Spoilers Doctor Who 2024 (spoilers)
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The Myopic Sniper
Hero
Yeah, they were clearly looking to hook a different demographic in the first couple of episodes, but it settled down nicely after that. Space Babies would have been a fun throwaway Episode 9 of 13 fifteen years ago, but I wouldn't have led with it personally. I know the BBC's remit to RTD is to bring back the young audience, but I can't imagine anything I would have liked less than "Space Babies" were I 12 years old. Mind you the tastes of an overly serious 12 year old in 1983 is very different one in 2024. I thought the space sailing ships in that years Doctor Who story Enlightenment was way too fantasy and juvenile at the time. Now it almost reads as a proper adult drama. Times change.
ART!
Deluxe Unhuman
Yes, it gets better, but the season has been criticized for lacking narrative logic, even more than when RTD was the showrunner the first time. So, some things will make similar not-sense* as "Space Babies". But the character stuff and dramatic moments continue to be spot-on.
* This was not meant as a reference, but I realized it is: when facing the Not-Things in "Wild Blue Yonder", 14 invoked a salt circle on the edge of the universe, which has allowed magic and supernatural stuff free-er reign in this universe, so arguably some things that don't make sense in the traditional...sense...do make a kind of fae, trickster-y, magic-y sense.
ART!
Deluxe Unhuman
I've been hearing that a lot, that younger viewers loved that episode and this season in general.
Enevhar Aldarion
Hero
Yes, this new season, and the three specials, definitely felt like they were getting back to the more traditional "children's show" that was Classic Who. Modern Who tried too hard to be "grown-up" and serious complicated and a lot of it I just did not enjoy.
Ruin Explorer
Legend
I would literally have stopped watching Dr Who if I'd been 10-13 and that episode had come out directly after the goblin one.
14 and up I might have been mature enough to laugh at it again, but I yeah there's this "danger zone" where kids are too old to appreciate that as little kids do, and too young to appreciate it more ironically, and where it's deeply embarrassing if media you're watching is mawkish and ridiculous. I don't think RTD realizes this zone exists, or if he does, he doesn't care.
Nah. My friends have kids entering precisely that age range (the very oldest ones) and a couple of them are the same way - they've gone from liking that kind of silly business like that to being embarrassed by it - I was discussing this with one of my friends just recently. There will be some kids who don't care but I think most kids through the period sooner or later. Whether it's 10 or 12 or 14 or 16 probably varies a fair bit (EDIT - Tumblr culture in the '10s shows some people were able to put it off to like 22 but they still went through it lol).
Bollocks mate. ClassicWho/oldWho was absolutely never that kind of show, not even accounting for the difference of time period. nuWho is rather returning to S2 nuWho and onwards. It had whimsy but not remotely that type of whimsy.
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The Soloist
Hero
Never watched Dr Who except for the reboot with Eccleston. When he left, I didn't like Tenant's style, so stopped watching.
Having the basics of the show restated, was very helpful for me, for casual and new viewers.
The show's tone is getting darker with each episode. The Devil's Chord gave me the willies at times. Boom was bleak.
I like the chemistry between the new Doctor and Ruby. I'll keep watching.
Having the basics of the show restated, was very helpful for me, for casual and new viewers.
The show's tone is getting darker with each episode. The Devil's Chord gave me the willies at times. Boom was bleak.
I like the chemistry between the new Doctor and Ruby. I'll keep watching.
The Soloist
Hero
73 Yards cool concept with unexplained bits. Loved the mocking owner and patrons of the pub. I will add them to one of my RPG sessions.
Bubble was fun and scary, in a Black Mirror kind of way. The Doctor's frustration was palpable. Pepper's Not One of Us expression at the end. Perfect.
Rogue, I fell asleep midway.
5 interesting episodes out of 6. I'll keep watching.
Bubble was fun and scary, in a Black Mirror kind of way. The Doctor's frustration was palpable. Pepper's Not One of Us expression at the end. Perfect.
Rogue, I fell asleep midway.
5 interesting episodes out of 6. I'll keep watching.
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