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Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
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Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
He seems to hate ALL the new stuff, and think that the series has been ruined by the likes of Russell T Davies and Moffatt. To be honest he gets me down a bit as every time we talk about the new DR Who he just rants about how bad everything is. In the light of this, I tend to try and watch the series now with a non-critical eye and just go with the flow. Yeah, it could be a shedload better, but I just try and enjoy it for what it is.
With that said, I thought that Moffat did a pretty good job with the writing on this episode; he just needs to leave the big story arcs to somebody else.
There seems to be lots of acclaim in reviews online for Bill because she's normal and works in a canteen and how we haven't had that before. Sure, if you forget the retail worker Rose Tyler, the working class council estate Mickey, the former doubleglazing saleswoman turned secretary Donna Noble...
(oh it works again).
The callbacks with the photos and the old sonic screwdrivers.. tedious. The Doctor at university feels like Harry Potter at big school. Budget is so small that puddles are now scary. Bill introduced to the Tardis... let's just kill any sort of sense of discovery with a couple of quips so shit, they'd have been rejected for Iron Man 3.
But Capaldi actually feels three-dimensional. Like Colin Baker, he is going to be remembered for being able to act far more than people will remember good scripts from this era.
And it finishes on John Sim with a shit beard. Hurrah. He's back with fucking Mary Poppins.
Fuck off, Moffat.
But then something odd happened and the 50th anniversary episode was fantastic. Capaldi's reveal... wow. Tom Baker... astounding.
But then it was back to Clara's shite. Blah blah blah new Doctor with a shit first line, a shit first season, and a whole load of shit since.
Doctor Who is the earliest memory I have (20th anniversary episode in 1983 actually, opening episode of The Five Doctors: the black triangle zapping people up scared me for a good few weeks). All the people to have played the Doctor have done it well. There isn't a bad Doctor. What there are are bad episodes and, in this modern era of the show runner, bad people in charge. I can watch Capaldi speak as the Doctor for hours but everything else really can fuck off. Tonight's episode... if they featured Capaldi speaking for half an hour giving a lecture at his university, that'd beat everything else. The Capaldi era has been at its best when it's him talking and being given centre stage.
i thought i'de hate lucas but tbh he fitted in quiite well.
A good opener.