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Doctor Who Season 11

Oh I really liked it. I teared up some when Ryan finally called Graham grandad.
 
Even though it didn't turn out to be super plot relevant, I enjoyed the anti-space bit because it was the kind of fun weirdness this series has been kind of lacking. Seems they cut another monster that was supposed to be in that part from the episode.

 
Brian and Wilf would have got on great I reckon.

So who thinks the new years day villian is a dalek?
 
That was, like most of the season, fine.

Tim Shaw was slightly better in the episode, although he was still kind of a boring generically evil person. The real highlights were the companions and how their arcs were given good closure in this episode (apart from Yaz, who apparently is not allowed to have character development).

I actually liked that it was a relativity low-key finale, to the point that having the entire Earth suddenly in jeopardy seemed really out of place.

Overall this series has been fine. It's been some good-to-pretty good scripts made better by a good cast and some good direction and design. The only real disappointments were The Tsuranga Conundrum which was just kind of boring, and Kerblam! which was morally disgusting. That said, it never really had any of the high-highs that the Moffat or even the RTD seasons had.

But hey, at least with Moffat gone and Chibnall in charge we're finally free of the stupid production delays, like having to wait an entire year between seaso-





 
Well that's annoying.

The episode was okay but a bit too much of the Doctor explaining everything ("Ooooh, I know you! You're a previously unmentioned alien I'm going to give the whole backstory of! And you're using a previously unmentioned device I'm also going to explain! Brilliant!") Ryan and Graham had the best part. It is a shame that Yaz didn't really have a story all series. The fact that she's a police officer hardly ever even came up. The Ux (or whatever they were called) must have been really dumb to just think whoever showed up on their planet was God. And what was all that about five shrunken planets in plastic boxes?

What happened to the FORGOTTEN CHILD?
 
I started losing interest halfway through it. The beginning was again too "What's this week's assignment", too CSI: TARDIS where everyone knows their jobs and the Doctor is just the captain of the precinct, babble-briefing the squad. Everything's too... "normal" and much less fun -- we might as well be experiencing these as audiobooks read by Jodie. Other previous Doctors may have also been played more as "one of the gang" but I'm finding that I don't particularly like that kind of Doctor.

But it was good to see Mrs. Hughes/Carson, and Dave from The Full Monty again. I kept picturing Paltraki with plastic wrap around his belly eating a candy bar, and for Andinio/Mrs. Hughes to address the Creator as Your Lordship.
 
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HERCULES HERCULES!

I liked the story of the finale. Ryan and Graham were great.

I think the biggest issue of this season was that the writers were playing it safe. They were probably worried about making the first woman Doctor terrible, so they didn't write any silly episodes, and so she didn't get to act very silly. The episodes were a bit like police procedurals, and less like crazy Doctor Who episodes. Still, I thought it was good.
 
Got a real justice league vibe from the story.

I half expected Aaron to be dying, or to still have a bit of the dalek in him at the end.
 
It was pretty good. The actress playing the girl being controlled by the Dalek did a really good job. Of course the ending was stupid as it often is (sticking bits of a microwave oven on a Dalek will make it blow up, I guess!) and Ryan's dad really should have died or at least Ryan should have been angry at the Doctor for nearly getting his dad sucked into space. And Yas got nothing to do like always. But hey it was still one of Chibnall's best scripts!

So, umm, see you next year I guess.
 
Still in the middle of watching it, but I liked the bit about UNIT being suspended due to funding withdrawal of international partners. All to real and spooky.

Or maybe it's just that Jemma Redgrave wasn't available, who knows.

I'll be back with more thoughts and skepticism after I finish watching.
 
It was okay. But it continues to display the things I like less about Jodie's doctor. Everything that happens to her still seems like it's "wow" all new -- what happened to the universe-weary Doctor that's been around for 2000 years and wears it on his/her sleeve? Jodie's doctor is more like a perky Disney scrubwoman, except one who relies way too much on technobabble to get things done. It's like the Voyager era of DW.

I agree with Wacky that the ending was lame -- Aaron became a contributing Scooby gang member with ideas way too quickly, and the Great Plan & its execution was a sloppy mess. Maybe that's how they want to portray this Doctor's personality in general, but again, what happened to all the Doctor's wisdom and experience? Even goofy Matt Smith pulled off the tragic, beleaguered side of the Doctor once in a while. I know there have been previous Doctors like Jodie's (Cheerleader Doctor & the Gang) but I'm just not enjoying it as much. And again, too much technobabble, or more specifically, too much REAL-WORLD technobabble as opposed to mind-blowing quantum technobabble. Jodie's Doctor spends as much time explaining wi-fi and satellites to her gang as she does the mysteries of the universe. And is it me, or is this gang harder to impress than other companions? It felt like she was trying too hard with the trips to various New Years, and the gang were obliging in their awe, like kids in the back seat of the car. One of these days, Jodie is going to have to take command and scare the shit out of these mortals. Less mothering, more tough love. The one Scooby member whose losses I really feel more than the others is Yas, but they spend more time on the father/son deal of Graham and Ryan, which is okay but feels more manufactured to me.

I know all this is more the fault/choice of Chibnall than any of the actors (also that it's only my opinion). I know the roots of this show are more of a kiddie sci-fi, but if they are going to aspire to have it be more than that, they have to be careful about how they produce it. It feels more like a kiddie show to me now, but at the same time they are trying to root it in the real world and play it like a procedural. It's not a comfy fit for me.
 
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If this had been in Tennents run, he would have said "I'm so sorry" and blasted Aaron and the dalek out the door, even if it soured his relationship with Ryan.

It might even had led to Ryan becoming a villian.
 
Still reminds me of the 9th Doctor, except... somehow with less experience?! Yasmin is just sort of there, I guess, because reasons. She really is just about as interesting as furniture; with any of the other Doctors' runs, she'd have been a "boggled regular person encounters the doctor and is never seen again" character of the week, like goofy doofus from "Love and Monsters" or the community service kid from the one about the killer graffiti. Graham and Ryan at least have each other to play off of while the 13th mostly bumbles around between periodic flashes of competence.
 
In the beginning I thought Graham would be terrible, but he's my favorite.

EXTERMINATE!!!
 
Yeah they did that about three times this series, it was pretty hard not to notice.

New Character: I just need to get home to my SAME SEX PARTNER...wait a minute, what are you doing with those tentacles, AAAAAAAA!H
 
I'm not sure which part of it is more unlikely -- the monsters, or people just randomly going up to strangers and telling them who they fuck.

Random English person: "Pahdon me, terribly solly to interrupt, old chap, but I'd like to let you know that I put my penis into a brunette every night."

Weird Space Monster: "I know where this is going. Next you'll be giving me a link to your Instagram feed and making me look at pictures of your cat and what you had for dinner last night. There's only one way to prevent that." *stabstabstabstabstab*
 
Finally just got caught up on this (which I think is ok actually, I heard a stranger say “happy new year” to someone yesterday) and it’s got to be my favourite Christmas/New Year episode for a long time.

The Dalek was genuinely quite scary when it was possessing Lynne (helped that the actress off of Fresh Meat is very good) and I liked that the police, army and UNIT were each shown to be innaffective leaving it solely to the gang to sort things out. I’d been expecting the worst when I heard it was a Dalek themed episode, but it was a relief not to have the usual mass invasion stuff.

I did expect Ryan’s dad to sacrifice himself at the end, to pay penance for not looking after Ryan, and because he was at a loose end. That would’ve been the easy option, so I’m glad they kept him alive.

Shame there’ll be no more til next year. Other 10 episode shows don’t take this long, do they?
 
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