Dr Who… Awesome News If You're A Fan

[Dr Doofenshmirtz]

I watched it for the first time last weekend.
Oh dear.
Just give it a rest BBC - you've given the PC lunatics full control of the asylum.

[ali_kat]

Alex said:

Liked the spiders. A proper scary monster for once, and reminds me of the Jon Pertwee episode, "Planet of the Spiders", which I remember vividly as a child, not just because of the spiders, but because Jon Pertwee regenerated into Tom Baker.

The rest was a bit meh. I'm not warming to Jodie Whitaker's breathless portrayal of the Doctor. She's actually kind of annoying. And please spare me the weekly social justice message.

Sums up my feelings too!

[Jazzy Jag]

She reminds me too much of Sue Pollard.

Keep expecting her to shout Hi-de-hi!

[Halb]

ho-di-ho

[Riley Blue]

It's the open mouthed pauses, waiting for a reaction to her pithy comments that irritate me; that and the persistent preaching and celebrity name dropping. We've had Banksy and Ed Sheeran, who's next?

[LoonyTunes]

Lets not forget - she's constrained (as is every actor) by the scripts for dialogue and by the director for much of the artistic and dramatic aspects.

It's not like she has carte blanche in her depiction of the character and the characters lines.

[r11co]

LoonyTunes said:

Lets not forget - she's constrained (as is every actor) by the scripts for dialogue and by the director for much of the artistic and dramatic aspects.

Quite, and Chibnall is phoning them in. It is almost like he's working from a template.

Edited by r11co on Tuesday 30th October 15:12

[marcosgt]

Jazzy Jag said:

She reminds me too much of Sue Pollard.

Keep expecting her to shout Hi-de-hi!

Mmmm - I'm thinking Gladys Pugh would make a better Doctor, she certainly had more 'edge' than we're seeing currently.

I tend to agree with most of the negative remarks about this, but I'll give it a bit more of a go (for no reason other than I can snooze through it without fear of missing much after a big roast dinner now it's on a Sunday).

I couldn't really see how letting spiders suffocate/starve was particularly humane compared to killing them quickly, I assumed the Doctor had some cunning plan to restore them to normal size and clean up the environment, but it seems like the most vociferous Brexiteers, she's happy just to leave a mess for others to sort out... (Maybe that was a surprisingly subtle bit of satire?).

Oh well, it's a kid's tea time programme, I don't suppose most of them care if a character is someone's niece's wife as long as the monsters are quite scary.

M

[MartG]

A load of plot holes...like Yaz ( a serving Police Constable ) not calling in the discovery of a dead body, and her response to a guy carrying a concealed firearm was totally unbelievable.

What happened to all the big spiders spread across the city, including the one trapped in the flat ? There would be police ( or UNIT ) all over the place...

[deckster]

MartG said:

A load of plot holes...like Yaz ( a serving Police Constable ) not calling in the discovery of a dead body, and her response to a guy carrying a concealed firearm was totally unbelievable.

What happened to all the big spiders spread across the city, including the one trapped in the flat ? There would be police ( or UNIT ) all over the place...

I was wondering why all the nightclubs in the city hadn't been overrun.

Nice idea but terrible denouement.

[Jazzy Jag]

deckster said:

I was wondering why all the nightclubs in the city hadn't been overrun.

Nice idea but terrible denouement.

And I didn't like the ending, either.

[Justayellowbadge]

MartG said:

A load of plot holes...like Yaz ( a serving Police Constable ) not calling in the discovery of a dead body, and her response to a guy carrying a concealed firearm was totally unbelievable...

Precisely. Her shocking ignorance of protocol completely detracted from the otherwise gritty realism of a time travelling alien battling giant mutant spiders.

[warch]

Justayellowbadge said:

MartG said:

A load of plot holes...like Yaz ( a serving Police Constable ) not calling in the discovery of a dead body, and her response to a guy carrying a concealed firearm was totally unbelievable...

Precisely. Her shocking ignorance of protocol completely detracted from the otherwise gritty realism of a time travelling alien battling giant mutant spiders.

[FourWheelDrift]

There is nothing wrong about adding new things to a show such as time travel & aliens, it's the screwing up of known facts that's annoying.

Child asks their parents, "Do aliens exist?"
Parent "Possibly, we just don't know for sure it would be ignorant to assume we are the only planet containing life in a universe so vast"

Child "Is time travel possible?"
Parent "It could be in the future, it could be now on another planet in another galaxy using technology we have no experience of and materials that don't exist on our planet. And we have had no interaction with them because why would they come here even if they knew we existed when there are billions of other places they might go to first"

Child "Can you breath in space?"
Parent "Of course not, it's a vacuum, there is no air and your blood will boil and your lungs implode. You would be dead immediately. Don't ask such stupid questions."

[otolith]

FourWheelDrift said:

Child "Can you breath in space?"
Parent "Of course not, it's a vacuum, there is no air and your blood will boil and your lungs implode. You would be dead immediately. Don't ask such stupid questions."

Parent would be ill-informed.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/surviva...

Pedants might be better asking what breeze someone's hair blows about in, though.

[deckster]

otolith said:

FourWheelDrift said:

Child "Can you breath in space?"
Parent "Of course not, it's a vacuum, there is no air and your blood will boil and your lungs implode. You would be dead immediately. Don't ask such stupid questions."

Parent would be ill-informed.

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/surviva...

Pedants might be better asking what breeze someone's hair blows about in, though.

Parent gave the right answer but then got carried away with the explanation. The question was can you breathe in space - the answer is no, because there's no air. They should have just stopped there.

[So]

Justayellowbadge said:

Precisely. Her shocking ignorance of protocol completely detracted from the otherwise gritty realism of a time travelling alien battling giant mutant spiders.

You silver-tongued swine.

[TheAngryDog]

ecsrobin said:

bstb3 said:

Spike Milligan did a sketch entitled 'Pakistani Daleks'. It'll probably be something on the same lines.

For those like me who hadn’t seen the sketch. https://youtu.be/C0n88tZQc4Q

"How's Mr Banajee?"
"He's not terribly well"
"why?"
"I exterminated him"

[TheAngryDog]

Don Veloci said:

At least I enjoyed the spiders as a creepy creature of the week.

But I'm already sick of being preached at regarding cause of the week and feel this isn't going to change any time soon.

Just not warming to Jodie at all. Feels like she projects no gravitas/authority/aura that previous actors have. And before
that is dismissed as a male Doctor thing, female assistants (not just Missy) have achieved that in the past when they've
carried scenes and plots.

I re-watched the episode where The Doctor (Capaldi), Missy and Clara were on Skarro last night. For every second that Missy was on screen she owned it. It is such a shame that Michelle Gomez couldn't have been The Doctor instead, I think it would have been much better.

I am just not warming to JW sadly, the way she speaks makes her sound a little stupid, and with all these "celebs" being wheeled out, it is almost like the writers / BBC / Chibnall expected it to be poor, so thought that having them in would help boost it. It hasn't.

[LoonyTunes]

It's losing it's gravitas for me. I know it was originally a kids program but it always had an adult (almost dark) sensibility to it. Especially the original Hartnell series.

It seems to swapping this for all out saturday morning kiddie thrills now.