Massive waste of The Rani. Real shame Gatwa isn’t sticking around, could have been one of the greats. And at this point bringing Piper back (in whatever guise) feels a bit Simpsons clip show.
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The Rani thing felt like trying to have it both ways keep 1 and not the other. (Why they kept Mrs Flood when the new rani did all the actual plot and Mrs Flood forgot the time hotel leaving the gap for all the plot to happen is weird choice)
Did she forget it though? Or did she 'forget' it. Shes has lived to fight another day. And deliver the funniest line of the night. The other one? Didn't.
I suspect it maybe something to do with the chance of either actor returning - especially on a limited budget. Anita Dobson is much more likely to turn up again (for my money, she was as good, if not better as a villain).
I mean she was very underused after setting her up for two years. Especially in the “reveal” scene where the Rani just got rid of her before she could say how she was both their neighbors.
Most if not all this new eras problems are caused by trying to make 2005 doctor who with 5 less episodes. Ruby and Belinda’s half characterizations being the biggest.
Spot on, Belinda began as an active companion, who challenged and pushed back against the doctor. Here she was just ‘mother’ / ‘not mother’ / ‘mother’.
Felt a real shame for a good actress and what could have been a powerful character.
I stopped being able to follow Dr Who years ago. Thought Gatwa an excellent Dr too.
Slightly juvenile but it’s worth having Rose back just boil Fox’s piss.
I feel like the OG plan wasn't for Ncuti to leave. A lot of his arc feels incomplete, like Rouge. Feels like he just got here.
Plus the credits introduced Billie Piper, but never said as The Doctor.
After 14 I don't want another unique regeneration, just another actor to play The Doctor.
RTD Trumped the franchise. He went for complicated instead of complex. And why introduce something new like 'The Boss' before tying off some other loose threads. Most unsatisfactory.
Pity Gatwa is going. I really liked his characterisation. Bit of a messy ending and I am not keen on recycling characters. Rose Tyler back in because she was popular? I trust RTD to come up with something more inventive.
It is undoubtedly stunt casting, but maybe the show needs stunt casting in the current climate, especially with Disney dragging it's feet (probably why Gatwa is gone). At least I feel she has the chops to actually be very good in the role. One of the few companions capable of the lead role.
What was the point of Susan returning, what was the point of Omega coming back? The baby Big Bad wish thing? Why did they bother with the Rani? I’m a huge RTD fan but this was so messy.
too short seasons and too short episodes, with too much going on. It felt we were doing Tenants visiting the companions for half the show before we knew he was regenerating. Wont decide on Piper being back until her run but this is the third "we have seen this face before" in 5 Doctors.
Stunt casting. Also backwards looking rather than forwards. But it’s RTD. He can’t let those two actors go. Maybe Tennant can be the companion. Just an awful finale in so many ways after a mostly pretty good (if deeply weird) series with a n oddly callous Doctor.
Except... the last time we saw Omega, he was literally wasting away into a corpse in a fifth Doctor story, so that CGI nonsense is more in continuity. And, prior to that, he didn't have a body at all due to the Anti-Matter. So, suddenly being Jason Isaacs would be the left-field choice.
He created the Timelords. It’s no stretch to pull a little regeneration magic. Why are we looking for continuity in something that has been so…not about that?
I didn’t like, now that I think of it, that he was almost exactly like Sutekh in the previous season finale, to the point that it felt like the cgi artists were out of time and low on funds
He was a massive dog using killer dust to destroy people in the midst of UNIT HQ? What are you taking about? Also, Sutekh hung around for about an episode, not five minutes. And the last time we saw Omega, he was a clone of the fifth Doctor rotting away. So barely a redesign.
I mean these are consecutive finales that feature the Doctor defeating a death god by shooting it with a big laser then making it go somewhere it doesn't want to. That's not a lot of nickels but it's frankly weird it happened once.
I thought it was quite a good twist. Just having a timeline walk out and be all calculating or camp and evil would just have been another master or Rani. Instead we got something different.
Is it better than a gold mask with nothing behind it? I liked the idea he had transformed after eons in the underverse, felt better than just some actor stepping out. Much better than Sutek last year.
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Felt a real shame for a good actress and what could have been a powerful character.
Slightly juvenile but it’s worth having Rose back just boil Fox’s piss.
Plus the credits introduced Billie Piper, but never said as The Doctor.
After 14 I don't want another unique regeneration, just another actor to play The Doctor.
I was hoping the reason she Bi-Regenerated is after learning the doctor did it she performed an experiment on herself to try and do the same.
Though Issac’s would make a brilliant Pertwee style doctor.