Doctor Who 10x11 Reaction Early Access!

Or, orrr, we just let them watch it? Because it isn't as bad as you make it out to be.

Curtis Murphy

I think it's time for a new pole once Capaldi leaves. I've tried getting the on board with Jodie, it's soo freaking brutal. It'll be like Shane watching the Star Wars Special again... descent into madness.

Robert Trainer

I love that they were so disturbed by the early hospital scenes that none of them heard each other make the comparison to their Cuthulu RPG!

Brian Barnes

The only DW episode of the modern era that is actually disturbing. The atmosphere is so haunting and chilling, and that sadistic volume knob... Truly, one of the greats.

Opti_Frog

Telos ain't shit, I want my Cybermen draining energy from the planet #MondasThuggin

Dominic D

It was, but it was implanted when he was a child so it had been in his head all his life. In the next episode there's a throwaway line from the Doctor about the Time Lords curing the Master's "condition" which is either referring to the drumbeat in his head or the whole being an energy skeleton thing

Joe Entwistle

The title is from the opening line of To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell. "Had we but world enough and time,/ This coyness, lady, were no crime." It's a seduction poem premised on the idea that we have to seize life before we die. A particularly evocative part: "But at my back I always hear/ Time's winged chariot hurrying near/ And yonder all before us lie/ Deserts of vast eternity./ Thy beauty shall no more be found;/ Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound/ My echoing song; then worms shall try/ That long-preserved virginity/ And your quaint honour turn to dust,/ And into ashes all my lust;/ The grave's a fine and private place,/ But none, I think, do there embrace." As a poem about the passing of time the whole thing is worth a read for the resonances. A search will turn up the text pretty easily.

On second rewatch, I think the whole “shouldn’t have spoiled it before airing” would have been a lot stronger that the master not spent 5 minutes blatantly saying that he’s the master before revealing. Guess we all already know who he was so we missed the obvious bait..

JamesA

I thought the loud repeated 4 beats the master heard was the signal implanted in his brain and that Missy wasnt so affected because link was broken?

The Mondasian Cybermen are the GOOD cybermen Eric!! It’s not just a persons brain popped out and now it’s a killer robot, it’s your skin peeled of your face and replaced with cloth, your organs sucked out and replaced with circuits, it’s creepy, sinister, and deep! These are way better than the Cybertek ones. Oh, and the ones you guys saw in The Five Doctors were from Telos.

William Tanner

To me this is up there with Moffat's best and has one of the best cliffangers in Who history

Obsidian

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ChiefChill

YESS it’s here!! Time to see what a proper reaction looks like with no prior knowledge to what’s coming!!!

JamesA

And here we are...