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Homora Gaykemi posted:e: also, dunno about the guy they've announced for the new companion one way or the other, but i was kinda hoping they'd spend some time with the Doctor and Yaz so she could have actually developed a character now that there's fewer people aboard The entire population of Britain will become companions before Yaz gets a character.
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PriorMarcus posted:You're the only other person I've seen mention this and it immediately and totally soured me on the episode. There's a decent chance that Chibnall did it on purpos. I'm not, to be clear, accusing him of anything--I simply don't know. But he is from TERF Island and in the orbit of people like Gareth Roberts.
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Against my better judgment, I watched it. As background watching, it's not terrible I guess. Instead of Chibnall having awful ideas, he's got some pretty interesting ones that are instantly discarded. Daleks as cops? Whatever! Dalek civil war? Blink and you'll miss it. A companion getting controlled by a Dalek? Never mind, the Daleks are defeated by a gun that makes square holes except when they come into contact with a Dalek, apparently.
I think I'm officially done with this show until Chibnall is gone. But even then, what kind of talent is this show cultivating? The ability to cram Doctor Who into a Law & Order style format? Whoever comes after is probably going to be pretty similar.
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Mooseontheloose posted:I am the only person in this thread who thinks Rosa is a good episode. The first half-ish is pretty great and then it shits the bed with the utterly insipid plan of "make sure people get on the bus." How you look at the civil rights movement and decide that the climax of your story should consist of ensuring the correct number of people are riding on a bus is so baffling to the point that it ruins the rest of the episode. That's the kind of plot you'd have in a story aimed at like seven year olds when you want to teach them who Rosa Parks is but not what racism is. Oh, and there's a non-racist asteroid in the future. Not as far in the future as the racist guy who was the villain, mind you. I've harped on this before, but the episode that's basically a blowie to Amazon is far better constructed and more coherent than the one about Rosa Parks. That's a problem.
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Jan 4, 2021 11:27
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Cleretic posted:I still think that Kerblam had a good message that it had no loving clue how to hit home. If you squint you can see its intention as being against enormous corporations and automation, and empathizing with the terrorist without condoning his methods, they just picked... not the worst way to articulate it all, but not far above it. Kerblam is for my money the most thematically coherent story of the Chibnall era. mehall hit it on the nose, it's mealy mouthed liberalism. Specific cases of exploitation are bad, but not an indictment of the system. However, taking action to change things is also bad. Somehow the technocrats will figure out a solution, ideally involving a committee or study.
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Jan 4, 2021 14:59
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Timby posted:While I agree, generally, that some of it has to do with uncertainty over the spelling of her surname (God kills a puppy every time someone types "Ecclestone"), I fear that the use of her first name is also rooted in paternalism. It's possible there's some of that, but also worth noting that there's another very significant Whittaker in the history of the show.
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Jan 4, 2021 23:17
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Day of the Daleks is a highly underrated serial, it's one of the first stories to really play around with time travel and it has an excellent supporting villain.
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Big Mean Jerk posted:Ehhhh, it’s two halves of the same coin really. Chibnall is a poo poo writer but Moffat was a godawful showrunner. Whitaker would have only gotten a handful of budget-crunched specials so far under Moffat. You might want to check how many episodes have gotten out under Chibnall. Really, the fact that both Moffat and Chibnall, who have extensively TV experience, have had such trouble with consistent schedules suggests that some major behind the scenes changes are needed. Though who knows how viable that is under the current admin.
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Jan 7, 2021 04:26
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Flight Bisque posted:I've just watched the new episode. Doing literally anything to stop the bad guy makes you just as bad, if not worse, than the bad guy, duh.
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SiKboy posted:They could have just introduced a new character as "billionaire tech guy" just like they introduced a new character to be "Too dumb to live scientist" and "Theresa May". There was no real reason for it to be a known character, its not like the plot hinged on it being specifically this guy. Or they could have have made the collaborator Theresa May and try and actually say something about pol--ah, hold on, I've just been informed that the most competent episode the showrunner ever wrote is titled Dinosaurs on a Spaceship.
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