Review Resolution (2019)

Doctor Omega

Doctor Omega

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I don't think there is any serious muttering about any Christmas special, so this would appear to be it for 2018.

Ten episodes.

The verdict for Jodie will be in by then....

Will fans and the BBC be clamouring for more? This and the nine episodes before it an amazing success?

Or could the opposite be true?

I wonder also, if Chibnall will go for a spectacular season finale?

Or something more low key - and cheaper?
 
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chainsaw_metal1

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Doctor Omega said:
Will Jodie be a hit or miss?
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As I've said, I've liked every Doctor in some capacity, and I hope she hits it out of the park. I've been watching since the 70s, and I'm not giving up on it now. Personally, I think she'll be great.
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And will this season end with a bang - or a whimper?
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As long as we don't go back to the overblown, cameo-filled finales of the RTD era, I'm cool. Mind you, I still love those finales, but they were a little much.
Doctor Omega said:
Will fans and the BBC be clamouring for more?
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I will be. That's all I care about.
Doctor Omega said:
I wonder also, if Chibnall will go for a spectacular season finale?

Or something more low key - and cheaper?
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I think he'll do something a little bigger, but again, don't save everything for the finale.
 
Doctor Omega

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What does this mean for the Doctor Who Christmas special?


https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2018-08-10/when-is-doctor-who-back-on-tv/


....rumours have been knocking about for a while that new showrunner Chris Chibnall doesn’t fancy doing a Christmas special this year, with the initial announcement of the series only mentioning the ten-episode main series and the BBC Worldwide Showcase also not referencing any extra festive episodes.

Of course, it could be that the Christmas special is being counted as part of the next run that comes after the forthcoming series 11 (not unusual for Doctor Who – series nine technically began with the 2014 Christmas special before it kicked off properly in September 2015) – but it could also be that Chibnall is getting rid of the separate festive episode entirely.

Or it could allow for Chibnall to create a Yuletide episode within the confines of the main series, assuming the episode aired near enough to Christmas Day. And this wouldn’t be completely without precedent in Who – prior to 2005, the only Doctor Who Christmas episode was the seventh part of 1965-66 serial The Daleks’ Master Plan, an episode called The Feast of Stephen that just so happened to air on Christmas Day and so had some Yuletide shenanigans shoehorned into the plot.

However, we’ve had it pretty much confirmed that all series 11 will air in its entirety in “autumn 2018” so assuming it won’t spill over into 2019, and that Chibnall wants it to run weekly without a break from start to finish, that might give us a specific and slightly later start date. If we count backwards from Christmas Day, a Tuesday, and assume the rest of the episodes are in their traditional Saturday slot, that gives us a series 11 launch date of 27th October.

Of course, we have all our fingers and toes crossed that we’ll have all ten episodes AND a separate Christmas special, but to quote the Rolling Stones, you can’t always get what you want.
 
Doctor Omega

Doctor Omega

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“Doctor Who” Ditches Xmas For New Year


https://www.imdforums.com/threads/series-11-2018.66/page-12#post-51211


Chris Chibnall is reportedly scrapping this year’s special altogether, and, for the first time in thirteen years the series will go without one according to The Mirror. Their sources say the writers have ‘run out’ of Yuletide-themed episodes and so are ditching it.

Don’t fret Who-vians. Chibnall has also confirmed that the current eleventh season, which was originally going to be only ten episodes long, will now get an extra eleventh episode which will come after the events of the season: “We seem to be filming 11 episodes, and it’s only a series of 10… I would definitely think there’s another episode after the end of the series.”

In fact, the trade says the extra episode will air only a week later, serving as a New Year’s Eve special rather than a Christmas one and so likely will be just a standalone episode without any holiday theme.
 
Doctor Omega

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It was previously rumored, but now BBC News has finally confirmed “Doctor Who” will be skipping its Christmas special this year and instead will air a special episode on New Year’s Day. The current series, actress Jodie Whittaker’s first, will conclude on December 9th.
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chainsaw_metal1

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So much great about this special!
Not only does Ryan's dad show back up, The Doctor isn't shy to let him know she has no time for his bullshit.And the reaction when Ryan calls Graham granddad is priceless. We finally see a Dalek who is legitimately scary again. There's no overly written pathos about good Daleks, broken Daleks, Daleks looking to evolve, just an evil little bastard who wants to kill. And the shop-built shell it forces the woman to make for him looks frightening. It's not polished or even proper Dalek looking, but looks dangerous. There's what I assume is a jab at Brexit with The Doctor trying to get ahold of Kate and finding out that UNIT has been placed on hold because of "budgetary issues", which I found both funny and great because it caused the fam to have to do it on their own. And her final jab at Ryan's dad when he figures out how to destroy the Dalek with the microwave oven was awesome. Jodie also really comes into her own here. Sure, she has some face pulls, but overall, she shows that she is The Doctor here. No overblown speeches, just flat out kicking ass against any and all odds. Anyone who had any issues with this season should watch this one, because this is Doctor Who written properly, and I say that as someone who really liked this last season. I only wish we didn't have such a wait for more, because it really was terrific.
 
