Doctor Who: Season 8 [Blu-ray]

I will list the goodies first and then the Episodes. If you do not want the plot line, then skip the episodes sectionThis offering contains 4 discs including 12 episodes and special Features.Special FeaturesDisc 1~Doctor Who: Earth Conquest - The World Tour~Tour of the TARDIS~Doctor Who Exclusive~Doctor Who Live Pre-Show~Doctor Who After Who Live~London Post - Premiere Q&A~Commentary on Into the DalekDisc 2~The Ultimate Time Lord~Commentary on Robot of Sherwood~Commentary on The CaretakerDisc 3~The Ultimate Companion~Commentary on Kill The MoonDisc 4~Behind The Scenes~Foxes: Don't Stop Me NowEPISODE LIST (With Spoilers)1 "Deep Breath"When a dinosaur materializes alongside the Houses of Parliament in Victorian London, the Doctor's old friends the Paternoster Gang are relieved when he arrives, seemingly to deal with the creature. However, they soon realize that the Doctor is the one in need of help; newly regenerated, extremely volatile and questioning his self-worth, this is a very different man from the one they last saw. The only person that may be able to help him is Clara, and she is still grappling with losing the Doctor she knew and loved. After the spontaneous combustion of the dinosaur, the Doctor takes on the case of whoever killed the time-travelling beast. The Doctor has an internal battle with himself, pondering where his new face came from. The Doctor and Clara are called to a restaurant, only to find out all the other customers are androids. After discovering the robots' hidden spaceship, and their long-term goal of reaching a "promised land", the Doctor confronts their leader, who falls to its death from an airship, though it is unclear whether he fell as part of a self-destruct mechanism or if the Doctor pushed him. Clara receives a phone call from the previous Doctor, and is convinced to join the Twelfth Doctor on his journeys. Meanwhile, the Half-Face Man awakes in a mysterious place, greeted by an equally-curious woman named Missy.2 "Into the Dalek"The Doctor saves Journey Blue, a rebel fighter, from her space shuttle, which is under attack by Daleks, but is unable to save her brother. Upon returning her to her rebel ship, the Doctor then drags Clara away from a potential date with Danny Pink, her new colleague at Coal Hill School, and is thrown into the most dangerous place in the universe: the inside of a Dalek. The Doctor and Clara, along with a team of rebels aboard the Aristotle, a military station in space, are miniaturized and sent into "Rusty", a Dalek that has turned good. At the Dalek's power center, the Doctor discovers a large crack, which he deduces is causing the malfunction within the Dalek. He uses his sonic screwdriver to seal the crack, but their meddling has a terrible outcome, causing the Dalek to realize its true cause again. It sends a message to the rest of the Daleks, giving them the base's location. The mysterious Missy and "Heaven" once more make an appearance after Gretchen sacrifices herself to allow Clara and Journey access to the mind of Rusty. In an attempt to show Rusty the beauty of the universe, the Doctor connects his mind with that of the Dalek's. Rusty, however, sees the Doctor's hatred for the Daleks and is inspired by this instead, deciding to exterminate his own race. After the battle, Rusty calls the Doctor a "good Dalek", and the Doctor and Clara leave, with Clara returning to her date.3 "Robot of Sherwood"Treating Clara to an expedition of her choice, the Doctor takes her to the twelfth century to prove that her childhood hero, Robin Hood, doesn't exist. He is stunned when he stumbles upon a gang of outlaws, led by a man claimed to be the great hero himself. The Doctor duels with Robin Hood with a spoon, and remains in disbelief even as Robin takes the two to meet his band of Merry Men. Robin takes part in an archery contest against the Sheriff of Nottingham, splitting the arrow to claim a prize of a golden arrow. The Doctor challenges Robin before impatiently blowing up the target, causing the Sheriff to order his arrest. Robin defends the Doctor, but after slicing the arm off of one of the guards, it is revealed that they are robots. After the capture of the Doctor, Clara and Robin, Clara is taken to the Sheriff to act as the trio's leader, where she finds out that the Sheriff witnessed a spaceship crash and has been trying to repair it by collecting all the gold in the nearby land, so that he can use it to travel to London and take over the kingdom. The Doctor and Robin escape their prison, where Robin demands that Clara reveal who exactly the Doctor is. Robin Hood defeats the Sheriff in a sword fight, and