The Final Doctor Who thread (expect spoilers!)

Well how many villains in movies were just misunderstood or had good intentions that went awry in Superhero films lately? Nearly all Spiderman movie villains. Of course now I'm trying to think of more and I can't.

But Norman Osborn had to do something to retain control of his company. Harry wanted to avenge his father's death.

Doc Oct was possessed by his arms while trying to do good for mankind.

Sandman just needed money for his daughter, the gun just went off. Now he simply wants to see her again.

Dr. Connors was another scientist who experimented on himself, working for the betterment of mankind.

Stane simply wanted control of Stark Industries.

Whiplash wanted to avenge what happen to his father and get him the credit he deserved.

General Ross made hunting the Hulk personal. Abomination, a man trying to prove himself toward the end of his career, enabled by Ross.

Loki, Red Skull, yea world domination pure and simple.

The Doctor doesn't kill. Oh goodness no.

Other people kill for him.

That's what he does, if you remember. The Doctor turns people into weapons.





-np

I dislike the whole darlek storylines - while I understand the need for a villian, the beauty of the reboot of WHO was last time lord, everyone, everywhere, everywhen was dead..time lord and darlek. The episode where Rose and the DR. find the last darlek was awesome. Suddenly having billions of darleks all over the time stream is not true to the reboot. If they are going to have a billion darlek show up everytime, they should recton time lords again - rani, romana etc..

Notice how Solomon didn't recognize the name "The Doctor"?

I'm pretty sure the 12th doctor is going to be the first female regeneration. They've dropped enough hints about it happening with Timelords.

Just saying it's possible. I mean I'm not saying they've got a new one lined up, but it wouldn't surprise me if when they start looking to cast a new doctor they start looking at actresses and not actors.

But we know Smith has said he doesn't want to step down yet, so we'll probably get at least this season out of him, who knows what next season will bring.

Rupert Grint wouldn't be as bad as Emma Watson, and there are at least as many hints about Ginger Doctor as Female Doctor.

They could always go with Geri Halliwell though...

A Town Called Mercy wasn't bad. I'm not really thrilled with Whithouse's seeming obsession with hamfisted Doctor Parallels (though I will say this was WORLDS better than God Complex, this one at least didn't beat you over the head with it). But I dunno, the resolution didn't really sit right with me. Ok, guy blew himself up, I guess everything is cool now. Just.. eh. It wasn't bad, just didn't feel all that satisfying.

This season has thus far been pretty... well, not mediocre but I guess average? I'm just not that excited, I'm not getting any really good vibes from it so far. The first season was pretty damn solid, the second season really kind of divided between the Moffat episodes (and the doctor's wife) which were pretty brilliant and fun, and then the non-moffat/gaiman episodes which were kind of dull and uninteresting. I mean it could be like the previous seasons where there is something threading through each episode and we're not aware until the veil gets pulled from our eyes but the thing about that was that it wasn't the thread that made the previous episodes good, they were good in and of themselves and that added an extra piece of mystery and intrigue. I'm not sure what they might do that could make me just go eyes wide and "Wow those episodes were WAY more awesome than I thought". I mean at worst I can see these ending up as set pieces, like the Pirates last season (though the crowning moment of awesome for them in A Good Man Goes to War still didn't make the Curse of the Black Spot any better). None of the episodes this season have been bad though they just haven't been that good to me.

So I dunno, I'm kind of mixed so far.

The best part of the episode was Ben Browder.