Comments on: Rate & Discuss: Flatline

By: Tractator

Tractator — Thu, 23 Oct 2014 22:48:41 +0000

Lol@martin! Very true.

By: martin

martin — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:11:56 +0000

@Tractator That makes sense, I'll stay tuned and see what happens. If we can endure the likes of Paradise Towers, we can stay with it through thick and thin!

By: martin

martin — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:09:13 +0000

YANA! @Valcoor

By: JC

JC — Wed, 22 Oct 2014 07:00:43 +0000

I’d agree with Tractator again. The first seven episodes of Series 8 were been pretty bad, to say the very least, and I was on the verge of giving up on the show myself.

I kept watching though as I hoped for better and we eventually got it, but it took eight weeks to get here. I’m a well-known 10th Doctor fan and it’s because of those years that I stuck with the show this series, despite how frustrated it was making me with such low quality episodes.

It wasn’t Peter Capaldi’s fault though, he’s had two good episodes to prove it isn’t. It’s just a shame that I feel that more than half a series has essentially been wasted and it’s his first series, which is a vital ingratiating time for a new Doctor.

I mean, in his FIRST series, Matt Smith had “Amy’s Choice” and “Vincent and The Doctor”, two of the stand-out episodes of his era for me. It set his Doctor up well and it’s a shame Capaldi hasn’t had that caliber of episode yet.

Still, four more episodes to go plus Christmas and then Doctor Who will be gone again for almost a year. Hopefully the last few episodes will set the 12th Doctor up enough that viewers (including me) will want to come back for more.

By: Tractator

Tractator — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 20:13:28 +0000

@martin, it’s going to take time for the ratings to com back up. The people who tuned into episode 1 were pretty appalled by how poor it was. And the next few episodes were also dreadful. There has to be a few really good episodes to get word of mouth going again (and probably a new companion as Clara remains smug and un relatable)

By: Valcoor

Valcoor — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 14:59:10 +0000

Is it just me, or does the Siege Mode look like a scaled down Pandorica??

By: martin

martin — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 12:08:36 +0000

Similar to siege mode, was there not a HADS – Hostile Action Detection System during the Troughton era? I really enjoyed this episode, in particular because of the locations used. Working for the railway, I’ve worked at Barry as well as spent time on the Gloucestershire Warwickshire line so it was nice to say “I’ve been there, worked there” etc etc. The special effects were some of the best yet, as was the plot. I imagined what Logopolis would have been like had the 4th doctor been able to open the doors and ask the Monitor and Adric for the new codes he needed to support the dimensioning sub-routine! Overall this series, the character of Danny Pink is lost on me – other than being potentially another Mickey Smith but not allowed anywhere near the action. Clara did really well to help the Doctor. Disappointed that the ratings were lower again – have all the girls who swooned over David Tennant grown up and buggered off? Still, the weekly chart positions remain favourable. Peter Capaldi is finding his feet and I like him as the Doctor.

By: JC

JC — Tue, 21 Oct 2014 08:33:58 +0000

Jamie Mathieson also wrote Mummy On The Orient Express.

Siege Mode must have been a separate system from the chameleon circuit. I suppose this is understandable as the chameleon circuit makes the Tardis blend in, whilst the Siege Mode is a defensive system.

By: Grace Coleman

Grace Coleman — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 23:01:53 +0000

So that was amazing, absolutely loved the script and the special effects unbelievable (and by that i mean so believable its amazing) as usual! Great first story by Jamie Mathison hopes he writes more! So excited for the Missy mystery to be solved…someday!

By: Calli Arcale

Calli Arcale — Mon, 20 Oct 2014 15:38:21 +0000

I really liked this one. It was an intriguing concept well realized. And there were definitely some lovely gags with the shrunken TARDIS. When the Doctor handed a sledgehammer through the door of the TARDIS, with the consequence that it basically emerged from her handbag, that cracked me up. And the Addams Family moment was priceless. Shame it didn’t work . . . the TARDIS having to go into siege mode was a surprise, and an interesting new touch. I liked the way it looked; will we be seeing a “TARDIS siege mode” toy now available? ;-)

And I was pleased there was a payoff to Clara’s lies at the end of the last episode. “What a tangle web we weave when first we practice to deceive.” She came clean with the men in her life once, and has quickly tangled herself up in a second web of lies. Will she be forgiven for this a second time? Some might dismiss that as “soap opera” stuff, but I think it’s important for the things that happen to actually affect the characters. They change from day to day. Some of them become better. Some become worse. And some are broken entirely. What will be Clara’s fate?