Haven’t seen a discussion post for the new special, so I’ll get the ball rolling. Thoughts, insights, bits you loved… let it all out.
Loved it. It was fun, cheesy at times, but also down to earth where it mattered. Also a big fan of RTD giving a big middle finger to everyone who complained about Jodie’s era being too “woke.” I find it kinda funny that RTD did more with a female doctor in one episode than Chibnal did in 3 years, and he didn’t even have a female doctor.
Only complaint is the resolution to the metacrisis where they just get rid of it. Feels a bit hand-wavy and also the one thing in the episode that I felt was a bit preachy. Loved the stuff before it though, with Rose inheriting it.
RTD and hand-wavy plot shrugging. Name a better duo. Still a fun special all the same.
Lol, to be fair I feel like every modern showrunner has had that issue. Moffat especially tended to have finales that were basically just “let’s hold hands and hope things work out.”
This episode was like RTDs whole run - generally good but with some almost unbearably cheesy moments
Wow, you can tell the series just got a big cash infusion from Disney. The production values have gone way up. (But we still have guys in rubber suits because it wouldn’t be Doctor Who otherwise.)
I loved it, personally! David Tennant and Catherine Tate felt like they’d been away for a month or two rather than 15 years, and it’s so nice for Doctor Who to just be fun and funny again.
I know some people didn’t like the “let it go” resolution, but also that’s just Russell T. Davies I think. You get utterly bonkers ideas (Beep The Meep on primetime TV as a big comeback monster!) a political point of view that he’s not afraid to completely smash you over the head with, and an out-of-nowhere hand-wavy resolution that fixes everything (remember when the Doctor became flying space Jesus and then they erased the human race getting genocided back in the day?)
Also I loved the conversation in the cab:
“How’s Nerys?”
“She’s fine.”
“Since the accident?”
“She’s not fine.”
“It was her fault.”
“She’s been fined.”
ALSO I really like the new TARDIS interior. Someone on another site described Tennant running around it as like a dog with the zoomies lol.
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The Doctor has long been about inclusivity and it’s nice to see it addressed and managed like only Who can.
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I was howling after that car conversation!
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And the new TARDIS has a coffee maker! Totally making a Janeway meme about that one.
Oh yeah I didn’t mean that as a dig at the inclusivity at all, I loved it. I just meant I really enjoy how much RTD does not fuck around when it comes to making a statement lol.
Also it’s a very TARDIS move to have a coffee maker built into the console, and also have the console violently explode on contact with coffee.
Here’s how I interpreted that scene:
The TARDIS knows how Donna was fired, it knows she’s a bit clutzy, and it knows she takes subliminal suggestion, especially after being recently demetacrisised. It also misses her and needs her to stay with the Doctor for a while longer. So, predictably, Donna spills her coffee on the console, and the TARDIS is all like WHOOAAAA, oh my, I’m falling, I’m on fire, look at the sparks, we could go anywhere!! Heehee.
Janeway: Coffee. Black.
serves pumpkin spice coffee with 9 sugars
Janeway: …
I love the new Tardis. Especially that it actually has doors to other rooms. I wouldn’t mind some color, like blue doors or something.
I hope they get to show us some of the other rooms!!! (Especially the pool)
I like the new intro.
Intro was great, no question. The whole thing was pretty good, a bit predictable. End was a little silly.
The breathy scraping sound in the end credits was a bit high in the mix. Really distracting. Liked it otherwise.
That was the best episode in several years, mainly due to it being from the '80s comic book line. It hit all the right buttons; it’s fun, even with the twist!
