doctor who fans be like “you have GOT to check out the new episode! it’s 90% unwatchable except for one sequence in the middle that doesnt hold any emotional weight unless youre familiar with 20 years of the show but trust me it’s soo good”
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for me it was rick and morty doing all the stuff I wanted to see out of doctor who now im not saying go and watch that just that I don't think anyone who runs with it knows what todo with it anymore
It wasn't the bootstrap bit - in fact in Snake Jazz it was just about needing time to do complicated maths, which was how it was originally positioned in Joy.
Seasons 1-4 are my comfort show. After that the vibe just changes, although there are some good episodes during the Moffat years. 5-6 are fine. Didn't care much for 7 or 8. Stopped watching after that.
I’ve seen every episode that survived theft/damage at the BBC of classic Doctor Who from Hartnell to McCoy and I was in multiple fan clubs and I simply couldn’t get into or enjoy the reboot. I prefer the memories of the classic. 🤷♂️
Should I watch? I watched Eccleston through the first couple seasons of Matt Smith, which I just want to pretend was a couple years ago and not any amount of time longer
Capaldi’s era is great. Starts off a bit wobbly but ends up with some of Moffat’s best writing. He’s a perfect Doctor. Whittaker, imo, was miscast and she’s fine but the Chibnall era is overall a mess and not very good. The new RTD run has been good to ok, with Ncuti Gatwa as the best part of it.
12/Peter Capaldi’s era is severely underrated and is my fav era of NuWho if u ever want to give it a chance. Esp if you’ve seen Matt Smith’s, feels like Moffat really took lessons from 11 and expanded his writing with 12.
I didn’t like how the Smith / Capaldi era made every season about how the Doctor is the most important person in the universe. I always thought Who worked better when smaller in scale.
You should! Everything with Moffat’s hands in it has some misses, but the last season of Capaldi’s era was very consistent+my favorite season finale ever.
If I was the showrunner, I would have made a limit on how much of the soundtrack could be screaming, yelling, and horrible sound effects. One episode, I wanted to make a supercut of just people screaming to see how much of the show was dedicated to shrieking.
I agree. The outfits made The Doctor for me. Though I liked the fact outfits changed with regeneration, their primary consistency within a Doctor’s tenure, it added consistency that helped abate the sometimes complex plot points.
I’ve tried off and on since the second season of Capaldi but I can never get back into it. I watched Who when I was a kid in the 80s too. The current Who is almost unwatchable. I like Gatwa as an actor but I don’t find his performance as the Doctor genuine. It’s the writing, mostly.
Not the same show but I had a coworker a long time ago who was super into Lost and he tried to get me to watch it and he’s like, “once you get through the first three seasons it gets really good” like no man… what?
i guess it depends what your sensibilities are. seasons 4-6 lean more heavily on the scifi/fantasy. but i cant think of any other reason to prefer the latter half of the show. it’s all good imo (50% of s6 notwithstanding). but the back half of s3 is like the best of the show!! your friend is nuts
Same for the guy who learned that I hadn’t seen breaking bad (this was back when it was first airing) and said, “you’re not living your life to its fullest potential” and that completely turned me off to it lol
i’d say watch the opening sequence and then decide for yourself. it held the record for the most expensive tv pilot for a long time and every dollar is on the screen. incredible introduction. give it 10 minutes.
No the first 2 seasons were truly amazing and then they just starting writing off all the young beautiful actors who got in trouble partying in Hawaii on ham handed ways. Then the show just got tedious.
Absolutely not. All I remember is poorly built story lines that just dragged out meaningless payoffs for the shows most intriguing mysteries. Nothing was worse than the finale though.
Everybody has their own taste but I hate that I watched this show with so much hope that the mysteries would be explained in a way that felt right and it all just never happened.
Probably didn’t help that they completely reset the series for Russell T. 2.0 and @filmandseries.bsky.social 👍😍
I think you have to approach it with a wide-open mind and suspend disbelief! 😅
If nothing else, you can just admire how beautiful Millie Gibson is!! 😍🌈 Like all of the Doctor pals.
I hope you enjoy it. Both actors have lovely voices, and are incredibly talented, but I was not a fan of adding music, even though that’s the direction Davies wanted to run with.
