re NPH: according to an interview, the hammy German accent was literally written into the script, not something he came up with on his own. re Rose: I share the sentiment but give their overtly fem presentation, I'm head-canoning it that she's actually MtF trans and it was the non-binary uncertainty/questioning that arose from the Doctor mind thingy re Christmas Special: don't really have any negative notes. I'd never seen these actors in their previous work so I needed to see them in their roles to see if they felt right. I'm satisfied. No speculation that matters about Ruby's mom, but I'm enjoying the Discussion about Mrs. Flood. My favorite theory is that it's Barbara but I'm in no way predicting that. I'm certain it's not River, and I'm skeptical it's the Rani. One would assume it can't be a previous companion or the Doctor would have recognized as he has previously (which rules out Barbara too, to be honest, unless you postulate she's regenerated since they last interacted - by the way, how did we get to 60 years and that's crossing has never been seen on screen? You go 60 years earth time and thousands of years of your own life and never check in on her? or it was so dull we didn't need to see it?) ANYway... ...so it poses the question - who would it be that he doesn't recognize her? (no, not the Master) Some other regenerated Time Lord (Ramona? Exiled to Earth like the 3d? His daughter?) Clearly it means SOMETHING, you don't make the reveal that prominent if it's not key.
It was a fun episode, felt a lot less heavy than the last few years, and is hopefully a good sign of things to come. Mrs Flood's reveal should be interesting, with a name like that I'm expecting a call back to the Ponds and/or River, but equally the name could be a distraction for something like the Master.
So I’m finally catching back up on this. I was a WAYS behind. Season 11: not very good, but better than the first time I watched it. There’s a lot of ham-fisted moralizing exposition, with no subtlety AT ALL. Like they make “Let That Be Your Last Battlefield” look like a masterpiece of nuance by comparison. Fortunately, this is only a few minutes of each episode, and the rest is largely fine. The “grief/mourning” theme wasn’t so bad, but it did drag. I don’t know what we needed an entire season of that for. I also don’t know what they’re doing with this “time child”, but I have a feeling it’s going to end up mighty unsatisfying. The Kerblam! episode was fun, but in that case the moral of the story got really, really lost, and it seemed everyone learned the wrong lessons. I enjoyed the Norway episode, but they did *completely* fail to explain the presence of any life at all in the anti-zone. New Years Special: really enjoyed that. Puppetmaster Dalek was quite menacing. Season 12: only 7 episodes in, but it’s considerably better than Season 11 — except for episode 3, Orphan 55. That was a Twilight Zone script that got shipped to the wrong set somehow. It breaks continuity not just within the (rebooted) show but also within this Doctor. Worst case (in terms of changing the format of the show) scenario, not 4 episodes ago, the TARDIS couldn’t travel into alternate universes, now it’s no problem. Best case: the Great and Bountiful Human Empire had MADE IT, and Earth survived all the way to the death of the Sun, but no, they had to throw that all out to do the global warming/nuclear war episode ON EARTH, and the Doctor didn’t even notice. To say nothing of the actual plot. The characters’ motives were inconsistent at best. Just a trash episode of Doctor Who, mediocre Twilight Zone episode.
Continuity doesn't matter anymore - it's all canon. Jigsaw puzzle. The Doctor vs the Toymaker | The Giggle | Doctor Who (youtube.com)
This is from the official Doctor Who channel on Youtube. Cool shit and I wonder if it will be incorporated into the upcoming series?
As in Leela of the Seveteem? I thought the Doctor abandoned her with some space vikings in a fucking cave or something.
Nope, she married a member of the Time Lords' security forces on Gallifrey. You thinking about Peri (married BRIAN BLESSED!!)? The Doctor didn't leave her there, he thought she died and only found out later her "death" was faked as part of a plot to frame him.
Probably not? They've done a few of these sketches where they revisit in the last few years for the DVD promos, but nothing really came of them after. Mel's seems to have been contradicted by last year's specials. Peri's one is nice, though.
No disrespect to Millie Gibson or Verada but it's going to be a huge waste if Rose 2.0 isn't some Doctor's companion at some point.
It's hilarious that Millie Gibson has bailed before her season even aired. I wonder if there was some Eccleston-like hate going on BTS. RTD may go down as the man who both saved and killed Doctor Who. Maybe even Millie saw that interview about "Davros can't be in a wheelchair" and was like, "I've got to get off this train wreck."
Hard to classify it as a "waste" when she barely in the Tennant specials to begin with. The bigger waste is the departure of Gibson.
Eh, that's mostly because Davies is filming well in advance now. During his first tenure there were never two seasons with the same Doctor/companion pairing. Someone always left at the end, even if they came back later for guest appearances. And since Gibson's character is being set up like a Moffat-era mystery box, I'm fine with her stepping down if the mystery is resolved by the end of the season. I loved Clara, but it was weird how she was basically two different characters between the Smith and Capaldi eras.
Well yeah, since he WAS the last actor to actually play the Doctor. What we've had since has been nothing but crap and nonsense.
