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Doctor Who Season 11

I am caught up through episode 6, but I'll have to wait until tomorrow to watch the newest one.

I am liking this season a lot so far, but I think they're not taking too many risks so people won't blame Jodie Whittaker if there's a terrible episode. It might make them a bit boring for people who like the wackier episodes (and Doctors), but I am enjoying being able to keep up with what's going on. lol
 
CaptainWacky said:
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?
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I just watched this ep last night and I had the same reaction -- they had to work hard to make this story something that didn't seem like the Doctor/gang are just watching it all from the sidelines. It felt like the kind of ep a show would do if they are trying out a spinoff for other characters (the girl and her Nani). But it was pretty good overall.

I'm jumping around episode-wise, I still have half the season to watch.
 
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I've seen up to the 7th episode, and honestly... I'm not that impressed. Whitaker is a good actor, yeah... but she's not selling the role to me, and the stories are sorta lame.
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
I just watched this ep last night and I had the same reaction -- they had to work hard to make this story something that didn't seem like the Doctor/gang are just watching it all from the sidelines. It felt like the kind of ep a show would do if they are trying out a spinoff for other characters (the girl and her Nani). But it was pretty good overall.

I'm jumping around episode-wise, I still have half the season to watch.
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It was like if they did 'Father's Day' but without the part where Rose stops her dad from being run over.
 
Ok, just watched ep 7.

The writing is a little bland. I thought it looked great, and everything, but the story was kinda weird. Like Amazon is bad, but let's not really do anything about it!

KERBLAM!
 
It was a good solid episode. Alan Cumming was pretty over the top (and I wonder if the real King James acted that camp all the time) but hey it's Doctor Who! It can be over the top and fun! And he did get some depth in that scene where the Doctor was tied up.
 
I liked it tonight, I think torture Graham is the new torture Obrian. The grandad thing gave me driving dust for sure.
 
That was the best episode so far but as much as I like Kevin Eldon he was there for basically no other reason than to pad out the episode.
 
I've tried. Was even kinda stoked by the idea of the 13th. And I've seen Jodie Whittaker in other roles where she's great. But whatever it is, and it's most likely the writing and direction, she just doesn't bring anything to the Doctor. Her portrayal feels more like Rowan Atkinson's spoof portrayal for Comic Relief -- but without the humor (humour? humououououououour?) than it feels like somebody properly "being" the Doctor.

The accent is the 9th, the outfit is a mash of the 4th and the 11th, there's little sparks of the 10th now and then, but mostly she just feels more like a guest star than the lead.
 
Come to think of it, and this was tickling the back of my mind when I brought up Rowan Atkinson's turn as the Doctor, there's been a female Doctor before, too. (Though I think even Joanna Lumley brought more to that than Jodie Whittaker does.)

 
I didn't love this ep as much as some. It was a good hour of sci-fi, but (from my limited perspective) not a good hour of Doctor Who. The season in general has been more like CSI: X-TARDIS FIles. Too much relying on the sleuthing skills of the companions, and the Doctor just fixes everything with a long explanation and a lot of blasts from the SS. There's lots and lots of explaining of the weird phenomena all these nice normal people are observing. It's like the show is more about them than the Doctor. I don't think it's the fans that have a problem with a woman Doctor -- it's the writers. Jodie is practically a supporting player in things. She needs to be less nurturing and more wild. But the writers are probably afraid of this, because the internet nerds will call her a bitch.

I'm still on the fence about the frog.
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
I don't think it's the fans that have a problem with a woman Doctor -- it's the writers. Jodie is practically a supporting player in things.
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It's that. She's not owning the role, and the writers/directors aren't giving her an opening to. But it feels like that's mutual. She doesn't want to, they're not making her.

And, sorry to say, I know lots of people don't want to hear it, but that really does make it feel like switching the Doctor's sex was just a gimmick. Not because it can't work -- they did it fucking wonderfully with the Master-switched-to-the-Mistress -- Michelle Gomez stepped into the role of the Master-cum-Mistress and just owned it. So it can work. But Whittaker as the 13th Doctor just lacks presence. She's doing absolutely nothing to make the role her own.
 
Eggs Mayonnaise said:
I didn't love this ep as much as some. It was a good hour of sci-fi, but (from my limited perspective) not a good hour of Doctor Who. The season in general has been more like CSI: X-TARDIS FIles. Too much relying on the sleuthing skills of the companions, and the Doctor just fixes everything with a long explanation and a lot of blasts from the SS. There's lots and lots of explaining of the weird phenomena all these nice normal people are observing. It's like the show is more about them than the Doctor. I don't think it's the fans that have a problem with a woman Doctor -- it's the writers. Jodie is practically a supporting player in things. She needs to be less nurturing and more wild. But the writers are probably afraid of this, because the internet nerds will call her a bitch.

I'm still on the fence about the frog.
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Making everything all about the Doctor was the thing I disliked the most about Moffat's era (like every series finale it would turn out the whole series act was just an elaborate trick to kill/trap/give an army of Cybermen to The Doctor.)
 
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