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Doctor Who Season 12

I'm gonna wait until part 2 to pass judgement, but this was "ok." As in, I've seen worse and I've seen better.
 
I zoned in and out of it while it was on. And I think I've pinpointed what bugs me about the Jodie era. I can't stand her plucky Sheffield manner and accent. Thank God for closed-captioning, otherwise I'd miss half of her dialogue. Apologies to anyone who lives near there or talks that way, but you're not being asked to carry a sci-fi show with a lot of technobabble.
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
I zoned in and out of it while it was on. And I think I've pinpointed what bugs me about the Jodie era. I can't stand her plucky Sheffield manner and accent. Thank God for closed-captioning, otherwise I'd miss half of her dialogue. Apologies to anyone who lives near there or talks that way, but you're not being asked to carry a sci-fi show with a lot of technobabble.
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I have this problem too. Military service took me to a lot of places, so I normally don't have a problem with non-American accents and dialects. However, I have a hard time understanding what the fuck she's saying half the time.
 
I had no trouble understanding what she was saying. I'm more bothered by her shortening words like family to fam.
 
I watched it again and paid more attention. Still not warming up to this incarnation. (I know it's just Part 1 of 2...)

The Bond spoof angle was kind of fun, sort of. But overall I have the same complaints with the storytelling as last year. Only now instead of i being CSI: TARDIS, it's more like The X-Files. Why is The Doctor just as surprised as anyone that aliens might be involved? And the companions are too easily turned into experts in everything to suit the circumstances.

Also (and maybe this is because I've been watching a marathon for a week), I have fatigue for "the world is going to end in 5 minutes" stories. Maybe because the solutions that Jodie finds to fix everything involve a quick burst of technobabble, explained through that wide-eyed accent. It's totally anti-climactic. And this cliffhanger is just overkill.

So who do we want as the next Doctor? :joker:
 
CaptainWacky said:
It might be the "biggest" two-parter in terms of money spent on it and number of locations filmed in, but that doesn't mean it's the biggest in terms of things that are actually important.

I laughed at describing Stephen Fry as a "The Hobbit" star. That's like the five hundredth thing you'd think of if someone mentioned him to you. (Though I guess it's because it is the "biggest" thing he's been in.)
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"A Bit Of Fry & Laurie" was bigger. The Hobbit stuff is just more recent and middling notable.
 
It was pretty good, I liked the unexpected time travel stuff. It felt more exciting than part one. Sacha Dhawan was good as the Master. But the ending all seemed a bit too easy (The Doctor basically just shows up and says "haha I beat you in the past or something!") and I'm not sure why they let Lenny Henry get away because there's not much more his character could offer.
 
It was a bit bill and Ted, the problem with any fatal delema in this show is the main character has a time machine. Which they seemed to have forgotten in the first episode where the fam was getting in trouble for too much time off work. 11 always brought Rory and Amy back the moment they left.
 
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