Doctor Who teaser (launch Oct 31st)

Morrus · Nov 4, 2021

I had trouble too — it’s the swelling background music drowning out the dialogue. I had to rewatch the whole thing with subtitles. Interestingly I enjoyed it a lot more the second time round and caught a lot more of the detail.

Omand · Nov 5, 2021

Agreed on the sound. I am Canadian, but lived in the UK for 3 years and learned to pick up most accents pretty well. I have usually not had any problems in prior seasons with understanding, but this last episode was really bad for sound balance. Lots of times where the background music or sound effects were far, far, far too loud for the dialogue.

Someone was not doing quality control on the sound mixing.

Cheers

wicked cool · Dec 1, 2021

Davies has a lot of work to do to repair this franchise. The viewship has dropped dramatically since episode 1 of this season. the last episode was which was just awful and drew its lowest rating of new who in its history of new who (which broke the previous weeks viewership. Thank goodness it appears theres only 1 more episode.

Morrus · Dec 1, 2021

wicked cool said:
Davies has a lot of work to do to repair this franchise. The viewship has dropped dramatically since episode 1 of this season. the last episode was which was just awful and drew its lowest rating of new who in its history of new who (which broke the previous weeks viewership. Thank goodness it appears theres only 1 more episode.

On the contrary, I think this season is some of the best Who in years. I’m very much enjoying it.

John R Davis · Dec 1, 2021

I have struggled with the mass stream of nouns. The two aliens are not compelling, and overall it's just to jumpy and all over the place for me

Paul Farquhar · Dec 1, 2021

Morrus said:
On the contrary, I think this season is some of the best Who in years. I’m very much enjoying it.

It is, but it's rather complicated, and has a lot of references back to the 1970s, for the show's supposed target audience!

Marc Radle · Dec 2, 2021

Not sure if it’s a UK vs American thing, but I just cannot get into Doctor Who. I’ve tried a few times to watch it over the years , but it just seems so cheesy and low budjet.

That’s honestly not a criticism … more just an observation I guess. I know tons of folks in the UK that love the show, but any time I ask an American friend, coworker, etc., about the show, the universal response it ‘nope, not into that show at all!”

I’m honestly curious - is it just kind of more a British / UK thing to be into the show?

Demetrios1453 · Dec 2, 2021

I know plenty of people here in the US who like the show. I've been a fan since 1983 or so lol...

Herschel · Dec 2, 2021

This series has been brilliant. There are a lot of threads finally coming together now and it hasn't been friendly to people messing with their phones, etc. rather than paying attention the whole time, but it's paying off for those who have.