I now realize I never actually heard her voice before. I did see Attack the Block though... Glad they're letting loose on the thicker accents, anyway.
I already like this new Doctor. She's almost got a kind of Sylvester McCoy feel to her. Can't wait for the premiere next week.
Skipped a couple seasons but have come back for novelty purposes. Liking Jodie as the doctor. Somewhat similar to Tennant. Just hoping they drop down to 1 companion soon and that the one companion is bradley walsh. The other 2 are pointless filler to me. Stuff the bbcs " inclusive and ethnically diverse makeup" thing.
Well, a lot of the classic Doctors had a crew of three companions. They just had an easier time working them all in because they were working in terms of 4 to 6 part serials and not just single episodes. It's still early in the season, plenty of time for them all to get more fleshed out.I'm really enjoying the Thirteenth Doctor so far. She's got this sort of scatterbrained way about her that's a lot of fun. The new TARDIS is nice too; it's a very fantasy steampunk look in contrast with Twelve's academic aesthetic.
Spiders from hell on a Sunday night, someone's not afraid of losing viewers. The Alien facehuggers on the Moon were acceptable, but these ones just hit a bit too close to home.(also I hate that new theme song, it just hurts my ears)
Slightly extended trailer, now it's new year's day. I had a feeling in the previous one, but now that we have a better view of that haircut, that's definitely Tesla there. We've never seen him in Doctor Who so far, have we ? About time.
That reminds me that I need to go back and finish the last series. Without any services that were streaming it it became kind of a pain to track down each episode as they were coming out.
Same, haven’t been able to see her 1st season. Didn’t help that the last Capaldi season was very underwhelming. So the hype to find them hasn’t been there either
Oww, jumping right into things with this first episode. After the previous season trying to only bring new things, I didn't expect this to get there so fast.edit - just noticed that guy makes a little o mouth right after saying his name like he spooked himself loledit for episode 2Spoiler, click to toggle visibiltySoooo Missy's "can I do good" entire chapter is straight up gone I guess. The new Master is still pretty close to what Missy was at the start, all he cares about is the Doctor and the chaos is a nice bonus, so I suppose we'll see where he goes from now on (disregarding Missy's end). Maybe we'll finally see more of this supposed old friendship that Ten was always talking about without the Master being nothing more than a creepy stalker with a one-sided obsession.Jodie's Doctor is getting pretty good !And Gallifrey... Well I guess between Missy and Gallifrey's return, they just didn't want to deal with how Cappaldi's run went through the statu quo like a wrecking ball. They're just going with their new "timeless child" storyline, whatever it is, as if it was still 2005-2010.... wait, what happened to mister 93% ? Was leaving the conference requesting an extraction team the last we saw of him ? (extraction team that he was expecting to die just like everyone else btw and who probably have some question about how he just said he planned to kill off humanity)
Spoiler: (click to see content)Well, that certainly was an explosive beginning to a season.-What exactly was the plot? Alien spies want to download themselves into our body or something? And the Master's there because??? oh and speaking of,-The Master's back. Not sure how i feel about that. On the one hand, it was bound to happen sooner or later. He makes up the triforce of Who baddies along with the Daleks and the Cybermen. On the other hand, Missy was the GOAT and i dont see this new guy being to her standard. I'll wait to see more of him.-The Fam© are useless. Deadass useless. If the 2 parter was just the Doctor and the Master it would of been great but apparently we needed a tapdancing grandad with laser shoes :/-...did the Doctor just give the first non white incarnation of the Master to the Nazis? And explicitly remove his disguise so they could see that he wasnt white? Holy shit.-ohnogallifreysgoneitwassoimportantnooo-are we finally getting deep lore on the Time Lords?-Lenny Henry and Stephen Fry were wasted. The latter has like 5 lines and dies and the former only had one good bit(the "Facebook/Google bad" speech) then exits stage left.All in all, a ok start, minus some parts. Much better then last season. Lets hope they can keep it up next week(although considering next week's episode is written by the guy who wrote It Takes You Away i have high hopes)
1Ultima said, January 07, 2020, 08:45:15 pmWhat exactly was the plot?Isn't that pretty much always the case with random Doctor Who villains like that ? Like the 2D creatures in the shrinking Cappaldi episode and that sort of things. I figured it was about introducing the new universe, but I wouldn't hold my breath over that plot point ever coming back. Just like the 2D guys. So yeah, business as usual with Doctor Who, it's just the villain creatures of the week. Better than the "humans were the villains all along" of the week from last season.And yeah, the disguise bit was really weird. For a second I really thought they were about to drop a new face already.edit for ep 5Woohoo Jack's back ! Finally. I hope that wasn't just a gratuitous cameo and he'll be around again, at least for this season.Another Doctor... I wondered for a moment if this Master is connected to her timeline instead of being connected to Thirteen, but he recognized the four beats signal so he's after Ten. Well, he could still be between Simm and Missy, but I don't know if they'd bother with that at this point.edit againSo the official Youtube channel put this upFrom his phrasing, now I heavily suspect he's not coming back anytime soon (maybe in the season finale but I'm not even sure). So now this gratuitous cameo is really feeling like one piece of what they've been doing so far this season : backpedal on the entire previous season by throwing everything they can from the classics to tell the fans "okay we fucked up the last season by trying hard to not bring anything back from before, but we get it, we love you, please watch us again, look at all the toys you love" but they're not actually doing anything with it.So all that's left right now is see where this extra Doctor bit is going (and let's just disregard that they introduced a new Time Lady / someone else from Gallifrey only to kill her off immediately without any regeneration or whatever)
Okay, why the hell are those people allowed to write anything ? I'm really glad we finally got some serious backstory for Gallifrey, but to introduce something big like that only to wipe out everything in the very same episode, that's literally the total opposite of how writing works. You introduce an idea, you make it grow in our mind, and then you make it explode. Starting the season with this garbage "everything you ever knew is a lie", not saying jack shit for the entire season, and then this ? These people should never be allowed to have a job in writing anything ever again.I'm sure they thought they were very clever when they re-canonized those extra faces from that one old episode and called it an easter egg, but the correct way to write an easter egg like that would be to hint at it much sooner to make us think about it. That just felt "well duh".
