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How I watched it:
Straight for the end credits so I can hear the new theme tune. Oooh! It's so bland. Old bits created by other people over the most boring drums in existence (and it's compressed to fuck when listening through big ol cans).
Everything kind of passes through until the sonic screwdriver scene which is just horrible. Background music is meh... ah! That cut of the kebab being stamped upon is a DC level of overwrought nonsense. Then blah on, death of lady, sad music bits that feel very similar...
End. Shit theme.
Pretty much as expected.
Absolutely no reason to ever watch it again really (that particular episode, not the series as a whole).
'tis funny though. All the talk of a new era, changing things... and here it is with a cobbled together theme and a pretty limp monster of the week. Now imagine an episode that barely featured anyone other than the title character that explored regeneration a bit more..
Love to see this kind of analysis of fucking Trumpton
For me the episode was well paced, wasn't as clunky or as cheap looking as it has been and had a balance between established Whoisms and a story line that didn't require prior knowledge. That didn't make it great television but ticked the kind of boxes I suspect they were after.
I don't know if it's trying too hard to get it's PC credentials or is just a reasonable reflection of a diverse Britain. There was a sense of the female characters being the stronger/braver ones but in the history of television that's a drop in the ocean and the only notable moment of acting was ( and this surprised the heck out of me) from Bradley Walsh. On reflection the need to make the female characters the heroic ones actually made the male ones more complex and interesting - Walsh's character and his grandson have somewhere to go/ develop to. I think there is an argument there that whoever wrote this actually doesn't write good parts for women and the Doctor, Yaz and Grandma were PC cardboard cut outs.
I'm probably wrong but I think this is the first time since the Eccleston era reboot that we have begun a series with an entirely new group of characters so it's going to be early days.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
With that said...it's not really a kids' programme, and never was after the Troughton era. Sure, there have been quite a few episodes which could be considered kid-friendly, but in the last it's been largely adult-oriented (or at least young-adult-oriented).
That doesn't mean that the writing hasn't often been immature, but that's an entirely different issue IMO.
Jodie was awesome.
Not the most nuanced villain.
‘Grandmother’ subplot kinda irritated.
B minus, see me after class, ideally wearing the first costume.
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Trumpton ran from 13 episodes in 1967. Doctor Who has broken 50 years since originally broadcast, has multiple changes of lead performer, directing and production team, etc etc etc. If you can't analyse the longest running sci-fi show in the world then what can you analyse?
Who has never been under the remit of BBC Children's programming or equivalent going all the way back to the initial development involving then Head of Drama Sydney Newman. Who came onto the screens to cover a teenage and adult base at that particular point of the early evening schedule.
So criticising the change of direction in the writing is similar to the debacle of the last Star Wars film. Eric's point above about the writing for the female characters is a good one. It's pointless if you introduce more BAME or female characters if those characters are poorly written (Witness Rose in TLJ. The character and the actress weren't the issue: the pissweak writing for both character and actress were).
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
This is, obviously, a huge gender imbalance and shows a patriarchal society. Being a small, monocultural society possibly reflects how some people experienced life in the UK in 1967 but I doubt if many people lived somewhere ( outside of primarily single gender institutions such as the armed forces or prison) where men outnumbered women almost 7 to 1.
That's the point. As a devoted Whovian with enough books, magazines, and novelties to take me to Metebelis 3 and back, I know the development history. It was there as something that could cover all markets in that time slot: kids, teens, adults. Portraying it as a kid's programme is unfair.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Jodie Whittaker does remind me a little of an Aardman animated character though. In a good way.
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"Who came onto the screens to cover a teenage and adult base at that particular point of the early evening schedule."