Haven’t seen a discussion post for the new special, so I’ll get the ball rolling. Thoughts, insights, bits you loved… let it all out.

  • Julian@lemm.ee
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    11 months ago

    Loved it. It was fun, cheesy at times, but also down to earth where it mattered. Also a big fan of RTD giving a big middle finger to everyone who complained about Jodie’s era being too “woke.” I find it kinda funny that RTD did more with a female doctor in one episode than Chibnal did in 3 years, and he didn’t even have a female doctor.

    Only complaint is the resolution to the metacrisis where they just get rid of it. Feels a bit hand-wavy and also the one thing in the episode that I felt was a bit preachy. Loved the stuff before it though, with Rose inheriting it.

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        11 months ago

        Lol, to be fair I feel like every modern showrunner has had that issue. Moffat especially tended to have finales that were basically just “let’s hold hands and hope things work out.”

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        11 months ago

        This episode was like RTDs whole run - generally good but with some almost unbearably cheesy moments

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          11 months ago

          Donna spilling the coffee was both hilarious and baffling (is the console lactose intolerant?). That was definitely the TARDIS herself setting that up as a thinly veiled excuse to take them both somewhere.

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      11 months ago

      Of course it was hand-wavey. It’s RTD’s Doctor Who. :)

      Chalk it up to the DoctorDonna needing fifteen years or so to finish the calculation that would solve her problem, which it turns out needed two processors running in parallel.