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!!

I enjoyed it very much. And I've been a loyal fan since the Tom Baker years.

2Rebecca You sound like you've stepped out of 1984.

I have really enjoyed this series so far. Last week's was the exception - I found it boring - but I've tended not to like the ones where they're running around a space ship anyway. I was never a fan of the complicated story arcs of Steven Moffat and always preferred the stand alone episodes.

Christopher Ecclestone and David Tennant were great. I found it changed when Matt Smith was the Doctor. Clara was a really annoying companion and became too dominant. I wanted to like Peter Capaldi but wasn't keen, although the last series with Bill was much better.

I watched Tom Baker and Peter Davison as a child. This Doctor reminds me of then, although she's also a bit like David Tennant.

I liked Christopher Ecclestone,he got me into the series after all. Loved David Tennant. Mat Smith was fine.Not a fan of Peter Capaldi ,but again ok. Really like JW,she does remind me of DT if I'm honest.

OH grumbled about today's episode,but I suspect that's more because I had a lot of questions (not familiar with the Partition history) that he couldn't really answer.

A bit baffled that the Doctor agreed to take Yaz to see her grandma though,considering all the things that could go wrong.

If I stepped out of 1984 then why is CE my favourite doctor? I was delighted when the series restarted but it then got bogged down in over complex storylines and now wokeness. My favourite Dr Who stories were from this century. The creepy stone angels and the kid in a gas mask were brilliant.

A ‘time travel history story” is how it started, and how it was meant to be in the beginning - there were lots of purely historical stories during William Hartnell’s time - starting with the very first story set in the Stone Age - Aztecs, Crusades, French Revolution, Massacre of St Bartholomew, Marco Polo, the Jacobite rebellion etc. In fact at first every other episode was a historical one. Later there were historical stories with an alien element, particularly in the Fourth & Fifth Doctors’ times - Ancient Egypt, Victorian England, Medieval Italy, King John, Fire of London etc.
I like the fact that they are exploring history again, and how can anybody can say that ‘right think’ should be kept out of Doctor Who, when it’s actually the basis of the Doctor’s beliefs and way of life?

I've watched Dr who since ecceslston, it's always taken me a couple of episodes to like the 'new' doctors but I seriously can't get into jodie

A ‘time travel history story” is how it started

Absolutely. The Doctor is a Time Lord after all, who travels in time and space.

A bit baffled that the Doctor agreed to take Yaz to see her grandma though,considering all the things that could go wrong.

Christopher Ecclestone did the same when he took Rose back to see her father at her request.

"wokeness" "right think" Newspeak. 1984 the book, not the year.

Remember when it used to be sci-fi? Not woke wank?

New series is vigorously scraping the barrel of Lowest Common Denominator TV. Plots, ideas, characters as people not symbols, dramatic tension, the occasional daring touch of wit, all binned in favour of nursery tales for millenials. Delivered by sledgehammer.

I can't help wondering quite where the BBC thinks their awfully backward audience lives, too slow and stupid to have heard of Rosa Parks or y'know, religious tension, like. Cringeathon.

Next week: The Doctor battles to buy a transwoman some tampax but faces a terrifying showdown with the aliens from planet VAT.

Tonight's episode was dire.

how can anybody can say that ‘right think’ should be kept out of Doctor Who, when it’s actually the basis of the Doctor’s beliefs and way of life?

This is like preaching though.

Tonight episode was brilliant.

Its not good, as a family we miss the Daleks, the oods, the Cybermen and the weeping angels and the humour, it just seems to have gone off at such a tangent. We dint watch any of the last series as we didn't like Peter Capaldi and bitterly disappointed with this one

2Rebecca You sound like you've stepped out of 1984

Well yes, the point being that the storyline are telling us how to think in a very preachy, humourless way.

Yaz is a terrible actor.

Demons of the Punjab was better than The Tsuranga Conundrum (although admittedly that's not saying much). The dialogue in the middle was a bit CBBC but otherwise it was not terrible.

Doctor Who has always had some episodes that served to educate children about historical events - that's not new.

Ohh second thread tonight where millennials are being blamed . First they banned nativity plays,then they ruined Doctor Who...what's next?

I think i was a bit distracted during that episode. Were we to assume that Yaz's gran was pregnant with her mum on or before their wedding?

@ApolloandDaphne no. Yaz's gradndad was a completely different man,who fathered her mum.

No, Prem wasn’t Yaz’s grandad, her gran married again.

Oh dear. Am gutted actually about what has happened to DW.

My favourite Doctor was Christopher Eccleston followed by David Tennant.

It's sadly got progressively worse IMHO.

Jodie Whittaker just isn't right. No authority, no strength, too out of breath all the time.

Ah ok. That makes a lot of sense!

I really wanted to love this, I love DW and I was so excited to have a female doctor but fuck me thsi series is an absolute pile of wank. Just watched this week’s episode. I don’t care about any of the characters and the storylines are dreadful. 😢

I was thinking you meant retro Baker and Pertwee Dr Who who were the docs I grew up with. The viewing figures will show if the new formula is working but for me the stories are boring and designed to be "good for you" rather than fun and scary. Yes the good guys always won in Dr Who but this is laying it on with a trowel and their is no tension and just sentimentality