I really like Jodie Whittaker as the new Doctor. I adore her energy and her eccentricity and her spunk and her randomness. I can't wait to see more of her!
So far:
Love the writing, not as Good as Smiths Episodes, but definitely worlds better than what Capaldi had to Endure (It never felt like it fit).
Jodie is great - She makes funny faces without looking stupid or repulsive (Actually I think Capaldi looked very repulsive when making faces in comparison - I'm glad he rarely did).
I'll edit, should I feel this has changed througout the season.
This season is far away from what I was expecting. Love but previous seasons are far better.
My favorite show from all times. I can't wait to see Chris Chibnall out of this, really bad season, the show does not glue me to the screen since Moffat. I can't even remember the episodes, to comment about....
Season 10 was a big step down in quality from season 9, and this season (11) is an even bigger step down again. Jodie as The Doctor is not bad at all, in fact, I think she has a lot of potential, and she does her best with what she has to work with. However, the same cannot be said for her companions. Aside from Jodie, almost everyone in this season is annoying, boring, or simply uninteresting.
Ryan is incredibly annoying and he lowers the quality of every scene he is in, while Graham feels totally out of place as though he's acting in a completely different show from everyone else. It's as though they saw Bradley Walsh out in the street and said "Hey, come in here for a second!" and handed him some lines and told him to give it his best shot. Yaz is the least-bad offender of the season's three companions, but that's only because she's too bland to stand out as annoying or out of place.
The writing this season is poor and uninspiring, and the overall tone of the show just feels... off. It doesn't feel like Doctor Who. It feels like a different show. It is even filmed differently to previous seasons. The show up until this point has had its fair share of up and downs, with some episodes being not so great, and others being amazing. But I was always happy to push on and persevere the bad because I knew that something great was sure to be right around the corner. This season is the first time when I've watched Doctor Who that I've felt entirely unmotivated to continue on; because I am no longer sure that something great will be around the corner. In my opinion, this is the first season that hasn't had a single 'good' episode. There were a couple of okay episodes, but the vast majority were either meh or just bad.
The worst crime this season commits is that it's not quite bad enough to be entertainingly bad. With a few adjustments, it would still have been bad, but it could have at least been 'hot mess' type of bad, where it was entertaining enough to keep me watching. Instead, this season just made me wish I were watching pretty much anything else.
Watching the 8th episode right now and i had the exact same feeling as others here. She's overall good, i'm sure she needs more time to be the Doctor, at this point i have the feeling that she's just playing it. Even Capaldi had it, in his own terms, Jodie is having a bit of struggle. My guess is on the actual writing of the episodes: as someone said already, too much history and, subsequently, too much "not intervening to avoid contaminating history", in that way the Doctor never leaves an actual mark in the Universe, the exact opposite of what was happening all the time with basically the previous four actors.
Back to the history question: i think IMHO that's the overall main problem. If you "force" the narration mainly to past earth events, you have to be at least 100% coherent and logic, but really no one literally blinks an eye when two white people and a black guy together witn a Pakistani girl shows up in the Indian border 70 years ago, or the same team in 1600 in the English middle of nowhere. Not sure it's accurate, pretty sure it feels weird. In the past seasons, characters had to dress properly and hide themselves just to blend in everywhere, they're just going everywhere and in every point of time with the same nylon or leather jacket. Again, weird.
Closing points, really quick:
- no horizontal plot for now, just free roaming through time and space (80% on earth, right), so 0 involvement for me.
- really TOO MUCH political correctness! Of course i'm a fan of it, but what the hell, i'm watching a sci-fi product, i always had a sci-fi product, some tech devices and a couple of aliens is not enough, we're accustomed to great galaxy wars, eternal battles, huge alien structures, time loops. Where the hell is all that!?
- A new actor means a new type of Doctor, yes, but not an entirely NEW Doctor. No one knows her, no one heard her name, it's like she has no history, no past events, Everything feels like it's a fresh start and a reebot. Maybe they want to give more attention to the newcomers, which is fair to a commercial level, but come on, there's guys like who follow this show since episode one, it's pretty disappointing.
- Tech doesn't feel like tech enymore, feels much more like alien magic. Might be cool, but i'm watching a fantasy show right now and not a sci-fi show.
tl;dr political correctness is changing this show too deeply. Might change my opinion for the last two epsiodes, but i'm reeeeeally skeptical.
