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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Nov 15, 2018 10:14:06 GMT -5
Decent companion story adventure. I liked the swerve with the “demons.” It was also a good reminder that it might be fun to run around through history but not all history is going to be fun or have happy endings.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Nov 15, 2018 19:30:05 GMT -5
I like the new cast, but the episodes have ranged from "Not bad" to "Ehhh" for me.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Nov 16, 2018 4:46:24 GMT -5
I like the new cast, but the episodes have ranged from "Not bad" to "Ehhh" for me. Honestly, Chibnall's not a great writer, everything about the series has been great, except the writing. This week's was the first without any credit to him, and it was easily the best of the season, so lets see how the rest of them to.
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Post by Rave on Nov 16, 2018 7:04:12 GMT -5
It was prob'ly because I watched it right after watching the pregnant man episode, but I wasn't particularly keen on "Demons", either. There wasn't anything actually wrong with it and I loved the assassins-turned-witnesses, but I just was not feeling it.
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Post by Ryushinku on Nov 16, 2018 7:49:45 GMT -5
So far, this series has underwhelmed me and I am sad to be saying that.
Rosa and Demons would seem the best so far, flawed but I thought they were good. The rest have been okayish to poor, I'd probably say Women Who Fell would currently by my third favourite and that was a mixed bag. Spiders started off pretty good but tailed off badly and I really ran out of interest and patience with Ghost and Tsuranga.
Jodie and Bradley have been consistently good. Mandip and Tosin have been good too but rarely get chances to show it, almost always being squeezed for spotlight. Despite Chibnall's confidence, it really seems to be proving yet again how difficult a three-companion TARDIS group is to juggle.
I'm hopeful for the next three episodes, both in synopsis and because they're not being written primarily by Chibnall. Scripting really doesn't seem to be his strong point, which isn't a surprise if still a little disappointing by this point.
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Nov 16, 2018 14:59:39 GMT -5
the only duffer for me was KRUSTY THE KLOWN in rosa ..... yes that is what i'm calling him he was pretty flatly written enjoyed everything else about the episode and the series so far
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Post by Von Wagner's Brownies on Nov 16, 2018 16:45:04 GMT -5
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Post by The 1Watcher Experience on Nov 20, 2018 19:41:43 GMT -5
Really enjoyed this episode. It had a very 7th Doctor episode feel to it. Futuristic setting, naive but happy characters, something far more sinister going on than there appears to be, etc. This felt more like typical Doctor Who fun than the previous episodes so far this season.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Nov 21, 2018 2:06:08 GMT -5
Really enjoyed this episode. It had a very 7th Doctor episode feel to it. Futuristic setting, naive but happy characters, something far more sinister going on than there appears to be, etc. This felt more like typical Doctor Who fun than the previous episodes so far this season. Apart from having the opposite message than usual. "Space Amazon that gives people horrible jobs and have people in poverty with no oversight is the good guy! Those people complaining about working conditions are actually the terrorists!" Don't want to get too much into politics, but having the big faceless corporation be right is an odd move. Especially the ending. "We have to close for a month" "Cool" "We'll give people 2 weeks pay" "Sounds good, off we go"
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Nov 21, 2018 2:14:23 GMT -5
I actually enjoyed the episode. When I first heard the 10% human thing I fully expected the swerve to be that the Amazon Delivery bots were actually cyborgs and they were going to use a loophole that the bots are 10% organics... or some kinda Matrix human battery situation. It was nice for it not to be so blatantly obvious. Really enjoyed this episode. It had a very 7th Doctor episode feel to it. Futuristic setting, naive but happy characters, something far more sinister going on than there appears to be, etc. This felt more like typical Doctor Who fun than the previous episodes so far this season. Apart from having the opposite message than usual. "Space Amazon that gives people horrible jobs and have people in poverty with no oversight is the good guy! Those people complaining about working conditions are actually the terrorists!" Don't want to get too much into politics, but having the big faceless corporation be right is an odd move. Especially the ending. "We have to close for a month" "Cool" "We'll give people 2 weeks pay" "Sounds good, off we go" they also said they were completely reorganizing the company to be more people oriented because this happened as they were too focused on automation instead of the workers...
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Nov 21, 2018 2:19:03 GMT -5
I actually enjoyed the episode. When I first heard the 10% human thing I fully expected the swerve to be that the Amazon Delivery bots were actually cyborgs and they were going to use a loophole that the bots are 10% organics... or some kinda Matrix human battery situation. It was nice for it not to be so blatantly obvious. Apart from having the opposite message than usual. "Space Amazon that gives people horrible jobs and have people in poverty with no oversight is the good guy! Those people complaining about working conditions are actually the terrorists!" Don't want to get too much into politics, but having the big faceless corporation be right is an odd move. Especially the ending. "We have to close for a month" "Cool" "We'll give people 2 weeks pay" "Sounds good, off we go" they also said they were completely reorganizing the company to be more people oriented because this happened as they were too focused on automation instead of the workers... Which makes even less sense. The machines were amazing, tried to save lives. A person tried to kill everyone.... Let's get more people and less machines!
