked orchestral music, with no plot.I had some small hope - a smidgin - that the new series might show some kind of up-turn in the writing. My big, liquid eyes were upturned in big, liquid hope.But no, sadly, the Moffat we-MUST-make-dr-who-crap boot squad dashed my hopes, kicking me a big one right in the middle of my cute, puppy face.No plot, nothing particularly interesting, more of the same constructs we've seen before... Oh, and endless DWELLING on LGBT stuff! Sure, its quite reasonable to have a few LGBT characters, its 2014 and we are supposed to reflect reality not some 1950's fantasy. But this isn't a soap-opera, it's a sci-fi series. Well, it's supposed to be anyway...Every time Moffat rips my heart out like this - and his predecessor the deeply, amazingly un-talented RTD - I say I won't keep watching. But for some reason, I just cling to this notion that it will become good.What actually happens is you get a handful of good episodes. No, sorry, that's an exaggeration. You get maybe two, if you are lucky, per season. And these are enough to make me pretend the series shouldn't be canned.Poor Peter Capaldi.Oh and one more thing: no, the scots accent is NOT acceptable. I love Peter's native accent, especially in the 'Thick Of It'. But Doctor Who is ENG-LISH, and MALE.DEAL. WITH. IT.If you change something enough, it stops being that thing - John Nathan Turner and his idiot predecessor discovered that in the 80s when they drove the series into the ground.Then again, it's a soap-opera now. Somebody DID change it.It's certainly not Doctor Who.

Tweekums As this episode opens one could be forgiven for thinking you were watching an episode of 'Primeval' as we see a tyrannosaurus rex rampaging through London… that is until it becomes apparent that this is Victorian London and it coughs up the Tardis! The Doctor who emerges from it is quite a bit older than the one in the previous series and he is having difficulty with the names of people he should know and with his new appearance. The Doctor and Clara are taken to Madame Vastra's house but the Doctor wanders off. It looks as if he and Clara are to be separated but she spots an advert in The Times which could only have come from The Doctor; it leads her to a restaurant where they are reunited and he tells her how he found her advert! Clearly it was a trap; they are in a room full of creepy automata and it would appear they are on the menu!.The first episode of a new Doctor is always a little difficult to judge; the character is familiar yet also unfamiliar; both for the viewer and the characters who know him. Much of the first half of the episode was given over to getting Clara, and through her the audience, to accept the change… then the real action started. The villain of the story was suitably creepy without showing us what he did in any detail… a family show can't show organ harvesting robots who have made a balloon from human skin! It isn't all scares though; we get a few laughs too, mostly from Strax.Peter Capaldi got off to a fine start in his first full episode as The Doctor; it certainly looks as though he will be quite different when compared to the other 'new-series' Doctors. He is still somewhat manic, so much so that I feared he'd end up in Bedlam as he wandered around London in a nightshirt! Jenna Coleman continues as assistant Clara Oswald so we don't need to get used to two new protagonists as we did when Matt Smith took over and the presence of Madame Vastra, her wife Jenny and Strax provide more familiar faces. The episode is almost double the usual length but at no point did I think the story was dragging. Overall I found this to be a fairly enjoyable episode and have a feeling I'll like this new Doctor.