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Post by Deleted on May 17, 2024 23:56:50 GMT
Well that definitely felt like a Moffat episode in the worst way possible. Power of love bullshit saves the day, unearned sentimental schlock, underbaked polemics on complex subjects like religion and war that Doctor Who really has no business tackling in a 45-minute episode. But overall, I was so bored during it. The limited scope didn't make for compelling viewing, it was a plot that could have been done with a more expansive production and would have benefitted from it too.
Capital offences:
Ruby seems only slightly bemused by the pulverised human corpse she's holding in her hand. Remember when Donna freaked out about the Library nodes wearing real human faces?
The little girl does not seem affected at all by her dad's death and her face is blank when his AI footprint is wiped from the network.
Ncuti consistently mispronounces "Villengard".
"Capitalism", ughh. Gave me flashbacks to Oxygen. There is something workable in here about arms dealing, but it's unsubtle and clumsy in its execution. Additionally, the Doctor's comments regarding faith felt so insulting and small-minded.
Ncuti: "Your father, who art in heaven" - he uses the wrong pronoun REEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Also "fish fingers and custard", that was 15 years ago you f*cking hack, Jesus Christ move on.
Just show us the Trickster already and toss these bottle episodes aside.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2024 0:42:12 GMT
I forgot to mention, the visuals were shocking. All shot against a greenscreen, everything is CGI, nothing is authentic. It's constantly coming apart at the seams because the show's budget can't keep up. Drab, boring camerawork. Nothing else really stood out. Costuming was standard fare for futuristic space bullshit. The dog collars were just...so stupid.
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Post by Spark Doll King on May 18, 2024 0:51:56 GMT
I want to type something but keep losing the will to do so.
This show is off the deep end stupid and anyone singing it boundless praise have a mindset so alien to my own I simple cannot understand them.
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2024 0:56:42 GMT
Everyone is kissing its arse on Reddit and I'm genuinely considering not being a Doctor Who fan anymore. I mean, I haven't enjoyed anything the show's done since about 2010. It's clearly not for me anymore.
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Post by ClockworkOcean on May 18, 2024 1:39:57 GMT
I have no intention of actually watching it, but even in the few clips and reviews I've seen, there appears to be an insane amount of recycled dialogue from previous Moffat episodes. The man is clearly a spent force creatively.
As for the rest, if I want to hear an insightful critique of organised religion, I'll go somewhere other than a show that's spent the last ten years and counting whoring itself out as a propaganda vehicle for a secular cult.
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Post by iank on May 18, 2024 2:08:17 GMT
Can't believe Yak stayed up to watch it.  |
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Post by Ludders II on May 18, 2024 3:46:25 GMT
It's getting silly levels of BEST EP EVER! BEST ACTING IN 61 YEARS! hype on Levine Broadcasting Company.
Not seen it yet, but I suspect the brand worshippers are just relieved as f*ck that they haven't got to try to defend shite like last week's eps. Lol
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Post by zarius on May 18, 2024 5:02:33 GMT
I see they also recycled the "introduce a future companion in the episode without announcing it" trick they utilised for Clara in Asylum
I barely noticed. I was only informed that happened when I watched Unleashed straight after.
The Doctor and Ruby's whole exchange when Ruby was handing The Doctor that compressed soldier flask thingy was dripping with sexual tension, really underpinned the whole "brother and sister" approach to RTD's vision for the characters.
Susan Twist's roles are getting bigger and bigger, here she was definitely the lead antagonist, and something to be defeated and overcame.
Moffat still can't write kids as good as Young Amy....this girl may have been worse than the ones Clara looked after in series 7, horrible acting.
The closing five minutes I don't think were the Doctor talking, but instead it was Moffat declaring he was well and truly back and 'popping in from time to time' was alluding to future episodes
"Hey, Ruby, kid...you suck"...the f*ck Doctor? One kid lost her father and your companion nearly lost her life.
