Doctor Who

Not quite what I was expecting but still enjoyed it. The series as a whole has been my favourite since.. the last RTD one probably. Could have done with a few more episodes.

Ncuti is just perfect as the Doctor and hope he sticks around for a while yet.
 
On the whole, this season has been the strongest since the Matt Smith days for me. Not without its faults though. Only 8 episodes, two of which were Doctor lite and two dedicated to the final, means we don't really know this version of the Doctor properly yet. It needed a few more episodes to cement his character and motivations. Rogue stood out as the best episode for me because it felt like the most "classic" episode, a well written monster of the week type romp where the Doctor and his companion stumble into a mess and fix it.
Ncuti is fabulous but he does veer into overacting at times. It's totally awesome that we have a Doctor so open with their emotions, but I prefer ebbs and flows to it.

Ruby is an amazing companion and easily my favourite since Donna, she and Ncuti have great chemistry.

Hoping for a few less god-level enemies next time. Between Toymaker, Sutekh and Maestro, it feel a bit too MCU and hopeless with the "We can't beat a God" which leads to underwhelming conclusions at times.
 
Did anyone else think for a minute that Ruby's mum was going to be
Claire from Fleabag?
Yeah that was weird actually, what was the point of that? She’s quite a name and they brought her in for very little?

As an aside, the main reason I enjoyed that finale is because I’ve forced myself to accept a lot of the flaws in the basic premise of Doctor Who, which are also why I’ll never be a HUGE fan. I just watch episodes at face value and go along for the ride.

Basically, as long as the Tardis and Sonic Screwdriver exist, the show will always be flawed.

They literally have two Get Out Of Jail Free cards available to them at all times. So I can never truly invest in the show because there’s never any real jeopardy. They can (and for the most part, do) always reverse everything. There’s very rarely lasting change. Like the whole of humanity was killed, and I was like “yeah he’ll find a way to fix it”.

If I was writing an episode/season, I’d immediately find a reason that the doctor can’t use the Tardis and Sonic Screwdriver, so you know genuinely anything could happen and things could be seriously affected. And focus on smaller interpersonal stories. Wiping out humanity is never compelling as a watcher because obviously they’ll undo it. But ONLY killing Ruby or Mel? That would have been really emotive and watchable.
 
Hoping for a few less god-level enemies next time. Between Toymaker, Sutekh and Maestro, it feel a bit too MCU and hopeless with the "We can't beat a God" which leads to underwhelming conclusions at times.
Yeah those three episodes were all bad for much the same reasons. When the enemy is basically omnipotent you just know there's gonna be some random bullshit pulled out at the last minute to save the day.
 
I understand that with the Xmas specials we had 11 episodes in the last six months and that Disney was testing the waters… but this season was ridiculously short. We could have used four more to flesh out this new doctor and to actually care for Ruby fff

The finale had its moments. I teared up a bit when everyone turned to dust, but couldn’t help but cringe and the screaming and crying from Ncuti.

I wonder if we’ll get a Halloween special, since that old lady talked about horror. But pls, no more gods.
 
I understand that with the Xmas specials we had 11 episodes in the last six months and that Disney was testing the waters… but this season was ridiculously short. We could have used four more to flesh out this new doctor and to actually care for Ruby fff

The finale had its moments. I teared up a bit when everyone turned to dust, but couldn’t help but cringe and the screaming and crying from Ncuti.

I wonder if we’ll get a Halloween special, since that old lady talked about horror. But pls, no more gods.
And that's still less than we used to have back in the day. 13 always felt like the right amount of episodes for a season. You had enough time to set up the main arc, room for one or two double part episodes and space for plenty of one offs where the tone was lighter.
 
I liked the finale. RTDs resolution was always going to be dumb: Magic rope, death of death means life, and Ruby’s mum being someone normal.

I don’t understand how a monster/god who survived thousands of years on the Tardis was killed by being dragged by the Tardis when he had managed to get stronger over those thousands of years, how the Doctor didn’t see in those thousands of years that everyone died after he landed anywhere, or why the monster/god didn’t kill Ruby because her mum was so unsual even though she wasn’t.
 
I liked the finale. RTDs resolution was always going to be dumb: Magic rope, death of death means life, and Ruby’s mum being someone normal.

I don’t understand how a monster/god who survived thousands of years on the Tardis was killed by being dragged by the Tardis when he had managed to get stronger over those thousands of years, how the Doctor didn’t see in those thousands of years that everyone died after he landed anywhere, or why the monster/god didn’t kill Ruby because her mum was so unsual even though she wasn’t.
I don't think Sutekh was on the Tardis for thousands of years, rather he latched on sometime after his original defeat, so even though he'd been through time and space he had "only" been holding on for a few decades, which is just the blink of an eye for a God.
And the way I saw it, the dust only started doing its thing once Sutekh revealed himself so it was a chain reaction. After a rewatch, I feel like by undoing his death dust, the Doctor drained Sutekh of his powers and life? I dunno on that one.
And he likely kept Ruby alive because she was the key to this one mystery he couldn't solve. Without her he'd never be able to figure out who she was, even though he'd likely already killed her. It was so dumb really.
 
I don't think Sutekh was on the Tardis for thousands of years, rather he latched on sometime after his original defeat, so even though he'd been through time and space he had "only" been holding on for a few decades, which is just the blink of an eye for a God.
And the way I saw it, the dust only started doing its thing once Sutekh revealed himself so it was a chain reaction. After a rewatch, I feel like by undoing his death dust, the Doctor drained Sutekh of his powers and life? I dunno on that one.
And he likely kept Ruby alive because she was the key to this one mystery he couldn't solve. Without her he'd never be able to figure out who she was, even though he'd likely already killed her. It was so dumb really.
I still don’t get it. Was Ruby the only baby abandoned at birth? Why did he care who she was?
 
I still don’t get it. Was Ruby the only baby abandoned at birth? Why did he care who she was?
I think because the mystery of her identity made her somehow important because everyone wanted to know who she was but couldn't solve the mystery and Sutekh is a nosy bitch who wanted all the gossip? Like it was really convoluted and not properly explained. I've watched it like three times and still not sure what's going on.

This is the problem with having Gods as villains in shows like this. You can't easily beat them in a short space of time and wrap it all up without it being so dumb and based on nothing but random nonsense.
Sutekh could cling onto the Tardis, plant a version of Susan Triad in every planet the Doctor visited, kill all living people in the universe and beyond....but can't find the identity of a teen Mum in 2004? And is killed by killing death (which really shouldn't work, getting rid of death doesn't bring life, it just gets rid of death and people live forever getting older and sicker but never being allowed to die)?
 
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The only baby abandoned at birth in front of the Tardis, I guess fff

The whole pointing at the sign post thing was so ridiculous though. Like… there was nobody in that street, who was supposed to see that jsjdjdj the dramatics
Also, why couldn’t we see Ruby’s mum’s face when she was pointing at the sign? You could see the rest of her clearly and so it wasn’t a 73 yards thing.
 
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Also, why couldn’t we see Ruby’s mum’s face when she was pointing at the sign? You could see the rest of her clearly and so it wasn’t a 73 yards thing.
Maybe because she was standing within the TARDIS’ perception filter field so it made her hidden
 
Maybe because she was standing within the TARDIS’ perception filter field so it made her hidden
Only her face but not the rest of her?

I liked the episode but the fact we are all straining to explain it isn’t great. They should have ditched that random woman with an empty crib scene and had the Doctor explaining it all as it was going with pseudo science.
 

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