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Doctor Who Season 11

Well, that was shit. Chibnall's now written four of the five episodes this series himself (and co wrote the other.) Would be nice to have some other voices in the writing room given his limitations: episodes like this and to some extent last week's show he still isn't really that good at writing Doctor Who when it's not all character stuff. I assume next week's will at least have an Indian or Pakistani co-writer...
 
Yeah that was kind of... nothing. None of the side-characters were very interesting, and why was the brother of an alien army general in the far future walking around in jeans and a t-shirt? Did they forget his costume?

CaptainWacky said:
I assume next week's will at least have an Indian or Pakistani co-writer...
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Vinay Patel has the sole writing credit for the next episode, making it the first one solely written by someone else.
 
I fell asleep four or five times and was going to watch it again, but it doesn’t sound like I missed anything?
 
Well that was much better than last week's, but another episode where the aliens could have been completely left out and it would have made no difference. Actually you could have just left out the Doctor and the time travel completely and just had Yaz's gran telling her the story and it wouldn't have made too much difference either. So I don't know, it was good and sad in places and appropriate for Rememberance Sunday, but maybe they're doing toomany episodes where the time travel/monster stuff isn't really weaved into the plot?
 
I FINALLY WATCHED EPISODE ONE.

It was fun, I like the new Doctor. She's goofy, without being Matt Smith levels of goofy.
 
ROSA PARKS!

They did a good job with a heavy subject. Little history, but also good lighthearted bits.
 
Giant spiders! That one was kinda sad, but I liked the end when they all joined team Tardis.
 
In fact almost every TV show everywhere is like that -- the premiere is big, then over a few episodes the number settles down to something steady for the rest of the season, and then the finale is big too.
 
I was really really liking a lot of that - over-automated future Amazon that highlights how shitty and dehumanising a lot of that work can be and highlights the terrible conditions and quotas they have to work under. That was great! What a good thing to highlight, as it's really relevant!

Except wait, wait, hang on, all of that stuff wasn't actually the problem? It was the guy who was against that (in admitidly questionable ways), no he was the problem.

The episode goes out of it's way to highlight how bad and dangerous a company Kerblam is, even specifically highlighting how crazy it is for humans to do a job that might as well be automated, and the episode's solution to that is to have two lines where they say they're just going to make humans do all the shitty and laborious jobs? Like there's nothing in the episode that implies that the terrible working conditions and monitoring was a result of either the janitor dude or the 'system' in general, so are we to assume that they're just going to introduce more people into that? And that's the good ending??? What????

And it's so annoying because the episode looked great and the design work was really strong and the characters actually were good and all that and then just... bleh.
 
I kind of liked that the dorky weird looking guy turned out to be the villain rather than just being in a boring romance story. But he wasn't very convincing after his heel turn.

So the Kablam system actually did murder Kira, a perfectly innocent girl. And...they just get away with it? The factory's still running at the end? After murdering someone?
 
That girl was seriously cute.

I like that it took two regenerations for 11s new fez to turn up, after River shot his, he said he would just buy one
 
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