Dr. Who Series 5 - The eleventh hour
Added 2022-11-05 15:00:06 +0000 UTCNew Series, new Doctor, new Companion. This episode was fun to watch :)
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Yes I think that I will enjoy this episode a lot more, coming back to it in a year or so. But I 100% agree with the fun and the exitment of meeting a new doctor. :) Young Amelia is the best. I wish she could have stayed a little kid, for a little longer. I would have loved to see an episode with them together :) I agree that it would have been a little creepy speaking from todays perspective, but it´s also sad, that it didn´t happen. I have necer eaten Custard in my life, because it´s not a thing here in Germany, but it just sounded so gross, that it made my stomach turn. But I like that it became a meme or an insider between Dr. Who fans :) Thank you for explaining the still snapshot scene. That makes a lot of sense. I was told already that Karen Gillan starred in "Fires of Pompeii", but you´re right. i would have never ever recognized her. :) Oh yes, I remember the Sally message. Great callback :D Hahaha I remember that episode with the 12 months delay. Was sad first, but then super funny. Oh I miss Jacky.... :) I´ve read many comments saying the episode was finally nsynch with their copy. That is sooo great, and I hope it´ll stay that way :D
Nicologik
2022-11-10 13:01:52 +0000 UTCOh that's great to hear. Thank you 😊
Nicologik
2022-11-08 13:18:15 +0000 UTCI forgot to mention that the reaction was also in perfect synch with BBC iPlayer.
Stephen Males
2022-11-08 11:56:54 +0000 UTCSomehow it seems like other people had an easier time adjusting with the new doctor than I do. Because for me it´s really hard. I´m trying my best but David was just the perfect doctor in my eyes. I think I´ll need some time to get used to the new one. :) Haha time travelling. That´s funny, even if the circumstances were bad. But I´m feeling so much better now, so we can all laugh about it now :) I loved young Amelia, she was sooo cute. But I like the grown up Amelia, too :D I have watched Winnie Pooh as a kid, but I don´t remember much of it at all. So thank you for telling me. Your comment has woken up some positive memories of my childhood :)
Nicologik
2022-11-08 11:47:38 +0000 UTCI´ll look out for the crack when I edit the episode :) I think I like the new TARDIS more, than the new doctor for now. I feel bad for saying that, but I think I really have to get over David first, before I can start liking the new doctor. But I really like Amy, she is great :) I´m very happy your copy is nsynch with my reactions now. That´s great :D
Nicologik
2022-11-08 11:43:06 +0000 UTCHaha that´s true. I didn´t even think about that. :D I can laugh about it now, because I´m healthy again, but you´re right. That must have been very strange to watch. It´s strange how you and Andrew really seemed to liek this episode so much (I´ve only read your comments at this point). I didn´t really think about it as a special episode. More like an ordinary, good episode. Fun to watch, but "just" an introduction of new characters. Maybe it will change when I look back at it in a few month and get to like the new doctor. I guess, since I was still grieving David so much, I wasn´t 100% enjoying all of the new stuff, because I wanted the old one back :D :D We´ll see how the second episode will go. :)
Nicologik
2022-11-08 11:40:06 +0000 UTCThis is one of your favorite episodes? Oh that really is a surprise to me, to be honest. Because to me it just seemed like an ordinary episode. A good one, but nothing special. I´m also surprised that you became tired of the RTD era. I could have watched another 10 series of this :D But I´m also happy about a new era. Now I just have to get used to the new doctor. :) Thank you for the explanation, I have never heard that phrase before, but it makes sense. :D Although the poor cowboys, does that mean they don´t work very well? :D I have just looked up the movies Olivia starred in and I don´t really know any of them. But she also starred in the show "The nightmanager" and I´ve seen that one a few years ago. So maybe I do know her from that show. :) They included a trailer for the whole series in the first episode? That´s so weird. Why would they do that?
Nicologik
2022-11-08 11:35:23 +0000 UTCI remember somebody at work saying on the Monday morning after this episode that David Tennant was a hard act to follow but that this new guy just hit the ground running and made the part his own. Which was exactly how I felt. It was sad seeing you say how unwell you were feeling at the end. I felt that we were time travelling and - as someone else has said - not in a good way. Young Amelia is adorable and the scene of her sitting on that suitcase waiting for her raggedy Doctor yo come back is wonderful and heart-breaking. It's also a shot that is used quite a lot as a meme. The youngest actor to play the Doctor so far and yet he seems old and young at the same time. That's a good thing in my opinion. And, I don't know if you ever read the Winnie The Pooh stories or watched the films, but the opening scenes of this episode are very much like the first time Tigger arrives and Pooh has to find out what, if anything, Tiggers like to eat.
