It’s fun watching people react to this season, because to me it seems like a classic textbook RTD bit of Doctor Who:
- Veers wildly between episodes that are almost unwatchable and some of the best episodes the show has ever had.
- Is absolutely bonkers throughout.
- Gay as all hell and completely unapolagetic about it.
- Finale that writes itself into an awkward spot, then handwaves a bunch of stuff away and hits the Big Reset ButtonTM.
- Creates more David Tennants.
- Digs up a 50+ year old villain that nobody was thinking about for purely RTD reasons.
- Villain hiding behind an anagram, also for RTD reasons.
It’s everything I’d hoped it would be lol
Yeah, people complain that they defated an ageless ultimate evil by a dogwalk?
I’ve seen an RTD season finale, where they use the power of a prayer to turn the Doctor into an almighty space-Jesus.
I also remember the TARDIS moving Earth back to its proper place by just dragging it across the galaxy like a tow truck lol.
I’ve read that article and I don’t see anything that could be considered hilarious. Imagine spending 3 or 4 years at University studying journalism or media studies to end up spending 5 minutes of a Saturday trawling the cesspit of xitter to cobble together 250 words of dross based on the ramblings of vacuous attention seekers.
And yet it was by far the episode I enjoyed the most since Church on Ruby Road. The script has some glaring issues for sure, some of which might be fixed in the next season (I don’t believe in that too much though), but at least it mostly felt like I was watching Doctor Who for once.
I think the running around, good music and pacing, some interesting character moments and great visual effects did it for me. Sutekh’s design and vibe are fantastic and I thought the scene where Ruby meets her mom itself worked really well.
If the rest of the season was more like this episode, I would have enjoyed it a whole lot more.
I think the bottom line is: this series won’t keep itself alive. It’s on Disney+ being introduced to the world (beyond current fans) and this is not going to cut it. It won’t add new watchers with this quality of work. It’s losing fans it had! It won’t be renewed by Disney. It won’t be renewed by BBC. Unless something changes.
The Doctor will go back on the shelf for another 25 years or so, and perhaps get another chance then. You HAVE to have more than niche appeal. You can’t just say “Oh, that RTD!❤️” Because no executive is going to cough up money for your friend or hobby.
Make the show GOOD again, with these characters, in this storyline, but we can’t afford for this to be on person’s self-indulgent pet project. Keep RTD accountable to ENTERTAIN, to scare kids behind couches.
I was more disappointed that the whole Mrs. Flood thing wasn’t resolved. :(
At the start of the screening of the new episode in cinemas, Millie Gibson popped up saying all mysteries will be resolved. That definitely wasn’t. I have to assume that she’s being set up as a future villain or the Mary Poppins look at the end suggests she’s Missy or it was just a throwaway thing from RTD which means nothing.
