A couple of observations from a guy who wore his Dalek t-shirt and drank from his Dr. Who coffee mug on New Year’s Day...
I know it is tradition to hate the new Doctor while pining for the previous one, but I never warmed to Capaldi and Whittaker is worse. Not that she isn’t a fine actress, but I don’t buy that her character has been male for centuries and now finds himself living as a woman. Until Capaldi, I could always see a bit of the previous Doctor in the present one. I saw no Matt Smith in Capaldi and I see none of the previous Doctors in Jodie Whittaker’s Doctor portrayal.
The SJW crap of this season has been heavy handed and changed Doctor Who from “gotta see it” to “maybe if I get around to it” for me.
The 3 companion bit is not working. Besides the just general confusion it brings and distracts from the story line, did they have to have a gay Muslim woman, a disabled young black man, and an old white guy who goes about being perpetually confused?
Moving the Christmas Special to a New Year’s Day Special smacks of lefties not being comfortable with the subtle religious overtones and at least secular veneration of the previous Christmas Specials. This one was so bad that you could tell that it had been written as a Christmas special and then they had gone back and drawn a line through Christmas and written in New Years every time it appeared in the script. The story had some minor plot points regarding how understaffed particular agencies were because of New Years, but it could have just as easily been because of Christmas, or Boxing Day, or the Queen’s birthday.
SPOILERS (not so much if you have read anything about this episode)
Bringing back the Daleks (or more accurately, one really old, pitiful Dalek) was not the kind of earth shattering revelation, or a major advancing of an over arching plot, we have come to expect from these special episodes. It was drawn out, disappointing and derivative of many other science fiction story lines - ancient enemy unearthed, alien taking a human host, authorities unable/unwilling to believe the heroes that an alien attack was imminent...been there, done that, lots of times.
Overall, really sad. As much of a fan that I am, I find myself hoping that the 13th Doctor is the end of the line.
The SJW crap of this season has been heavy handed and changed Doctor Who from “gotta see it” to “maybe if I get around to it” for me.
With Capaldi, Dr Who became “maybe if I get around to it”, with the female its forgetaboutit entirely.
Have all the episodes from the 3rd Doctor to Capaldi to watch - now on the 4th Doctor in The Androids of Tara with the beautiful (now sadly passed) Mary Tamm.