Season 14; Russell T Davies Returns

Disney Plus having its own problems regarding profitability and retaining subscriptions of course... I would think the specials would sustain around the 5-6m overnight in UK figures for as long as Tennant is around but can't see Gatwa gaining much ground on JW's figures unless the writing quality is significantly overhauled.

I thought JW was a good doctor. All the doctors overact and she was no different Matt Smith or Capaldi (none as good as Tennant).

The writing let her down. The writing was awful. The show was terrible and I don't think any of that reflects on her.

RTD always seemed to end these lingering stories (Bad Wolf was a long story with an ending) unlike Chibnall who could never write a proper ending and thinks we're all dumb when the next episode starts and nothing matches the previous episode (thinking The Flux in particular)

Hmm this was already done - don't think they would go there again

I dunno. RTD is nothing if not grossly self indulgent when it comes to his DW writing. We've had Tennant regenerate into himself, Tennant "regenerate" into a copy of himself, 13th Doctor regenerate into Tennant, what's one more?

Dunno, we have the metacrisis Doctor, and now another 'Doctor'? So that would be 3 Doctors all the same running around

You can also use the VPN to get a different region of Disney+, if you want the 4k Dolby Vision HDR and 5.1 sound experience. I chose Canada!

I thought the episode was fine. Great to see Tennant and Tate back together, the rest of the cast were fine, the Meep you could see coming a mile off but it was still pretty good and I enjoyed Margoyles' performance. The whole metacrisis thing was waved away fairly easily though. Okay, the bit about it splitting because Donna had a child, great idea, that worked well. Donna and Rose just "letting it go", that just felt far too easy a solution, and the line about a male-presenting Doctor not being able to figure it out was abysmal. But at least it's done and we get Tennant and Tate back for a few episodes.

I haven't watched in years, because while I liked Whitaker's general performance, the writing and plots were just awful and I checked out halfway through her first series (saw a few bits and pieces since then). Will give Gatwa's first series a try though.

Yeah I didn't mind the lines about the Doctor assuming the Meep's pronouns, or even the Binary/Non-binary bit (which I thought was actually a pretty interesting way to tie it back to Donna getting stuck on the word Binary in that big scene way back when, even if done with the subtlety of a hammer).

But that last one about a male-presenting Doctor was just horribly done because it was a horrible explanation for a horrible way of closing out that plot point.

Not great, not terrible.

The Moopsy, I mean Meep, was fairly obvious early on.

Thought the actor playing Rose wasn't great but may get better.

Think the whole gender thing was done fairly cringe and could have been done much more naturally into the story.

Whole thing of female doctor form knowing more than male doctor form doesn't make sense to me.

Great to see Tennant back, Still have great hair.

The bug alien things looked a bit like stuff from 2005, thought they looked very cheap.

Rocket wheelchair could be handy for someone who parks on the path and you cannot pass.

Donna is same old Donna great seeing her back.

I took it to mean that a man would never consider that their offspring form a connection with them and hence, can share the metacrisis etc.

Two major flaws with that. Firstly, Donna didn't figure it out. The Doctor did and he is a bloke. Secondly, Rose isn't a woman. She identifies as non-binary in the episode. She isn't male or female.

The gender stuff was as subtle as a hammer but it was great to have a normal Dr Who story with an arc that isn't overtly complicated and will have a resolution as opposed to Chibnall and Moffat. I can see why they want to have a non-binary role model, I just hope they incorporate that thread into the stories a bit better.

When are we getting the Hayden Christensen cut?

Mixing up franchises? Why would Ankin be Doctor Who? :-)