1. Fewer anti-climaxes and quick fixes
Remember when "Dark Water" started off really great, but it turned out Missy just wanted the Doctor to be her friend or something? Or when it turned out there wasn't an actual threat in "Forest of the Night"? It can be debated whether or not "Listen" was a cop out or not, but some of the episodes in season 8 had legit, fully thought out endings. I hope the writers continue to make this a bigger trend in Season 9.
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While good episode, many of the episodes in Season 8 had concepts borrowed from previous runs. i.e. "Deep Breath", "Into the Dalek", "Listen", "Flatline", and "In the Forest of the Night". While one of these episodes is actually one of my favorites, I do have problems with the repetition of concepts, especially since this is Doctor Who. We expect something crazy, something we've never seen before, and in some episodes like "Time Heist", "Mummy on the Orient Express", and "Dark Water" we were given that. I've heard rumors of a story about Davros I would not be fond of seeing, but at the moment I'm pretty sure it won't happen.
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I've heard rumors that River may return, and even though she and the Doctor already met the ends of their shared time line I want more. What can I say? I want to see how she and the Doctor react to each other.
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We still don't know who this young lady is playing, but how cool would it be if she were a Time Lady? I've heard theories that she might be a younger Clara, but I'm hoping for Gallifrey related reasons she's a Time Lady. Honestly, as long as her identity is unforeseen and plays awesomely into the plot.
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Remember when Clara accidentally drove the TARDIS to when the Doctor was a child and in the same barn the Doctor "destroyed" Gallifrey in? Even though it should have been time locked? Cool stuff. The few sentences that the couple said about him "crying" sparked my curiosity. What damaged him so much as a small child? Is it related to the Master's early demise? Hopefully Missy's reappearance in the premier will bring out more of the Doctor's cryptic past.
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Now, whether or not you actually liked the Zygons in the "Day of the Doctor" you'd have to agree that neglecting to follow up on what happened during the "great debate" where the humans and Zygons forgot which side they were on, and were forced to create a perfectly fair compromise. From the looks of things, the Zygons will appear, but whether or not this will actually fill a plot hole or not is still the question.
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Season 8 took an interesting turn when, in the first time in New Who the Doctor has actually begun to turn a companion into a worse person. When we meet Clara in season 7 she's in charge of her relationship with the Doctor. She's aware that this could be toxic- that it might take over her life, and she's not interested in that. The Doctor has his own scheduled place in her life- Wednesdays. He doesn't flow over into her personal life. Her life on earth is completely separated from the Doctor because she wants to be able to be there for the people she cares about. In season 8, well, that's a different story. By attempting to separate the Doctor with her life she brings them together in a way that harms her own personal relationships. She begins to act very frighteningly like the Doctor.
Not only does Clara compare herself to the Doctor in two different episodes, but she also begins to show plenty of the Doctor's bad traits in her life. She lies constantly to the person that she "loves", frequently runs away from the problems in her life by traveling with the Doctor, seeks revenge, has trust issues, denies herself happiness, and begins to get the same cold fury that every Doctor has. The Doctor kept asking, "Am I a good man?" but he should have been asking, "Is Clara a good woman?" Do good women lie to the person that they love for selfish reasons? Do good women run away from their problems like cowards? Do good women manipulate? Threaten? Betray?
Face it, Doctor, you've corrupted what has always been the better half of you.
Now, Clara is my favorite companion is Doctor Who. I adore her, but I'm also hungry for character development. Clara acted very inexcusably in season 8, and I will not stand for this not to be addressed just as the entire result of season 7 was not addressed. (I will never be over that.) Also, we need to shake things up. Like I said, I love Clara, but her time to leave was at the end of season 8. The best part of Clara dark! tendencies is that if she leaves due to realizing what she's become it will bring to light a whole new issue for the Doctor to face.
Almost every Doctor faces the guilt of endangering his companion's(s') life(ves), but have we ever considered the Doctor turning his best friend into what he hates the most-himself?
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Pretty self explanatory. Bringing back the Time Lords brings thousands of possibilities. Who was the woman in the "End of Time"? Was she the Doctor's mother? What became of the Doctor's family? SO MANY QUESTIONS.
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-Lizzie
(Sometime this weekend: Homestuck According to a Non-Reader)
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