Latest episode of Dr.
Latest episode of Dr. Who ... Started better than it ended, wasted a lot of potential to be deeply interesting, amazing setting, pretty suboptimal use of some good actors as other characters, not the worst episode by far of either the whole new Who arc nor the Capaldi episodes. Watch without expectations and it can be enjoyed.
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Great ideas, either too many for one episode or injudicious distribution of time spent.
My sister is right. It is very hard to understand Bill's accent many times. She speaks very quickly and and/or sort of smushes the words. Needs more articulation and I think it would not destroy the character to have her speak just a bit more slowly and/or clearly, even when excited.
So far, I generally like Bill's character, but we'll see where it goes.
Lame use of Nardole to show up, throw away plot point line (oh, I see, we're going to have another one of those ridiculous season long arcs, are we?), and walk out. Like, why bother. How about just reveal as we go, or something subtle or accidental? Nah.
Cute. Robots with smileys that aren't really robots, well they're nanobots, but they work for the nanobots. Oh, for crying out loud, they're robots.
How many references, primarily visual, to everything else can we throw in? Aside from several prior Dr. Who episodes, there was Star Wars, and LOTR, and Tomorrowland, etc. It started so well, too.
They have never really managed to make the Capaldi Who work for me. One reason is that they poorly do things like he just snap judgment decides a) the nanobots and robots are not alive/sentient/of value, therefore it's ok to b) blow up a whole race of nanobots because he's going to save other people from dying on this planet. This really does not work after all the continuity of even just the new Who. Plus, at some point he lectures Bill about her assumptions when he's making similar or worse.
Really? The remainder of the human race, upon being told that there's a race of nanobots that are trying to kill them due to a bit of mislearning about keeping people "happy" decide not to think first, but grab guns and start randomly shooting robots? What could go wrong?
So there's a quick war, ended by the Doctor yet again suddenly randomly inexplicably getting an insight that would have avoided at least 50% of the episode if he'd gotten the clue earlier, and the magic sonic screwdriver EMP burst.
Speaking of which, dig yourself a plot hole and solve it with a magic controllable instant EMP that knocks out human and machine alike, but only temporarily, and reboots ... a species? Oh, and looks like a nuclear blast flash, because must have visuals. The line between magic and tech is getting very blurry, here. Too blurry.
Then you start a negotiation, most of which you don't show, and just walk away like nothing happened and on to the next episode teaser, which is the end of this episode because obs we are going to have one of those annoying season long arcs, again.
Oh, and this has come up before, but when did the Doctor become Vulcan? Enough with the stupid mind-meld nonsense. It really doesn't work any of the times it's been used and they used it last week and this week, albeit briefly, but just stahp. Gimmicks not needed.
Oh, and the setting. It's a real place in Valencia, Spain, and I would totally go there just to visit it.
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Great ideas, either too many for one episode or injudicious distribution of time spent.
My sister is right. It is very hard to understand Bill's accent many times. She speaks very quickly and and/or sort of smushes the words. Needs more articulation and I think it would not destroy the character to have her speak just a bit more slowly and/or clearly, even when excited.
So far, I generally like Bill's character, but we'll see where it goes.
Lame use of Nardole to show up, throw away plot point line (oh, I see, we're going to have another one of those ridiculous season long arcs, are we?), and walk out. Like, why bother. How about just reveal as we go, or something subtle or accidental? Nah.
Cute. Robots with smileys that aren't really robots, well they're nanobots, but they work for the nanobots. Oh, for crying out loud, they're robots.
How many references, primarily visual, to everything else can we throw in? Aside from several prior Dr. Who episodes, there was Star Wars, and LOTR, and Tomorrowland, etc. It started so well, too.
They have never really managed to make the Capaldi Who work for me. One reason is that they poorly do things like he just snap judgment decides a) the nanobots and robots are not alive/sentient/of value, therefore it's ok to b) blow up a whole race of nanobots because he's going to save other people from dying on this planet. This really does not work after all the continuity of even just the new Who. Plus, at some point he lectures Bill about her assumptions when he's making similar or worse.
Really? The remainder of the human race, upon being told that there's a race of nanobots that are trying to kill them due to a bit of mislearning about keeping people "happy" decide not to think first, but grab guns and start randomly shooting robots? What could go wrong?
So there's a quick war, ended by the Doctor yet again suddenly randomly inexplicably getting an insight that would have avoided at least 50% of the episode if he'd gotten the clue earlier, and the magic sonic screwdriver EMP burst.
Speaking of which, dig yourself a plot hole and solve it with a magic controllable instant EMP that knocks out human and machine alike, but only temporarily, and reboots ... a species? Oh, and looks like a nuclear blast flash, because must have visuals. The line between magic and tech is getting very blurry, here. Too blurry.
Then you start a negotiation, most of which you don't show, and just walk away like nothing happened and on to the next episode teaser, which is the end of this episode because obs we are going to have one of those annoying season long arcs, again.
Oh, and this has come up before, but when did the Doctor become Vulcan? Enough with the stupid mind-meld nonsense. It really doesn't work any of the times it's been used and they used it last week and this week, albeit briefly, but just stahp. Gimmicks not needed.
Oh, and the setting. It's a real place in Valencia, Spain, and I would totally go there just to visit it.
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