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Ncuti Gatwa Doctor Who and spin offs

This ep seems to share its template with the Eccelston ep where he's trapped on the game show planet: Silly theme that turns dark quickly.

The villain's plans were so horrible, and it all seemed unstoppable, but then RTD gave the Doctor all the magical assistance he needed to quickly stop the doomsday box like an afterthought, thanks to the gay couple that knew everything about everything.

Then the episode became all about racism. Or corporate greed. Or both of those, take your pick.

I guess bigenerations are trendy now.

Looking forward to seeing if WE ALL DIE NEXT WEEK BONC.
 
CaptainWacky said:
The shot of thousands of people being sucked into space was pretty surprising and dark, even though they all survived of course.

The song wasn't very good after all that build up!

The new Rani was hot.
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The song was beautiful. I nearly cried, you monster! Agreed, new Rani hot.
 
Back in the day, N****F***** were a thing online only and now on British television, it has become a reality.
Fuck N***** and Fuck F*****!
 
Imagine the horror of Rylan's existence in this episode. You die with your planet in 2025. Hundreds of years later an evil corporation brings you back to life. But you only get to live one day a year and you have to spend that day hosting Eurovision. Your entire life is just endlessly hosting Eurovision, for 900 days (or whatever it was by this point), everyone you ever knew long dead, impossible to form new relationships because anyone you meet will be dead in a couple of months from your point of view...
 
It's a living! I liked the doctor getting all torturey. Even Susan couldn't talk him down, but I guess he didn't want Bel to feel bad.
 
CaptainWacky said:
Imagine the horror of Rylan's existence in this episode. You die with your planet in 2025. Hundreds of years later an evil corporation brings you back to life. But you only get to live one day a year and you have to spend that day hosting Eurovision. Your entire life is just endlessly hosting Eurovision, for 900 days (or whatever it was by this point), everyone you ever knew long dead, impossible to form new relationships because anyone you meet will be dead in a couple of months from your point of view...
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I bet JEDWARD would love that fate.
 
The only reason I'd heard of The Rani before is becasue every time an evil female character showed up in the reboot series someone online would say "SHE MUST BE THE RANI IN DISGUISE!!"
 
I was kind of looking forward to this, but it suffers from first part syndrome, where it's all set up and no payoff, and ends with everyone either dead or dying, so unless next week is just 45 minutes of the Rani talking to Omega then I guess the doctor lives and everyone and everything goes back to how it was.

Most meh episode of the year.
 
The problem is you're just waiting for the Doctor to go back to normal, but that can't happen until the end of the episode because it's got to finish on another "it was REALLY all about [name of character who hasn't been seen for 45 years and means nothing to 95% of viewers] ha ha!" reveal. They tried to lampshade the exposition dump by having The Rani say "this isn't just exposition!" but it really was.

Really thankless part for Belinda who just has to stand in the background going "no, don't!" for the whole episode.

Prediction: The Doctor says "You are here because of my doubt, Omega, but what's the one thing stronger than doubt? Hope! And if the whole world hopes hard enough, you will disappear again!" Then there's a montage of everyone around the world hoping really hard and all the smashed mugs put themselves back together somehow and Omega goes "No, not hope!" and disappears.
 
Disney just goes around and kills everything these days. Star Wars. Marvel. Toy Story. Disney princesses. Dr. Who. Indiana Jones. It used to be that the Disney name meant a guarantee something would be good. Then around the time they did "The Lone Ranger"... I'm thinking "Jerry Bruckheimer, Johnny Depp, Disney. If they could turn a hokey 1950s theme park ride into a juggernaut franchise, this is going to be amazing. But it looked so bad I never went to see it. And it's been all downhill since then. "The Last Jedi." "Marvels." "Indiana Jones & the Diaper of Destiny." Sad!

To be fair, I never really liked Russell Davies' "Who." Tennant, running around, waving the sonic screwdriver at things. I happened to see the last Tennant episode and hated it so much I thought I was done. Luckily I came back next week for the first Matt Smith episode and it was everything I'd loved about classic Dr. Who. But for me the sweet spot is basically Tom Baker, right up to when K-9 shows up. Them's some good stories.
 
I won't disagree with you, but I will say that if Disney didn't think what they were turning out met what Disney had expected when they did the deal, I'll bet the money would go away pretty soon. Money talks. Money always talks. If the BBC had said "well, we were thinking cast a middle aged white guy who constantly has to save his girl sidekick" there probably wouldn't have been big bags of Disney cash to build fancy sets.
 
There are more modern incarnations of the doctor than OG doctors now, just the 7 originals, 8 if you count McGann.

Against 9 to 15 plus war and fugitive.
 
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