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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Re: Specifics?
Date: 2020-01-08 11:50 am (UTC)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.