after allowing the robots' spaceship to detonate harmlessly in the atmosphere, the Doctor and Robin Hood part ways, after which Maid Marian is reunited with Robin.4 "Listen"After a failed date with Danny Pink, Clara returns to her home to find the Doctor awaiting her. He seeks a creature he believes to have perfected its ability to hide, that stalks humankind and is responsible for a dream common to all humans. Using the TARDIS' telepathic circuit, the duo end up in the mid-1990s, where Clara meets Danny Pink as a boy. The Doctor and Clara comfort Danny from his fear when an unknown entity enters the boy's room. After returning to her date with Danny and failing a second time, Clara returns to the TARDIS and meets Orson Pink, a distant descendant of Danny Pink, one of Earth's first time travelers stranded at the end of the universe. After a brief moment with the entity, Clara triggers the TARDIS' departure to an unknown barn, where she finds a crying child. Hiding beneath the bed, she realizes that the child is the Doctor in his younger years. When the boy gets out of the bed, Clara accidentally grabs his leg, and she realizes that she is the monster under the bed. She comforts him with the notion of fear being a constant companion that can bring out the good in him, where one day he'll return to the barn during the moment of his greatest fear. Clara leaves, forcing the Doctor to not see where they had been. Clara and Danny reconcile, and the Doctor rejects the notion of the unknown entity ever existing.5 "Time Heist"The TARDIS' phone rings in Clara's apartment, and the Doctor and Clara find themselves in a strange chamber suffering from memory loss along with Psi the augmented human and Saibra the mutant human. They have been recruited by 'The Architect' to rob the Bank of Karabraxos, the most impregnable bank vault in the universe. The quartet collect the tools required for their heist, before witnessing a mysterious alien named the Teller turn the brain of a criminal to 'soup' with its psychic abilities. Saibra is later caught by the Teller, and activates an atomic disintegrator to avoid the pain of the Teller's brain scan. Psi soon follows when caught by the Teller, and Clara and the Doctor gain access to the vaults of the bank. They gain the rewards of their heist from the vault, and proceed to the Private Vault, but not before regaining contact with Psi and Saibra who were actually teleported. The four find that the private vault is home to Director Karabraxos, and the Doctor gives her his number before she leaves the bank as it is destroyed by the solar storm. The Doctor regains his lost memories back from the Teller, revealing himself as the Architect, and unveiling the goal of the heist – to rejoin the Teller with the only other one of its species. The Doctor takes the two aliens away to live out their lives, and returns Saibra and Psi to their home worlds, and Clara to her flat for her date.6 "The Caretaker"Clara is trying to maintain two separate lives: one as the Doctor's companion, and the other as a school teacher in a romantic relationship with Danny Pink. The Doctor tells her that he's going deep undercover, disguising himself as a temporary caretaker at her school (Coal Hill). Tracking a Skovox Blitzer, which vaporized a community support officer, CSO Matthew and is one of the deadliest machines created, he plans to displace it a billion years into the future where nothing else can be harmed. The Doctor meets Danny without realizing he's Clara's partner, instead believing that Adrian, another teacher who reminds him of his previous incarnation, is the one that Clara is romantically interested in. The Doctor treats Danny with disdain after finding out that he was a soldier. Suspicious of the Doctor, Danny accidentally tampers with his trap, and the Skovox Blitzer is only sent seventy-four hours into the future. The Doctor learns of Danny's relationship with Clara, and Danny about Clara's double life, leading them to argue. When the Skovox Blitzer rematerializes earlier than the Doctor initially estimated, the three work together to trick it in to deactivating itself. Danny warns Clara about the Doctor pushing her into reckless and dangerous actions, and tells her that he can help her if she needs it. CSO Matthew awakens in "the Promised Land", being greeted by Seb, Missy's assistant.7 "Kill the Moon"The Doctor takes Clara and Courtney on a trip, where they arrive in 2049 on a Space Shuttle to the Moon with one hundred nuclear bombs. Noting the Moon's higher gravity and meeting Captain Lundvik, the Doctor questions her, where he's told that her team are on a suicide mission to blow up