Doctor Who - Season 13 - (**Spoilers**)

So the Doctor is annoyed at Yaz but patient with the others.

I like Dan but feel he's very one note. Like saying "I have to get to her" the same way he speaks normally and no sign of emotion at seeing her, even just walking toward her rather than rushing.

So is the Bel and Vinder story going to take up part of each episode? How long does her pregnancy last? Vinder was seemingly posted in that station for a long time before the flux then post flux, Bel is acting like she has been surviving for a long time as well, unless that's just due to time messing with things. Yet she's not showing yet.

With the door seemingly on the floor, would they have been able to just walk into the TARDIS?

Chibnall seems to be going about it all backwards.

Usually when telling one story over many episodes you can say its like one episode is a chapter. Episode 1 is chapter 1. Episode 2 is chapter 2 and you get the idea. A structure building up.

Chibnall has wrote this totally out of whack and its confusing. There's so much what's going on again moments. I get that he is building up for everything to come together however build up with something that makes sense. It's almost like "ahh, I'll make episode 1 chapter 3. Then episode 2 chapter 2" etc. Ugh.

Haven't watched yet but ah no, hate this reset idea

Correct

And is it all linking together ?

It does not feel like it.

Quite enjoyed that, still fear for the conclusion

I am linking this series more too, though I think it is more to do with the writing for this final few episodes rather than any reflection on Whitaker. I think she has suffered badly from Chibnal's writing and direction, which has improved a bit for his last hurrah.

The sound mix though has been way over the top since Chibnal took over, Murray Gold's sympathetic and appropriate accompaniment to the on screen activity has been replaced by over loud musical emphasis, even where it is not needed and sometimes (often) so driven that it drowns out the dialog or overwhelms the scene.

Overall, I think Chibnal tried to re-invent, where it was not needed and turned what was a well established and reasonably complex sci fi series that appealed both to children and adults, in to 'The Famous Five, travel through time'. His reign will go down as Doctor Who's 'Enid Blyton' influenced era.

I have high hopes that RTD will put it back on track and re-instate the elements that made it a unique adult and children appeal. It was always a generational crossover family viewing event, with a long running and often referenced history and it needs to go back to that having that focus.

@Ger Roe Interesting you think that the music mix was better under Murray Gold

Was the hologram bit only

Yeah, as fritzelly already confirmed.

Episode 5 must have had Chibnall get 10 people to write an idea each, and then he just stuck them all together.

Absolute garbage.

I dislike how they do the person turning around and music playing as if we're supposed to know who they are. Happened with the one in Division and the Snake dude, whose names I've forgotten already.

Speaking of snake dude, where did that storyline come from 1 episode from the end?

I will say one thing about Episode 5 though, it was Jodie's best performance in the role to date.

Pity she had nothing good to work with.

Totally. But at least Russell T Davies is back so hopefully we will be getting good Doctor Who episodes again.

Surprised Disney hasnt bought it yet. Added to the Marvel universe or something.

The 1996 Paul McGann TV movie was outsourced with the plan to make the show over in Canada. Obviously plans fell through.

What an utter disappointment!

Spend half the season on the Bel and Vinder storyline and it was all for nought

Flux has destroyed nearly all the universe including the daleks, cybermen etc and the Doctor just stops it at Earth using the matter of a few ships and that's it, tho going by the earlier conversation I thought it would be the laughable rewinding of it

So many other stupid things that there is too many to write here

Chibnall really is an awful storyteller

edit Reddit fuming about it, don't think there is a single positive comment

Grand Serpent was made to walk thru one of the doors and ended up on a piece of rock in space

Bel and Vinder were nothing more than side characters

To be fair to Jodie, I don't think even Tom Baker could save those scripts.

I'm really confused by the whole flux impact on things.

It seems a lot of the universe was destroyed, but the flux was stopped when the doctor shot it with vortex engery. So most of the universe was saved? I guess that's why the division was gearing up to release another flux.

I have no idea where to began. I had a headache by the end of this esp. I figured she won't open the watch. Because that's easier than dealing with it. Why would a character spend so much looking for something then just throw it away?

They avoided romance for the Jodie run as the doctor, but they seem to be heading towards Doctor/Yas. I say go for it.

Noting made sense and noting really mattered.

I assume she didn't open the watch due to being afraid of what she'd learn about herself. Or more than likely it was because Chibnall didn't want to come up with a whole new history apart from what he's already done

An hour was too long to keep repeating the same action again and again, and then with 5 minutes to go come up with some quick solution.....

Jodies acting was good, but again she had very little to work with.

Chibnall is no good, delighted he is on the way out.

It's being reported that Yaz (Mandip Gill) and Dan (John Bishop) are scheduled to leave along with Jodie later in the year.

Not exactly surprising as theres always a clean house when a new show runner takes over.