Stephen Males
2022-11-05 21:35:27 +0000 UTCIn regard to the Doctor having Amy as a companion, maybe you'll notice it when you come to edit but the scanner screen shows the same type of crack that was in her bedroom wall. I love this Doctor, he had me hooked from the start and I've watched that rooftop scene so many times. This was in my top ten but recently just dropped to 11th (which is kind of ironic) Amy is great as well and so beautiful. I wasn't keen on the new Tardis console first time round, but it has grown on me. I liked how you picked up on the fairy-tale feel of this and I think this console fits in perfectly with this. Oh and this time my copy and this video stayed in sync so that's a bonus.
Jade Ellis
2022-11-05 21:01:35 +0000 UTCHow strange (in a bad way) to be able to see you experiencing the onset of your recent illness :( This story is right up there as one of my favourite 'introductory' episodes. It does almost everything right (too many to list) - but the key element is that (right up until the montage sequence) it completely avoids any references whatsoever to all that came immediately before. Here is the new Doctor - here is his new companion - this is his first adventure - here are hints of things to come. There's no looking back; or scenes of the Doctor lying in bed for half the story etc. We just go straight in there! I'd give it an easy 8.5
Ian Smith
2022-11-05 19:24:36 +0000 UTC"Who da man!" - The Doctor, "The Eleventh Hour" Ok, he shouldn't say that again, but it's a good question for a post-regeneration episode and it's really the key idea for the first episode of a new Doctor. You mentioned opening presents and that's what I feel when we get a new Doctor. I've had lots of new Doctors over Classic and New Who and I always look at the first post-regeneration episode as a fun episode - the important thing is to introduce the new character (and companions) - the actual plot is secondary. I find young Amelia absolutely delightful. The young actress is the cousin of Karen who plays the older Amy so she really does look like the younger version of the character. Personally, I was a bit sad that the young Amelia wasn't the new companion. Now, it might look creepy for an adult Doctor to go off with a seven year old girl - but the character is so sweet I would love it. Fish-fingers and Custard is well-known in the Doctor Who fan community. If you're on a train and see someone with an Eleventh Doctor shirt, mentioning Fish-fingers and Custard will probably get a smile. (I've never done that) The practical props that were eaten weren't actually fish-fingers - although fans have tried eating real fried fish-fingers with custard. (I've never done that either) It's really nice that everyone in the village recognises Amy's Raggedy Doctor. That one idea carries a lot of story baggage. The way I understood the scene when we see lots of still snapshots of the people in the village, was that the Doctor was trying to mentally review what he had just seen - that Rory was the odd person who was pointing his camera in a different direction to everyone else. The actress Karen Gillan (Amy) was in a previous Doctor Who story as a soothsayer in "The Fires of Pompeii" but you wouldn't recognise her under all the makeup. Amy gets a text from the Doctor "DUCK!". Remember that Sally got the message to "Duck now!" behind the wallpaper in "Blink". Hey - same writer! We've also see the Doctor embarrassingly miscalculate his return time before - for example when he returned Rose to her mother with a 12-month delay. "Hello. I'm the Doctor." - The Doctor, "The Eleventh Hour" Incidentally, this video was in perfect sync with my Blu-ray copy.
Andrew Vignaux
2022-11-05 19:22:10 +0000 UTCThe Tenth Doctor used the "cowboys" phrase when he examined Madame de Pompadour's mind in "The Girl in the Fireplace". Hey - same writer!
Andrew Vignaux
2022-11-05 19:20:00 +0000 UTCThis is one of my favourite episodes! It's fun, it does a great job of introducing both a new Doctor and his new companion, and for me at the time it felt refreshing because I'd become tired of the RTD era. I was really interested to see how you liked it, and I'm glad you enjoyed it. "You've had some cowboys in here" is British slang; it means you've had a repairman or mechanic or someone like that, who hasn't done a good job. Amy couldn't uncuff the Doctor; when she said she'd lost the key, she meant for the handcuffs, not for the door in her house. The woman you recognised was Olivia Colman. You stopped watching at just the right point, because usually there would be a trailer for the next episode but for this one they included a trailer for the whole of Series 5.
Andrew Gwilliam
2022-11-05 16:53:01 +0000 UTC