the Moon. A sudden mass high tide had threatened humanity's existence, the cause being the Moon. Their mission was the only way to save the planet. Colonists are found entombed in spider webs, and the Doctor finds through the readings that had previously been taken, noting an increase in the Moon's mass - the cause of the sudden tidal shift. A spider-like being attacks the group, and the Doctor realizes that they are only germs. The Doctor determines that the Moon is an egg, with the creature inside ready to hatch. The Doctor abandons them, forcing Lundvik and Clara to decide on their own. They call upon Earth to make the decision, receiving an unanimous vote to save the Earth. Clara intervenes and stops the bombs' countdown, and the Doctor rescues them from the Moon. From Earth, they watch the creature hatch and the shell disintegrate, with the creature laying a new egg as a new Moon. Clara angrily confronts the Doctor, claiming that it was his decision to make too, since Earth is important in his life as well. She leaves the TARDIS and the Doctor, to be comforted by Danny.8 "Mummy on the Orient Express"Clara rejoins the Doctor for one last outing before she leaves the TARDIS and the Doctor for good. They arrive on a train named the Orient Express which travels through space, a distant future remake of the famous train. The Doctor soon discovers that an elderly woman has recently been murdered by a creature only she could see – she described it as an Egyptian 'Mummy'. The Doctor insists that she died of old age, but when a member of the kitchen staff dies in the same way, the Doctor realizes that the 'Mummy' (known as the Foretold) is invisible to all but the one that it is about to kill. Once it is seen, it kills its victim in exactly sixty-six seconds. The train's computer program, 'Gus', reveals to the Doctor that he has tasked him to capture the Foretold or face the death of innocents. The Doctor takes the consciousness of the Foretold's next victim to see it, and discovers that it is a dead soldier powered by future technology with unfinished business. The Doctor discharges the soldier by surrendering, and the train's occupants are saved. Gus declares that the survival of the train's occupants is not required, and begins removing the train's air supply. The Doctor uses the future technology from the Foretold to teleport the train's occupants to safety, just before the train explodes. After a conversation with the Doctor about whether or not he is really cold-hearted, Clara decides she is not ready to leave him yet, and they set off on further adventures together.9 "Flatline"Arriving in Bristol, the Doctor and Clara find the TARDIS has shrunk on the outside. Clara gets out to investigate the area, while the Doctor stays in the TARDIS until it has shrunk down to a handheld size, theorizing that something was leeching its external dimensions. Clara encounters a young graffiti artist named Rigsy, and communicating through an earpiece, the Doctor tells Clara that the thing they are facing is an alien from a universe that's solely two-dimensional. The creatures have achieved the ability to make 3D objects 2D, and Clara, Rigsy, and community service people attempt to run from the creatures. The Doctor is soon able to create a device that can change the dimensions of objects similarly to the creatures. However, the TARDIS cannot function with a lack of dimensions, and the Doctor powers it down into a 'siege' mode. The creatures have also learned to make themselves 3-dimensional, and assume demented guises of the people they have absorbed into two-dimensions. With the help of Rigsy, Clara is able to trick the creatures into powering the TARDIS once more and restoring it to regular size. The Doctor uses its power to send the creatures back into their dimension. Clara and the Doctor part ways with Rigsy, and after she asks if she was a good doctor, he tells her that she was an exceptional doctor in his place but goodness had nothing to do with it.10 "In the Forest of the Night"Maebh, a young girl, is running through a forest when she comes across the TARDIS. She knocks and is answered by the Doctor, who realizes that a forest has grown over London. Meanwhile in London Museum, Clara and Danny lead a group of kids out into the new forest after a museum sleepover. Clara immediately calls the Doctor, who reveals he is already aware of the forest and tells Clara to meet him in Trafalgar Square. Upon arrival they attempt to figure out the truth behind the forest, and the Doctor realizes Maebh is missing, and he and Clara set out to find her. Following a trail she has left, they find her, only to be cornered by