Dr Who… Awesome News If You're A Fan

[Johnnytheboy]

Am I showing my age, or is every Doctor more frenetic than the previous one?

[soupdragon1]

kev1974 said:

Bring back Matt Smith, "Rory", and Steven Moffat!

This series is terrible.

I've never seen Jodie Whittaker in anything else so can't yet decide if she's just a terrible actress that got lucky in the past, or if her overacting is the result of bad writing and bad direction. Either way her performance in this is nothing but hugely irritating.

The acting is horrendously bad. I was thinking the same - is it just the actors or is it the director. That spider episode was sooo bad. It was as if they only had one go on each scene and if it wasn't good, they just went with it anyway. Not what you expect in 2018

[otolith]

FourWheelDrift said:

Like he said, it's been done better. More than once.

Yep. Also, space ships, dangerous alien intruder onboard, flush it out of the airlock. All done before from tribbles to xenomorphs.

Why can't the BBC's Sunday evening children's show have some real original cutting edge hard science fiction? Is it too much to ask that knocking out ten episodes a year of light hearted family entertainment should entirely avoid the tropes of the genre? All those ten year olds must be rolling their eyes and saying things like "Larry Niven wrote this better in 1972".

[Moonhawk]

Ratings seem to be dropping like a stone.

Last night’s episode got 6.12 million. That’s around a 45% drop over the debut episode.

http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/story.php?story=The...

[thegreenhell]

Moonhawk said:

Ratings seem to be dropping like a stone.

Last night’s episode got 6.12 million. That’s around a 45% drop over the debut episode.

http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/story.php?story=The...

I think the first couple of episodes had unusually high ratings, probably in anticipation of the new cast and writers. The last series averaged about 5-5.5M, with a slow tail off from start to end.

[Riley Blue]

thegreenhell said:

Moonhawk said:

Ratings seem to be dropping like a stone.

Last night’s episode got 6.12 million. That’s around a 45% drop over the debut episode.

http://guide.doctorwhonews.net/story.php?story=The...

I think the first couple of episodes had unusually high ratings, probably in anticipation of the new cast and writers. The last series averaged about 5-5.5M, with a slow tail off from start to end.

Episode 1: 10.95 million
Episode 2: 9.00
Episode 3: 8.41
Episode 4: 6.43
Episode 5: 6.12

Looks like the spiders didn't do The Doctor any favours.

[jagnet]

Riley Blue said:

Episode 1: 10.95 million
Episode 2: 9.00
Episode 3: 8.41
Episode 4: 6.43
Episode 5: 6.12

Looks like the spiders didn't do The Doctor any favours.

That looks like the consolidated ratings for the first 3 and overnight ones for the last two.

Overnight ones only look more like:

Episode 1: 8.2 million
Episode 2: 7.11
Episode 3: 6.39
Episode 4: 6.43
Episode 5: 6.12

And we're only half way through. I reckon we'll easily be seeing overnights in the low 5m at best by the end of the series.

[Allanv]

Last night was the first time I have ever turned it off midway through.

Not good at all.

[WinstonWolf]

Allanv said:

Last night was the first time I have ever turned it off midway through.

Not good at all.

It was an inclusivity box ticking exercise and nothing more. It seems that the Beeb are more interested in diversity than producing something that's actually any good.

[alec.e]

It was awful, yes that alien creature just looked silly.

Too many loose ends at the end- like the Spider episode.

[Allanv]

WinstonWolf said:

Allanv said:

Last night was the first time I have ever turned it off midway through.

Not good at all.

It was an inclusivity box ticking exercise and nothing more. It seems that the Beeb are more interested in diversity than producing something that's actually any good.

Seemed to be a box ticking exercise, first time I have turned off an episode since I started watching as a kid in 1979.

Edited by Allanv on Monday 5th November 17:44

[The Hypno-Toad]

PBCD said:

As soon as it appeared on screen, my immediate thought was "ah, so *that's* where Nibbler from Futurama is these days"

Spot on.

[ali_kat]

PBCD said:

Mignon said:

I found it more or less impossible to take the concept of an indestructible tellytubby seriously...

As soon as it appeared on screen, my immediate thought was "ah, so *that's* where Nibbler from Futurama is these days"

More Crazy Frog to us!

[Allanv]

The Hypno-Toad said:

PBCD said:

As soon as it appeared on screen, my immediate thought was "ah, so *that's* where Nibbler from Futurama is these days"

Spot on.

Turned off before that but now have to put it on again to see this telletubby / nibbler thing. It is your fault I have to watch the woman catching flies again,

[robsa]

Apologies for a Sun link!


https://www.thesun.co.uk/tvandshowbiz/7666311/doct...

Ratings seem to be falling, which makes me (sort of) happy that this PC guff isn't washing with other people either. Sundays episode on the medical ship was just awful, but the pregnant man was just the cherry for me.

Edited by robsa on Tuesday 6th November 10:14

[Starfighter]

The issue with the falling ratings is that the BBC will see this as a reflection on changing viewing tastes and can the series as there is no way that the crappy scripts and lack of plot could be the cause.

My daughter is of the opinion that Netflix offers better stories. I agree with her.

[thegreenhell]

Then you read this, and see who else is supporting the movement, and the penny drops

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/46101341

[Morningside]

What a load of crap. The first episode was very good and I actually looked forward to the next episode. Now? It's an embarrassment. I can roughly see what the idea is but it comes across as pushy and preachy.

Honestly did any 10 year old child think that was so great they want a Doctor Who figure for Christmas?

Maybe I'm just yearning for running though corridors, Welsh quarry pits and wobbly sets.

[So]

Morningside said:

What a load of crap. The first episode was very good and I actually looked forward to the next episode. Now? It's an embarrassment. I can roughly see what the idea is but it comes across as pushy and preachy.

Honestly did any 10 year old child think that was so great they want a Doctor Who figure for Christmas?

Maybe I'm just yearning for running though corridors, Welsh quarry pits and wobbly sets.

It was dreadful. It managed to be preachy and political, unsuitable for children and upsetting rather than "Dr Who scary". A fail on all counts.

[Troubleatmill]

I can see what they are trying to do.


But it doesn't work.