Doctor Who

[MsMiaWallace]

Anyone going to be watching the new Doctor Who now it is a woman?
Love Jodie as an actress. Never been fussed on the doctor before!!

This to me feels like a filler episode but.....

I like the character development in this episode. We're getting to know more about the doctor and #teamtardis. I love how the doctor is "weird" and eccentric. Tells it as it is -"terrible pakora"

Also JW's doctor seems to be an empathetic doctor that is reminiscent of the Peter Davidson era.

Would we see Mr.Big as the President of the United States? President of the world vs. president of the USA?

I can't handle spiders at all!!

My 5 year old sat there and went "mummy don't be silly. Just cover your eyes and I'll get the spiders "

Felt like a right wally!!

Well I have just literally shit me pants as when I opened a kitchen cupboard one HUGE one came prancing down towards me..........and ran off - eek

I thought that the PA’s name was Kenny, would have made the line “oh my god they killed Kevin” better!

Another great episode. I was the one watching from behind a cushion- the spiders were scary, especially when they were on the ceiling.

I hate Ryan, his actor is wooden and emotionless, and he makes a mockery of Dyspraxia in my opinion. I was hoping he'd be less comical about it, but slipping off a ladder and falling off a bike does not a developmental disorder make.

I found it funny when Ryan was doing shadow puppets

I found it funny when Ryan was doing shadow puppets

Me too, it was very subtle in the background, I liked that! Did anyone notice there were no aliens in this episode?

Good point.
I am thoroughly enjoying this series so far. I like its monster of the week approach.

I also disagree about Ryan's dyspraxia. It mirrors my experience as a dyspraxic person really well. I didn't find it comical, I found it sympathetic. I thought the not being able to ride a bike, even after his nan died and he felt inspired, was very true to life. Also, I like how no one in the group treats Ryan as incapable.

Dull.Simple stories that don't hang together.The comedy has completely gone.And in inside of the TARDIS tonight looked a bit pink.
I like the new Dr but she needs good storylines to work.

isaysteadyon Maybe it's my own self-esteem issues and having been laughed at for how ridiculous I look when I try to do things like run or ride a bike- maybe I just don't like the mirror I never thought of that until now!
I do think they could show more of the non-physical side of things, the organisational problems for example. I know he said he "got confused" about Rosa Parks, but I'm hoping they do show more of that.

I agree with you about the nonphysical aspects. I would like to see that too.

I get it about the laughing fwiw. I was the slowest runner and, while I can ride a bike, I don't enjoy it. I come from a family of athletes which meant my dyspraxia led more to exclusion than anything else so, as I said above, I love how the Doctor, Graham and Yaz treat Ryan as one of them despite the disability.

Oh that was dreadful tonight. Are we going to get maudlin insights into Ryan's father's inadequacy in every episode?

I thought that was a cracking episode! It had peril, it had humour. There was a misunderstood monster. There was a bloke giving birth. Call The Midwife was mentioned. It really was the best one so far.

And I absolutely loved the funeral prayer at the end. I would like to have that one at mine!

Yazz continues to be surplus to requirements. She doesn't do anything except make the odd , irrelevant comment. She is , despite doing almost nothing, very irritating. This was the worst episode so far.

Visually stunning! But too much talking, too many explanations. I am liking Jodie Whittaker's Doctor more each episode.

Visually stunning? A series of plain white empty rooms and a rip off Pokemon?

Yazz continues to be surplus to requirements

She's not the worst. All the companions are pointless. I mean the other two were bloody doulas FFS. At least Yaz threw the pting thing out and kicked it down the corridor.

I'm liking JW's doctor less with each episode as she remains dithery and scatty. I'd hoped it was just settling in after regeneration but she is still clueless.

She's not the worst. All the companions are pointless. I mean the other two were bloody doulas FFS. At least Yaz threw the pting thing out and kicked it down the corridor

I agree they are all pointless in that we don't need 3 of them. Yazz's role tonight was to allow Ryan to witter on (again) about his absent father. Why I don't know- we have already been told that.

The companions' backstories are always tedious. Amy and Rory had no backstory beyond each other and were by far the most interesting.

I thought tonight's was better, mainly due to the oddly cute monster! I wish JW would stop apologising all the time.

It looked like a knock-off Stitch.

The giving birth also really irritated me — they have to cut into the birth sac to get the six week old baby out. Fine. But he said his waters broke. Where did they break to? And what was the point of 'labour' if the baby can't be born without cutting him open? Basically, it seemed a really stupid way to reproduce.

All I want to know is what a bloody "birth bud" is, and how a species could evolve so that you have to cut their male children out of their father. That seems ridiculous. At some point that species had to be basic, without tools or much brain power, and yet they have managed to survive? With 1 week to prepare? And somehow that human looking skin doesn't tear, when stretched that at in one week?

I'd be surprised that a species like that could even manage to crawl out of any primordial soup, let alone survive and thrive as a species. And also, their anatomy could have been written so they could give birth without surgical intervention- it's fiction for heavens sake! Just convieniently have their belly button open or something!

Finally, because if I get into it I'll be here all week whinibg, that pregnant male was not human and yet the only non-human thing about him was that he was pregnant and had two umbilical cords, for some unexplained reason. How far do we have to suspend our beliefs when almost every alien introduced is inherently human?

Perhaps in the depths of time the skin use to split and the baby came it that way.

It was all stupid and just shoved in for an "oooh look, men give birth" moment. There was absolutely no point other than to get Wooden Graham and Ryan out of the way.

Thought last night was ok. DD is complaining about the lack of Tardis.

And didn't the pregnant bloke say something about internal fluids? I thought he would be giving birth to an alien looking baby, was a bit disappointed he wasn't.