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[–] AugustWest@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

RTD episodes look like his, the last few in particular.

I said this felt like Doctor Who then a turn to more of a Torchwood (both the silly and the 2 movies), and then the worse thing happened and it somehow became Sara Jane adventures. Nothing wrong with Sara Jane adventures, but they are even more for kids than Doctor Who. Look a Skysled! Bone Monsters! Wheelchairs burning rubber!

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 1 points 12 hours ago

Space babies!

[–] nico198x@europe.pub 15 points 1 day ago (2 children)

i’m happy to give Billie a chance as long as it makes sense why that face would be chosen, i’d expect related to Bad Wolf / God of Time stuff.

sad to see Ncuti go, actually. too soon. i felt he was just hitting his stride this series and i was glad for some development of the Doctor's character, having him wear his heart on his sleeve this time round.

[–] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I'm the same, expecting it to be Bad Wolf related.

  • The lack of "...as The Doctor".
  • The regeneration effects looking different than normal, and massive.
  • The quick glimpse back to the TARDIS console during the regeneration, after having dumped his regeneration energy into it.

Too many little threads indicating somethings not normal.

[–] CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml 3 points 1 day ago

I'd like there to just be a normal regeneration again TBH. The last time the Doctor just regenerated in a normal way (ie. no stunt casting or bi-generating) was Capaldi > Whittaker, which was Christmas 2017 so nearly a decade ago!

Actually by the time they get around to making more episodes and doing another regeneration it will probably be over a decade ago.

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

I'd be happy to have Doctor Piper (with a satisfying explanation), but I don't think that's happening - her char might be part of the season arcing plot. Credits didn't credit Billie as 'The Doctor '.

[–] AugustWest@lemm.ee 3 points 1 day ago

While I enjoyed some of the dialog a lot, and even some of the campy action, that second part was... difficult. When it looked wrapped up and there was still something like 20 minutes left, I was hopeful. There were several options and possibilities that could have made this incredible.

Sadly, we got what we saw. And we don't have a renewal date, so when next? I ever?

[–] tenebrisnox@feddit.uk 4 points 1 day ago

As I've enjoyed saying: the show has reversed the polarity up its own vortex. A day after watching and I'm still traumatised by the exuberance of the shark-jumping I saw. The Doctor riding a Flash Gordon-like skysled to crash into ~~Ming's~~ Rani's HQ was just one I can't seem to shake. Or the Two ~~Ranis~~ Ronnies' joke. "It's goodnight from me."

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 7 points 1 day ago

That mess of omega just cracked me the fuck up. Oooh creator of the timelords how much was the Doctor biting their cheek given that the real genesis was their DNA? God of time feasting on timelords? You literally just ate a third of your food supply and there aren't any more.

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Still no good explanation for why they went to all this trouble trying to get to 5/24.

5/24 is blocked off? Have you tried 5/23 and the old time lord trick of "waiting"?

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 4 points 1 day ago

Also, why are gods so easy to get rid of, lately? And how did Omega actually get a body and a way out of the anti-matter universe?

[–] zarathustra0@lemmy.world 10 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Is it just me or has Doctor Who become more incoherent recently?

[–] ohulancutash@feddit.uk 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You thought it was coherent once?

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 2 points 1 day ago

Coherenty woherenty

[–] Mizule@lemm.ee 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)
[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 12 hours ago

Joel was busy.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

A "reality war" it is, indeed. Much of episodes 7 and 8 was a war against reality, including the Doctor being called "Doctor Who". ... Sorry, I digress. Personally, I have not considered Ncuti to be a good Doctor, it's all just the wrong personality for him. Maybe some of it was the script, but some if it probably wasn't. (Time Lords aren't human. I wish that the writers wouldn't make them act so human.) We shall see how the new one turns out. I think it can't be much worse anymore.

Although I like that Omega, despite having been described as "the first Time Lord" incorrectly (depending on the canon, that's either the Other or the Timeless Child), has been brought back and I think that the Rani is a more interesting villain than the Master, the whole series 2 had a lot of potentially interesting characters - and all of them were one-dimensional. Flat. Uninspired. (I hope we can agree that Maestro was a good example for that.) Last time we saw Omega, he was a force of nature, banished into the opposite of a universe, only to return as a plot device with no good explanation. Sigh.

I wonder why neither the Rani nor the Doctor seem to remember that Omega has no body to extract DNA from. Plot hole?

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Technically Omega was the first time lord - he created the technology that enabled their time travel.

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 2 points 1 day ago (1 children)

It depends on whether Time Lords are "Gallifreyans with a TARDIS" or something more complicated, I think.

[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Well, the ability to regenerate is one thing, but i'm pretty sure it was mastery of time travel that made them time lords!

Timeless child aside, i always loved the beta canon idea that the ability to regenerate came from the great vampires.....

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago (3 children)

Feels like this had so much promise and just fell flat on its face, losing the plot halfway through.

Then the ending with Billie piper the one face no face wanted to play the doctor

[–] talou@jlai.lu 3 points 16 hours ago

4th wall broken at first intent.

[–] nico198x@europe.pub 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

i'm happy to give Billie a chance as long as it makes sense why that face would be chosen, i'd expect related to Bad Wolf / God of Time stuff.

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 3 points 1 day ago (3 children)

First " Wotcha " or "oi" and I'm out

[–] Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.ee 4 points 1 day ago

Every Doctor has such annoying little things to differentiate the characters.

[–] nico198x@europe.pub 5 points 1 day ago

lol well, best skip it then XD

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Lots of planets have a Chav...

[–] tux0r@feddit.org 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the one face no face wanted to play the doctor

It could be worse: Steven Seagal!

[–] MrNesser@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

BBC isn't allowed to employ sexual predators anymore