I still kind of popped for the rehashed lines, including the 'moon and the president's wife' from series nine, which got used a couple of times
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Post by Bernard Marx on May 18, 2024 7:47:12 GMT
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on May 18, 2024 7:58:34 GMT
8.7 on IMDB. I said the viewers would gobble it up simply because Moffat wrote it.
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Post by Bernard Marx on May 18, 2024 7:59:38 GMT
8.7 on IMDB. I said the viewers would gobble it up simply because Moffat wrote it. Early days. Who’s to say it won’t gradually collapse? |
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Post by burrunjor on May 18, 2024 8:08:47 GMT
8.7 on IMDB. I said the viewers would gobble it up simply because Moffat wrote it. I don't understand that mentality? This is the guy that started ALL the shit that we are drowning in now. Woke crap = Missy, Trump remarks, cringey anti men remarks, making gender bending time lords canon, not all Zygons etc. Rewriting the shows past and shitting on it = the Hybrid (a proto timeless child) Daleks that can't die, Davros had eyes, sexist, sexual bragged first Doctor, Master wanted to f*ck the Doctor, etc. Spinelessly selling the series out to a mythical new audience who don't give a shit for it like Whovian feminism. Driving its viewers down to 2 million and destroying its reputation among both sci fi fans and the public with things like the moons an egg, trees save the day, a campy panto character like Missy as the main villain, hate directed towards the white male section of the audience etc. Again it's funny when people acted as though DW in the 80s was behind other sci fi series. The other big sci fi series of the decade Star Trek TNG ripped off DW for its main villains, the Borg. Meanwhile when I watch something like The Umbrella Academy that was made close to the Capaldi era it kicks its arse in terms of sci fi, and it's not exactly a serious sci fi show either. I love it, don't get me wrong, but yeah Umbrella Academy is a bit more tongue in cheek, sci fantasy, but it did an episode where just a part of the moon was blown up and the effects on the earth were devastating. It destroyed all of humanity. The Capaldi era did a story where the moon was completely destroyed, whilst our main characters stood in front of the ocean and the waves weren't even disrupted. Again tell me which one made DW look outdated and like it wasn't even trying? Turning into a schlocky fantasy, like having magic water women save the day, undo Cyber conversion and bring the Doctor back to life. All RTD has done is just make the shit he started worse. Him getting a free pass even from the anti woke fandom really pisses me off. Indeed that's why I don't take the anti woke side seriously on average these days. |
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Post by Cherry Pepsi Maxil on May 18, 2024 8:09:59 GMT
I see they also recycled the "introduce a future companion in the episode without announcing it" trick they utilised for Clara in Asylum I barely noticed. I was only informed that happened when I watched Unleashed straight after. The Doctor and Ruby's whole exchange when Ruby was handing The Doctor that compressed soldier flask thingy was dripping with sexual tension, really underpinned the whole "brother and sister" approach to RTD's vision for the characters. Susan Twist's roles are getting bigger and bigger, here she was definitely the lead antagonist, and something to be defeated and overcame. Moffat still can't write kids as good as Young Amy....this girl may have been worse than the ones Clara looked after in series 7, horrible acting. The closing five minutes I don't think were the Doctor talking, but instead it was Moffat declaring he was well and truly back and 'popping in from time to time' was alluding to future episodes "Hey, Ruby, kid...you suck"...the f*ck Doctor? One kid lost her father and your companion nearly lost her life. I still kind of popped for the rehashed lines, including the 'moon and the president's wife' from series nine, which got used a couple of times The kid was awful. Showed absolutely no emotion whatsoever. A far cry from the kid who played young Amy. |
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Post by Ludders II on May 18, 2024 8:13:20 GMT
I find hard to discern what the likes of Ncuti might be capable of away from the RTD2. I tend to think nowadays that so many actors are just soap-level. They can do all the emo stuff, but who knows what else. The best I can say about him in Who is that he's no worse than Tennant. He was really the start of the emo Doctor. |
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Post by henshin on May 18, 2024 8:13:46 GMT
Folks, I can happily announce that this week's episode of Doctor Who is the best one....
*cough*
This year
*cough*
On Disney plus
*Violent convulsing*
And not written by RTD
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