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Which season of Doctor Who should get a Blu-ray set next?
This poll is closed.
One of the black-and-white seasons 16 29.63%
Season 7 7 12.96%
Season 11 1 1.85%
Season 13 0 0%
Season 15 2 3.70%
The Key to Time 21 38.89%
Season 21 0 0%
Season 25 7 12.96%
Total: 54 votes
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Matinee
Sep 15, 2007

They never raised it in the text, but always thought the Time Lords being trapped in a bubble when their Whole Thing is exploring/colonising/controlling the universe is a better “punishment” for their wrongdoing than just blinking them out of existence at the push of a button.

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Matinee
Sep 15, 2007

Kill The Moon would have been much more interesting if it stuck to what the premise seemed like in the first fifteen minutes which is "moon's haunted full of spiders"

Matinee
Sep 15, 2007

That whole beat came across like something plucked from one of the more edgelord wilderness years novels.

It’s a very grubby thing to make an “aha! The Master meets an ironic twist of fate!” moment out of.

Matinee
Sep 15, 2007

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with being indifferent to it, that’s the typical response to any Chibnall script.

I think the reason it stands out is that it’s such an un-Doctor thing to do. I could see it making sense from a different villain character, if I’m being charitable. Or even if there was a scene with Yaz or Graham or whoever being all “that was an incredibly hosed up thing to do, Doctor”, and she has to reckon with that. About how she loses her humanity when it comes to dealing with the Master etc, and she has to struggle against that in herself.

But no, it’s just another (bad) Chibnall idea that goes nowhere. If you want to have your heroic protagonist do something like that, you need to at least unpack it.

Matinee
Sep 15, 2007

It’s very telling that it’s one of the more memorable “Things The Doctor Chose To Do To Advance The Story” from the whole Chibnall era, for entirely the wrong reasons.

Matinee
Sep 15, 2007

Always loved the bit from the Angels two-parter where she wrote her co-ordinates on some artefact, knowing the Doctor would eventually, some day, see it in a museum.

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Matinee
Sep 15, 2007

I thought first few episodes were quite good/intriguing but it fizzled out fast. A real chore to get through the last few, unfortunately.

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