Doctor Who

Why, has JFK been shot again?

Talk about a claim to fame...

My mum's friend's great grandson played the space baby Eric!!

Episode 3 was great.

I can't help feeling that the whole Susan Twist thing is just a red herring to wind up the fans. It just seems too obvious and in your face.

The first few episodes really reminded me how much I disliked the RTD era. He’s as subtle as a jackhammer to the ballbag.

Enjoyed "Boom" more than the other two, watching the BTS it was a pretty impressive set they built instead of chancing using an outdoor location, the base camp was done very well too.

Stephen Moffatt deciding the first thing he's going to do in his first script in years was to shoot the Doctor and Ruby was a ballsy move, you wonder what'll happen in his next.

I'm enjoying the new series, and absolutely love the new doctor (question though, is he going to cry in every episode - surprised the "anti-wokies" haven't stormed the castle about his feelings yet) but has Moffat always been this heavy handed? Moffat is responsible for Matt Smith's doctor (who I still think might be my favourite so far) so he has a lot of goodwill on my end, but it's very ON THE NOSE. Though I do think the episodes have got better as they've gone along, and Boom was very good if heavy handed.

I loved Maestro and the scenery chewing in The Devil's Chord but am more intrigued about how many other of the Toymaker's children we're going to see and what it all leads up to. Moffat does a series spanning storyline well; Capaldi's doctor was certainly served a lot of shite standalone episodes which was a shame as I would have loved to see him get some of the longer storylines other doctors have had.

EP1 was OK if you ignored all the over-explanation (but I understand they are trying to get on board a new audience).

EP2 had a fun villain, but was very average.

EP3 was more interesting, but far too heavy handed.

EP4 was, erm, WTF - made absolutely no sense, had some nice tension during the scene in the pub, but other than that was very poor.

I'm liking the new Doctor, but I'd happily swap the higher production values if it meant we had some better writing back.

I made the bold prediction that we would get a ‘social media is bad’ parable within the first three episodes, so it did slightly wrong foot me on that front.

I did, however, not see the ‘twist’ coming which, sadly, I found quite funny.

He’s far too good for the material. That ending was unearned and ridiculous but he really put his back into it.

Agreed. Certainly helped that it didn't feel like any exposition or explanations had been either left on the cutting room floor or just never written in the first place.

Maybe Disney just had 3d scans of his face lying around from General Badguy in RoS.

They should really have stuck in a Mark Hamill one in the background and watched the internet implode under the theories.

The final episode was a jumbled, awful mess and I would bet all of Sunak's mates election day stake money the Ruby Sunday plot is still open.

I thought I'd go into more detail but honestly after that shite I can't be arsed.

I know it’s never been hard sci-fi but this whole series has basically just run on actual magic, just speaking a thing into existence to resolve the plot.

*deafeningly loud music plays* ‘Time is memories and memories are hot dogs because I’m hungry so here’s a time hot dog’ *cries*

It’s genuinely the worst Dr Who I’ve ever watched. The only thing that confounded my expectations is that I had money on Sekhmet doing the Macarena with Sharon Tardis at some point.