I thought the same thing! That the show was sorta trolling the “fans” who were screaming to high heaven about a female Doctor.
It was?
Oops. Had included your quote by accident and got caught up between responses. Didn't mean to confuse, mostly because I was myself at the time. :blush:
Why do people think he needed more motivation? He explained his motivation quite clearly. He's just another loser who blames his failures on the fact that people who don't look like him have a place in society, and assumes he'd be more successful if they weren't free to compete with him. The thing about racists is that their motivations are very simplistic and their worldviews aren't that interesting.
Many people are conflating motivation as narrative depth, while using sentiment to coast on. The villain is still underdeveloped and flat. He could have been far more compelling. He is racist - that was explained clearly, that's obvious. But letting the audience coast on that instead of having a
more structured narrative to tell an even
better story involving the villain. He still came across as being throwaway and secondary. He's barely in it. In which case all we need is a 3 minute story telling just his scene and it would be no more or less effective than in a 49 minute one. I believe that is the real issue, the lack of use?
I maintain the story would have been better if the Doctor and crew dealt with him instead of contriving Rosa's situation, which DOES trivialize and diminish dignity from both Rosa and Doctor. The episode is still "first draft", regardless. Heck, we don't even see MLK saying anything. It's all implied. The writers did not take much creative liberty or risk and played it safe. That's written all over the episode. Of course, how risky should it be?
If the villain returns, then there's an arc worth having and there are plenty of reasons for him to not have ended up where he was allegedly zapped to and even the most pedestrian explanation would suffice. If he doesn't, then he was used rather underwhelmingly and was a real missed opportunity.
I massively disagree. I loved her tweaking of Graham about being Banksy.
Who is Banksy? The British graffiti artist?
I think she ran the screwdriver for a bit before it overheated, so I think she triggered it to do that
ROTFLMAO
Isn't it obvious? How else would we have known there was a 12-year time jump between the opening scene and what followed? After all, the TARDIS hadn't arrived yet, so we couldn't have gotten that information in dialogue.
Plenty of possibilities. Very simple to do, actually.
"Now?" The Doctor's been using the screwdriver as a tricorder ever since the new series began, and it's never had any kind of readout. It's implicitly been telepathic all along -- either that or it was conveying information through the sound pattern it gave off.
Yes, "now". NuWHO is still NuWHO. 2005-present. It's use has just been ramped up.
At least the new one actually does have a opening on the side with lights inside, and the way Whittaker looks at it makes me think there actually is supposed to be a visual readout in the side now.
Yes because the wireframe design allows that by design. And how many lights are there? More than 4, depending on how much data is being conveyed.
And then the other problem if recreating Gallifreyan technology with Stenza crystals and AA batteries that allows all the previous 2005-present technology PLUS teleportation as told in the season opener...
Umm... you're blaming Chris Chibnall for things that have been typical of Doctor Who since before Chris Chibnall was born.
Nope. The sonic screwdriver was never used as a tricorder, bacteria detector, and other complex things prior to 2005. It certainly wasn't whipped out half a dozen times or more during the course of a story either. The show tried to legitimize it by saying "It's like a sonic swiss army knife". Fine and dandy, let's just swallow anything no matter how shallow. And no worries, when "The Time Monster" had the Doctor building a device that could jam the Master's control box housing Kronos with a booze bottle and corks and forks was equally stupid. It's 2018 now, not 1972. Shouldn't we see more writing of sophistication from storytellers nowadays and fewer throwaway cop-outs?
That's racism 101 -- buying into the belief that your problems are the fault of people who are different from you. Of course it doesn't make sense, but it's hardly a new or unprecedented idea that racists think that way.
No argument from me on that.
It may not even have been a reference, just a parallel story device. I saw someone elsewhere assume it was a reference to Spike's control chip in Buffy. The idea of an implant that prevents people from committing violence didn't originate with Blake's 7, and it has no unique claim to it. It might've been a wink in its direction, but it could've just been an independent use of a shared trope.
Very much agreed.
