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Product Name: Doctor Who: The Complete Eighth Series [5 Discs]
UPC: 883929410538
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Rated 5 out of 5 stars
Dr who?
It’s dr who. What more is there to say? Nothing at all.
Series-8 of (the new) Doctor Who is the weakest since the show was revived in 2005. Some have blamed this on the new lead actor, Peter Capaldi, but he plays the Doctor as well as anyone could given the poor quality of the writing of some of the episodes, combined with the exceedingly dark tone of this season (or series in Britain). That said, there are several very good stories, such as "Robot of Sherwood" and "Time Heist". "Deep Breath" and the 2-part finale "Dark Water" / "Death in Heaven" were also pretty good. The episodes that I consider real clunkers are "Kill the Moon", where Earth's Moon turns out to be a giant moth egg infested with giant spiders, and "In the Forest of the Night" which has more plot problems than I can to cover in short review. For those, I'm only giving the series set 4-stars. Thankfully, series-9 is better. I'd recommend series-8 on Blu-ray, but with some reservations.
I'm a big "Doctor Who" fan. And, I have every one of the new series' DVD sets. However, I failed to pick-up this set when it first came out, and then the price shot, way up, everywhere. So, I was quite unhappy for a while, but then I happened to see this set in BestBuy for around thirty dollars, and grabbed it.
I don't know how you feel about Peter Capaldi (it took a while for me to like him), but after getting used to him... and then re-watching his first season... "Series Eight"... I have come to appreciate (and really like) his Doctor.
If you're a Doctor Who fan, and have the other sets... this is a no-brainer.
