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You are wrong, for me anyway.
i have watched them all for years (shusssh, don't tell) and this set of episodes is lamentable and other than the end/start has little to do with Dr Who.
Another BBC classic misunderstood and suffering at the hands of a social justice agenda that so many Art related people think is their role in life to shout about and thrust down our throats every chance they get.
Tis total crap.
i have watched them all for years (shusssh, don't tell) and this set of episodes is lamentable and other than the end/start has little to do with Dr Who.
Another BBC classic misunderstood and suffering at the hands of a social justice agenda that so many Art related people think is their role in life to shout about and thrust down our throats every chance they get.
Tis total crap.
ash73 said:
A conscious anti matter universe instantiated as a talking frog, guarded by flesh eating moths and accessed via a mirror portal in a Norwegian log cabin... what's not to like?
Enjoyed it.
For starters, the 17 uses of the sonic screwdriver (or whatever it is that Dr Poo-face called it), rather than actually come up with a new solution just once.Enjoyed it.
For seconds, as already mentioned by someone else, the passing up of the opportunity to bin off one of the pointless hangers-on that aren't adding anything to the show. Eps1/2 said that they were dragged along by mistake, now she has the Tardis why hasn't she just put them back where they should be?
The Dangerous Elk said:
You are wrong, for me anyway.
i have watched them all for years (shusssh, don't tell) and this set of episodes is lamentable and other than the end/start has little to do with Dr Who.
Another BBC classic misunderstood and suffering at the hands of a social justice agenda that so many Art related people think is their role in life to shout about and thrust down our throats every chance they get.
Tis total crap.
I disagree, this series is written no worse than it has been for several years (dragon moon egg anyone?). Personally, I'm enjoying it more than I have for a long time. I find it interesting that female members of my family are starting to return to Dr Who, after leaving it a few seasons ago, so I think its talking to a different audience.i have watched them all for years (shusssh, don't tell) and this set of episodes is lamentable and other than the end/start has little to do with Dr Who.
Another BBC classic misunderstood and suffering at the hands of a social justice agenda that so many Art related people think is their role in life to shout about and thrust down our throats every chance they get.
Tis total crap.
I remember similar criticism about the agenda that RTD was pushing when the show was relaunched, but that era is now considered fondly.
I think it's clear that the BBC are using it to try out a more diverse set of writers and I don't think its settled down yet. I think the next season will be better than this one, and I personally feel optimistic for the future of the show.
Dr Who has reinvented itself many times (the constant change is why Dr Who still works 50 years later), and this is just the latest change.
ash73 said:
A conscious anti matter universe instantiated as a talking frog, guarded by flesh eating moths and accessed via a mirror portal in a Norwegian log cabin... what's not to like?
Enjoyed it.
So you missed the veiled attack on single fathers? The condescending "lecture" the Doctor when she first meets Eric? Enjoyed it.
And "seven grand mothers"? Where did that come from? It's never been mentioned before.
it's turning into a lecture series, not a sci-fi entertainment series.
Monty Python said:
So you missed the veiled attack on single fathers? The condescending "lecture" the Doctor when she first meets Eric?
On the plus side, I felt that was JW's finest performance so far this series. Nothing like some true feelings coming to the fore to help the actor look as though they're not acting.Monty Python said:
And "seven grand mothers"? Where did that come from? It's never been mentioned before.
And likely never will again. Par for the course now to drop a canon bomb into the script and leave it undeveloped.Monty Python said:
it's turning into a lecture series, not a sci-fi entertainment series.
Auntie Beeb knows best. ash73 said:
Come on! An entire universe instantiated as a talking frog! 
Paul McCartney was way ahead of this with his representation of the multiverse quantum realities theory:
Its telling how this show is being received when Have I got news for you had a joke at its expense when Jennifer Saunders said we all look forward to the next episode of Dr Who where we will be lectured on how bad the British Empire was, or words to that effect.
Also a lot of rumblings of next years series being only 6 long and jodie and Chibnall leaving, belief is Chibnal is being managed by the BBC a lot, hence the lectures rather than good stories, and the writing team consists of people who have very little writing experience, or have only done soaps, (doctors etc) but almost all of them have political writing blogs that are on the level you would expect, (western civilisation and white men - bad). Also Jodie only did the job because Chibnall was doing it, and she was also i believe the 10th person to be asked and first to say yes.