and rescued from wolves and a tiger which have escaped the zoo. The Doctor realizes Maebh is behind what's going on, and uses the sonic to get the trees to speak through her. They reveal an extinction-level solar flare is heading towards Earth. Heading back to the TARDIS, the Doctor offers an escape route. Clara says she would never leave Danny, Danny would never leave the kids, and the kids would miss their parents. The Doctor leaves, before realizing the trees have grown to protect Earth like a giant airbag and the solar flare wouldn't kill anyone. He heads back to Earth, where he recruits the kids to send a message to the world to not destroy the trees. The solar flare passes by harmlessly and the excess trees disappear, their job done.11 "Dark Water"While Clara attempts to gain the courage to tell Danny about her life with the Doctor, Danny is hit by a car and is killed. Clara is comforted by her family, until she calls the Doctor. She attempts to blackmail the Doctor into saving Danny by throwing the TARDIS keys into a volcano one by one. The Doctor removes her from the dream state he placed on her and uses her memories for the TARDIS to find Danny. They are brought to a facility named 3W, in which skeletons are contained in a blue liquid. Elsewhere, Danny is being consoled by Seb for his death. The Doctor opens an information book, read by a hiding Missy, who claims that she is a droid. Meeting Doctor Chang, he explains that the dead are conscious and also shows them "dark water", a substance which can only display organic material. Meanwhile, Missy awakens the skeletons and the tanks begin to drain. Clara talks with Danny, and she tries to find proof of his identity, but Danny refuses to let her be with him in death, so Clara ends the call. The Doctor and Chang exit into the hallway to see the tanks drain, revealing the skeletons are actually Cybermen. The Doctor and Missy exit and find themselves on the steps of St Paul's cathedral. The Cybermen begin to march out of the cathedral, and Missy tells him that his efforts to evacuate are pointless, and that Missy is short for Mistress, revealing that she is the Master.12 "Death in Heaven"As part of Missy's plans, Cybermen detonate themselves around Britain, releasing "Cyber pollen" that reincarnates and transforms the dead into Cybermen. Danny is one of these, and rescues Clara from 3W. UNIT bring the Doctor and Missy aboard a plane, where the Doctor is given control of Earth's armies as "President of the Earth". Osgood tells the Doctor that this is happening all over the world, and the clouds have not yet dispersed, the Doctor offers her a chance for "all of time and space" as his companion. With the help of the Cybermen, Missy overpowers UNIT, kills Osgood and blows up the plane. The Doctor survives by calling the TARDIS to him and reunites with Clara in a cemetery, where Clara has discovered the Cyberman who saved her is Danny. Danny reveals that a fore coming rainfall will convert all living people to Cybermen as well. Missy arrives and gifts the Doctor with control of all the Cybermen so he can conquer the universe. The Doctor refuses and gives control to Danny, who leads other Cybermen into exploding and stopping the rainfall. Missy is seemingly disintegrated by a final Cyberman, a reanimated Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. In the aftermath, Clara and the Doctor bid farewell with lies to each other: Clara tells the Doctor that Danny was brought back from the Nethersphere; in reality, he used his one chance to get out to revive a young boy he accidentally killed when he was a soldier, and the Doctor tells Clara he has found Gallifrey with coordinates Missy gave him; the coordinates actually led to empty space.

I've found that with each regeneration, it takes me a little while to get used to the new actor. Peter Capaldi is so old, isn't he, with that crepey skin and those hooded eyes? But he won me over because his Doctor is fierce and even because he is snappish. Why shouldn't he be? Seriously, I'd probably get tired of rescuing people over and over. (See bonus extra g. Commentary track on "Into the Dalek"!)"I'm the Doctor. I've lived for over 2,000 years. Not all of them were good. I've made many mistakes. It's about time that I did something about that.""Clara, tell me. Am I a good man?"Who, I ask you, Who could ask that question without cringing a bit?Season 8 has 12 episodes and a cornucopia of DVD/BluRay boxed set bonus extras, including commentary tracks on 4 of the episodes. It will NOT have the 2013 Christmas special, "The Time of the Doctor".There are many extras available online and with the DVD/BluRay boxed