But it’s cold and rainy, I’ll catch a cold!
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Fine, your new Punishment is watching the Web Planet for a Month 
/j
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Can I choose my company? Because then I’ll pick @deltaandthebannermen to watch it with me!
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Company is allowed, yes. And excellent Pick! 
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People will talk…
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Let them talk!
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My 13 year old son started with the Cushing movies Then he for reasons I still don’t know took my Power of the Daleks DVD and only watched the surviving footage on it 
Then next we watched “Joy to the World” when it came out on Christmas Day… And now he doesn’t want to watch Doctor Who anymore 
(he thought Joy to the World was really boring 
and he was kind of right 
)
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Thank you! I’ve wanted to write reviews of televised stories for a long time but have struggled to find an angle. This story made it easy for me, and I might just be inspired enough to review a few more at some point. Your kind words mean a great deal. I really appreciate you taking the time to read it. When I have something to say, I typically have quite a lot to say! Too much, some would say. 
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on a DW forum where we’re all insane? no such thing 
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Trust me, they go in and out of loving the show. My eldest loved in when they were little but then it became ‘uncool’ to like the same show as Dad, especially around the age of 13, 14. Now, at 16, they’re suddenly binging the new series and willingly sat through the entire Hartnell era (except recons - couldn’t quite stomach those). And they’re writing Torchwood fiction and considering entering this year’s Paul Spragg competition. So fear not, your son may return to the fold and you will be able to welcome him with open arms.
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Can you people stop yapping so much interesting nonsense? If I hadn’t ‘locked in’ to read all that, The Interstellar Song Contest would’ve aired before I was done!
Here some bits that are hopefully worth adding:
Bit 1: Belinda telling 15 ‘That’s the most human thing ever,’ felt really like an RTD add-on to me, humanizing the Doctor and all. For the rest that whole talk was excellent though.
Bit two: Usually when such a ‘I’m the Doctor, I’m super old and cool and things,’ speech happens, there’s very much an emphasis on the Doctor’s age. Like the boast is about how old he is, how much he has seen. And whenever this returns in the Moffat era, it’s especially about how many horrific things the Doc has seen (and done). He’ll go on and be emo about being ancient, lots of, what is for us really, meaningless talk that sounds cool. Which works wonders for sharing clips on social media and showing up on screens in barbershops positioned on spiders, that for sure. But it’s always a choice to portray this long history as a kind of burden. To show how ‘powerful’ the Doctor is in some sense, yeah, I get that, I think it’s cool too when in overseen doses.
But I like what happens here more. Because it’s the same thing except really not. I’ve said in the EU appreciation thread that one of the things that I like about Doctor Who is that it’s more than a TV show. It’s all a continuous narrative, all the audios, books, comics, and everything beyond that. It’s all one big story. Actually, it’s not just something I like, it’s one of my favourite things about Doctor Who. And to have that on display here so literally and proudly made me incredibly happy. Because the Doctor having lived fifteen bazillion years isn’t important because he has seen the universe die, planets burn, and time unwind. It’s important because it was. He’s lived such a long life, and isn’t that beautiful? It’s positive just for being, and it’s good for being positive. Awesome. I love you Inua Ellams.
Bit uhhh what was it again: This is basically a story about a ghostwriter seeking validation (please like my post) and going overboard. And what I love is that the Doctor says that he’s not wrong for wanting that validation (please like my po- what do you mean this isn’t what they meant). You shouldn’t go and seek revenge, duh, but The Barber isn’t wrong for feeling upset. I always think it’s important to make children, and people in general aware that they’re not ‘wrong’ (whatever that means) for wanting to be appreciated in some way or another by other people. Especially in times of big names and big corporations slurping up a lot of attention from the rest, and the lot of senseless hatefulness on the internet. Kindness is free after all.
Bit sorry I actually cant count past 2: About The Barber: the actor was so good. He walks around in such a theatrical and slightly impish manner that makes him feel just that bit unnerving and otherworldly. And all the other reasons already said. Can very much see him as a someone who’d win prizes for acting and stuff, not the biggest surprise that he did.
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Finished a rewatch just now.
It is good, but I’m not really blown away by the story being told. I am hoping that it tied up with the overall storyline of season 2, I get that feeling a bit.
The visuals are just stunning throughout - and that spider must have taken up a good big chunk of the CGI budget.
The 15th Doctor’s theme did seem a bit wrong to play in the context of the scene, much too upbeat for such a tense situation for my taste. But otherwise the soundscape and music complemented the story really well 
Oddly enough the one thing that niggles at me is the Doctor doing the Hemingway “six word story” - but the subtitles shows it as seven words??
“I’m born. I die. I am born”
That’s just annoying 
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Okay I watched all them and this is my impression where I wroted at my favorite channel about DW
This episode was one of the most beautiful I’ve ever watched and it’s on the list of best DW episodes right up there with Van Gogh and A Good Man Goes to War! My God, what an incredible season and it’s not even over yet.
For the rest of brazilians I invite all of you to meet this channel
Tomorrow is a new day to watch the new episode see ya and good night.
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