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Nov 21, 2018 22:29:44 GMT -5
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Nov 26, 2018 17:29:04 GMT -5
THE WITCHFINDERS was a really cool episode! alan cumming just blooters it out the park playing king james
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Post by Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie on Dec 2, 2018 15:08:57 GMT -5
wat no one's watched it since last week pfft it's as if you've been STUCK in another UNIVERSE or sommit? another really great episode, well explained and simple and such, editing wise let it breathe mr editor
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Post by Legion on Dec 2, 2018 16:31:09 GMT -5
Not a bad episode this week, but I just didnt find I cared.
The other series' have had a hand in that even their one and dones have had some sort of interconnecting part to the wider series arc. This series doesnt seem to have a wider series arc, so it's all just chugging along at a crawl.
It doesnt feel like they have any purpose or anything, they're just zipping about in the Tardis.
I dont really want simple, I want some long form storytelling, and I'm not getting it.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Dec 2, 2018 17:18:20 GMT -5
Not a bad episode this week, but I just didnt find I cared. The other series' have had a hand in that even their one and dones have had some sort of interconnecting part to the wider series arc. This series doesnt seem to have a wider series arc, so it's all just chugging along at a crawl. It doesnt feel like they have any purpose or anything, they're just zipping about in the Tardis. I dont really want simple, I want some long form storytelling, and I'm not getting it. That's pretty much my exact take on this season. I feel like I don't know any of the characters at all. None of the adventures have been that memorable. It hasn't been bad per se; it just feels like it's there. With the rumors of Chibnall and Jodie Whittaker being a one-and-done team, I've been thinking about it in comparison with the first season of the revival, since Eccleston only played The Doctor for a season as well and it's just night and day. They spent time establishing who Rose was, and why she wanted to travel with The Doctor. The Doctor had a strong characterization, having been the post-Time War version. They had the Bad Wolf arc and introduced new recurring characters. They mixed in new monsters with the Daleks. And they had the absolute classic "The Doctor Dances" two-parter (Has there even been a two-parter this season?). This really does feel like every episode is "I'm The Doctor, these are my friends, what's going on, ok we'll do some stuff and we're off!"
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Post by BorneAgain on Dec 2, 2018 18:00:09 GMT -5
From what I've seen, it has the sense of a show playing it so safe that while it doesn't hit RTD or Moffat's lows (emotional melodrama and overuse of the mystery box), its not really hitting their highs either. Surprisingly for a series with the first female Doctor, it feels like its breaking remarkably little new ground in either character or story.
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on Dec 7, 2018 23:47:42 GMT -5
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Post by Muskrat on Dec 8, 2018 0:40:52 GMT -5
Not a bad episode this week, but I just didnt find I cared. The other series' have had a hand in that even their one and dones have had some sort of interconnecting part to the wider series arc. This series doesnt seem to have a wider series arc, so it's all just chugging along at a crawl. It doesnt feel like they have any purpose or anything, they're just zipping about in the Tardis. I dont really want simple, I want some long form storytelling, and I'm not getting it. Yeah, that's my major issue this season. I don't need it to be a major part of every episode, but give us some threads connecting the stories so it feels like this is building to something. It doesn't even have to be building to some major event, even a couple well developed character arcs for the companions would suffice.
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Dec 8, 2018 5:38:10 GMT -5
Not a bad episode this week, but I just didnt find I cared. The other series' have had a hand in that even their one and dones have had some sort of interconnecting part to the wider series arc. This series doesnt seem to have a wider series arc, so it's all just chugging along at a crawl. It doesnt feel like they have any purpose or anything, they're just zipping about in the Tardis. I dont really want simple, I want some long form storytelling, and I'm not getting it. Yeah, that's my major issue this season. I don't need it to be a major part of every episode, but give us some threads connecting the stories so it feels like this is building to something. It doesn't even have to be building to some major event, even a couple well developed character arcs for the companions would suffice. I haven't even watched last week's, I'm not trying to avoid it, it's just when I have free time, I started watching Mad Men for the first time, and that takes up my time. It's like, nothing this series feels like it matters. It's not just the lack of long term storylines, even within the episode, nothing feels like it matters to the characters. When have the characters been angry? Sad? Like REALLY feeling something, they just seem to be breezing in, things happen and then they leave. Eccleston, Tennant, Smith, Capaldi, they made you think everything was life and death to the characters, even in bad episodes. Here, even in stuff I've liked like "Demons of a Punjab" there was a huge, real world tragedy, and it felt more like an annoyance to the Doctor. "Well, that was bad, oh well".
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