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I rather enjoyed that - best episode for a while, excellent performances by all, even Ryan. 🙂
Of course, retconning the last 57 years might not be to everyone's taste (Listen...you can hear gammony heads exploding all over the bottom half of the net) but I thought it was very well done.
Not completely convinced by Chibbers, but the last two series have been different and have certainly shook things up a bit. Shame the ratings are a bit grim.
Fingers crossed for Christmas.
Can’t be arsed to watch it any more. Let me know when Walsh gets eaten by a Cyborg or owt.
Thoroughly PC pap.
I've enjoyed it, though it's asking more questions than it answers. There must surely be a
Thoroughly PC pap.
Or comprehensively and hilariously trolling right-wingers who don't like women, gays and brown people.
Can’t be arsed to watch it any more
Me neither. Watched a few from this series and sat down to watch part 1 of the series finale hoping they'd saved the best till last, but turned it off after about 15mins, just dreadful.
The Dr's constant explaining of what's going on; gurning; unnecessary number of companions; repeated lecturing on how we've messed up planet Earth (we get it)... Bradley Walsh is probably my favourite bit of it.
Oh and flying cybermen heads. Sorry, drones. Jeez.
I like the inclusivity. 🙂
And the fact that people who supposedly enjoy a programme about time travel seem to be stuck in the 70's.
At least you didn't use the word 'Woke'.
repeated lecturing on how we’ve messed up planet Earth (we get it)…
Hmmm......don't forget it's primarily aimed at a younger audience who are very aware of and engaged with climate change issues.
Bradley turned out to be a very good actor.....who knew?
And Cougar, you forgot Northerners. 🙂 Someone (Care to guess who?) will be along shortly to remind us that they can't understand such weird accents.....
Or comprehensively and hilariously trolling right-wingers who don’t like women, gays and brown people.
I'd like to think that is the case. Sadly it looks like cast assembled by ticking boxes.
Nice enough but just lacking any cohesion to me. If as somebody posted the ratings are low then maybe I'm not the only one thinking this.
viewership has declined on Doctor Who as Sunday's episode, "Ascension of the Cybermen," only saw 3.71 million viewers tune in, a drop of 150k viewers from the previous episode -- and also a loss of over a million viewers since the first episode aired on New Year's Day.
And once again, that is the lowest number for the show since way back in 1986 when "The Mysterious Planet" Part Four only had 3.7 million viewers tuning in.
I know there are a lot more options to view shows other than 4 terrestrial channels now but for a show that has so much money thrown at it questions will be being asked.
Bradley is consistently charming and likeable. He’s been a big surprise for me. I’m liking having the big fam of companions… that sort of had to happen to not repeat the couple of series that came before this Doctor, and all the characters bounce off each other well. Agree with there being too many “the Doctor will explain it all to you now… oh and wake up humans” moments in this series. And some very silly cyber bits as well… but I don’t mind them so much, it’s almost as if they’re trying to keep it a bit jokey… such as… [big spoiler warning]
My son is enjoying watching it (I think) I just can’t get in to it at all though. Bloody annoying soundtrack trying to add some drama in to otherwise dull storyline.
Best ones for storyline were when Billie Piper was in it.
Best of the best were when Jenna Coleman was in, because Jenna Coleman was in
Bradley is consistently charming and likeable. He’s been a big surprise for me.
Yep I thought it was a joke casting him but he’s best part of it.
I've enjoyed it 🙂
The fact we've got to the end of the series and this is the first comment on it speaks volumes to me. Not good enough to induce any passion either way. Top Gear finished tonight after a similar run and that's got a 5 page thread of lovers and haters by contrast
Bradley Walsh is a good actor though, he was ace in Law and Order UK.
I've been enjoying it with my 11 year old... We laugh at the 'moral of the story' sort of thing for each given week. But it doesn't massively detract from the enjoyment
It's not been up to some of the other series which had more suspense, more action and more super scary death killy stuff, but it's been far from a disaster 🙂
Bradley is consistently charming and likeable. He’s been a big surprise for me.
Constantly disappointed that, just before they get pursued by an alien down a sci-fi corridor, that he hasn't looked directly down the barrel of the camera and knowingly said " The chase is on...."
Can't believe Dr who is still going and that adults watch it, I find Jodie Whitaker unbearable, way too northern and I'm a Northerner.
I don't mind it, it's OK.
I think what a lot of people lose sight of is that it's essentially a kids Sci fi programme, and to that extent it works very well..
.. but because it's been going on so long people think it should mature into something a bit more.. Which it never was.
I know there are a lot more options to view shows other than 4 terrestrial channels now but for a show that has so much money thrown at it questions will be being asked.
No, they won’t. For reasons that should be quite obvious.
Sadly it looks like cast assembled by ticking boxes.
What boxes would those be, then? Bear in mind that, over the fifty-odd years that Doctor Who has been going, the ‘assistants’ have varied in number, with three at times, male and female, the only difference now being a mixture of ethnicities, which far more accurately reflects the sort of society we have now.
It might be worth pointing out that the Doctor had had mostly female assistants, and frequently for their intelligence and feistiness, rather than someone to look cute and helpless and scream a lot.
The Doctor’s first assistant was his granddaughter, who must, by definition, also be a Time Lord, and he was then joined by a couple who were teachers, so immediately he had two women and a man with him in the Tardis.
I watched the very first episode, ’An Unearthly Child’, which, I’ve just this second realised is oddly reflected in the latest references to a ‘timeless child’.
"retconning"? What's that?
Best ones for storyline were when Billie Piper was in it.
Best acting too, Ecclestone and Piper took Dr Who to new heights from which it has plummeted.
Nice collection of comics and audiobooks on Humble Bundle just now. Including a few quite recent stories, eg David Tennant. https://www.humblebundle.com/doctor-who-audiobooks-comics
Just finished watching it with the family and we rather enjoyed it.
Nuts to all the haterz, its a kids' show!
It's got progressively worse and I can't stand Jodie Whittakers doctor, she could have been excellent but instead she seems to be a parody of more serious previous incarnations.
Yes it's a kids show but at it's recent peak it was so much more.
I really want Jodie Whittaker to be awesome in her own way, but she's not doing it for me. Now Jo Martin, who popped up in a couple of episodes this season playing an hitherto unknown incarnation of The Doctor was absolutely ace, she had the character and delivery absolutely nailed down. I'd definitely have preferred Jo Martin in her own series TBH.
Definitely warming to Bradley Walsh, his step grandson and Yazz - all very likable characters. Sacha Dhawan's take on The Master was great, honestly I don't think that anyone could've done a better job.
And why only one episode with Lenny Henry? Bit of a disappointment, especially for those of us old enough to remember his send up of Dr Who back in the day...Thatchos!