sets. I've described the ones included in the boxed sets. Commentary Tracks are on episode 2 "Into the Dalek" (I thought this commentary was particularly good), episode 3 "Robot of Sherwood", episode 6 "The Caretaker", and episode 7 "Kill the Moon". You get 5 discs with 586 minutes of episodes. It's presented in 16.9 anamorphic with 5.1 Surround sound. English subtitles are available on the episodes and the Special Features.And what about the episodes themselves? A couple bordering on average, but overall, this season is another hit for me. The 1st episode runs 76 minutes without commercials. The rest are 42 minutes.SPOILER ALERT: Do not read my description of Episodes 11 & 12 if you haven't seen those last two episodes of Series 8 yet.DVD/BluRay Special Features are shown as features a. through n.EPISODE 1.... "Deep Breath" I would love this episode just for the hilarious beginning, with a disoriented newly regenerated Doctor and a giant T-Rex (bigger than it would be in real life). The Doctor hollers to the dinosaur, "Big Sexy Woman! Sorry. Sorry, it's all my fault. My time machine was stuck in your throat. It happens. I brought you along by accident. That's mostly how I meet girls."A very good episode with an uncanny adversary - excellent acting all around. And it harkens back to a wonderful episode, "The Girl in the Fireplace", David Tennant, Series 2.Special Features.......a. "Earth Conquest - The World Tour" (40 minutes, 08/2014) Peter Capaldi and Jenna Coleman visited 7 cities in 12 days, publicizing "Doctor Who Season 8". Follow them as they start out in Cardiff, Wales, then London, Seoul, Sydney, New York, Mexico City and Rio de Janeiro. Whew!...b. "Tour of the TARDIS" (2 minutes) Michael Pickwoad (production designer) gives us a tour of the changes made to the TARDIS for the new Doctor. This includes wall lights using the same molds they use to make the Dalek inner shell: "Dalek technology and TARDIS technology are not too dissimilar!"...c. "Doctor Who Exclusive" (11 minutes) Four mini-features covering "Casting Peter", "Writing the New Season", "What is Doctor Who?" and "Why Watch Series 8?". Steven Moffat (lead writer and executive producer) starts off, "From the moment I realized that Matt, despite my pleas and attempted blackmail, wasn't going to return as the Doctor - he was determined that his time in the TARDIS was up - I started thinking about who the next doctor was."Peter Capaldi (pronounced caw PAL dee) on playing the 12th Doctor: "There is the most beautiful melancholy at its heart."...d. "Doctor Who Live Pre-Show" (11 minutes) Chris Hardwick's NYC-based talk show, "The Nerdist", has a special before-show introduction of the Season 8 TV premiere of "Deep Breath". As Hardwick calls it, "It is a WHO overload."...e. "Doctor Who After Who Live" (43 minutes) Chris Hardwick "The Nerdist" has a special show after the "Deep Breath" TV premiere. Guests include Mark Gatis (writer and actor) and Dan Starkey (plays Strax). It was especially fun when everybody starts guessing who Missy is, while Gatis keeps a poker face....f. "London Post-Premiere Q&A" (29 minutes) Peter Capaldi, Jenna Coleman and Steven Moffat answer questions from the audience/twitter after the "Deep Death" premier in London.Q: "Previous series have had big wild twist moments.... In this coming series, what can we expect?"A, Moffat: "Well, the main thing about a twist would be that you wouldn't tell people in advance."EPISODE 2.... "Into the Dalek" The Doctor and Clara land on the space station Aristotle, the last human outpost losing a war with the Daleks. The humans have one card up their sleeve, a captured Dalek who is actually good. A party, including the Doctor and Clara, is miniaturized and sent into the Dalek to figure out why. It goes disastrously wrong. This is an episode which brings home that this Doctor is blindingly fierce. Clara meets Mr. Danny Pink. And who the sam hill is Missy?...g. Commentary track on "Into the Dalek" with Phil Ford (co-writer) and Ben Wheatley (director). I thought this was a very good commentary - better than average. Both the commentators are so "chuffed" to be given the chance to work on a Dalek episode. And who can blame them. So if you're going to design a set for the interior of a Dalek, what would you make? Wheatley says, "In the canon of interior Dalek design, there's a lot of material. And it all contradicts."One example of this Doctor's regeneration being hard-edged compared to prior Doctors is the scene in the Dalek where the male soldier is about to be destroyed by the Dalek antibodies. The Doctor tosses him something - that must be to help the fellow, you think. Ford: "An