Don't worry, Ukaunz, it's got the rest of us guessing too! 

We (UK) get the first episode on Saturday,  In fact, I think Doctor Who has always been on a Saturday here!  I'm glad you don't have too long to wait .

Last edited by Liberty (September 14, 2015 6:36 am)

Now that is fresh!  Welcome, Mrshouse!    If it doesn't give my age away too much, I first watched it when our family got black and white telly!   I was quite excited when Christopher Ecclestone was cast.  I thought he might bring something a little darker and more solemn to the character as the later Doctors had seemed to me to tend to be quite lighthearted and comedic.  In the end, he's my least favourite of the new Doctors, but I still like him. 

Same with me, mrshouse. I started in February and watched one series after the other, starting with the Ninth Doctor, and now I am halfway through the first series with Twelve. And I have a lot of fun but still, for me not the same as Sherlock. 

And this is my preference in doctors (so far) in case anyone's interested:

Matt Smith
David Tennant
Peter Capaldi
Christopher Eccleston

You will not be disappointed. 

Mrshouse, yes, that was before the reboot, when I was a kid.  And then I watched the reboot with my son when he was a child.   So it doesn't grab me in the way that Sherlock does, but there's lots of nostalgia and warm feelings about the series for me.  

I'm not a big fan of Clara, but I love Capaldi - possibly my favourite Doctor of all time.  I know what you mean about him being like the worse aspects of Sherlock, Solar!  But I like that.  Matt Smith was the only one of the new ones that I wasn't familiar with before I saw him as the Doctor, and I was surprised how well he fitted the part, particularly being so young.  I think he had an extremely hard act to follow after David Tennent, but he did very well, and I liked Amy and Rory.

I really have no problems with Clara but so far I am not impressed by Danny Pink. Not sure what to make of him. And I think I do not need another threesome even if I liked Amy, Rory, and Eleven. 

If you don't want any spoilers don't click, but here's an episode guide to Series 9!

It looks like all the episodes are paired, except for 9 and 10, perhaps.  And the overarching storyline will be about the Doctor's secret/confession.  I'm intrigued!

I'm a little bit disappointed that Jamie Mathieson only has one episode, cowritten with Steven Moffat.   I loved his work in the last series and I'm delighted to see him back, but hoped he'd have a couple more episodes!

Last edited by Liberty (September 15, 2015 9:36 pm)

Since I'm still a true neonate and working my way through the first series I have no clue what you are all talking about. 
Still, something that came to my mind yesterday: in the very first episode Rose finds out about the doctor and searches for more information. She comes across those old pics from centuries ago with his face.
BUT
Since he is "reborn" every now and then how can it be the same face?

Mrshouse, I think it's because he's a time traveller.  There could be evidence of him from any time he'd visit in that incarnation (i.e that wasn't his face two hundred years ago - it would have been an occasion when he'd travelled back with his current face). 

(Crossposted with you, Ukuanz!).

Last edited by Liberty (September 17, 2015 7:05 am)

I think I know what you mean.  I think that's the problem with time travel: I suppose when he reincarnated with that face, he'd already been pictured in the past with it, because he'd gone back from the future.   So the guy could have been collecting long before the most recent re-incarnation.    Yes, if he'd been looking for evidence about the Doctor you'd expect he might have come across pictures of Tom Baker, etc.   I'm not sure .. maybe they only used the current incarnation's pictures for the sake of the story, or maybe the guy just discounted any pictures that didn't look like Christopher Ecclestone, not realising it was the same person?

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