Review Doctor Who (2005)

Doctor Omega

Doctor Omega

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I think that having no returning monsters from the past whatsoever - at this stage - is probably a tactical error.

Troughton had the Daleks in his first story. Tom had Daleks, Cybermen, and Sontarans in his first season.

Davison had that EARTHSHOCK surprise, with added flashback clips....

I think it reassures the audience that - yes, this is the same character in a different body.

Not saying it needs to be Daleks or Cybermen...

But maybe just...something......
 
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chainsaw_metal1 said:
The surprise was that Matthew Waterhouse waited until his last line in the series to finally give a line delivery that didn't make me want to slap him. Hey-OH!
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And then he went and spoiled it with... "Go back! If you advance, will kill me Nyssa!"

Not that he could get that right. :emoji_wink:
 
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“Who” Showrunner Demanded A Female Doctor


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The soon to launch eleventh season of “Doctor Who” marks the biggest mini-reboot of the franchise since the 2005 relaunch. Along with new showrunner Chris Chibnall, it also sees a woman (Jodie Whittaker) playing the title role for the first time in the show’s six-decade history.

In a new interview with Digital Spy, the producers say the gender switch was not only easy but a requirement of the new showrunners coming onboard. Executive producer Matt Strevens says:

“We knew in our gut it was about time and it felt like the right decision, and the character is not gender-specific, in any way really. If ever there was a character that was never defined by gender, it’s the Doctor. The Doctor is gender fluid in that sense. Once Peter [Capaldi] had decided he was leaving, the next Doctor was always going to be a female Doctor. That’s what Chris wanted, that was part of his conditions of doing the job.”

Chibnall himself adds: “It felt like a straightforward decision, it’s not that controversial. It’s very hard to think of many examples in its 55-year history where the Doctor takes a decision based upon gender.”

Time Lords have been seen swapping genders and races in the past when they regenerate, though that hasn’t happened to The Doctor himself as such. “Doctor Who” kicks off on BBC One on October 7th.
 
johnnybear

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If that was the condition for him taking the job then why didn't they look for someone else? Plus apart from William Hartnell's early series three companions has never worked well in Doctor Who! See Castrovalva-Earthshock! JNT himself admitted he'd made a blunder with the line up and that the best idea is Doctor and companion preferably a young woman! Yet Chinballs seems to know better? What a muppet! We get rid of one muppet only for another one to take his place!
JB
 
Doctor Omega

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johnnybear said:
three companions
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Not helped, imo, by them being tediously all from modern day Earth yet again.

Why not introduce them one episode at a time from different times and even different planets? There is a universe of space and time to choose from.

I notice that in the trailer they already speak with one voice in one scene: "SEZZ USS!!"

I would actually rather three distinctly separate voices and characters.

And yes, I agree that the Tardis looks crowded. And I have a sinking feeling that maybe Chibnall's masterplan is that we will be expected to care that "one of these people will die!! Honest folks, we mean it this time!". Yet again...... :emoji_disappointed:
 
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It turns out that the above image had been tweaked by a fan who was trying to give it the same on set lighting as other less clear images of the console room.

This is the original photograph, below, without any dramatic lighting..........

But I am not sure that even a lighting genius could improve it......

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chainsaw_metal1

chainsaw_metal1

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No sir, I don't like it. But then, I didn't like the looks of 9 & 10's or 11's Tardis interiors at first either. I really loved how it looked in the later Smith episodes and through Capaldi's run. It had enough hints of the old school Tardis but updated and more sci-fi. When the show rebooted, it just looked like The Doctor hit up a rummage sale or a thrift shop (I guess some of you would call that a charity shop, but you would be wrong) and thought they were going hipster bohemian on the console room. This seems to be going back to that "just take a bunch of junk and throw it on there, it'll look hip" style. If anything, bring back McGann's console room if we can't go back to the days of yore.

And honestly, I'd like to see the wood panel console of Tom's run to make a cameo at some point.
 
Doctor Omega

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This console room reminds me of the day a beaming JNT called Old Sixie into his office and boomed: "Look Colin, you'll be wearing that!! Isn't it fantastic?" :emoji_head_bandage:
 
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I am not sure if it is quite the right time for Jodie to be responding, particularly with Jodie having come this far without doing so.

I feel that Jodie might as well now be waiting until the series has aired - with her triumphant success assured - before cocking a snook at the naysayers. Not before.

Surely better - at the moment - to let your work speak for itself, imo, rather than waste time and energy mocking people who have not seen it yet.

For - when the dust has settled - the work will be all there is. So it needs to be good - and "winning" that way will make any critics look more stupid than any attempts to embarrass them by reading their messages out on social media, while pulling faces, mugging and throwing dry quips, will.

Jodie has remained silent (in a very dignified way) on the matter for so long that I really thought that she was going to take the above route.

Taking on - or even trying to embarrass your critics - before the work is unveiled - seems, to me, a bit pointless at just this moment in time and serves only to rake it all up and remind a forgetful public that there was a backlash in the first place.

Oh wait a moment.... I forgot.... "THERE HAS BEEN NO BACKLASH!!! AT ALLl!!!






So what is on Earth is Jodie responding to?!? :emoji_confused:


Success is the best revenge - and we have yet to see that.

Altogether, just bad timing, I think.
 
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