Was anyone else aware that the new Dr Who series was starting tonight??

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😮..I have come across it by accident.

Last year it was was well advertised.
The TARDIS flying on the BBC screen at every opportunity and so.

I do record a lot of my programmes so maybe I missed it ?

But I didn't last year 🤔.

And I really thought they said it was going to be May for the new series ?

Have I been on another planet ? 😂😂😂 !!

How are you watching? Isn’t it on Saturday tea times?

It’s been on player since 8.am today.

Loving it so far.
and the signing

Me too! It's the best episode so far. Very tense

The simplest things are best.

Best one so far

Really enjoyed that episode!

I loved that!

And as soon as the twist villain was revealed, I was worried that they'd demystify an old villain, but they left it nice and unspecific! That was one of my favourite episodes too.

Yep, properly good!

I'm in Aus so watch it on Disney Plus.

This was a good one, even if Ncuti cried again.

Brilliant episode! Really wasn't expecting that twist/throwback.
Definitely the best one yet.

I think it streams on Disney and BBC iPlayer from midnight, which is seriously annoying if you're old school like me and want to wait to watch it when it airs on live BBC telly!
Means I have to spend the day actively trying to avoid spoilers 😭😁

Ooh good sleuthing! Yes, I remember Dr Moon, he was in one of my favourite episodes - Silence in The Library and Forest of The Dead (brilliant two parter episode) "and then you... forgot!"

2 doctors ago, so what, when Jodie Whittaker started (assuming you don't mean David Tennant in between Ncuti and Jodie what with your use of the word woke?)
Woke is meaningless nowadays. Which bit is the one you have a problem with?
The woman?
The black man?
The fact he's gay?
Not enough white straight males in the role anymore?
Wish people would just come out and say instead of leaving people to guess which bit they find "woke."
Although if you say you gave up two doctors ago I guess the woman was the first tipping point for you.

Dh was shocked when I suggested we just watch when we were ready rather than waiting. Waiting for’ moment’ is part of the experience 🤣

I was excited about Jodi, unbothered by Ncuti.

I can’t remember when the woke preachy virtue signalling started, but it’s seriously irritating. Off the top of my head I can’t think of an example, though, but it feels like being patted on the head while being force fed commandments.

RTD is particularly prone to it. Interrupting the story with a quick spoonful of virtue.

This is quite entertaining on The Well:

https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/16854

Did 'The Well' remind anyone else of Michael MacIntyre's The Wheel.
Spin it.

I think that sometimes the writing fails at “show, not tell” - for example, in The Robot Revolution, there wasn’t enough showing of Alan’s coercive control for Belinda’s “Planet of the Incels” comment.

Other times - like in “Dot and Bubble” - the harm and stupidity of racism is built up very well.

Grey’s Anatomy can do this too - it can have an excellent exploration of a topic such as police attitudes on race or the risks of abortion laws - or it can shoehorn in an “issue” with a bit of clunky dialogue.

I think the sign language dialogue (which I assume is what you mean) was earned, TBH. It’s entirely reasonable that 500,000 years in the future, adaptations for disabilities are far better, given that in our own society, they are far better than they were 50 years ago. It was part and parcel of having the technology to project speech to text as an unspoken add on to the suits.

Oh, I felt the sign language as part of the story was excellent, it was just the clunky homily that spoilt it. The audience took the point from the story - it really did but need spelling out as an aside.

Nice to see Linus Roache in something.

I watched it with my dgs ,, he was slighty scared ,, good episode

Stop confusing me, @KIlliePieMyOhMy! My immediate thought was Surely I saw him in something last weekend? Oh yes - it was Dr Who …