Doctor Omega

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Posted this in the series 12 thread by accident.... :emoji_flushed:


POSITIVES.......

I enjoyed the concept of a Dalek rebuilding itself from junk. In fact I think that the resulting creature was an iconic new variation on the classic Dalek design.

I also loved the showdown between the Dalek and the soldiers. I suspect that that scene will be used in future clip shows about the history of the show.

Bradley Walsh was quality as always. And Tosin Cole showed how competent an actor he was, opposite the actor playing his father.


NEGATIVES....

The rest of it felt largely more of the same, Modern Who by numbers. "This planet is protected", blah blah.

Not sure about the new PLANET OF THE SPIDERS ability of the Kaled mutants to control someone's mind by clinging to their back. These things always strike me as writer's trying to do something new and clever with the Daleks. It certainly wasn't new, due to the SPIDERS rip off. Not too sure if it was clever either.

Jodie, more than ever, needed to knock it out of the park, faced by her deadliest enemy. I don't think she did.


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I wondered why this was so - and after pondering, I realised that what I am missing from Jodie's performance is an inner darkness.

The classic Doctors had their dark moments, from braining a caveman to wiping out Skaro.

The NEW WHO Doctors have all had moments where their companions have lectured them for going too far.

Rose to Eccleston: "What are you turning into Doctor?"

Donna begging Tennant to stop killing the alien spider Queen and begging him to save one family from a volcano. And the whole "Time Lord Victorious" thing.

Matt Smith killing the Dinosaurs on a spaceship David Bradley guy.

Clara telling Capaldi that she would slap him so hard he would regenerate.

All these were examples where the Doctor went too far and needed tempering.


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So far Jodie has been daft, zany, silly. But not a trace of darkness. No sense that the Doctor has psychopathy under the surface.


She warned them that travelling with her would be dangerous.

But the Doctor seems to no longer be dangerous as a character.

So far all threats have been dispatched with witty quips and incomprehensible technobabble, by a zany, daft as a brush Doctor.

The Doctor has done nothing questionable and there has been no trace of conflict between her and her "fam".


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I think, therefore, that an opportunity was consequently missed for a terrible tension between the Doctor and the Dalek, where the companions - after all these fun adventures - suddenly see the Doctor and this lone Dalek as opposite sides of the same coin.

Where the Doctor almost forgets about them, so consumed is she with facing down her oldest enemy.

Instead it was dispatched with the usual quips, superior cleverness and (somehow) a microwave oven. Despite all the bigging up - "deadliest creature in the universe" - nothing really distinguished it from any other alien threat. She treated it the same way as Tim Shaw.

A real missed opportunity, I think.

I think there should have been some element in the story of the Doctor going too far.



YAZZ: You warned us of the dangers, Doctor. You never said how dangerous you could be.



Something like that.

Maybe my instinct is wrong here, but I do feel that they could have done much more with the New Year's episode than they did.


While writing this I was thinking of a particular comic strip that could have provided a better template for RESOLUTION than the episode we actually got. After a bit of digging around I found most of it and it articulates better than I can what I would liked to have seen written for Jodie and co. to perform......


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The Seeker

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I really do love seeing Ryan and Graham getting along so well. Their estrangement always kind of bothered me, even though it’s natural and made for a good story arc. Nice to see more of Ryan’s character too and see some resolution with his Dad. I wondered if Dad was going to get sucked out of the TARDIS and the Doctor would have to admit she fucked up - that would have been more realistic - and was simultaneously disappointed and relieved that he lived. But it would have ruined Ryan’s relationship with the Doctor, and that would have been hard to reconcile. It might have made an interesting arc in and of itself - Ryan having to forgive the Doctor. OR it would have been the end of Ryan as companion, so maybe it’s better it turned out the way it did.

Interesting to see the Dalek not so helpless without its shell. I don’t recall ever seeing a telepathic Dalek before, but at this point what else can they do with a Dalek they haven’t done before? I was half afraid this new Doctor would start that nonsense about all life being precious and blah blah blah but she’s smart enough in this case to know this creature needs to go. (I’m still pissed about her attitude with Tzim Sha.) The makeshift Dalek shell, of course, was very well realized.

And yet again, Yaz is left being a background character. I heard there will be more character development next season (or was it an episode about her? I can’t remember) so there’s hope. I’d love to see more of her family, they were great. She needs to shine on her own though.
 
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