“As returning Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies also told ComicBook, the musical numbers of the new season were a natural progression for the show itself. “I was heading in that direction anyway,” Davies explained.” There’s like… three or so musical numbers in the first season, but I forget
No. “I do feel like having a big musical moment in the Giggle, followed by an actual musical number in the episode right after and then a seemingly-proper-musical episode two episodes later is going to give some people the wrong impression”
“As returning Doctor Who showrunner Russell T. Davies also told ComicBook, the musical numbers of the new season were a natural progression for the show itself. “I was heading in that direction anyway,” Davies explained.”
They desperately need to get someone outside for showrunner and stop retreading. They've wasted every Doctor performer since Matt Smith. The cast is A+ but the writing is so inconsistent.
I don't think any of Doctor Who is that AMAZING. Folks take this show way too seriously, and I don't think even the show takes itself that seriously. I'm enjoying this new doc for that reason!
I'll admit there are many recent episodes, particularly the Timeless Child/Flux ones that make little sense (anti-matter not detectable by a TARDIS, seriously?) BUT the benefit of Doctor Who is there's always more genius than idiocy over a reasonable period.
As a lifelong Dr. Who fan of 64 orbits of Sol, I have given the new doctors a chance. Jodi was unbearable. the New guy is unwatchable. It's the WRITING that is killing it. Not the horrible choice of new doctors (which is not helping).
Dr. Who writing has been insipid for 10 years now.
Every time I’ve watched Doctor Who, he seems to deflect their attackers by appealing to his own fame. He never actually *does* anything. I may have been unlucky about which episodes I’ve seen.
That's because he made a promise not to be cruel , so he avoids taking people down and lets them fall on their own petard , watch family of blood to see what happens when you force his hand
Doctor Who will have the most gut wrenching, heartbreaking, live changing experience that has ever been made for television. And it’s in the episode where the main bad guy is a little sticky squid guy in a mech that “plungers” a man to death and I love it
A friend tried to get me interested in Dr. Who, back in the seventies..
The episode he had on was laughably bad, basically jello being shook under a red light as an alien.
I called them Blargles, because that's what they sounded like.
He wasn't amused.
So you’ve been on r/doctorwho I see! Someone over there yesterday was complaining that 15 cries too much(which is totally “not” a knock on the actor being queer), so nothing has any emotional weight anymore. I injured myself rolling my eyes so hard.
Reeling from the fact that it’s been 20 years. Christopher was only a few doctors ago, right? Also, I need a Torchwood reunion special if someone could get working on that ASAP.
You should listen to the Big Finish audios. There so many good ones, including Torchwood, with the original actors. I think even Christopher Eccleston has done some audios for it.
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Using time travel to do complicated math was central to the climax of Day of the Doctor, written my Moffat, in 2013.
"less of a young professional, more of an... ancient... amateur"
I’m a doctor who fan, and liked the latest season - everything since Tennant returned onwards.
The latest Christmas special was hard work in parts. But did indeed have two moments which make you stop and assess how awful it is…
Star Trek > Star Wars > Dr. Who IMHO.
Some seasons were almost unwatchable, especially if you have any sensitivities to annoying noises. Couldn't believe how often we muted the show.
Not a terrible show, but not my fav.
I absolutely love the new Dr. I think he is probably my favorite next to tenet for sure.
ME: [nods slowly at high amplitude and low frequency, cries single tear]
Don’t want any part of that lol
Same for the guy who learned that I hadn’t seen breaking bad (this was back when it was first airing) and said, “you’re not living your life to its fullest potential” and that completely turned me off to it lol
I think you have to approach it with a wide-open mind and suspend disbelief! 😅
If nothing else, you can just admire how beautiful Millie Gibson is!! 😍🌈 Like all of the Doctor pals.
Why is it unwatchable?
I’ll let you know what I think (not that what I think is important at all!)
(Give me 105 minutes until everyone else goes to bed after the fireworks!)
But yes you do kinda need to know the history of the show to get some parts I'll give you that.
Dr. Who writing has been insipid for 10 years now.
Obviously if you drop in and out you get the setup without the payoff, so it maybe wasn't the best approach for the show to take
I’m laughing as the guy gets plungered to death, and I wish they could get away with doing more episodes like this before the humor wears thin.
The episode he had on was laughably bad, basically jello being shook under a red light as an alien.
I called them Blargles, because that's what they sounded like.
He wasn't amused.