integral part. An important part."Wheatley: "This is the thing everyone talks about, one of the horrible moral decisions in the episode."Ford: "He's so practical, this Doctor."Wheatley: "Yeah, when I read that I was like, 'Oh, I can't see David Tennant doing this.' "EPISODE 3.... "Robot of Sherwood" The Doctor tells Clara he'll take her where ever and whenever she wants. He's disgusted when she says she wants to meet Robin Hood: "He's made up. There's no such thing. Old-fashioned heroes only exist in old-fashioned story books." But the TARDIS proves him wrong. This episode has very funny exchanges between the Doctor and Robin of Locksley, who keep trying to one-up each other....h. Commentary track on "Robot of Sherwood" with Paul Murphy (director). "The Doctor's journey, through the episode, is that he is going to learn to believe in Robin Hood and to believe in heroes generally.""I think it's great what Stephen [Moffat] is doing with the Doctor throughout this series, introducing so much fallibility. The Doctor can make quite catastrophic mistakes... putting two and two together and he's arriving at nine."EPISODE 4.... "Listen" The Doctor mutters to himself: "Question: Why do we talk out loud when we know we're alone? Conjecture: Because we know we're not. Evolution perfects survival skills. There are perfect hunters, there is perfect defense. Question: Why is there no such thing as perfect hiding? Answer: How would you know?"EPISODE 5.... "Time Heist" The Doctor and Clara wake up in a box-like room with two companions. No one remembers how they got there or why they got there. All they have is a recording by a hooded figure: "I am the Architect... This is the Bank of Karabraxos, the most secure bank in the galaxy. A fortress for the super rich. If you can afford your own star system, this is where you keep it." They have a robbery to execute.I thought this plot was magnificent.EPISODE 6.... "The Caretaker" The Doctor goes deep undercover at Clara's school, Coal Hill. Deeeeep undercover, blending in perfectly. Hah!...i. Commentary track on "The Caretaker" with Paul Murphy (director), Kate Welch (prosthetic effects producer) and Pete Hawkins (animatronic engineer). The Coal Hill school in the episode is really shot at 5 different school locations in and around Cardiff. Murphy on Capaldi and Coleman: "These two, they're two of the best actors that I've ever worked with."EPISODE 7.... "Kill the Moon" Courtney Woods, age 15, high school sophomore, wants to be special. The Doctor, in a major crabby mood, finally agrees: "How'd you like to be the first woman on the moon?" But naturally, no jaunt with the Doctor is ever simple....j. Commentary track on "Kill the Moon" with Scott Bates (1st assistant director) and Paul Wilmshurst (director). This was Bates' 3rd Doctor Who episode and Wilmshurst's 1st as director. They described the day they shot the astronauts and TARDIS people in full space suits as a "tough" day because things kept going wrong with the complicated suits. Wilmshurst says that the suits "were sufficiently realistic that the only way the actors could be inside them was if the breathing apparatus on the back pumped oxygen in for them. So either the lights could go, or the oxygen breathing apparatus thing, or the microphones. Because they could only hear through the radio mikes."Amazingly, the moon landscape, including the long shots, is a real place in Wales. The only changes made were to turn the blue sky into a black sky and add twinkling stars.EPISODE 8.... "Mummy on the Orient Express" Clara is serious about Mr. Pink and she is seriously tired of the Doctor's machinations. So, for her last trip with him, the Doctor takes her someplace really special: "There were many trains to take the name Orient Express, but only one in space. Completely faithful recreation of the original Orient Express except slightly bigger. And in space." Appropriately attired in Roaring 20's attire, they find out too late that they've joined a doomed voyage.EPISODE 9.... "Flatline" After landing back home in Bristol, the Doctor is astounded when the TARDIS is smaller on the outside than on the inside: "Something nearby is leaching all the external dimensions." He'll have to figure it out, or he'll never be able to leave the TARDIS. This episode has a great science fiction concept, not new, but brilliantly executed. And creepy.EPISODE 10.... "In the Forest of the Night" The Doctor exits the TARDIS to discover that trees are taking over the city. Everywhere, growing at an abnormal rate. He meets up with Clara and Danny and their students, one of whom, it appears, can channel the trees. This is a good old-fashioned feel-good