Doctor Who Ncuti Gatwa Xmas Special & s1

[Riley]

I think I'm the only one who likes Love & Monsters. Of course there would be a message board (and now a subreddit or a Facebook group, or both) sharing Doctor sightings.

Elizabeth Sandifer likes Love and Monsters, and expounds circumlocutiously about it here:

Their Little Groups (Love and Monsters)

I've got your animated version of Shada right here, baby.It’s June 17th, 2006. Nelly Furtado is at number one with “Maneater,” with Pink, Infernal, Baddiel, Skinner, and the Lightning Seeds, and Tony Christie also charting, the latter two with World Cup-focused songs. Over at the W

www.eruditorumpress.com

(I had to search elsewhere for a concise confirmation that her opinion was positive: "Love and Monsters was, in many ways, the gem of Season Two..." https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/outside-the-government-random-shoes )

 

[Vael]

Okay, new challenge ... anyone want to stand up for Fear Her? Or The Idiot's Lantern? Tennant's first year had a few stinkers I don't care to revisit, didn't Rose encourage a boy to go back to his abusive father?

While I'd rather have given someone new a spin at running Who, I am interested to see how RTD does with Gatwa. If nothing else, he seems to be abandoning a lot of his tricks, the third special seems to be saying that we will be getting less "lonely god" angst.

 

[Tonguez]

Okay, new challenge ... anyone want to stand up for Fear Her? Or The Idiot's Lantern? Tennant's first year had a few stinkers I don't care to revisit, didn't Rose encourage a boy to go back to his abusive father?

While I'd rather have given someone new a spin at running Who, I am interested to see how RTD does with Gatwa. If nothing else, he seems to be abandoning a lot of his tricks, the third special seems to be saying that we will be getting less "lonely god" angst.

Fear Her was the one with the alien scribble that needed the Olympic Torch flame to get home?
I liked that story of childhood trauma, imagination and Olympic hope

 

[James Gasik]

I didn't mind Fear Her, though I know a lot of people lambasted it. The whole "face stealing" thing has kind of terrified me since I saw Charlie X and this one episode of GI Joe as a kid, so the Idiot's Lantern worked for me.

Tooth and Claw, on the other hand, is an episode I felt was terribly lacking.

 

[overgeeked]

I think I'm the only one who likes Love & Monsters. Of course there would be a message board (and now a subreddit or a Facebook group, or both) sharing Doctor sightings.

If I were RTD, I'd even include the Love & Monsters characters as UNIT staffers, although maybe just with a single line each.

I liked it, too. Fans need a few swipes now and again.

 

[overgeeked]

Tooth and Claw, on the other hand, is an episode I felt was terribly lacking.

Same. As much as I loved the library scene and a few bits later in the episode, the Western monks that suddenly threw off their robes and became D&D monks or Shaolin masters is nothing but eye-roll worthy.

 

[The Myopic Sniper]

You can call the next series S1 or Season 1 all you want but it will always be Season 40 to me.

 

[Tonguez]

You can call the next series S1 or Season 1 all you want but it will always be Season 40 to me.

40 really? To be honest Ive lost count

 

[Zardnaar]

How is it season 1 again?

 

[James Gasik]

How is it season 1 again?

Disney marketing.