Its something we are seeing more and more in current telly, new inexperienced writers, often hired to tick a box with no Genre writing experience and the end result is poor uninteresting telly, with any criticism shouted down as "hate speech"
Its quite sad.
Also a lot of rumblings of next years series being only 6 long and jodie and Chibnall leaving, belief is Chibnal is being managed by the BBC a lot, hence the lectures rather than good stories, and the writing team consists of people who have very little writing experience, or have only done soaps, (doctors etc) but almost all of them have political writing blogs that are on the level you would expect, (western civilisation and white men - bad). Also Jodie only did the job because Chibnall was doing it, and she was also i believe the 10th person to be asked and first to say yes.
Its something we are seeing more and more in current telly, new inexperienced writers, often hired to tick a box with no Genre writing experience and the end result is poor uninteresting telly, with any criticism shouted down as "hate speech"
Its quite sad.
Edited by Rick_1138 on Wednesday 5th December 15:26
ash73 said:
A conscious anti matter universe instantiated as a talking frog, guarded by flesh eating moths and accessed via a mirror portal in a Norwegian log cabin... what's not to like?
Enjoyed it.
That sounds like it should have been brilliant. Sadly it wasn't, at least not for me.Enjoyed it.
My better half watched it while I pretended to look at my phone. It wasn't great, it wasn't even good but it could have been. That at least offers hope for the future of the series.
I still think the new Doctor is too breathless in their delivery, relies to much on physical acting and uses the sonic screwdriver instead of triumphing by sheer wit.
That said I'll likely be ignoring next weeks episode and staring at my phone as well which is an improvement on having to leave the room.
sound expensive... https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/t...
My take on this is that Dr Who should primarily appeal to people who like Dr Who. It would be like my saying "I've never liked Songs of Praise, but then Canon Smith and Rev Williams started talking about how the Lancia 8.32 didn't quite have the same engine as the 308 because it was a flat-plane crank and in the 308 there were separate distributors for each bank of four cylinders, and I understand that next week they are going to stop with all that singing stuff and look at how the new 718 compares to the 912 in a four-cylinder comparison". Songs of Praise is now a great programme.
My take on this is that Dr Who should primarily appeal to people who like Dr Who. It would be like my saying "I've never liked Songs of Praise, but then Canon Smith and Rev Williams started talking about how the Lancia 8.32 didn't quite have the same engine as the 308 because it was a flat-plane crank and in the 308 there were separate distributors for each bank of four cylinders, and I understand that next week they are going to stop with all that singing stuff and look at how the new 718 compares to the 912 in a four-cylinder comparison". Songs of Praise is now a great programme.
Edited by simonrockman on Thursday 6th December 18:33
simonrockman said:
https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/t...
My take on this is that Dr Who should primarily appeal to people who like Dr Who. It would be like my saying "I've never liked Songs of Praise, but then Canon Smith and Rev Williams started talking about how the Lancia 8.32 didn't quite have the same engine as the 308 because it was a flat-plane crank and in the 308 there were separate distributors for each bank of four cylinders, and I understand that next week they are going to stop with all that singing stuff and look at how the new 718 compares to the 912 in a four-cylinder comparison". Songs of Praise is now a great programme.
"I thought that show was hammy and naff and for kids, but now that I have seen that it celebrates my political opinions, I no longer think that it is hammy and naff and for kids." My take on this is that Dr Who should primarily appeal to people who like Dr Who. It would be like my saying "I've never liked Songs of Praise, but then Canon Smith and Rev Williams started talking about how the Lancia 8.32 didn't quite have the same engine as the 308 because it was a flat-plane crank and in the 308 there were separate distributors for each bank of four cylinders, and I understand that next week they are going to stop with all that singing stuff and look at how the new 718 compares to the 912 in a four-cylinder comparison". Songs of Praise is now a great programme.
otolith said:
"I thought that show was hammy and naff and for kids, but now that I have seen that it celebrates my political opinions, I no longer think that it is hammy and naff and for kids."
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