Sergeant Wilson Posted February 23, 2022 Share Posted February 23, 2022 2 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said: I don't give a f**k mate, I'm a stupid human killing the planet because a kid's TV show never told me not to. Good, I hope you still harangue minorities in the street when you see them. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted February 28, 2022 Share Posted February 28, 2022 After 17 minutes of Flux I have decided that when I come to power, Liverpool will be bombed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 14 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said: After 17 minutes of Flux I have decided that when I come to power, Liverpool will be bombed. I enjoyed Flux. Maybe because it was an improvement on the other Chibnall series. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 8 hours ago, scottsdad said: I enjoyed Flux. Maybe because it was an improvement on the other Chibnall series. Which reminds me that I didn't post what I thought about Whittaker's second series... