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Spoilers The Star Beast grade and discussion thread

How do you rate The Star Beast?


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Now I need to do homework, what is this, Marvel? :)
Hardly. :) Easy revision guide online at my website.

Only do proper homework if you are bothered about where Who started, what it became, how it continued during the hiatus, what RTD turned it into at the reboot, what subsequent showrunners did to the original premise, and how really, the only new True Who stories are available on audio at Bigfinish.com, along with more spinoff series than you can shake a sonic trowel at.
It will also depend on what decade you were born in, and how long an attention span you have.
:)
 
Hardly. :) Easy revision guide online at my website.

Only do proper homework if you are bothered about where Who started, what it became, how it continued during the hiatus, what RTD turned it into at the reboot, what subsequent showrunners did to the original premise, and how really, the only new True Who stories are available on audio at Bigfinish.com, along with more spinoff series than you can shake a sonic trowel at.
It will also depend on what decade you were born in, and how long an attention span you have.
:)

It doesn't feel as universal since they dropped the monthly numbering.
 
Well, was an RTD special, not an anniversary special, and had its wires almost as crossed as Chib Who by the end. Which was also mainly about absolving the guilt of the original Doctor Donna ending, and some very silly gender essentialism. Why did Units new scientific advisor get a glow as well?
A bit… clumsy.
 
Enjoyed this, a lot of fun and immediately obvious that RTD was back. It was honestly like The Eleventh Hour never happened. Anyone worrying/hoping that RTD had changed.... he hasn't.

I will give this a B+, I was a bit underwhelmed by the plot, as much as I enjoyed the Doctor/Donna stuff and Rose was a great addition. I kind of liked the get out clause in the Donna-can't-remember problem, having a kid to share the metacrisis is a classically RTD 'out' and I'm there for it. I'm also imagining a spin off with Jenny and Rose.

Now that the pieces are back on the board, I'm hoping I'll be more hooked by the actual storyline for specials 2 and 3.

I liked that but and didn’t at the same time. ‘Oh, your kid is trans cos she’s part Doctor/Time Lord’ is a little… wrong headed if well intentioned. I mean if they hadn’t mentioned it as an idea, someone would have I suppose, but maybe it was better not lampshading it.
 
Could Donna not have simply let the Time Lord metacrisis brain stuff go back in 2008? Or did it require the power of two humans to pull off?

According to the script and on screen, you have to have a lady present or something. (The explanation that it had been split between Donna and her daughter would have been fine as explanation, and it should have just been left at that tbh. It just got borderline Orphen 55 the more they went at it.)
 
I didn't know there were multiple specials, and kept wondering when NPH will show up...:brickwall:
Anyway... It was classic RTD episode, down to the monsters being based on overgrown earth animals.
 
Hardly. :) Easy revision guide online at my website.

Only do proper homework if you are bothered about where Who started, what it became, how it continued during the hiatus, what RTD turned it into at the reboot, what subsequent showrunners did to the original premise, and how really, the only new True Who stories are available on audio at Bigfinish.com, along with more spinoff series than you can shake a sonic trowel at.
It will also depend on what decade you were born in, and how long an attention span you have.
:)

I can never gel with BF because they ignored the NA/EDA xD
 
she absorbed some of the released energy, due to proximity. this is clearly a setup for something later.

Let’s hope so, because it looked so clumsy in the moment. It was on the edge of being treated like it was a comedy sketch about HRT.
 
The trailers were largely about NPH as the villain and there was no hint of him whatsoever.
I was set to disagree on that point because I thought the hints about the Meep's boss were clearly about the Toymaker but...

According to the In-Vision commentary for Star Beast The Meep's 'Boss' will debut in Ncuti Gatwa's era
...perhaps I was wrong on that assumption? That said, I don't know what In-Vision is (something to do with iPlayer?).

Whereas I love the fact that eventually people will stop shitting all over the Chibnall era, which was mostly a refreshing change of pace from Moffat's journeys up his own backside in search of convoluted and ultimately meaningless arcs.
While I get why people are all excited about a breath of a fresh air, as someone who enjoyed the Chibnall era (but also admit it had its flaws, just not as many as people decry), I look forward to the day we can have reviews and discussions without certain people going out of their way to slag off his era. How many decades did it take for Colin Baker (regardless of Big Finish rehabilitation)? I imagine it'll be about the same...
 
I didn't know there were multiple specials, and kept wondering when NPH will show up...:brickwall:
Anyway... It was classic RTD episode, down to the monsters being based on overgrown earth animals.
NPH?

Consensus on the thread seems to be the big bad's gonna be a character from the graphic novels called The Toymaker.


dJE
 
Played by NPH. Whether or not he is the "boss" suggested by the Meep remains to be seen. And while it makes sense to clean up this arc with Tennant in the TARDIS, there's nothing to say that there's an even bigger bad out there that both Meep and the Toymaker are working for.

Mark
 
Played by NPH. Whether or not he is the "boss" suggested by the Meep remains to be seen. And while it makes sense to clean up this arc with Tennant in the TARDIS, there's nothing to say that there's an even bigger bad out there that both Meep and the Toymaker are working for.

Mark

Isn't the Rani (allegedly) slated to show up in Ncuti's run? Could be her. If it's her at all.
 
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