Byakko said, March 03, 2020, 01:05:12 amOkay, why the hell are those people allowed to write anything ? I'm really glad we finally got some serious backstory for Gallifrey, but to introduce something big like that only to wipe out everything in the very same episode, that's literally the total opposite of how writing works. You introduce an idea, you make it grow in our mind, and then you make it explode. Starting the season with this garbage "everything you ever knew is a lie", not saying jack shit for the entire season, and then this ? These people should never be allowed to have a job in writing anything ever again.I'm sure they thought they were very clever when they re-canonized those extra faces from that one old episode and called it an easter egg, but the correct way to write an easter egg like that would be to hint at it much sooner to make us think about it. That just felt "well duh".This is coming from NU BBC, said Nu BBC who claimed that it would remake all of their shows with more political correctiveness, social inclusion and even sacrifice humor to make it progressive in a few interviews.They would Remove all of Mr. Bean, Monty Python and Blackadder's original stuff after they died, only to remake them and shove their new un-lucrative shitshow than write something good.also you are forbidden to spew any critic against the new doctor, because she is perfect, and if you do it, we will find you and cancel you on twitter and facebook, also we will label you an Incel facist nazi manxplaining Toxic male.its a joke but is the sad reality out of it, people hated, the audience is record all low this new season for making things worse than the previous one, introducing someone with zero charisma or even making Dr Who related episodes, and now this, everything from the 1st season until now is gone, it didn't gained even a parallel timeline treatment, is all gone, there is only fem doctor, and you will like it by force.
Wow, that was a LOT of time spent on talks about nostalgia and feeling of abandonment and saying goodbye. Feels a little bit condescending given the circumstances of the show... Like, are you self-aware and parodying yourself, are you trying to tell us something about your future, are you just mocking your viewers, was it just 30 minutes of padding to make it an hour ? It's weird.I didn't catch where this "extra Tardis" came from ?
I come a bit late with the news, but since the last post was 7 months ago...Jodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall leave DW in 2022Maybe after that I could see Doctor Who again... sorry, I couldn't stand Chibnall era nor Thirteen's companions, I barely saw the Season 11 and I stopped there. Maybe I could watch the new Master, but I'm not sure...
Basara Huffman said, August 11, 2021, 03:08:58 am Chris Chibnall leave DW in 2022Thank god. Maybe we'll finally get some well written episodes again that dont retcon the fuck out of the main character.Shame about Jodie though. She can be a good actress. Just not with those scripts.Basara Huffman said, August 11, 2021, 03:08:58 amI barely saw the Season 11 and I stopped there. Maybe I could watch the new Master, but I'm not sure...The new Master is just the Joker, there's no point to watching him. And the plots he's involved with are just awful.Skip imo.
Missy best Master.Really wasn't a fan of the new Doctor. The casual clothes making her blend in with everyone else, the rambling about things we the viewer have never witnessed, the inability to actually take her seriously when she was trying to be, etc. Genuinely, she never really stood out. It's like if you took David Tennant—probably one of the best Doctors—and overdid the wacky whimsical woohoo to an obnoxious level while then expecting us to suddenly take her very seriously.And yeah, it wasn't entirely on her either; the episodes themselves were almost entirely terribly written. So much time wasted focusing on the companions who seldom contribute anything to the plot and almost feel like they exist solely to fill a quota. Sometimes you can have a larger main cast and manage to focus enough time on them without it falling to pieces, but Doctor Who just couldn't do that. If you want an example of a show that did this well, see Sarah Jane Adventures (ironic since it's under the same franchise); female lead, multiple companions who are likeable characters and actually do things, and good plots.
Basara Huffman said, August 11, 2021, 03:08:58 amJodie Whittaker and Chris Chibnall leave DW in 2022Hopefully that at least means we'll get something in '22 before that ?