I've never seen the seasons from before 2005— I tried, but no matter what I couldn't stand watching more than 5 minutes of the show, its low quality effects and the black&white; cinematogrpahy- but I grew attached to the 2005+ show.
That said, until now the seasons were intelligent, interesting, made sense and the show always had a direction from early on. There was plenty of fun, anxiety, creepiness, love...deep emotions...duh.... whatever, this season was totally episodic, made no sense, and, there was no exciting/meaningful story around it. What I dislike the most about season 8 is the britishness of The Doctor and Missy. Up until season 8 I accepted the fact The Doctor was crazy about the brits, but as of now he's turned british... and Missy, aka. The Master embodies all British Characteristics, being the modern version of an evil Mary Poppins. Sure, Doctor Who is all about crazy, irrational stuff, but this is not the kind of crazy irrational stuff I expected.
Contrary to popular opinion I liked S8's character focus and I'll definately miss Clara- although, I don't think we've seen the last of Clara Oswald. She is the strangest assistant/friend the doctor's ever had on his team and I'm generally dissatisfied about this finale; we still don't know who exactly she is. Capaldi's a great Doctor, I'm looking forward to Xmas 2014.
Review by SaibagenBlockedParent2014-11-09T17:20:05Z
I've never seen the seasons from before 2005— I tried, but no matter what I couldn't stand watching more than 5 minutes of the show, its low quality effects and the black&white; cinematogrpahy- but I grew attached to the 2005+ show.
That said, until now the seasons were intelligent, interesting, made sense and the show always had a direction from early on.
There was plenty of fun, anxiety, creepiness, love...deep emotions...duh.... whatever, this season was totally episodic, made no sense, and, there was no exciting/meaningful story around it. What I dislike the most about season 8 is the britishness of The Doctor and Missy. Up until season 8 I accepted the fact The Doctor was crazy about the brits, but as of now he's turned british... and Missy, aka. The Master embodies all British Characteristics, being the modern version of an evil Mary Poppins. Sure, Doctor Who is all about crazy, irrational stuff, but this is not the kind of crazy irrational stuff I expected.
Contrary to popular opinion I liked S8's character focus and I'll definately miss Clara- although, I don't think we've seen the last of Clara Oswald. She is the strangest assistant/friend the doctor's ever had on his team and I'm generally dissatisfied about this finale; we still don't know who exactly she is. Capaldi's a great Doctor, I'm looking forward to Xmas 2014.