Spoilers The Story & the Engine grade and discussion thread

[bdub76]

My one complaint about this episode is that it was too short. I didn't realize this until I started to binge watch Interview with the Vampire Part II on Hoopla. That show also has 8 episodes, but each episode runs about an hour long. This episode could have been longer to fill in some more details about the barbershop. If we're only going to get 8 episodes, can we get longer episodes? It's not like it's on network TV and needs spots for ads.

 

[Richard Baker]

Lots of telling while standing in front of the unused backstory display device.

Personally this lost me at the premise. I was never going to like an episode about a story-powered mechanical spider on a mission to kill the gods and remove storytelling from the world that uses haircuts as part of its operation. It earned itself a place at the bottom of my rankings the moment the writer came up with the concept. That's just my taste in stories.

And I was pretty bored too.

I gotta be honest, this has been my least favourite season of Doctor Who in the last 20 years, worse even than the Whitaker seasons. Even more annoying is that everyone else seems to be liking it a lot, so I'm in the minority on this one!

I agree. It was nice to see the Doctor extend his range but I simply did not care for the story

 

[Ray Hardgrit]

I will say that Ncuti was on fire in this one. They next time an episode does the 'clips of all the previous Doctors' trope, they'll be using a clip from this story.