science fiction story. It feels rather like a Star Trek episode, with a positive view of the future.EPISODE 11 & EPISODE 12.... Two parter, "Dark Water" and "Death in Heaven". In the first minute, Mr. Pink, Clara's love, is killed crossing the street. Clara, not quite in her right mind out of grief, calls the Doctor, and attempts to force his hand: Change the time line so Danny Pink lives, or she will destroy all the TARDIS keys. It is a poignant beginning. The only thing to do, the Doctor tells her, is to go to hell. "And don't bleat."Yes! Finally another 2-parter to give time to really tell a story. And we find out who Missy is - I did NOT see that coming!Last disc of the DVD/BluRay set has these Special Features:...k. "Behind the Scenes" (total 140 minutes) Each of the 12 episodes has a 10-minute+ behind-the-scene featurette with cast and crew. Each short was originally available on iplayer and youtube immediately following the airing of its episode.It starts with Peter Capaldi's very first read-through and 1st day on set, and how it is to talk to a Dalek that isn't there.For "Robot of Sherwood", Dean Goulden, an archery extra and archery trainer (officially the Archery Advisor & Coordinator): "I'm actually in the Guinness Book of Records for shooting the most count of arrows in a minute." There's also an interesting sequence where special effects shows just how they split the arrows.Michelle Gomez (plays Missy) says, "I've had too much fun playing this role. Which is always a worry."...l. "The Ultimate Time Lord" (45 minutes, 08/2014) This TV special is hosted by Peter Davison (the 5th Doctor), who talks to many people involved in the making of Doctor Who, past and present. In particular, he asks, "What will make the twelfth Doctor unique?" (This aired before episode 1, "Deep Breath", aired.)One of the people Davison talks to is David Tennant (10th Doctor). When asked what is needed to be a Time Lord, he jokes, "A nice coat is always important."Murray Gold (composer) says that probably the best known character theme is Matt Smith's "I am the Doctor". Capaldi, on the other hand, "is quite rock and roll"....m. "The Ultimate Companion" (45 minutes, 08/2014) Peter Davison hosts this 2nd TV special, also. What does it take to be a Doctor Who companion? We should all be prepared - just in case!Once again, David Tennant chimes in with why the Doctor needs a companion: "Maybe he doesn't like his own company."...n. "Foxes: Can't Stop Me Now" (4 minutes) British pop star Foxes' music video of the version of "Can't Stop Me Now" that she sings in episode 8, "Mummy on the Orient Express". Her singing is accompanied by clips from all the season 8 episodes. FYI, the tune is originally by Queen."Never trust a hug. It's just a way to hide your face."Happy Reader

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Wer kennt es noch. "Raumpatrouille Orion" die deutsche SciFi Serie aus den 60ern (1965). In 7 Folgen hat die Besatzung des Raumkreuzers Orion unter ihrem Commanders Cliff Allister McLane (Dietmar Schönherr) die Welt gerettet. Danach war leider Schluss weil dem produzierenden ZDF die Kosten zu hoch waren und die Serie nicht ins Ausland (USA, etc.) zu verkaufen war da sie in schwarz weiß produziert wurde.Ich kenne die Serie durch meine Mutter die sich die DVD gekauft hat und regelmäßig immer wieder gerne guckt. Und auch wenn meine Begeisterung nicht so groß ist wie bei meiner Mutter mag ich die Serie. Und die Idee dahinter. Und habe mir die Frage gestellt was hätte aus "Raumpatrouille Orion" werden können wen man beim ZDF mehr Mut gehabt hätte.Die Antwort. Vielleicht das deutsche "Doctor Who". "Doctor Who" ist eine englische SciFi Serie die 1963 das erste mal auf Sendung ging. Man unterscheidet bei "Doctor Who" zwischen der klassischen und der neuen Serie. Die klassische Serie lief von 1963 - 1989, die neue Serie seit 2005. Die Engländer hatten einfach den Mut zur Einfachheit. Um Kosten zu sparen waren die Sets eher spärlich mit ganz viel Plastik und die Special Effects alles nur nicht professionell. Die Geschichten wiederum waren Genial und das was die Sendung trug. Populär und Kult (in England) wurde sie durch beides. Die aktuelle Serie kann jetzt auch mit professionellen Sets und Special Effects aufwarten. Und etwas schrägen englischen Humor. Ich würde mir wünschen das auch nochmal jemand auf die Idee kommt "Raumpatrouille Orion" wieder aus der Versenkung zu holen.Die komplette 8. Staffel beinhaltet alle 12 Folgen der achten Staffel sowie das 2014er X Mas Special. Dazu kommen noch eine menge Extras.Zu den einzelnen Folgen ...DVD 1)Folge 1: Tief DurchatmenFolge 2: Mission DalekFolge 3: Roboter in