It's so fucking weird that five years ago, I felt out of the loop because I didn't watch it, but now, nobody cares about it and it seems to be seen as a junky show.
like, when i was little, it was something that my mom watched
then everyone was watching it?
and then everyone decided it was bad, except for the people who said it was still good, who said it was good for the exact same reasons everyone said it was bad
I think it's switching showrunners, so look forward to this being portrayed as a golden era and the new era being portrayed as the worst time in show history
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
I was ok with series 5 and 6, I think
It was only during series 7 that they started to lose my interest
for some reason the first half of series 7 sticks out to me as one awesome episode after another, while the second half feels almost entirely forgettable
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Series 6 started out really well but then Let's Kill Hitler happened, is my recollection.
To me Doctor Who is Important because it's like the one thing me and my dad are both interested in so we usually watch it together. But like as a show it's sometimes great but mostly just kinda at that "good enough to keep watching but not really very impressive" level.
well i mean, the Silence were conceptually quite a good monster, the opening story was strong, The Doctor's Wife was a standout, most of the other episodes had memorable scenes and funny lines
but the story was this weird thing about Amy being pregnant and then she gets kidnapped without knowing it and the baby gets taken from her and this gets just kind of passed over and it's off for more wacky adventures in time like nothing happened and idk it just seemed really off to me
i mean i appreciate that it was quite a well-made story, i just had serious issues with their conception of 'faith', which i felt was inconsistent and a bit insulting
also if it was a rip-off of anything, it was of the earlier Doctor Who story, The Curse of Fenric (which i strongly prefer)
I think "The Doctor's Wife" was the last episode I payed attention to, because I like Neil Gaiman and it felt more in keeping with the goofy yet sinister weirdness of the original series.
i mean i appreciate that it was quite a well-made story, i just had serious issues with their conception of 'faith', which i felt was inconsistent and a bit insulting
also if it was a rip-off of anything, it was of the earlier Doctor Who story, The Curse of Fenric (which i strongly prefer)
haven't the moffat years involved a lot of pale retreads of earlier ideas
Let's Kill Hitler was a silly romp, and enjoyable for that, if one ignores the story arc, i think
It was kind of a bad episode either way imo, but the main problem with it is the same thing you were saying. Like they have this whole thing where A Good Man Goes To War ends on this cliffhanger and they're going to go rescue Amy's kid right? But instead, we just find out what happened to her in the first ten minutes of the next episode and then the rest of it is just River fighting Nazis and that's apparently considered resolution.
It probably wouldn't have been nearly as frustrating if it had aired the following week instead of six months later, admittedly.
i mean i appreciate that it was quite a well-made story, i just had serious issues with their conception of 'faith', which i felt was inconsistent and a bit insulting
also if it was a rip-off of anything, it was of the earlier Doctor Who story, The Curse of Fenric (which i strongly prefer)
haven't the moffat years involved a lot of pale retreads of earlier ideas
maybe?
that was the only one that stuck out to me as really glaring
You are the end result of a “would you push the button” prompt where the prompt was “you have unlimited godlike powers but you appear to all and sundry to be an impetuous child” – Zero, 2022
Yeah, the idea of the reverse meeting sequence was great but executed... rather questionably, but Kingston's acting made her appearances as a side character really enjoyable.
oh, and, series 8 was popular, but i only really liked two episodes, and they were both written by Jamie Mathieson. otherwise i found it kind of grimdark and found Capaldi's Doctor difficult to warm to
i loved series 9 though. it felt like the writers had rediscovered their sense of fun.
i can still remember when i was in my teens and some people at school were saying it sucked and i literally found that the most incomprehensible opinion because it was, to me, *so much better* than anything else on TV, i wondered what people were comparing it to
I think I missed the part where people retroactively decided the show sucks.
There's always going to be a backlash against doctors changing, but I loved Tennant and Smith. Can't really get behind Capaldi -- written a bit too assholeish, though I guess he got better after I dropped off.
I think I missed the part where people retroactively decided the show sucks.
There's always going to be a backlash against doctors changing, but I loved Tennant and Smith. Can't really get behind Capaldi -- written a bit too assholeish, though I guess he got better after I dropped off.
Capaldi is a brilliant actor who initially got stuck with really inconsistent scripts
i think some of the time it was writers trying to write him as Matt Smith (see: Robot of Sherwood), and although he's talented, they're just very different and he clearly wasn't suited to that role
he became a lot more sympathetic when they were done with that annoying 'the Doctor despises and acts like a total prick towards any and all soldiers' storyline from series 8
i think that was partly it? like, it was redirected self-hate that for some reason hadn't been expressed in the last 3 incarnations despite all of them being post-Time War, or something
i just remember being stunned in that one episode, when the Doctor was being a dick to a woman who had literally just watched her brother die in an explosion, because she was a soldier, and her brother was a soldier, and soldiers die all the time so she ought to get over it. They were members of a resistance movement fighting a Dalek invasion.
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like, when i was little, it was something that my mom watched
then everyone was watching it?
and then everyone decided it was bad, except for the people who said it was still good, who said it was good for the exact same reasons everyone said it was bad
and good and bad seasons
idk Myr's right, there's always a backlash when they change showrunners (or Doctors, or companions, or any aspect of the formula, etc.)
To me Doctor Who is Important because it's like the one thing me and my dad are both interested in so we usually watch it together. But like as a show it's sometimes great but mostly just kinda at that "good enough to keep watching but not really very impressive" level.
but the story was this weird thing about Amy being pregnant and then she gets kidnapped without knowing it and the baby gets taken from her and this gets just kind of passed over and it's off for more wacky adventures in time like nothing happened and idk it just seemed really off to me
The Doctor's Wife was not a rip-off of H2G2, and was by far the best that season
i didn't like that one very much
also if it was a rip-off of anything, it was of the earlier Doctor Who story, The Curse of Fenric (which i strongly prefer)
i remember how it worked, they could remember them whenever they were looking at them, but forgot about them whenever they looked away
i just can't remember if there was any point where he remembered them while not looking at them?
It probably wouldn't have been nearly as frustrating if it had aired the following week instead of six months later, admittedly.
that was the only one that stuck out to me as really glaring
He didn't, but instead found ways to remind himself of them in a way that undercut them.
but in both instances we had the Doctor needing to destroy a companion's faith in him
i loved series 9 though. it felt like the writers had rediscovered their sense of fun.
i feel kind of funny about it all, really
i can still remember when i was in my teens and some people at school were saying it sucked and i literally found that the most incomprehensible opinion because it was, to me, *so much better* than anything else on TV, i wondered what people were comparing it to
like, the revived series had the British parliament get replaced by farting aliens in the 4th episode
i think some of the time it was writers trying to write him as Matt Smith (see: Robot of Sherwood), and although he's talented, they're just very different and he clearly wasn't suited to that role
he became a lot more sympathetic when they were done with that annoying 'the Doctor despises and acts like a total prick towards any and all soldiers' storyline from series 8
i just remember being stunned in that one episode, when the Doctor was being a dick to a woman who had literally just watched her brother die in an explosion, because she was a soldier, and her brother was a soldier, and soldiers die all the time so she ought to get over it. They were members of a resistance movement fighting a Dalek invasion.