Early review: Doctor Who's Latest Era Is a Burst of Regenerative Energy
Early review: Doctor Who's Latest Era Is a Burst of Regenerative Energy
After an introduction at Christmas, Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson's first trips in the TARDIS are fun, fresh, and buzzing with energy.
I'm just curious...is there any interest in discussing DW episodes in a startrek.website community?
I'm just curious...is there any interest in discussing DW episodes in a startrek.website community?
7Really, what is the Doctor if not an astronaut, on some kind of star trek?
3I'm down, I'm super excited for the new series and who knows when Prodigy will air
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Sure, love them both. Really liked Jodie but the writing was sub-par in her series
2This is the best summary I could come up with:
When one Doctor biologically passes the torch to another, they do so in fire: a cascading, revitalizing burst of energy that blinds, dazzles, destroys, changes, and births in equal measure.
Even when it’s dark, even when it’s sad, the Doctor and Ruby are bonded by this shared yearning to see more of what’s out there, driven by this connection they feel together, one as the last of their people, the other searching for their birth parents.
With fresh eyes for both Time Lord and human alike, their wanderlust is infectious, suffusing Doctor Who with that aforementioned energy, something it feels like it hasn’t always had in recent years.
You barely have time to, between the delectably chaotic storm Gatwa and Gibson wreak, and the stories bouncing from one moment to the next, almost like they’re hoping you don’t try to stop and think about the logistics of what’s going on for too long.
A bright flash, a chaotic change, a brimming energy that pings about, and takes a little while to settle before they get stuck into the heady business of saving the universe?
It’s more fitting that Doctor Who’s latest era hits the ground running in the manner it does—confident enough that it has enough energy to drag us along for the ride too, and get wrapped up in the same sense of adventure that its new heroes share.
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1I really hope this new Doctor is good because 12 and 13 were kind of crap.
1Oh boy, I cannot get behind that Capaldi slander.
The Chibnall/Whittaker era...I don't think they're are many people who would say it's their favourite, but there were at least a few pretty good installments in there.
8I don't know how you could get past Capaldi's first series and not see what an incredible Doctor he is.
I tried so hard to like things in the Chibnall era –– I was so excited when Whittaker was cast and I think she did the best she could -- but after reading Elizabeth Sandifer's evisceration of the Chibnall ethos in her piece on Kerblam! (which I think also applies to ENT, tbh) I think I've come to terms with the fact that I'm not really going to get there.
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