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Doctor Who fans to lose their shit again (season 14)

They only do that kind of promotions on the S train (for Shuttle), which only goes back and forth between Times Square and Grand Central Station along 42nd St. The ride takes about 60 seconds.

The thing that surprised me was that they've taken out most of the seats in at least that car (it's usually 3 adjoining cars). BACK IN MY DAY...
 
Read a RTD interview today where he's like "we're gonna take this hard-woke." So yeah. I thought just plain ordinary RTD Who stories were horrible, so just think how fun they're going to be if they're sanctimonious and preachy. Also, he mentioned they redesigned the sonic screwdriver because he thought it looked too much like a gun and it was a bad message for children. So yeah. I guess time for another 15 year hiatus, maybe with an attempted relaunch somewhere in the middle. :(
 
I know it's not been on live yet but I watched them on iPlayer, so last chance to back out before spoilery reviews.
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Space babies is ok, the babies look creepy, there are a few heavy handed references to abortion and immigration, I don't many people will remember anything about this episode by next week.

The devils cord winks too much at the audience, literally, please stop that, we know we are watching a TV show, we don't need you being Agatha all along.

This is the episode with a drag queen, I grew up in the 70s I've always seen men in dresses on TV, most of them made sense in context though, this is a literal god, so why is he Dame Edna'ing?

Also a little early to have Ruby saying, your never scared of anything when, a, she's been with him a few days, and b, he was literally scared on your last adventure with him.
 
Quite a few of the expositionary lines in the first episode seemed lifted directly from RTD's first go-around at relaunching Who (I suppose it's been 19 years though.)

They proabably didn't need to do the same "babies...SPACE babies" joke 700 hundred times.

The first episode ends with them returning to Christmas 2023 but in the second Ruby says she's from June 2024. So did they have six months' of adventures we didn't see or is it some time-wimey shit?

The villain just kept reminding me of Matt Lucas.



It would have been funny if they were (non-lethally) run over when they were dancing on the zebra crossing at the end.
 
Moffitt episode feels very Moffitt

Seemed a bit cut and paste from his previous efforts, and the whole thing looked filmed on the volume.
 
I thought it was alright and appreciated that it slowed things down a bit and wasn't trying to be constantly zany and adorable like the last 3 epsidoes, but definitely not one of Moffat's best. The ending went on far too long with the Doctor saying "DAD'S ROCK" in like 7 different ways. The reveal that they were fighting a war against themselves was good but felt like the kind of thing Moffat's done better in the past.

The little girl was...weird. Her acting was weird and the part where she starts looking at photos with her dead dad when everyone was about to blow up was weird (and the idea of a child finding comfort in a hologram dead dad was fine, it just felt...weird?) Weird.

I still don't like the thing where the female companion has to be an UNKNOWABLE COSMIC MYSTERY (like all women, eh lads!) but I guess RTD and Moffat are totally in love with that idea.

So there's no way the character Varada Sethu played here is going to be the companion character she plays next season, right? She'll be a young woman from present day Earth (possibly with A SECRET) like always.
 
Is it just me, or did the urns look like big vieny cocks?

Maybe that's why they stuck an eye or an ear on them.

Is that what you expected from your family friendly sci fi show Disney?
 
So essentially a horror film in a doctor light episode, not sure the logic worked, and it takes more than a long haired wig and glasses to make someone look 40.
 
A lot of great scenes and Millie Gibson did a very good job holding it together (some people have been critical of her acting so far but maybe they'll be nice now.) The scene where she beat the the evil Prime Minister using her knowledge of how the cursed old woman worked was very satisfying. When she said "don't worry, everyone always leaves me" as an 85 year old that really hit me. I was thinking "will be the best episode in a long time if it has a satisfying ending!"

Then it just...didn't have an ending. I ASSUME that by the end of the season once we know what Ruby actually is it will all make sense and we'll understand why everyone went mad after talking to the old woman. But I don't know for sure because we haven't got to the end of the season yet. So I can't actually say this worked as an episode on its own. But it had a lot of really good stuff so?
 
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They should have been more consistent with scary woman's powers, does she make people scared and run away, or does she make people hate Ruby?

Also does Bomby Nomates still become PM now?
 
Started off ok with an on the nose metaphor for people who go on their phones too much, features the most annoying person to ever appear in doctor who, then it gets kind of subtle towards the end, as you realise this diverse show that even made Newton black has no none white characters other the doctor, and the horrible entitled white people turn out to be racists all along.
 
Best episode of the season/series.

I like to think Ricky September would have gone with the Doctor (he didn't seem disgusted when he first saw him like Lindsey did.)
 
It was pretty good.

I'm OUTRAGED they had Indira Varma playing another character without a Torchwood reference.
 
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