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This explains so well why I am still — after a fucking eternity of Steven Moffat — am still watching Doctor Who. (Though I must say, the new regime gives me hope for the future and I am even able to enjoy the present to some extent. Jody Whittaker is just fine; I'm still not sold that Chibnall knows what he's doing.)

Also, my baby girl learned to roll from her stomach (on which she would rather not lie) to her back last Thursday. She even deigned to do it a second time for the camera.

And no, that's not someone smoking stage-right! It's a vaporiser, spreading moisture into our bedroom's aether.

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Date: 2020-01-07 11:30 am (UTC)
sabotabby: (doctor who)
From: [personal profile] sabotabby
Oh yes, absolutely. And agreed on Whittaker being good and Chibnall not knowing what he's doing. I don't feel like he gets the show, really. Anyway, I had to watch one of my favourite actors of all time do his best through some utter shit writing, and this feels like much of the same.

Re: Specifics?

Date: 2020-01-08 11:50 am (UTC)
sabotabby: (doctor who)
From: [personal profile] sabotabby
Per the subject line, if that's Capaldi in your icon, maybe that answers my question. If not, what are you specifically talking about? Enquiring minds and all that.

Yeah. It took them so long to write Twelve well that it was painful. I think a lot of the problem (besides Moff being too clever) is the course overcorrection between Doctors. Twelve had to be grimdark to offset Eleven's zaniness, and they wrote Thirteen as unbearably fluffy to offset Twelve's darkness. Which...has unfortunate implications when you have a younger woman replacing an older man in the role.

My sense with Chibnall is that he is trying to write a children's show when this has always been a family show. He's also overcorrecting for Moff's twisty overarcs, but it means that the episodes last season were almost all predictable Point A to Point B. But worse, in my mind, is that he doesn't trust the audience so the Doctor's primary role is to be a passive observer who explains things to them. (Again, unfortunate implications when it's the first time a female actor is in the role.) For all that fanboys are complaining about SJW content (ugh), the overall thrust of last season was highly reactionary, because she continually failed or refused to change the status quo when faced with injustice. And I think Whittaker did amazing work considering she had to deliver a lengthy monologue on who Rosa Fucking Parks was arrgh.

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Date: 2020-01-07 05:02 pm (UTC)
beable: (run with us we are free)
From: [personal profile] beable

I really like the current crop of characters (Whitaker, the three actors playing Ryan, Yaz, and Graham). I enjoyed last season because I liked them even if the stories were uneven (although there a couple that I felt were really good standouts).

I very much enjoyed Spyfall, it felt like solid Who to me (YMMV). Jury still out on what I think of Chibnall but honestly even last season's clunkers were nowhere near as bad as the terrible-ist stories from series 5-10 (and yes, in each of those seasons there were probably stories I liked but the bad ones were BAAAADDDDD) so write now I'm mostly happy he's not Moffat.

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Date: 2020-01-07 09:16 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] nanila
Rollin' rollin' rollin', keep that baby rollin'! Well done, Asta.

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