The thing is, I love Jodie Whittaker and was so excited for her Doctor. But her companions were so bland. Ugh just super boring. And I couldn’t keep up with the lore for some reason. It just didn’t hold my interest and I was so sad about it. :(
My problems with the show started earlier, still during Tennant’s run. They kept writing scenes where his companion would gush about how great he is, and The Doctor would brag about himself in a way that didn’t feel like a character flaw. I preferred the writing when he would make a good Dalek, when Rose had the realization she’d been kidnapped by a fae creature. Everything’s gotten so chipper and quirky, and I don’t feel like the writing is thought about very deeply.
I tried watching Jodie Whittaker. It wasn’t that she was (and still is, I assume), a she, it was the stories. I gave up in the middle of the Rosa Parks episode. I haven’t watched since. I wanted more “Blink”, not a history lesson.
I mean, I know “Blink” was peak, and they would be hard-pressed to match it, but it’s like they just forgot was Dr. Who is.
Historically, Doctor Who is a history lesson. It was sci-fi for kids that also aimed to teach them something about the world. It was whole raison d’être for the BBC at that time: to educate, entertain, and inform. So from that perspective, the Doctor Who that’s just pure sci-fi is the aberration.
I did respect what Chibnall was trying to do with those episodes, but it’s just a shame that his writing was so shit.
I can pinpoint the moment, it was “solitract.” Like, lonely intestines? I think I finished out that season, but haven’t watched any Doctor Who since then. It was just so hand-wavey with a ridiculously dumb name that it demolished my ability to suspend disbelief.
Doctor who. Every decision after Capaldi.
What do you mean? Capaldi is still the Doctor and no one will convince me otherwise.
😂
The thing is, I love Jodie Whittaker and was so excited for her Doctor. But her companions were so bland. Ugh just super boring. And I couldn’t keep up with the lore for some reason. It just didn’t hold my interest and I was so sad about it. :(
My problems with the show started earlier, still during Tennant’s run. They kept writing scenes where his companion would gush about how great he is, and The Doctor would brag about himself in a way that didn’t feel like a character flaw. I preferred the writing when he would make a good Dalek, when Rose had the realization she’d been kidnapped by a fae creature. Everything’s gotten so chipper and quirky, and I don’t feel like the writing is thought about very deeply.
That’s when they brought on the showrunner for Torchwood. Was it any wonder it got less fanciful and more melodramatic?
I tried watching Jodie Whittaker. It wasn’t that she was (and still is, I assume), a she, it was the stories. I gave up in the middle of the Rosa Parks episode. I haven’t watched since. I wanted more “Blink”, not a history lesson.
I mean, I know “Blink” was peak, and they would be hard-pressed to match it, but it’s like they just forgot was Dr. Who is.
Historically, Doctor Who is a history lesson. It was sci-fi for kids that also aimed to teach them something about the world. It was whole raison d’être for the BBC at that time: to educate, entertain, and inform. So from that perspective, the Doctor Who that’s just pure sci-fi is the aberration.
I did respect what Chibnall was trying to do with those episodes, but it’s just a shame that his writing was so shit.
I can pinpoint the moment, it was “solitract.” Like, lonely intestines? I think I finished out that season, but haven’t watched any Doctor Who since then. It was just so hand-wavey with a ridiculously dumb name that it demolished my ability to suspend disbelief.