[Slenderman - Doctor]

Originally Posted by ChelseaFC

Spoiler:

I swear he is, Cant remember why but at the end of Torchwood he was going off to find the Doctor and at the end you heard the TARDIS, this was in the children of earth ones. And I believe James Corden is in Doctor who as well.

At the end of that series of Torchwood, it then continues for Jack in "Utopia" of Doctor Who. That wasn't in Children of Earth, it was in the regular series.

Originally Posted by Leopard

Is it just me, or does Smith spend a lot of time trying to talk like Tennant? I feel like I preferred him in the Ruby in the Smoke. Not that I dislike him so far, just that I feel he could be a little more "himself."

The best episode of each season was each written by Moffat, so I have faith that the cracks being so obvious isn't the end of his great writing. I'm also really excited to see the weeping angels returning

He did in the first episode as he was still regenerating. I feel he's moved into his own now though, whilst also being like other Doctors (mainly the Second) with his mannerisms.

Originally Posted by Hg.

I'm still rather 'iffy' about the new doctor - He seems mean.

First episode - Appears to a young girl home alone, demands to come into her house and shouts at her for excessive quantities of food, finding out that almost everyone she loved had left her after saying 'Be back in five minuites', then leaving her using the same line, making her become obsessed with him for I-forget-how-many-years to the extent of phyciatric help. From there appearing once for the main part of episode 1 with little care about the damage he did and then again a year after, interrupting her the night before her wedding day, to ensure even more emotional trouble on her.

Second episode - tells her to go off on her own, shouts at her for making a mistake while on her own that she cannot even remember, and managing to still being cruel to her even for a while after she saves the day and stops him having to kill his magical space-whale friend.

Thats probably the doing of the scriptwriters though, no qualms with the acting.

I also felt the idea of episode 2 was not built upon enough in the start, and the programme quickly got complicated as new concepts were added with no build up or foreshadowing.

First episode ... it wasn't intentional, on the Doctor's part, with the skipping years. It's a new TARDIS and it's a bit out-of-control still. Plus he's a bit mad due to his regeneration.

Note that he's woken up, gone to see the Ood, gone to find the Master still alive, met Wilf and Donna again, watched the Time Lords "come back", witnessed Rassilon before his very eyes, wiped out his entire race (and the Master?) again, then been to see his previous companions as he was in pain, before regenerating in an exploding TARDIS, then going on to hang on for dear life, before then saving the entire world again in twenty minutes ... all in the same day! Poor bloke!

I agree the second episode was too much too soon and too early into the series though

Originally Posted by Leopard

I'd agree with those points - he is a very forward Doctor with extremely high expectations. But then he has just come from being a 'lol I can break Timelord rules' Doctor that was crushed back down to, uh, mortality? again.

Yep. And he's seeing things from an alien point of view, rather than a human point of view (though I suspect this will change now he has Amy).