Well, the Easter Special ("Legend of the Sea Devils") was a giant pile of crap. I think Jodie Whittaker is a great Doctor, but much like her predecessor Peter Capaldi, the writers just couldn't come up with material worthy of the actor behind the role. Will be interesting to see where the series goes now with Russell Davies coming back.
Ain't this the truth. The physical realization of the Sea Devils themselves was pretty decent. But the story was a total mess.
The costumes were really difficult to work with, and the rumour is that they had a ton of footage that was basically unusable and had to edit around it. Haven't watched the ep yet though, pacing has been a real low point since CC took over.
Also, fuck the Beeb for revealing who the new doctor will be. They ruined an absolutely magnificent cliffhanger.
It's a mysterious mystery! The teaser showed some other things that should also be impossible, and regenerations have never effected clothes before (barring Colin Baker needing larger pants for his first scene), so I'm guessing some sort of outside interference is at work.
Anyhoo, my guess - being confronted by Tegan and Ace has left the Doctor with some unresolved guilt over not keeping up with old friends. Since Ten left Donna hanging, the Doctor is using the old face to remind himself of this and telling him to go sort things out. Other option, the forced degeneration went too far. Though why to Tennant and not Smith or Capaldi is an open question (other than "because RTD").
Like I said in the other thread, I think Jodie absorbed the Tennant clone as a regeneration. 4 to 5 was a Tuvix merging.
Hartnell to Troughton I'll chalk up to the producers of the time not caring about continuity, but with Troughton to Pertwee you've got the whole season 6b thing to explain that.
Huh. It works on my Chrome but not Firefox. I've been using Firefox for Wrodforge for the past year or so because of the fucked up secure certificate stuff. IOW, I blame Wrodforge.
I like that they're force-feeding some nostalgia on the fans... just before they trigger the haters by making the new Doctor black. The only thing that would make it better was if Jodi Whitaker came back for one more episode where David Tennant regenerates into her, she gives the camera the finger, then regenerates into Ncuti Gatwa.
Jinkx Monsoon is joining the cast. So Dr. Who will be illegal to watch in some states. https://www.darkhorizons.com/drag-races-jinkx-monsoon-joins-doctor-who/
This is more for the local audience than the US, but even here we have some fuckwits buying in to the anti-drag/trans fever, as evidenced by JK. And our own PM seems to be drawn to culture wars (mostly anti-migrant, but "woke" is part of it too) to distract from the failures of his own government (well, the government we've had for 12 years that's STILL blaming the previous one). RTD has never been afraid to use the Doctor as a symbol against the latest/recycled fascist nonsense in society. Good to see he has no intention of stopping - and the reduced input of the BBC (currently headed by a right-wing appointee) is only going to facilitate that.
Eh.... RTD said that he made the Doctors outfit change during the most recent regeneration because he didn't want there to be pictures of David Tennant in Jodie Whittakers clothes. Speaking to Doctor Who Magazine, Davies said: "I was very certain that I didn’t want David to appear in Jodie’s costume. I think the notion of men dressing in ‘women’s clothes’, the notion of drag, is very delicate. I’m a huge fan of that culture and the dignity of that, it’s truly a valuable thing. "But it has to be done with immense thought and respect. With respect to Jodie and her Doctor, I think it can look like mockery when a straight man wears her clothes. To put a great big six-foot Scotsman into them looks like we’re taking the mickey." He added that he worried that a scene in which Tennant's Doctor wore Thirteen's outfit would be printed in newspapers "for the rest of time". "If they can play with gender in a sarcastic or critical way, they will," he added. "We could have the Doctor dressed as a knight, or dressed as God, or dressed as William Hartnell, and the only photo they’d print would be of David in what they considered to be women’s clothes." https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-david-tennant-regeneration-costume-twist-newsupdate/ IMHO, that's cowardly as shit, and intentionally ignores the fact that different Doctors have had specially sized versions of their predecessors clothes made for them just so it wouldn't look quite as strange. Colin Baker got bigger pants because he couldn't fit into Peter Davison's, and Whittaker got a smaller pair of Capaldi's pants. Sad. I don't think it would have been "mockery" so show Tennant in Whittakers clothes, it would have been respectful of her incarnation. It would have said "she was here, she existed, she's not being erased, here's RTD and Tennant paying her tribute for part of an episode. And the Fourteenth Doctor isn't embarrassed to walk around in her clothes at all, because they're both the Doctor."
Talking of costumes, looks like Ncuti's Doc won't be afraid to mix his style up to match the era he's visiting:
thing about the clothes, they could have implied them with some tight shots and him fleeing from the camera's view to go change before he came outside. I get the instinct but you could have avoided being accused of cowardice without much effort
