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!!

Not a fan of the doctor doing what astos said and letting him go where the danger probably was.

Not very doctor-y.

I loved the character development- even Astos who was at one point more the doctor than The Doctor.

Soon many questions
What is Tauranga?
What is Pilot Heart?
Will we ever see the Cicero clan?
Again, the villain was displaced (in space this time)

The Pting is like Gremlin, Muffler, Stitch, Midnight monster combined.

Pting is a bit of a cutie though

Wasn't Tauranga the ship?

I gathered that Pilot Heart was a condition that caused the over production of adrenaline resulting in an eventual heart attack. Caused by the neural navigation thing.

Thanks Soup

I have rewatched the episode- got some new thoughts but I don't to put some possible spoilers.

I just wished they didn't show the Pting as it could have been more ominous if we haven't seen the creature- just the devastation it caused. As a side note, my new nickname for my toddler is Pting!

Looking forward to next week.

Not very Doctor-y comment

Yes. It feels like our Doctor has a bit of flaw in her character. (Mr. Big killing the spider, baby spiders trapped in a room to did, Astos being more doctor than The Doctor). Maybe it will come back and bite her? Just like Ryan and his temper

Hmm. Well I have liked the series until now but I thought last night's was pants!

I was hoping the pregnant man was going to give birth to a Pting Alien-style (i.e. have it bursting out of his stomach) so it all seemed a bit pointless and nonsensical really. I like JW and really want to like this series but I'm struggling a bit. It's not funny enough but is overly sentimental.

With the spider one I thought shooting them sounded far more humane than trapping them all in a panic room to eat each other. And I was convinced I'd fallen asleep because it jumped from seeing the spiders scuttling past to everyone being safely in the TARDIS and no sign of obnoxious businessman. I think the writing is a bit shit really (like Broadchurch 2) but at least DD likes it.

I am trying sooo hard to like it.

I didn't like the episode with the p'ting at all. It was really slow, some of the dialogue felt really unnecessary and just seemed to extend the length of certain scenes to the point where they got really dull. The music - Jesus wept - it was so subdued, it sounded like it was on the wrong programme, it added to the overall feeling of slowness. The whole package was lacking in energy and purpose. What was the point off the pregnant man? What is the point of all the companions, they just seem to wander about looking for stuff to do whilst nothing much is actually happening. This series feels like it's been written by somebody who would be more comfortable writing a serious/depressing drama with bleak colours and music and dialogue, it doesn't feel like Dr Who at all. I like JW, I think she is doing the best she can with a crap script. I wish they hadn't dressed her like a cbeebies presenter though. There was barely any Tardis in this episode, no real sense of danger because the alien was too cute, it all felt extremely meh. I loved previous series with Peter Capaldi's Doctor vs Missy, they were so brilliant - where has all of that energy disappeared to?

I agree, too many companions and none of them with any real character. Trying too hard to be cover every possible angle it ends up as a mish mash of emptiness.

I miss Murray Gold. I went to a baller he'd composed a few years ago and you could tell it was him — his music has an 'edge'.

*ballet

Two things:

Can we see more of the Tardis?

Can Ryan just be left on earth to find his dad?

OK so I'm behind. Next episode is spiders. It's all feeling a bit 4om on a Sunday family safe. No one got eaten by the water, the baddie wasn't allowed to kill. It just feels very Universal rating.

I don't know Jodie in anything else and she seems nice, too many assistants but it's just NICE. I want Dr Who scary!!

Do I persevere??

I'm trying very hard to like it because I love Doctor Who and I really want to like it, but I don't.

For me, it's all bad. The music is forgettable and dull. The writing is very poor. JW acting is still hammy. Direction is terrible. Pacing is off.

I really like the opening credits and this composers take on the theme tune. Although having the Tardis in them would be nice, it's not a big deal.

Graham and Ryan are both likeable and feel fleshed out. Bradley Walsh is the best actor out of all of them. I predict he'll be gone after this series though. Ryan has potential and I liked Yaz's family but Yaz is still a bit nondescript.

I think the next episodes aren't written by Chibnall so fingers crossed they'll be better. Hopefully his cack handedness is less noticeable. If the next couple of episodes are still like they have been, then I might actually have to stop watching because it makes me sad to see what he's done to it.

Actually comparing Graham and Ryan to companion's like Bill, Martha and Rose. Even they're bad aren't they? Still the best thing in it but that's not saying much. I really hope it improves.

Oh and the wonderful Donna. ❤️

Ah Donna... DD's favourite scene ever is still the bit in the David Tennant - Agatha Christie one where DW is asking for salt after being poisoned. It was so much funnier when RTD was in charge.

This is really awful now. What happened to the scary monsters? It's turned into a virtue signalling time travel history story. It's not funny it's not interesting and it's not scary. It's a tragedy BBC. Keep wokeness and "right think" out of Dr Who.

I want to enjoy it. Truly I do, but JW sounds like she's been running a marathon every time she utters a line. Is really off putting?

I like it. But then I'm really a newbie in terms of Doctor Who. I only started watching from Cristopher Eccleston.

I loved him as Dr Who. I loved his stories too though. They got a bit sentimental towards the end with the SWs determined that the relationship between him and Rose was really the story with the monsters playing but parts, but the scriptwriters hadn't got hung up on "teaching the audience a lesson" so the stories were more fun.

Bit parts not but parts

I like it.