the writing of this show is so dubious. Where are the emotional stakes! This is dw, the whole of humanity is /always/ under threat, if you don't make us care about specific humans it doesn't exactly matter. the companions & their families are too thin for us to care.
The master just seems inexplicable, which, I guess is a little in line for him, but the whole problem of why he's both desperate for the doctor's attention about gallifrey & yet wants to kill her lol.
Also... the doctors gender. By casting a woman, they want a nb doctor made explicit. but 10's "well just us girls" in fires of pompeii which is just accepted by the priestesses & passes without comment vs 13's "marvellous apparating man, I mean, lady" where the doctor seems more fixated on performing the right gender than the audience does, doesn't really match up to the lack of care the doctor has used with performing their gender previously
here the sequence of events is fine but the execution of all the details falls short and it really lacks that certain spark that turns a show from serviceable to great
Shout by ksykBlockedParent2023-11-20T01:04:14Z
the writing of this show is so dubious. Where are the emotional stakes! This is dw, the whole of humanity is /always/ under threat, if you don't make us care about specific humans it doesn't exactly matter. the companions & their families are too thin for us to care.
The master just seems inexplicable, which, I guess is a little in line for him, but the whole problem of why he's both desperate for the doctor's attention about gallifrey & yet wants to kill her lol.
Also... the doctors gender. By casting a woman, they want a nb doctor made explicit. but 10's "well just us girls" in fires of pompeii which is just accepted by the priestesses & passes without comment vs 13's "marvellous apparating man, I mean, lady" where the doctor seems more fixated on performing the right gender than the audience does, doesn't really match up to the lack of care the doctor has used with performing their gender previously
here the sequence of events is fine but the execution of all the details falls short and it really lacks that certain spark that turns a show from serviceable to great