Emotional manipulation of the cheap kind everywhere, and a spot of dead baby stuff. Joy.
Scene/plot resolutions that make no sense even one moment to the next.
A 13 year old kid not only works at Unit, but has machine guns in his scooter.
Gobbledegook dialogue that doesn’t even make sense while it is being spoken (which is standard for RTD, but here it’s expected to be an explanation)
More endings than Return of the King.
Star Trek Into Darkness levels of ‘here’s a scene they did better before’. And some added calls to nostalgia.
Resolution to threat that is silly, makes almost no sense (and involves the Tardis towing something…)
Music so busy telling me what to feel I had to rewind to hear stuff.
A new record for ‘how many times can the Doctor cry in an episode’ (three times at least, though they edited one bit out but left the tear streak in place by looks of it)
That’s not what the inside of a CRT looks like (nor would it need to be one for VHS)
RTD lies (looks like Ruby is gone…)
Does Rose Not Tyler even get a line?
Why did The Doctor and Ruby change costumes for 2046? (Good year choice. The film was better though)
“Cultural appropriation” throwing shade on old Who? Or are we talking about Egypt/Osiris?
Whole planets dying at different times?
Stars dying now?
Things happening for sake of convenience.
Robots grow their head back.
At least he undid the token death of last week.
Maybe show the baby and her mother coming back though?
Season long arc resolved in a way that makes no sense at all.
People behaving without any sense of realism, even by Who standards.
Doctor having Thirteen levels of being an arse to someone (yeah, there’s your mum, don’t go talk to her though, she clearly couldn’t be arsed)
Poor old Ruby’s Dad, that’s gonna go well. (Was his name Billy Garret? That would be hilarious if you watch WhoTubers)
Sutekh has been hitching a ride for a few centuries on the Tardis, and no one noticed, not even when it blew up and was rebooted from a memory? Not when it was split in half? Not when she was split into humanoid body? Not throughout the whole Time War or whenever she was back on Gallifrey?
Susan Triad is a perfect trap for the Doctor? Why does he need to be trapped?
They put the big Dog on a leash, how funny. How naff.
I… don’t think Ncuti has the acting skills for the Doctorish stuff. It felt like he had just been handed his lines sometimes. Sorry.
*excited technobabble, flick switches mania* haven’t we done this before Rusty?
Oh, and of course Rubies origins are in implied abuse. Why wouldn’t they be?
Not only should Dimensions In Time be canon, all of Eastenders should be in there. Fits right in.
Only eight episodes, and I am meant to care about *any* of these people? Millie’s the only regular who has had anything to do, and has acted well. Even then I am not exactly buying the super special ‘changed me’ stuff.
And of course she loves the Doctor. Of course. (Haven’t we done that before too?)
Shame the Doctor didn’t think to get himself a better costume from the Memory Tardis.
Still, it’s taken nearly forty years, but Mel was finally relevant to a plot. Still didn’t let her do any of the computer stuff (she could have designed the security, rather than the Doctor implying he did…)
And Mrs.Flood was so written as River Song. Which will likely be more flim flam.
At this point Carole Anne Ford really should be in the Christmas special, which is at least a Moffat episode so may not be entirely a mess.
It was worse than I expected. And that’s saying something.
