The title of the finale is The Reality War, so it definitely sounds like someone is screwing with reality.
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10 from me, I really enjoyed this one.
I was a fan of Midnight but I don't think we needed this to be a sequal.
Would have worked just as well without that part of the story.
Good performances from everyone and I though Rose Ayling-Ellis was especially good.
I am enjoying this season more than the last and don't really feel like I need to see anymore of Ruby Sunday.
I was a fan of Midnight but I don't think we needed this to be a sequal.
Would have worked just as well without that part of the story.
Good performances from everyone and I though Rose Ayling-Ellis was especially good.
I am enjoying this season more than the last and don't really feel like I need to see anymore of Ruby Sunday.
Well, about that...
I see what you did there
A really great episode, easily the best 15th Doctor story. Its probably not a coincidence that his best story has only slight connections to the seasons mystery gimmick, and that the companion isn't the center of the story (to be clear I like Belinda and the missing Earth mystery is interesting, but the mystery stuff from RTD can get tiring).
I don't worship Midnight like some people seem to but its a decent episode and I think this sequel is actually better, although it is a fairly different kind of episode. I'd say that the only part I rolled my eyes at was the Doctor taking what felt like 45 seconds to stare at the camera crying (I like the 15th Doctor a lot, but the crying is becoming a meme at this point), but besides that the episode really impressed me. No "Gods", and a story that, while it hints at the seasonal mystery, would 100% have happened regardless of the MYSTERY OR THE "Gods", was exactly the kind of story both the show and the 15th Doctor needed right now.
I don't worship Midnight like some people seem to but its a decent episode and I think this sequel is actually better, although it is a fairly different kind of episode. I'd say that the only part I rolled my eyes at was the Doctor taking what felt like 45 seconds to stare at the camera crying (I like the 15th Doctor a lot, but the crying is becoming a meme at this point), but besides that the episode really impressed me. No "Gods", and a story that, while it hints at the seasonal mystery, would 100% have happened regardless of the MYSTERY OR THE "Gods", was exactly the kind of story both the show and the 15th Doctor needed right now.
Well, that was intense!
Took a little while to get going, but once it did, riveting. Could barely take my eyes off the screen. Proof positive you don't need showy effects to engage, or blood and gore to chill. You don't even need a monster reveal. The shiver that went through me at the Midnight reveal, that sudden sense of "oh hell, this is bad"? Delicious.
Now, if only Hollywood could understand this.
3 for 3 for me, and crossing everything they keep this roll going. Also intrigued at Mrs Flood's apparent, and rather Doctor-like, ability to insinuate herself anywhere, and anywhen...
Took a little while to get going, but once it did, riveting. Could barely take my eyes off the screen. Proof positive you don't need showy effects to engage, or blood and gore to chill. You don't even need a monster reveal. The shiver that went through me at the Midnight reveal, that sudden sense of "oh hell, this is bad"? Delicious.
Now, if only Hollywood could understand this.
3 for 3 for me, and crossing everything they keep this roll going. Also intrigued at Mrs Flood's apparent, and rather Doctor-like, ability to insinuate herself anywhere, and anywhen...
Dark wings, dark words
Face the Crow.
I think it works in something like The Well because they have to get into spacesuits, but I do kinda agree.
I think you can go too far down the 'uniform' route ala some of the classic Doctors and Whittaker, but even though Capaldi's look was fairly ordinary a lot of the time, and it varied, there were some distinctive elements in there, whereas Ncuti's outfits are all over the place and the only reason it works is because you could put that guy in a potato sack and he'd look fabulous in it!
It always comes back, to me, to the idea that you can look at a scene and say ‘there’s the Doctor’ and more often than not a scene that could be from *any* show or film, period drama, SF, contemporary, and know it’s Doctor Who even if you don’t know the Doctors by face. The one fellow with what the designers in 2005 called a ‘distinct silhouette’. There are times where that’s not true in a given moment or scene (spacesuits, dive suits, disguises) but in general there should be more of that than Mr.Benn dressing up business. It’s sort of the point, the Doctor belongs everywhere and Nowhere. Think how images that are sort of silly are also sort of iconic — cricket whites in Space, the Dandy face to face with the Alien (many many times, Sontarans, Draconians) the man in the thirties Golfing attire about to ride a motorbike at a gang, the young professor holding up the (not actually a) Jammy Dodger to the alien tank.
There’s really none of that, because even his hair is changed every other episode. I don’t think they would do it with a white Doctor, if I am honest, and it sits a little uncomfortable with me, even though in so many ways it’s really nothing.
Haha, that was supposed to be crowd.
Exactly! And I know that sometimes costume changes are necessary (spacesuit, ballgowns et all, even 10 dressed for the occasion sometimes) but being able to glance at the screen and immediately pick out the Doctor bc of his iconic costume; doesn't really work with Ncuti bc he's always in period dress.
And it doesn't HAVE to be the exact same costume every day; variation is necessary; but keep the silhouette, keep to the theme.
There's no real winning this argument. Doctors from Davison onwards wear the same outfit and every is all "NO! The Doctor doesn't wear a uniform, they're supposed to change their clothes!" Gatwa wears a different outfit each episode and everyone becomes "why doesn't the Doctor have a uniform look?"
