AniInterview Sorry, this movie sucks

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

Kien Navarro Exactly the movie you think it is, but not the movie you want it to be.

Scarlet The film never slows down or bores, plunging from one harrowing sequence to the next.

Brittany Hyde Once again Moffat has graced Doctor Who fans with the same regurgitated, stale refuse that he seems to think the public wants. Ever since he became the primary writer on the show great plot has been substituted for quick fixes and high-tech special effects, which has led to the borification of the show. It would seem that he is hellbent on ruining a show that has stood the test of time by making it more mainstream. It's time that they had more than one writer again, because Moffat is obviously not up to the task and if things continue as they have been then I don't see the show having much of a future left. In essence this episode ended up being a mundane mixture of Moffaty laziness wrapped in moldy, three-week old bacon.

GameAndWatch As the credits rolled. I turned to a fellow 11th fan and we both shrugged. We felt disappointed and cheated. This episode failed to engage or captivate the pair of us.(I've since re-watched the episode, and it's certainly better for a second viewing.)There is a story here in waiting albeit jumbled and incoherent. Luckily it is saved by a few prosaic lines from the Doctor. Some mysteries are answered. The burning question about the finite limit of the Doctor's regenerations has speculation put to rest. There were some gentle pokes at the fans. One example is the Doctor referencing 'the Rules' when shouting at Daleks.Why was the town called Christmas, is there any deeper meaning here? Is it just the bleakness of winter with Trenzalore and Christmas being shrouded in darkness? (Rickets must have been pervasive, perhaps that's why the Doctor required a walking stick.) Or was the stick a Dickensian Scrooge reference? We kind of get a crotchety curmudgeon of a Doctor.There were a couple of plot devices that felt half baked. Such as Handles and the truth field.Is Handles just there to identify Gallifrey and decipher the broadcast? What was the purpose of the truth field? I assumed the stand off would get broken by simply asking the Doctor his name outright (a difficult question to side step there). The Doctor states that he has a plan, and then jokes that he doesn't, another false truth?Technology is outlawed in Christmas and yet we see electric lights, and later Handles and even the Tardis. The Doctor doesn't appear buff upon re- entry to the planet either (is this just skirted over?). If technology is forbidden surely the holographic units should be stripped from them. The pair weren't naked on Trenzalore.The same old foes are dusted off for this Christmas outing: the Cybermen, the Daleks, the Weeping Angels etc. Most of which didn't really add anything and just increased the noise. Please, please put the Daleks to sleep.The featured regeneration was a whopper. But it was two staged, partly to tease us viewers. In some ways I'd have preferred to have this at the outset of the episode to quell expectations. Begin with the end, then let the 11th have his hour.I'll gloss over this story and its imperfections to make way for the next incarnation. I can only hope that the BBC start afresh next time round. I liked the 11th Doctor, but he still feels alien to me, we didn't get enough of him. There weren't many stand out stories, the 11th didn't really get the chance to shine.As a sci-fi fan I would like: less Earth, more Doctor, a new intelligent side kick and some more captivating thought provoking human alien stories. I'm not even that fussed about the time travel! You can throw away the mediocre series spanning story arcs and the dullard companions.So long chinny...

jc-osms And so Matt Smith's time as the Doctor ends, the sonic screwdriver passed on to the much older Peter Capaldi which should make for an interesting change after Smith and his immediate predecessor David Tennant put a more youthful slant on the Doc.Like the recent 50th anniversary celebratory episode "The Day of the Doctor", Steven Moffat fills this particular pie with many ingredients, perhaps too many at times, but in the end the story was still gripping, finishing up with the much anticipated, if rather sudden, regeneration where Capaldi's first appearance begins with a rather poor line ("What colour are my kidneys?") which I would hope isn't indicative of what is to follow.Again Moffat reaches back this time into the show's more recent lore which he himself has supervised, to introduce the plot elements here, principally the crack in the universe, intriguingly suggesting the return of the Time Lords. There he meets Colonel Meme and her band of intergalactic police acting as the conduit to Trenzilore where only the Doctor can gain entry and where, as a sort of space-age Wyatt Earp, sees off the would-be interlopers down the years. Eventually, inevitably, it's the Daleks who break through with an invasion force and set up one final showdown for this Doctor which will change him forever.The episode has its oddities, none more than the Doctor's literal attachment to a disembodied Cyber-head called Handles, Clara's (to me, inexplicable) encounters with The Silence, and for the first time, we see a Doctor physically ageing as his supposedly final regeneration nears its end.There's some typically cheeky Moffat humour throughout, particularly concerning hologram clothing, but it ends as it must with Smith's Doctor triumphing even as he expires, given a grand "Thank You everybody" speech and even a touching reunion with Amy Pond, but surprisingly not with Rory or River Song.I have enjoyed Matt Smith's tenure at the TARDIS, but feel that after the youthful but different eccentricities of both his and Tennent's reigns, a more mature, perhaps spikier Doctor could make for a refreshing change of pace and it will be interesting to see how Clara moves on from her clearly physical attraction for the younger Doctor to an older man. Lucky thirteen, anyone?

ragingrei Technically, that was a spoiler, because that's what happened in this episode.It was an over-saturated mess in which everything happened and nothing mattered. People popped in and out without purpose, old props made cameos without consequence. Plot twists clearly marked RECYCLE get tossed in the trash bin after very, very brief use.Pacing was non-existent. Nothing the characters do or have happen to them (and believe me, a lot of things happen to a lot of characters) means anything at all. You can tell Moffat was trying to make it seem tragic, but he glosses over everything so haphazardly that nothing -- absolutely nothing -- sticks.It was like watching an hour-long movie trailer. I'd like to believe the episode was written by the marketing department.