Best idea. Nobody could defend that slow motion car crash with a straight face. It had what I assumed were funny references to other movies but on reflection may have been plagiarism while they assembled all the antagonists new who has ever had in one lame story line.
Spongebob is a kids show and has cohesive plots an understandable narrative. It’s great!
If you lowered your expectations to meet the dumbed down and on mesage output of Hollywood and the BBC amongst others that’s great. I struggle to do that however and lament what we get now. As you do I will be avoiding this, I only had a look in to see Bishop.
Andre Braugher would be my dream casting for the Doctor.
This is what people lose sight of.
Quite! "How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Doctor Who". That is something I did a long time ago. It's an over-the-top, relatively low-budget BBC show which always had (and I hope always will have) ambitions that outweigh its practical limitations. Go there for some fun. But as Tegan's Auntie Vanessa memorably said "when you stop enjoying it, give it up".
Those who want to watch, who know what the show is about, will watch past those first few minutes of shouty pointlessness. Those who don't aren't really going to watch the rest of the show anyway. They will say (as my ex did) that it's 'silly' or 'boring' or 'too complicated to follow'.
’Sound effects too loud for dialogue’ syndrome has become the normal setting in Sci-Fi films for quite a while so not a surprise to find it's spread to tv as well.
Very true. I did see an episode of Worzel Gummidge a while back though that had Worzel pursuing Aunt Sally's affections with... how can I say this...a determination that would not be acceptable in modern society!
The sound mix was terrible.
I agree. I'm very intrigued by the tunnel thing, both in real life now, and in Doctor Who. I reckon it will assume some significance as the six-parter unfurls. They went straight to it after the opening titles, and then forgot all about it until right at the end when Joseph Williamson popped up again a roll-call of what will surely be significant figures in this story.
That's how story telling goes. You plant an idea and then call back to it repeatedly until it reveals itself to be an integral part of the storyline.
Mr Williamson is obviously a VERY troubled man! I mean, just look at that face. For my money, that is the most intriguing aspect of the story so far. I really do hope Chibnall goes interesting places with it. I do love it when Doctor Who 'explains' real world mysteries. It makes me wonder what the real Joseph Williamson was up to. I suppose there must be some records about why he did all that stuff.
Although there have been recent episodes of Silent Witness with Worzel Gummidge-levels of acting and storytelling.
I'm not sure she's so much miscast as that the nature of the Doctor has been misunderstood. Every time something puzzles the Doctor, she whips out her sonic screwdriver, quick scan and it tells her all she needs to know. The OLD Doctor would have known. He didn't need a screwdriver to tell him what close observation would have done.
