I watched Kerblam twice. It just utterly falls apart in the ending.
So what part of that episode equates to the Doctor murdering a kid, rather than the Doctor disposing of the threat and the murderous terrorist who caused it getting caught up in the aftermath?
I don't agree with basically any of that, but that's fine.
I've talked about this too many times here, but 13 redirects the package to the factory which is fine but THEN when the threat is neutralized she chooses to blow them up, at the structural level of the factory and while Charlie is beside them. There was absolutely no need to do what she did.
The threat was absolutely not neutralised- the bombs were still active, and the man who had control over the system had just escaped. She tried to get him to come to safety, but he wouldn't.
There was absolutely no indication that Charlie was still a threat with his device destroyed and the only thing that was going to make the bombs go off was popping the bubble wrap. There was no urgent need to blow them up and they could have been disposed of in space/somewhere where they couldn't cause damage. This isn't something I see as being debatable.
Ooh, I fucking HATE those episodes. Generic, boilerplate plot, without any attempt at subversion or interest, palpable running on the spot for the sole purpose of filling time, shoddy unbelievable character work, rehashing of old ideas (THRILL as they bring back the Tivoli- without David Walliams this time!), wrapping the whole thing up in a flashy bootstrap paradox rather than actually bothering to write a story... God, it's rubbish. The deaf character's the only thing even close to a new or interesting idea for Doctor Who in the whole thing, and it's not like she's some masterpiece of character work. Toby Whithouse's complete inability to write a good episode of Doctor Who post-The God Complex is actually remarkable.
Just rewatching Series 9 and wanted to post an appreciation for the cinematography. A totally different look from S8, dark with more muted colours and rich gold lighting.
I don't have the time to defend the episodes now and I doubt I'd change your feelings on them anyway, but I just want to say it features maybe the best cold opening in Doctor Who.
The one with with the bug hanging off that old lady's tit?! No thank you.
Excuse me, that's national treasure Dame Diana Rigg's tit to you.
It and the (severely underrated) Hide were probably the highlights of series 7.
Haha was it? I don't even remember that was her.
Hide is good. I think Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS might actually be underrated... like most I was pretty disappointed with its wasted potential the first time around, but for whatever reason I liked it a lot more the second time, for all the exploration stuff. The whole subplot with the brothers, though, is just one of the worst, most baffling things ever written for the show though.
Yup. I like Jodie fine, but I find the show as a whole less interesting and poorly written.
I did that and wish I had waited until it came out as part of the Prime video subscription as the rest of the new Dr Who seasons.
On that note, the Doctor telling that girl not to take her medication really rubbed me the wrong way.
