yes i thought it was quite good.... especially the beginning bit with the daleks attackingg galafrey...

Apparently no one else cared, though, lol, oh well...

That ending shot was nice, with all the Doctors together.

It was fun.

Bringing in Billie piper was good, but no Amy pond??

Not usually a fan, but my son likes it so watched it with him.

4th doctor? Hasn't numbering changed now john hurt has played doctor no1

I hated it, because I couldn't watch Atlantis as usual :(

There are people who still watch Atlantis?!? That show is truly awful! It's Merlin but without the charm that makes you overlook the massive plot holes. They even use the same bloody caves.

Dr Who was good, although I think having him not press the big button was an error. The whole 'make the planet vanish and the enemy shoot each other" lark is stretching it a bit, and is the sort of thing you should only see in cartoons.

"Bringing in Billie piper was good, but no Amy pond??"

Feh, I had more than enough of her the first time around...not a fan of the Ponds or River Song...the whole pre-Clara era for the 11th Doctor is one big deluge of convoluted stories and irritating characterization so far as I'm concerned.

"4th doctor? Hasn't numbering changed now john hurt has played doctor no1"

He didn't, he played the War Doctor, after McGann and he regenerates into Eccelston, so either it goes 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 War Doc 9 10 11 or, if there is a change, it'd be to Doctors 9-forward...so the 4th Doctor is still the 4th Doctor no matter what.

It really WAS a stretch, Octavious...for the sake of silly Doctor Who science, I'll buy that all the Doctors can somehow make the planet pop into another dimension/place and out of harm's way (though it seems like that'd have solved a dozen or so other crises in the past) but I have to think the Daleks must have better aim and sense than Yosemite Sam if they're a threat to the universe...they just end up blowing each other up?

Probably the weakest part of the special, but if it means the Doctor didn't kill billions of people and Gallifrey comes back (I like the politics of the place in the old series...at least blowing up Vulcan in the new Star Trek films had weight and was done by someone who's SUPPOSED to be the villain) I can roll with it given the rest of the good things in the special...especially since it meant a cameo from Tom Baker (and I guess some are arguing if he's the 4th Doctor or just a Curator that looks a lot like him...I say he's 4 out of time, why not, they hint at it but stop short of coming out and blatantly saying it, so they're clearly trying to have a nice fan moment without starting a continuity war...and since other actors came back to play the role again when they were far older and had already regenerated...sure...he's just a super-old 4th Doctor retiring before he magically gets younger again or whatever...he probably needed a 100 year break from Adric or something...so yeah.)

And I only saw the previews for it before and after the show...

But that Atlantis show looked silly.

Only things that bugged me
1) Aforementioned Looney Toons shooting logic.
2) How does an UI unlock a time lock? Or display future happenings?
Others I can deal with with the general cheesynes(?) of the show. 8/10, did not see that twist coming.

For those who haven't seen it, here's a link to a six minute BBC "minisode" where Paul McGann regenerates into (a surprisingly young looking) John Hurt - "The War Doctor". http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U3jrS-uhuo

rare event that i watch tv, was waiting formmy friend's 80th B-day to happen, and lomand behdnthis thing airs... was pretty good . not great but pretty good

lo and behold lol