Dr Who: Robot of Sherwood

[Sheen Lantern]

I too, yearn for the days of intelligence boosting french fries and evil doodles come to life.

Pretty sure neither of those episodes were written by RTD.

*Looks it up*

Quelle surprise. Besides, I've seen stupider things than laced chips in proper grown-up telly.

Still feels pretty kid's show-y to me. I miss Russell T Davies.

i think you'll see a lot of people saying this was a very traditional old school doctor who episode...and imo it is...and at it's traditional heart who is "a kid's show"...there's a brilliant dramatisation of whos early days that was shown as part of the 50th that illustrates exactly that.

This argument could almost work if DVDs and Netflix didn't exist and I couldn't go back to review this theory. I'd love to hear your explanation as to why I can still enjoy classics like The Dalek Invasion of Earth and more recent favourites like Smith and Jones without the advantage of being 9-years old, but when I see Peter Capaldi fighting Robin Hood with a spoon on a log with a production value of about 3-pound fifty, for some reason it seems pretty juvenile. No, I'm not forgetting the stick of celery or recorder or whatever, but at this point the random-inanimate-object thing is feeling really forced.

that's part of what makes it different from all the other "sci-fi" shows that are aimed at having "the sci-fi fans" as their core and hopefully sustaining audience.

Ah, yes. "Different", as we all know, is a synonym for "Better".

its a very weird British children show seemingly aimed at scaring the kids into mom and dads arms (or behind the sofa ofc) while still providing a satisfying conclusion before bedtime i'll give you that...and one that attempts to give mom and dad something worthy to watch at the same time...but it's still a childrens show at heart.

Well it's doing a pretty damn shitty job then, cus I'm not even an adult yet and it's already too puerile for me.

also adults, who watched who as kids, sit their own kids down to watch it...and this on bbc one during the saturday night family viewing slot remember...its like it basically gets passed on from generation to generation...

Again, your argument seems pinned on the hope that I can't just go back and watch older episodes (Even ones I haven't seen, before you bring up the nostalgia argument) and prove you wrong by enjoying them.

 

[Canadamus Prime]

I enjoyed it. I thought it was hilarious to watch the Doctor and Robin arguing. I also liked the theme presented, most heroes don't set out to be heroes, history and legend makes them so. The Doctor is no exception.

Still feels pretty kid's show-y to me. I miss Russell T Davies.

Me too. I liked him better than Steven Moffat. Not that there's necessarily anything wrong with being kid's show-y.

 

[Albino Boo]

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Now I'm going to be the second British person over 40 to tell, you a Spanish person of under 20, that episode of Dr Who is what people that have watched the Dr for 40 years think of as a Dr Who episode. Its the formula that made the show iconic in the minds of two previous generations of British viewers. If you don't like that, so be it, but its not going to change back to Russell T Davies's frenetic campfest. Moffat is the show runner on 2 of the 4 most successful BBC exports and therefore he is getting viewers at home and abroad.

 

[gigastar]

All i can really say for sure about this episode is that it had solidified the overarching plot for this series.

Other than that? Its pretty meh.

I think i can tell where the axed (lol) behading scene was, but if im right then it wouldnt have added much to the episode anyway.

 

[Phasmal]

I'm actually pretty bummed that I'm not really enjoying Dr Who at the moment.

I never really got into Clara as a companion. This whole `dark side of the Doctor/ is the Doctor a good man` seems forced, and I'm tired of characters talking about how awesome the Doctor is instead of him doing awesome things.

Ugh, this whole series has made me wonder if I'm just not into Dr Who any more.

I'd really like to be, but I'm just not enjoying it.

 

[Lazy Kitty]

The best part was where he

Spoiler

fought Robin Hood with a spoon.
That's even worse than the Sherrif of Nottingham. At least he didn't use a spoon.

I couldn't stop laughing.

 

[Daystar Clarion]

It was alright.

I'm in a unique position, in that I've watched everything from 2005 onwards in the space of the last 6ish months. I really wish Moffat would go back to writing stand alone episodes, because he really can't do overarching plots, and he's so far up his own arse about everything, Christ.

On the plus side, Capaldi's grumpy Doctor is something I actually really like.

 

[Willzors]

I thought the episode was better then the others in the season so far. Although one moment from the episode that hurt my brain was when


they shot the golden arrow into the panel of the spaceship. As if that would somehow help?

 

[Tanis]

I rather enjoyed it.

It was FUN and the 12th got to be more than just a whinny dope.

Hopefully we get more 'The Doctor being alien' episodes.

 

[Albino Boo]

I thought the episode was better then the others in the season so far. Although one moment from the episode that hurt my brain was when


they shot the golden arrow into the panel of the spaceship. As if that would somehow help?

It's a joke based on an old UK game show called the golden shot that ran from 1967-1974

 

[LaoJim]

Struggled with this episode quite a bit.

I get that its supposed to be a 'fun' episode and don't have a problem with that, but lots of it didn't gel for me. I don't think Capaldi is going to have the physical skills to pull off fighting with a spoon, (nor should he) and a lot of the arguing with Robin Hood just seemed childish (maybe the new doctor is childish, but I haven't been getting that from any of the other episodes).

I thought with all the over the top laughing and far too shiny clothes for people living in a forest, there was going to be some clever sci-fi explanation of how the Merry Men came to exist, while they played with this, I thought the "Nope he really did just exist" was a bit of a cop out.

Still lots of people on this thread like it, so fair play to them; who'd be a Doctor Who writer eh, it's almost impossible to please everyone in such a diverse audience.

 

[Verlander]

Moffat can't write for Capaldi. He's used to writing inane silliness that's more suited to catchphrases than actual plot. Unless there's a dramatic improvement, he could end up ruining Capaldi's run, which is a shame because he could have been the best modern Doctor yet.

 

[rosac]

I enjoyed it, sort of. I thought the arguing between robin and the doctor lasted a bittt too long and I sided with the doctor when it came to the laughing (ha-ha!) but otherwise it was good, and we're seeing an overarching plot develop (No missy in this episode though).

Next episode looks "The doctor dances" levels of creepy though. Those 2 episodes gave me nightmares, and I was... 15 or so when they came out?