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Topic	The Doctor Who season finale was last week - thoughts?
MrMallard 12/17/18 11:30:48 PM #6:	pinky0926 posted... Wait have these shot the whole season already? I haven't even seen a single episode of the lady doctor. Not exactly an original observation here but Capaldi was a brilliant doctor marred by lacklustre writing. There was that one episode where he was stuck in the groundhog day timeloop castle and that was terrific. The rest was terrible. Hoping this was better than that. Capaldi was an alright Doctor, my main beef is that he didn't feel consistent at all. He spends the first series being a prick, then he's chill for the second, then he has to like learn how to love again for the third. He had some cracker episodes, look at his introduction and Heaven Sent, but Clara stayed too long and he went through so many shifts between series that it was hard to keep up. Character development is one thing, this was just messy imo. So yeah, I would agree with you that Capaldi's Doctor was pretty alright when the writing wasn't beans. The full season is out, check it out when you can. COVxy posted... They've had some interesting ideas this season, but their refusal to do continuation episodes has meant that they clearly haven't had enough time to explore them. Almost every episode this season left me with the feeling "that could have been really cool if they didn't rush the hell out of the conclusion". I kind of agree. I think the issue is more with the villains themselves, like Krasko - he just ~~says some racist shit and gets ganked~~, nothing more to him than that. Single episode villains aren't bad, but I found that most of this season's villains were just a bit shit - as much as I liked Kerblam, it had a weak payoff. Arachnids in the UK was just balls for most of its running time. Though I did quite like the Pting, personally, and I'm down to see more Stenza in the future. Really, I would say that your criticism sums up my issues with It Takes You Away the most. The ending was fun, but maybe there would have been more time to really establish an emotional connection, or just really hammer home the emotional impact of the episode, if it had more time to really flesh that final scene out. And like it didn't need to be a two parter necessarily, they could have just cut out Ribbons or reduced his role - an otherwise weirdly entertaining ending ended up falling a tiny bit short, just because they had to run through the climax of the episode. ~~Not hating on the frog though, even as jank as it was I rather liked it.~~ Here's hoping that they get a slightly longer season next time, so maybe they can do a few two parters and spread their weight a little bit more. --- God bless us, all of us - even those who shun the light Now playing: Stardew Valley, FFX, Yakuza 4, Skyrim, Paladins <cite>MrMallard posted [p:914311521] in The Doctor... [t:77310199]...</cite> <quote><cite>pinky0926 posted...</cite> <quote>Wait have these shot the whole season already? I haven't even seen a single episode of the lady doctor. Not exactly an original observation here but Capaldi was a brilliant doctor marred by lacklustre writing. There was that one episode where he was stuck in the groundhog day timeloop castle and that was terrific. The rest was terrible. Hoping this was better than that.</quote> Capaldi was an alright Doctor, my main beef is that he didn't feel consistent at all. He spends the first series being a prick, then he's chill for the second, then he has to like learn how to love again for the third. He had some cracker episodes, look at his introduction and Heaven Sent, but Clara stayed too long and he went through so many shifts between series that it was hard to keep up. Character development is one thing, this was just messy imo. So yeah, I would agree with you that Capaldi's Doctor was pretty alright when the writing wasn't beans. The full season is out, check it out when you can. <cite>COVxy posted...</cite> <quote>They've had some interesting ideas this season, but their refusal to do continuation episodes has meant that they clearly haven't had enough time to explore them. Almost every episode this season left me with the feeling "that could have been really cool if they didn't rush the hell out of the conclusion".</quote> I kind of agree. I think the issue is more with the villains themselves, like Krasko - he just says some racist shit and gets ganked, nothing more to him than that. Single episode villains aren't bad, but I found that most of this season's villains were just a bit shit - as much as I liked Kerblam, it had a weak payoff. Arachnids in the UK was just balls for most of its running time. Though I did quite like the Pting, personally, and I'm down to see more Stenza in the future. Really, I would say that your criticism sums up my issues with It Takes You Away the most. The ending was fun, but maybe there would have been more time to really establish an emotional connection, or just really hammer home the emotional impact of the episode, if it had more time to really flesh that final scene out. And like it didn't need to be a two parter necessarily, they could have just cut out Ribbons or reduced his role - an otherwise weirdly entertaining ending ended up falling a tiny bit short, just because they had to run through the climax of the episode. Not hating on the frog though, even as jank as it was I rather liked it. Here's hoping that they get a slightly longer season next time, so maybe they can do a few two parters and spread their weight a little bit more. --- God bless us, all of us - even those who shun the light Now playing: Stardew Valley, FFX, Yakuza 4, Skyrim, Paladins</quote> ... Copied to Clipboard!
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