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Ncuti Gatwa Doctor Who and spin offs

CaptainWacky

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The old thread was too long and the title was too confusing, but I refuse to use the term "Whoniverse" so this is what you get.



If I didn't know this was a Moffat episode I would have said "that looks like a Moffat episode."

There's also going to be a UNIT spin-off which, instead of just calling "UNIT" they've given a really strange title to.


Russell Tovey (“Feud,” “American Horror Story: NYC”) and Gugu Mbatha-Raw (“Surface,” “Loki”) will lead the cast of the five-part series “The War Between the Land and the Sea.” They’ll be joined by returning “Doctor Who” cast members Jemma Redgrave as Kate Lethbridge-Stewart and Alexander Devrient as Colonel Ibrahim.
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I feel like I dislike Russell Tovey but can't remember why. At least UNIT are emplying some adults now and not just children and unconvincing robots.
 
Not bad, best not think too much about the star and it's resolution. The doctor spending a year on earth was fun. The mother dying from COVID probably hit too close to home for some people
 
Why did the time hotel have doors that opened to things that weren't hotel room? (Maybe this was explained.)

The part with him spending a year in the hotel was by far the best part and kind of hurt the rest of the episode because Anita felt like more of a character than Joy for most of it? But yeah the hospital bit was sad and the Bethlehem 0001 made me lol so well played Moffat.
 
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^ Agreed all around. The year in the hotel could have been the whole episode and I'd have been just as satisfied. The future part with Nicola was given too quick a glossover.

It's kind of amazing how today, a TV episode can be given special effects that would have made Spielberg or Lucas cry with awe in the 90s, and viewers can respond with faint praise or by ho-humming it. Maybe it's partly because the old Doctor Who got by on cheap FX, because viewers were pulled in by the story and characters. I mean, sci-fi in general needs decent FX to be done properly, but with the right story/characters viewers can be very forgiving. So maybe make sure the script is worth the trouble, instead of relying on outrageous FX to make an episode "special"...

Love Nicola as always, though. And Ncuti really commands the role of the Doctor. I like him.

Now, Moffat needs to get to work on bringing back Capaldi for an episode, before his face gets so craggy that the skin slides off for good...
 
Also just kind of realised that it's literally the same story as Moffat's last script 'Boom' where a human is uploaded into a doomsday weapon and stops it from killing anyone through the power of love. But still pretty good.
 
I binged DW over the weekend, watching random episodes in shuffle mode. Some thoughts:

I like the last Christmas episode more after a repeat viewing. The whole worked more for me this time, maybe because I already had an idea what was going on so the pace wasn't as much of an issue.

Eccelston was really good. I hadn't given his season as much attention before, but I appreciate it now. Having RTD as the showrunner probably helped a little too...

Tennant was the man, and the writing was up to the task. Matt Smith was better than he deserved to be since the writing was just as good, but I still didn't like how the show suddenly was more about Amy Pond than the Doctor for a while.

Emotionally I still think Capaldi is my favorite, but I can now see more clearly what's lacking about those seasons. Mainly the uneven scripts, and how they wouldn't let him hold on to his companions without them being killed off. But I like how he evolved the part from stuffy old Scot to guitar-wielding badass with sonic Ray-Bans.

Ncuti is a fucking fantastic doctor, period. He brings back all the passion and the ferocity of past Doctors in a bright, lively package. Can't wait to see more. THERE'S ALWAYS A TWIST AT THE END, THERE'S ALWAYS A TWIST AT THE END....

Can we just wipe Jodie's seasons off the books? I honestly can't watch them anymore. It's not that she was a woman, it's that she was the WRONG woman. She had none of the Doctor's gravitas, and I couldn't understand half of what she said because she mumbled her lines into her navel in thick Sheffield-ese. Yes it was more Chibnall's fault than hers, but she wasn't an innocent bystander either.

THERE'S ALWAYS A TWIST AT THE ENNNNNNNNND...
 
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