• nico198xEnglish
    17·
    4 days ago

    i’m happy to give Billie a chance as long as it makes sense why that face would be chosen, i’d expect related to Bad Wolf / God of Time stuff.

    sad to see Ncuti go, actually. too soon. i felt he was just hitting his stride this series and i was glad for some development of the Doctor’s character, having him wear his heart on his sleeve this time round.

    • GeekFTW@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      I’m the same, expecting it to be Bad Wolf related.

      • The lack of “…as The Doctor”.
      • The regeneration effects looking different than normal, and massive.
      • The quick glimpse back to the TARDIS console during the regeneration, after having dumped his regeneration energy into it.

      Too many little threads indicating somethings not normal.

      • Random Dent@lemmy.mlEnglish
        3·
        4 days ago

        I’d like there to just be a normal regeneration again TBH. The last time the Doctor just regenerated in a normal way (ie. no stunt casting or bi-generating) was Capaldi > Whittaker, which was Christmas 2017 so nearly a decade ago!

        Actually by the time they get around to making more episodes and doing another regeneration it will probably be over a decade ago.

    • Evil_Shrubbery@lemm.eeEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      I’d be happy to have Doctor Piper (with a satisfying explanation), but I don’t think that’s happening - her char might be part of the season arcing plot. Credits didn’t credit Billie as 'The Doctor '.

  • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
    8·
    4 days ago

    That mess of omega just cracked me the fuck up. Oooh creator of the timelords how much was the Doctor biting their cheek given that the real genesis was their DNA? God of time feasting on timelords? You literally just ate a third of your food supply and there aren’t any more.

  • Tenebris Nox@feddit.ukEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    As I’ve enjoyed saying: the show has reversed the polarity up its own vortex. A day after watching and I’m still traumatised by the exuberance of the shark-jumping I saw. The Doctor riding a Flash Gordon-like skysled to crash into Ming’s Rani’s HQ was just one I can’t seem to shake. Or the Two Ranis Ronnies’ joke. “It’s goodnight from me.”

  • AugustWest@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    RTD episodes look like his, the last few in particular.

    I said this felt like Doctor Who then a turn to more of a Torchwood (both the silly and the 2 movies), and then the worse thing happened and it somehow became Sara Jane adventures. Nothing wrong with Sara Jane adventures, but they are even more for kids than Doctor Who. Look a Skysled! Bone Monsters! Wheelchairs burning rubber!

  • AugustWest@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    4 days ago

    While I enjoyed some of the dialog a lot, and even some of the campy action, that second part was… difficult. When it looked wrapped up and there was still something like 20 minutes left, I was hopeful. There were several options and possibilities that could have made this incredible.

    Sadly, we got what we saw. And we don’t have a renewal date, so when next? I ever?

  • jordanlund@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    4 days ago

    Still no good explanation for why they went to all this trouble trying to get to 5/24.

    5/24 is blocked off? Have you tried 5/23 and the old time lord trick of “waiting”?

    • rhabarba@feddit.orgEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      Also, why are gods so easy to get rid of, lately? And how did Omega actually get a body and a way out of the anti-matter universe?

  • rhabarba@feddit.orgEnglish
    5·
    4 days ago

    A “reality war” it is, indeed. Much of episodes 7 and 8 was a war against reality, including the Doctor being called “Doctor Who”. … Sorry, I digress. Personally, I have not considered Ncuti to be a good Doctor, it’s all just the wrong personality for him. Maybe some of it was the script, but some if it probably wasn’t. (Time Lords aren’t human. I wish that the writers wouldn’t make them act so human.) We shall see how the new one turns out. I think it can’t be much worse anymore.

    Although I like that Omega, despite having been described as “the first Time Lord” incorrectly (depending on the canon, that’s either the Other or the Timeless Child), has been brought back and I think that the Rani is a more interesting villain than the Master, the whole series 2 had a lot of potentially interesting characters - and all of them were one-dimensional. Flat. Uninspired. (I hope we can agree that Maestro was a good example for that.) Last time we saw Omega, he was a force of nature, banished into the opposite of a universe, only to return as a plot device with no good explanation. Sigh.

    I wonder why neither the Rani nor the Doctor seem to remember that Omega has no body to extract DNA from. Plot hole?

    • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      Technically Omega was the first time lord - he created the technology that enabled their time travel.

      • rhabarba@feddit.orgEnglish
        2·
        4 days ago

        It depends on whether Time Lords are “Gallifreyans with a TARDIS” or something more complicated, I think.

        • Taleya@aussie.zoneEnglish
          3·
          4 days ago

          Well, the ability to regenerate is one thing, but i’m pretty sure it was mastery of time travel that made them time lords!

          Timeless child aside, i always loved the beta canon idea that the ability to regenerate came from the great vampires…

  • MrNesser@lemmy.worldEnglish
    85·
    5 days ago

    Feels like this had so much promise and just fell flat on its face, losing the plot halfway through.

    Then the ending with Billie piper the one face no face wanted to play the doctor