Laurie Penny gets me

[ed_rex]

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.)

My relationship to #DoctorWho is not like other shows. It’s more like supporting a sports team.

I don’t watch it because it’s the best show ever. I watch it because IT’S MY SHOW.
There have been YEARS where I disagreed with the management. Did I stop watching? Don’t be silly.

— Laurie Penny (@PennyRed) January 1, 2020

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.

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

Comments

[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.

Definitely an improvement on the High Lord Moff

[ed_rex]

I too like the current crop, but I'm not sure how much is due to the characters as written and how much due just to the actors' skills.

I very much enjoyed Spyfall, it felt like solid Who to me (YMMV).

That's definitely fair (well, "definitely" pending a re-watch, of course). Mind you, I am one of those for whom The Master has never had any appeal, and I just can't accept that — after all the genocides — The Doctor still has any "human" feelings for him. But as a Master story goes, this was a good one.

As for the Lost Years, there probably were a few good stories, but I can't remember any of 'em off-hand.