Charles Scholz |
"The Girl Who Fell From The Stars"
And this is supposed to be the Opening Credits.
If it is, it looks unfinished to me.
Like they still have several more passes to do before final product.
Charles Scholz |
Didn't see that.
Thanks for correcting my mistake.
BTW - Somehow this thread got posted twice.
Could one of the Paizo SuperTechs please take care of (exterminate) the other one.
Thanks.
Ambrosia Slaad |
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That iconic thing that was missing from the season premiere will likely be showing up sooner than later. There are leaked photos of the iconic thing on the Internet, and I'm pretty sure the budget-minded BBC isn't going to spend what looks to be a considerable chunk of money on the iconic thing if it isn't going to see a lot of use this season.
My guess is the iconic thing will likely show up in next week's episode. The premiere was already jam-packed with stuff, and saving the iconic thing's appearance an extra week may let us all appreciate it even more.
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I think Whittaker knocked it out of the park with easily one of the strongest debuts of a new Doctor incarnation. I like the new companions too, even if I'm a bit hesitant about 1) how they'll handle Ryan's condition, and b) that there couldn't have been some better way to set up the Ryan & Graham dynamic than
I think the writing could have been tighter, but it was still easily better than nearly anything Moffat has done recently on either Who or Sherlock.
Voss |
It was... ok.
The monster of the week was horrendously stupid, a worse rehash of the Ice Warriors of Mars.
The characters. Mixed bag to be honest.
Khan has a lot of potential. The eager trainee that wants to do more has a lot of drive and space for motivation.
The new Doctor seemed to be channelling Tennant at his most manic, which could be good or super annoying, really quickly.
The rest are fairly forgettable. Either entirely too cliche (the Doubter, the Caring Nurse) or of limited utility (Check Social Media Man). There is also a worry that the writers will simply check in with his disability every week and never develop the character. At this point, he's entirely defined by it, with a boring job he doesn't really care about and vague training/education prospects that will never really happen. (Assuming they're even real and not just that thing you say when you run into an old friend from school who actually has a career)
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But it was a solidly average Doctor Who episode with nothing particularly standing out, or anything particularly enraging or horribly stupid.
Except the plothole of how those two scrawny guys carried a probably 500+ pound pod out of a forest when it was 'too cold to touch.' Or found it at all. In the dark. Based on 'weather patterns'
Charles Scholz |
Voss |
For me it was doubling down on the terrible initial monster of the week, adding Harry Potter monsters that drop key season-long plot points for no reason, and Sonicing everything, even things easily opened (and then forgetting to close) by hand.
Needs more face time with the characters to be honest, and less sticking little handlebar Moustaches on the previous week's failed monster.
KahnyaGnorc |
To me, it felt rushed; a downside of having 3 companions, a still-new Doctor, and 2 episode-specific characters, all of whom needed at least some building and fleshing out, on top of the episode's actual plot. The ending (for the 2 episode characters) seemed especially rushed.
Even the opening sequence seemed short and rushed, but that may just be, again, the more names that need to appear there.
The police woman companion still needs more characterization, compared to the other two, imo, but I generally like all four of the main characters so far.
David knott 242 |
This takes me back to the 5th Doctor, the one I started with. He also had three companions -- but in his case, he inherited them from the 4th Doctor.
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Irontruth |
I'm enjoying the season so far. It's solved some of my biggest complaints about the last 5-6 years of DW.
Also, it's really nice to have a more "monster of the week" vibe to it again. There are a lot of shows, and many of them I enjoy, that are really just long movies split into 40-60 min chunks. There are some possible threads running through these episodes, but mostly they're self-contained stories. Any building from one episode to the next is mostly about the characterization. Yes I am waiting for the next episode, but I'm just waiting to see it. I'm not waiting to see how the last episode relates to the overall story.
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Irontruth |
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I liked it. Overall, I enjoy the writing of season 11 and 12 more than the collective quality from the previous 5-6 seasons. That said, I hope we get back to more random hijinks instead of universe ending plot lines based on the Doctor's identity.
I think the show is best when it is the Doctor showing us the universe and not the opposite.
Greylurker |
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I actually kind of liked it. Time Lord Lore remains relatively unchanged, but this unshackles the Doctor from it. Plus it opens up a new sense of mystery. The Doctor is a Unique Entity adrift in the Universe. IT gives future writer a lot more room to play with, plus for the viewer...we can no longer be certain about the "rules" of the series.
It's a very large injection of the Unknown
Werthead |
I liked it. Overall, I enjoy the writing of season 11 and 12 more than the collective quality from the previous 5-6 seasons. That said, I hope we get back to more random hijinks instead of universe ending plot lines based on the Doctor's identity.
I think the show is best when it is the Doctor showing us the universe and not the opposite.
The Chibnall Era is certainly showing so far as being more consistent than the previous two, which had higher highs but much lower lows: Chibnall doesn't seem in any danger of writing a Blink, but he's also not written a Love & Monsters (or to pick on his own older work, a Cyberwoman).
This latest episode did a good job of addressing a lot of niggling old canon questions that had been floating around since at least 1971 (when the Third Doctor declared he was thousands of years old which was hugely out of keeping with the dates given before or after that episode) whilst not totally upsetting the apple cart, as some people were expecting (with the idea that the humans who went through the boundary became the Time Lords, or the Doctor and the Master were the same being at different points in their lifespan).
As far as I can tell, a lot of the people screaming online about the episode "breaking Doctor Who canon" don't have the first idea about Doctor Who canon in the first place (even disregarding the official line since the 1960s that there is pretty much no official Doctor Who canon, at least in the continuity sense).