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Doctor Who Series 10 - At Least It Will Be Better Than Class

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Hey remember Doctor Who? It's back!



Tonight 7:20pm on BBC1 (and some other crazy time on BBC America I GUESS) Doctor Who returns after it's year-long absence apart from some okay Christmas specials and a really fucking bad spin-off series.

HERE ARE THE EPISODES:

The Pilot by Steven Moffat
Smile by Frank Cottrell-Boyce (writer of "In the Forest of the Night, contender for worst episode of Doctor Who ever)
Thin Ice by Sarah Dollard
Knock Knock by Mike Bartlett
Oxygen by Jamie Mathieson
Extremis by Steven Moffat
The Pyramid at the End of the World by Peter Harness (writer of "The Zygon Invasion", also contender for worst episode of Doctor Who ever)
The Lie of the Land by Toby Whithouse
The Empress of Mars by Mark Gatiss
The Eaters of Light by Rona Munro
World Enough and Time by Steven Moffat
The Doctor Falls by Steven Moffat

While there is a lot going on in this season including a new companion, Peter Capaldi's departure, THE RETURN OF THE MOVELLANS??????, Master...s???, and the last season of Steven Moffat Doctor Who before the dark cloud of Chris Chibnall shrouds everything the most important thing to remember is they're bringing back the original design of the Cybermen which is actually definitively and canonically the best version of the Cybermen.

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Please no "YOUR END IS COMING SOON DOCTOR" type prophecy and maybe he just dies without spending a whole series talking about how he's going to die for once!?
 
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9 PM on BBCAmerica, followed by the premiere of that really fucking bad spin-off series, Class.
 
It was...pretty average. Felt kind of cautious? They spent quite a lot of time introducing all the standard concepts of Doctor Who that viewers already know (though I guess in theory they could pick up new viewers at this point) so the first half felt really slow. Capaldi was good as always. Bill's actress was good and her character was fine, at least there was no hint of her having some mysterious secret or special destiny. Still have no idea why Matt Lucas is there since you could take him out of the episode and it would make no difference at all (maybe he'll do stuff later in the series.) Not sure how the puddle lesbian could follow them through all of space and time but I guess she could! The mind wipe part was the best scene, nothing else really stood out.
 
I quite liked it!

I thought Bill might end up being really annoying but she was good! Although there was a lot of re-indtroduction to a lot of the show's basic concepts I guess that makes sense with the introduction of a companion, and the fact that the show's been off the air for a year.

It's a shame that now Capaldi's really comfortable with playing The Doctor he now going, though.
 
I liked the Homer Simpson moment where one second she was talking to him, and the next second he was legging it outside the window.

The photos were a nice touch, other than that it was very pedestrian.
 
AND HE'S GOT A BIG KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!

They're all reporting it because The Sun started it after some people tweeted about the timing of him quitting Death in Paradise to film some Doctor episodes. We'll see.
 
This would be my cue to stop watching.

And I am old enough to have stopped watching it before, even during the 4th Doctors run, when every episode seemed to find a way to wreck K9, and Buck Rogers was on the other side, after that I just dipped in and out to see each Doctors last/first story, multi doctor stories, and the occasional Dalek episode.

I saw hardly any of the 5th and 6th Doctors runs.
 
I know Death in Paradise is a light Sunday (or whatevs) night drama for old biddies, so it might not provide much room to stretch an actor's skills, but he really isn't very good in it.

Surely they could find someone more interesting and talented for such a sought after role.
 
From now on, the lever the Doctor pulls to get the Tardis moving will be known as PULLING THE BIIIG KNOOOOOOOOOOB.

And I'm sure no one will tire of hearing that joke in some form every day that he is the Doctor.
 
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I know Death in Paradise is a light Sunday (or whatevs) night drama for old biddies, so it might not provide much room to stretch an actor's skills, but he really isn't very good in it.
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I should have suspected as much about DIP. I haven't really watched it; it's shown on public television here, but it's not good enough to be presented under the "Masterpiece" banner, it just shows up at odd times late at night.
Surely they could find someone more interesting and talented for such a sought after role.
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But HE'S GOT A BIG KNOOOOOOOOOOOOOOB!
 
Anyway, "The Pilot" had one glaring weirdness that I noticed: This thing that just wanted to take Bill for a joyride around the cosmos 'cause it promised it would / whatever -- what was with all the lunging and screeching it was doing up to that point? That's not exactly the most appealing invitation, is it? "Hey, wanna see the universe?" screeched the lunging waterlogged twat? I guess at least it didn't throw a sword at poor Bill, we know how that turns out.
 
Bill's fun. Let's just hope they don't give her the Clara Oswald treatment after a season or two and decide to turn a pleasant character into a psychotic harpy just for fucks 'n' chuckles.
 
Which is kind of annoying since the thing this episode did best was introudcing her. Rose and Clara both got to stay on after their Doctors left so I don't see why she can't too (unless Chibnall wants to start completely fresh when he destroys Doctor Who forever.)
 
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