@Tractator
“The only poor point was the unimaginative look of Miss Delphox. Does every female villain have to be sharply dressed with high heels and glasses?”

She’s the head of security at a bank that caters to the mega-rich. Of course she’s sharply dressed and wears high heels. What else *would* she wear? That’s the basic uniform of the finance world, where the quality of your shoes and the cut of your suit tell the clients how much money you handle.

As far as eyeglasses — well, frankly as person with high order myopia, I’m glad to see people on TV wearing glasses. And I can see where they would be helpful to an actor. Just look at Peter Davison, David Tennant, and Matt Smith with the eyeglasses their Doctors occasionally wore. ;-) Eyeglasses can be swept off the face with a dramatic sigh, or removed and diligently cleaned while the character speaks, or can be daintily adjusted to punctuate a statement. It’s important that actors not just stand around delivering lines, and glasses give them a great tool.

I actually complain BECAUSE I love the show. I remember the pace and excitement of Doctor Who when I started watching with the 9th and 10th Doctors.

Although it diminished with the 11th Doctor and I really disagreed with some of Moffat’s decisions, it was still enough to keep me interested.

Series 8 has, dare I say it, bored me so far and I’m indignant about that. It’s like, what have you done to the show I loved to cause me to feel so little?

That’s where my frustration and negativity comes from.

@Calli Arcale

10th Doctor to 5th Doctor: Oh, and out they come, the brainy specs. You don’t even need them. You just think they make you look a bit clever.

The 11th Doctor wore Amy’s after she was gone, which I quite liked. Sentimental, definitely, but still.

Personally as a DW fan I have started to loveeee the new episodes sure I was sad when the 9th, 10th, and 11th Doctors regenerated but I grew to love them! And that’s what im going to do with Capaldi I was a bit skeptical about him, but it gets better and better with each episode so far! and Time Heist was pretty good!!! My friends think this too with our DW discussions!

@JC
Yes, that was lovely, wasn’t it? 11 wearing Amy’s reading glasses. Especially since nobody said anything about it. He just did it. A treat for those of us who were paying attention. ;-)

Personally, I have not been bored this season; I’ve been greatly enjoying it. But were I younger, I might not. The negative reactions I’m hearing to Capaldi remind me of my own (initial) negative reactions years ago to another Scot playing the part: the dark, manipulative Sylvester McCoy. (Oh, and this Doctor said he ended up with a magician look? Well, McCoy used slight-of-hand on a number of occasions. So did Tom Baker, of course, but McCoy’s vaudeville background played into his Doctor rather strongly at times.) I did not like him at first. He was this interloper after I’d gotten used to the Baker-Davison-Baker run that was playing on almost infinite loop on KTCA in those days. I grew to like that Doctor during the long gap leading up to McGann, when all we got was the New Adventures novels. (Question I’ve never been able to answer to my own satisfaction: was “Human Nature” better with Seven & Ace, or with Ten & Martha?) I love that Doctor now.

Maybe it depends on where you are emotionally at the time? I don’t know. Or maybe just my past experience of not liking a Doctor and then later coming to really like him a lot has something to do with it. I dunno.

Hopefully eventually Capaldi wins you over. ;-) And if he doesn’t, well, there’s always the next one. I think there will always be a next one.

@JC
I like how you say you complain BECAUSE you love the show. You go right on complainin’ and lovin’. I’m the same way. Though I enjoyed Matt Smith’s era much more than you, I do feel that he had a whole lot of episodes that were “below par”.

I have been underwhelmed so far by Capaldi’s episodes. “Deep Breath” and “Listen” were good, but not great. “Into the Dalek” was alright, “Robot of Sherwood” was poor and “Time Heist” in my opinion, was bad.

But like you, I love “Doctor Who”. I recently watched the entire “Breaking Bad” series, and while I thought it was mostly good, I know I’ll never watch that show again. (Although I will be watching “Better Call Saul” when it airs. Looks like it will be fun.) While I’ll never watch “Breaking Bad” again, I know that I will watch DW episodes like “Time Heist” and “Night Terrors” (which I found to be awful) many more times just as I would my favorite DW episodes. I consider even a bad episode of DW to be vastly better than most televisual offerings these days.

I do like Peter Capaldi very much as the Doctor. I’m looking forward to everything that he will do with the character. I only hope that the material he’s had to work with, gets better and better.

@Steve

Moffat’s not fit to wash Robert Holmes boots. Or Terrance Dicks boots for that matter.