Capaldi's accent is crisp and clear to those of us with good hearing (hint). What you don't want to do is watch Tennant in Broadchurch without putting on the subtitles.
Well, Graham's lost his wife, Ryan's lost his Nana, and both may stick around to support each other. There might also be an episode where Graham's cancer comes back and some new alien species may have the cure (and/or a fix for Ryan's dyspraxia). Yasmin's hit the glass ceiling as a LEO and may just want something more adventurous. Plus, all three have skills that the Doctor can use. ETA: I'm not crazy about three companions, but at least the lines won't be blurred as they were with Clara. JMO.
I dug it okay. Pretty standard episode except for that it was Whitaker's origin part 2. Good to finally see the new Tardis room. Kind of a Christopher Reeve Fortress Of Solitude vibe with the crystals. My favorites are still the Capaldi one followed by the classic Hartnell to McCoy one. The Matt Smith one was just fugly.
A good episode -- not brilliantly inventive or an instant classic, but perfectly solid. I hope they do a show soon that spends some time developing the dynamics between the Doctor and the new companions.
Nothing all that adventurous, kind of a nice safe predictable (who didn't see it coming that the "appears every thousand years" thing would be the TARDIS?) but I'm enjoying Jodie sliding into the comfort of her character. I'm with you on the question of whether we really need 3 companions. My hunch is that Graham doesn't survive the season.
An aside for those Americans who are challenged by Scottish accents (among other things), there's a really nifty transcript site (for Trek as well as Who): http://chakoteya.net/
I can understand friggin Cajun, so nothing Europe can throw at my ear can trip me up. Y'know what I can't crack though? Police radios. It's all vowel noises and nose breathing to me.
I do that, too, so I don't miss anything. Not sure I'd get pure Cajun, but the mainstream N'Orleans accent is very Brooklyn-sounding to me. Y'know what throws me, though? Northern Ireland.
Yaz was a bit sidelined this week but still got some nice moments drawing out Angstrom. Ever since Graham said he wished he'd died and Grace lived I have had the feeling you might be right about your last sentence. Decent ep - gorgeous visuals but Art Malik was a bit wasted, could've booked Alexander Siddig and saved a bit of cash for a bit more time in the TARDIS at the end (sorry, Bashir!). Story was again nothing special but still re-establishing the premise of the show for new viewers - ratings are up considerably, which may be the new Sunday slot or more likely renewed interest due to female Doctor or new showrunner.
Really liking Jodie Whitaker. Not liking the inside of the new TARDIS so much, but we only got a brief glimpse.
They need to quit using the sonic screwdriver as a magic wand entirely. It was used a handful of times in the original series over 26 years, it's basically the magic fixit gizmo now.
I don't know. It's not 30 years ago. Making the technobabble solution more complicated than waving a wand no longer gives the impression of a deep plot. The magical sonic is arguably more honest; it tells us that the show is not about that.
The original series didn't rely heavily upon technobabble at all. Sure, it was present, but it wasn't usually all that central to moving the plot forward.
3, 5 and 6 were sometimes heavy on technobabble. 3 especially was the guy who could build stuff. A quality sign of his scripts was that it only took a moment on screen for him to do so. Doesn't the current sonic more or less provide that function? I think it does.
Whilst this is true, building a temporal scanner from a wine bottle and a tuning fork is not exactly avoiding the "magical" bit. We've seen Tennant, Smith and Capaldi knock together devices for particular purposes, but it makes sense that - over time - the Doctor incorporates those functions into the sonic.
I like the sonic as a (mainly) "tricorder" first and as I "get me out of this pinch" magic wand second. Which is how she's used it early on.
Peter Capaldi Auditioned for Captain Sisko on Deep Space Nine Okay, seriously, I adore the man, but this is just wrong. I'm guessing The Studio was just auditioning various actors in case, but they wanted an actor of color from the beginning and the Suits were saying "Well, gee, like, we auditioned other actors, really." (A) Another Brit (even a Scot), immediately following Patrick Stewart ("I can play French, really, I can") wouldn't have worked and, (B) we'd have missed out on all of that wonderful Cajun cooking. Will post the videos of the audition (the guy from Merlin was another candidate) when they're available.
"Rosa" - a gorgeous historical piece which doesn't sugarcoat the ugliness of Segregation-era America or imply that the Civil Rights Movement has removed all racism... in fact, the villain being a The characterisation is really making this season - the plots aren't overly complex but the interactions of Team TARDIS with each other and the folk they meet are excellent and add a real sense of humanity to the show (needed this week to counter the lack thereof in 1955 Montgomery).
Apparently they're part of the documentary What We Left Behind which, AFAIK, hasn't been released yet: https://trekmovie.com/2017/09/07/re...ioned-for-sisko-in-star-trek-deep-space-nine/ Gawd, that unibrow -! ETA: Ah, I see: "special screening": https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6332276/releaseinfo?ref_=ttfc_ql_2 Maybe it'll show up on YouTube sometime...
That's more like it! First really good episode of the current run in my book. On top of everything obvious thematically, it finally had a well-functioning and well-told plot, too. I do want , though.
"Recommend anything for tourists like us?" "I recommend you get yourselves the hell out of Alabama." That's good advice, even in 2018.