EDIT: the 9th episode was a bit better, it added more to the DW lore, maybe not needed but always appreciated (by the way, the last scene with the universe-frog could have been Whittaker's epic monologue as it was for Tennant's The Devil's Pit, they totally missed the chance). But the last episode, that was a HUGE one. One of the most beautiful ever made imho, really, that's what i personally have always expected from Doctor Who. Just a bit sad we had to wait for the last slice of it to have a true DW story, but my hype has spiked again a bit!
Looks like I'm in the minority, I wasn't too keen on Jodies take as the Doc, perhaps she will grow on me as the eps go on.
We are off to a GREAT start. :D
I'm usually a big Doctor Who fan, have been for decades, but this season is a terrible mess of modern political propaganda, so much so I could not watch all episodes in this season. I'm sure there will be a handful of viewers that will like this new 'Doctor' but personally speaking, the Doctor's character does not change in any major way through the regeneration process.
I will continue to visit the Doctor again in season 12 but if it's the same I will not be watching all the episodes again as I didn't in 11.
The writing needs major improvement!
The stories are terrible. Summary: all identity politics, NPC/SJW drivel. All plots can be boiled down to "white men bad" "White civilization people are all invaders/polluters/enslavers/ fill in the negative "Women are infinitely BETTER than men. Americans are crass, hateful people. The Doctor is a MAN plain and simple. There is a 50+ year history of strong female roles (Romanna, The Rani, Ace, Sarah Jane, Leela, Amy Pond, Martha, Donna, Liz Shaw, etc.) There could have been a spin off with a woman.
I think the first 2 episodes were the weakest. Once you get through that, it's smooth sailing. I really like the new doctor. A bit ashamed to admit that I didn't like Peter Capaldi, but what do I know as a culture barbarian. Just give it a chance and stop shitting on everything that's different from your measly unimportant lives.
It's basically Space NCIS but with flatter characters.
the absolutely shitty, unwatchable capaldi seasons that forgot about everything that made doctor who great being in the 70 percent range meanwhile jodie's run which feels like a true doctor who renaissance being in the 50 percent range
and the justifications are a bunch of embarrassing posts about imaginary "SJW" messaging.
trakt gonna trakt.
Seriously! WTF?! What did I watch? A shitty soap opera?
Why do people hate on Jodie? She’s a gem! I love her and she finds herself more smoothly than some of the other doctors.
Like every season of Doctor Who this is a mixture of good and not so good episodes. But I felt the bad episodes of this season were my least favourite of all new Who, and there were more bad than good ones. The episodes written by the showrunner were really dull, boring, uninspired and messily written. All the fun and creativity is gone, at least in those five. And 'Kerblam!' had such a horrible message, coming on the side of evil corporations.
The four episodes I liked were lovely though. The endings of 'Rosa' and 'Demons of the Punjab' were powerful, 'It Takes You Away' was wonderfully weird and 'The Witchfinders' had a great performance from Alan Cumming. The cast is great, it's really good that Doctor Who has a female Doctor. Jodie is a perfect choice for the role, my main problem is the writing quality.
Though S11 has a wonderful cast and fun premises for many episodes—including interesting novel challenges for the doctor as a woman—its mere acknowledgement of (yet lack of reflection on) the Doctor's prerogative to meddle with the universe's affairs, return to a purely whimsical personality for the Doctor, and total lack of larger, cross-episode themes and plot arcs make it an enjoyable but non-thought-provoking season.
The Christmas special/ New Years special for this season is called resolution. It is also worth a watch.
This is my first season of Doctor Who, and my first time watching if you don't count that one Christmas special I muddled through years ago. It's overwhelming to know where to start, with completionist tendencies, and so many things these days to compete for your attention. New Doctor felt like the right time for a new show to check out and so far I am really into it. I watch the (12th Doctor?) Christmas ep just before starting this because it's called ep 00 for this season. Glad I did because there is a bit of a crossover. Looking forward to see where this goes!
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After the long wait for the new series what we got wasn't worth the long wait.
Jodie is good as doctor, but the writing. The "new" doctor tries too much historic lessoning (Rosa, Punjab) and too much political correctness (female doctor, the companions) - not that that's bad for itself, but it seems the season had it's heart not enough in the "right doctor-ness" (fantastic stories, great-to-strange solutions for the problems, ..).
I usually needed some time to bond with a new doctor; so far the bonding with Jodie was quite fast, but the bonding with the stories and the writing will need some more time/seasons for me.