All New Who

Petty Tyrant wrote:{{ You Halfy will get to watch on Disney+ at the perfectly reasonable time of 7pm. We, the home audience however get it dumped at same time as US now, meaning it's 7pm there and midnight here.}}

Why would they feel the need to do that? It's not like the American audience is clamoring for spoiler-free Who.

I rather liked the companion in the clip Petty posted.  It was a clear case of going for personality rather than sexpot.  Very watchable.

{{ Why they did it is one of the great arguments in Who at the moment. Whilst its a simultaneous broadcast, so no spoilers for those who watch at midnight, but arguably the main audience for Who, kids, they have to wait all of Saturday till the normal broadcast time in the UK for Who and they will have to avoid spoilers all day long. It's just wrong. Especially as Who is a British institution- it'd be like I don't know some huge long-running US show like ST or something announcing a major new series, then debuting it broadcasting in Europe at a reasonable time and shoving it on in the US at midnight. It just would never happen.

The companion with 12 (Capaldi)? That's Bill. I really enjoyed that TARDIS team, The Doctor, Bill, Nardole and on and off Missy.}}

{{ Talking Bill, there's a fav scene of mine from that episode, Bills first trip into the past, it follows on from her just witnessing the death of a child-



- and yes the Doctor did steal the pies, from a guys shop earlier in the episode (well he stole the TARDIS afterall) }}

{{ Episode titles and directors for the new series. All I can say is RTD's writing better be a hell of a lot better than in the specials because he's written all but two episodes of the series. The last time a showrunner tried to write the majority it was Chibnall....}}

ep1- Space Babies- RTD. Julie-Anne Robinson director
ep2- The Devils Chord- RTD. Ben Chessel director
ep3- Boom- Moffat. Julie-Anne Robinson director
ep4- 73 Yards- RTD. Dylan Holmes Williams director
ep5- Dot and Bubble- RTD. Dylan Holmes Williams director
ep6- Rogue- Kate Heron and Bryony Redmond. Ben Chessel director
ep7- The Legend of Ruby Sunday- RTD. Jamie Donahue director
ep8- Empire of Death- RTD. Jamie Donahue director

{{ Good little interview with Ncuti}}

{{{ Well I watched the first episode in the new series of Who. And um, yeah. They dropped two eps at once but I don't think I'm mentally strong enough for another one yet because the first one was terrible.

Ok, the good, Ncuti is fine and Millie is, adequate, in the roles of Doctor and companion, but most of what they say and do and the terrible plot they find themselves in means it doesn't really matter much.
So what is this terrible plot?- well the first part of it is a sort of crash course of what everything in Who is by way of an exposition dump, ostensibly to the new companion but blatantly to the new Disney audience, the TARDIS, why its policebox, the sonic (which for some reason is still looks like a tv remote shagged a computer mouse), what happened to Gallifrey.

And as if this didn't feel tired enough this opening section is oddly full of stuff the show has done better before. So we get the last of the time lords spiel- oh how RTD seems happy to have that back after Moffat quite rightly moved the character on from it, but no here we are back again (and did RTD unwrite Moffat era? He has the Doctor say he's 1000 years old but he was 2000 when he was 12? 1000 would make sense following Tennant as 10, but 11 did that growing through is 900's and on into old age on Trenzalore at close to 2000), then there are scenes RTD himself wrote that he wrote much better first time round- the phone scene for example, its a rehash of the same scene in Rose's second episode when the Doctor lets her call home from the future. Only in the Rose story she had just suffered massive culture shock and then had a barny with the Doctor over him refusing to tell her who he is or where he is from, and its in the aftermath of them making up for that that we have this moment, where the Doctor lets Rose touch base and home. In this episode he just does it, she calls home for a laugh and that's it, end of. It's the same scene, but shorn of all its surrounding thematic material that made the original a good scene, it wasn't the joke about being able to phone home or the bill that made it a good scene, it was the emotion catharsis. Here there is none of that and it all feels like that, there's a bit where the Doctor tells a baby (we'll get to them shortly) that being scared is a superpower, its a weird crib of 12's fear is a superpower speech, only badly done and sort of dumped in there whereas in its original situation in Listen it fully fitted into the scene, the incident going on in that very scene and the overall narrative about the Doctor's childhood fear being part of what drives him and makes him who he is. Again, in this its just sort of there. You could call these, and the several more throughout nods back, but they are more like random Who scenes pulled out a hat and shoved in round the edges of the plot.

And oh the plot, so they turn up on a space station after a pointless scene stepping on a butterfly in a period butterflies didn't yet exist, a scene whose only point as far as I can tell is a 'joke' about the TARDIS having a 'butterfly paradox cancellation' switch, and the station is falling apart. The only folk onboard are babies, talking babies, in electric prams, and a Nanny that seems like a computer but is actually a staff member who secretly stayed on aboard after the company who grew the babies for colony worlds closed down the station, but apparently its illegal to turn off the baby making, but there is no legal obligation to look after them, or provide them enough food or air to live for that long. This complete contradiction in the planets laws regarding the babies- you cant kill them in the 'womb' as it were, but you can once they are born, is I think, some sort of clumsy as hell comment on abortion, and in particular the debate in the US, a nation who bans abortion on moral grounds but not leaving the unwanted children to die. The whole thing is then hand waved away with “its a crazy world down there”.
And of course there is a monster, a literal Bogeyman, a monster made from baby bogeys.
This plot is so stupid I cant even recount it without feeling stupid writing it down.
Anyhow there's a terrible scene with a baby confronting the monster to be brave, but of course being absolutely fine by hiding in a vent, and eventually nanny tries to blow it out an airlock alien style, but the Doctor saves it because just like him its unique, and special in the universe and everyone has a right to be unique and special and to be who they are. Oh did I mention that twice? So does the episode, at least, he gives the same speech to the baby who thinks they are wrong as they have not grown up and are still babies.

You can see why I am struggling to go on with a second episode. This is garbage, utter garbage masquerading as Who. I'll hang in there this series until the Moffat penned one in the hopes I might at least see one half decent episode with Ncuti, he has potential, but not in these appalling stories. }}