heh - well, you know, Disney. Base level of suspension of disbelief, and all that.

Agreed. Capaldi's Doctor is rapidly becoming my favorite for this very reason.

Thing is…he may write them the same, but the actors play them very, very differently, and therein lies what gives it a completely different feeling.

I am so glad to see other people have not been that keen on the Robot of Sherwood. It was actually my least favorite episode this season, followed by Deep Breath…which makes sense, since the Robot of Sherwood was almost beat for beat a copy of the Deep Breath.

Um…remember "The Water of Mars"? The whole "Time Lord Victorious" thing? "Needy egomaniacal game-player" could practically be the dictionary definition of the Doctor.

It WAS her world though - maybe not her time, but she knew her descendants were there; she knew she had a tie to it.

See, I'm cursed with the world's worst inner nitpicker - my inner nitpicker took issue with their being only one cub, Simba, in the Lion King the first time I saw it. So, lol, I kinda have to forcefully shut it off/club it into submission when I watch this show. XD

Has he, though? He spent several hundred years away from Earth doing who knows what during the 11th Doctor's time - he was, what, 900-odd years old then, then came back and was IIRC 1400 or so. We only know what we see, which is, well, for budgetary reasons, Earth-based.

We'll have to agree to disagree, since he's over 900 years old, and I don't think even a majority of that was actually on earth. To each their own opinion.

Whereas to me, it showed very clearly that this is NOT the Doctor we're so used to, and in many ways a perfect counter to the Doctor of "The Water of Mars," who learned the hard way he CAN'T arbitrarily make decisions like this. It didn't "come out of nowhere" to me; it was showing this is a very different Doctor than…

This was one of the episodes where I had to forcefully make myself stop rolling my eyes or gritting my teeth at the terrible science and handwaving, and just tell my inner nitpicker to just roll with it. Then it was good.

Same. The Doctor was in the right in my mind - it was't his moon, it wasn't his place. She got mad that he made her make a hard decision she wanted him to make instead.

See, I completely agreed with the Doctor's position that it WASN'T his decision to make, but humanity's. That made Clara's going off on him feel like a misfire…or rather, made her seem smaller. She got upset because she had to make a hard decision…a decision she wanted the Doctor to make instead for her. That doesn't…

What's your other "let's play around with history and go all crazy with it" show?

He was the show's schlemazel for so long that he's the character I root for all the time.

I agree that the setting was kind of off. I think it would have been better done somewhere along the coast in Maine or thereabouts in New England, or on the coastal regions in the South - it would have better matched the air the original show had.

I think the biggest problem with Clara as a character stem from her being initially being written as a mystery to be solved, not as an actual person. And because she was a mystery, they couldn't actually have her develop a personality - it's why they kept telling us she was amazing instead of showing her being…

Lol, it drove one of my friends crazy how I always referred to Spartcus as "the floppy peen show." And yes, because I am mature, whenever I watched it,
I would yell, "PEEN!" at the screen whenever one flopped into view.

Helpful hint! If you lightly hammer a nail partway into the cork, then wrap a rubber band around the part of the cork sticking out, you can pull the cork out by the nail. :Db

This is one of the few times where I'm finding myself liking the adaptation better than the actual book. They're doing a great job.