SherwoodDVD 2)Folge 4: Hör zuFolge 5: VerschlusssacheFolge 6: Der HausmeisterFolge 7: Tötet den MondDVD 3)Folge 8: Die MumieFolge 9: Hinter den WändenFolge 10: Ruf der WildnisDVD 4)Folge 11: Dunkles WasserFolge 12: Tod im HimmelDVD 6)Xmas Special 2014: HereingeschneitDie Specials findet man verteilt auf allen 6 DVDs der Staffel. Auf der fünften DVD befinden sich ausschließlich Extras. Zu sehen bekommt man u.a. Kino Prequel zu Folge 1, Audiokommentare zu ausgewählten Folgen, Doctor Who: The Ultimate Time Lord, Doctor Who: The Ultimate Companion, Inside the New Tardis, Casting Peter Capaldi, Writing The New Series, What is Doctor Who?, Why Watch Series 8?, Behind The Scenes, Earth Conquestr, The World Tour und Trailer.Ich bin im allgemeinen ein großer SciFi Fan. Egal ob Star Trek oder Star Wars, Stargate, Zurück in die Zukunft oder oder oder. Meistens, nicht immer, aber meistens schaue ich es gerne und regelmäßig. Doch bei "Doctor Who" muss ich zugeben bin ich ein Spätzünder. Ich habe ein zwei Folgen mal an einem Samstag auf ProSieben gesehen und war schon begeistert. Doch als die Serie wieder verschwand war es mir auch irgendwie egal. Doch nachdem ich sie auf DVD & Blu-Ray Veröffentlichungen wieder gesehen habe und einmal bestellt hatte war ich dabei.Die Serie ist toll. Und very british. Mit vielen schrägen Geschichten und noch mehr schrägen Humor. Man muss also bereit sein sich darauf einzulassen. Seit der 5. Staffel begleiteten wir Matt Smith als 11. Inkarnation des Doctors auf seinen Reisen und Abenteuern. Seine Begleitung war während der 5. und 6. Staffel Amy Pond (gespielt von Karen Gillan) und ihr Ehemann Rory Williams (gespielt von Arthur Darvill). Während der 6. Staffel ist Clara Oswald (gespielt von Jenna Coleman) neu dazugekommen.Matt Smith wurde im letzten Xmas Special vor der achten Staffel (Die Zeit des Doktors) verabschiedet. Und Peter Capaldi als nunmehr 12. Inkarnation des Doctors eingeführt. In der achten Staffel muss sich auch seine Begleitung Clara erst einmal an den neuen Doktor gewöhnen und irgendwie dieser sich auch an sich selbst.Und ich muss zugeben das auch ich mich zu Beginn erst einmal an den neuen Doktor gewöhnen musste. Besonders da es für mich der erste neue Doktor ist. Ich habe mit der fünften Staffel so richtig angefangen "Doctor Who" zu verfolgen und muss zugeben gerade zu Beginn Matt Smith extrem vermisst zu haben.Der neue Doktor ist optisch älter als der alte und nicht so sprunghaft ist wie Matt Smith. Die Interpretation der Figur ist eine andere. Ich hatte mir aber vorgenommen auch dem neuen Doktor eine Chance zu geben und das habe ich getan zum Glück. Und muss zugeben das mit die Figur des Doktor, sowie die Geschichten und somit auch die achte Staffel im gesamten genauso gefällt wie die vorherigen Staffeln die mir bekannt sind.Die Blu-Ray Veröffentlichung ist super. Man bekommt alle 12 Folgen verteilt auf 6 Discs zusammen mit eine menge Extras. Dazu gibt es ein Booklet mit Infos über die Staffel, die Serie und den einzelnen Folgen, sowie kurzen Interviews mit vielen beteiligten.Eine Übersicht über die Folgen hat man auch noch einmal auf dem Rücken der Amaray Blu-Ray sowie dem Schuber in dem sich die Amaray Hülle befindet. Das grüne FSK Logo auf dem Schubert kann man abmachen, den auf der Hülle nicht.Ich mag "Doctor Who" und entdecke das kann man erahnen. Die Geschichte sind so anders als bei anderen Serien und einfach unterhaltsam. Die Blu-Ray Veröffentlichung ist toll. Wären doch nur alle so.

Devo dire che i ragazzi della DNC hanno fatto un ottimo lavoro con il blu-ray dell'ottava stagione di Doctor Who!! , è ricca di contenuti extra quanto la versione inglese!!! non sarebbe male se altri prendono esempio da loro!Audio: Qualità perfetta ! con traccia audio DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 in italiano veramente impeccabile, provato con ben due sistemi con supporto audio in HD, compreso perfino le cuffie Sony HW700ds(che supportano benissimo il DTS-HD Master audio) e l'impatto è veramente stupefacente.Video: Qualità video assolutamente perfetta, e per sfruttare al meglio tutti filtri video spettacolari(come il deep color) e altro... bisogna usare l'hdmi 1.4!Confezione ben fatta! ogni disco con foto belle diverse una dall'altra! incastro dei dischi molto sicuro rispetto a molti altri cofanetti o blu-ray normali!Infine metto la stella 5/5 sia per la qualità massima del Blu-ray (audio e video) e per questa stagione davvero particolare con scenari e personaggi mai visti! e trama ben strutturata.

DVD con la octava temporada de Doctor Who, en perfecto estado y sin ningún problema. El producto es tal como esta descrito, y no hay margen para el error.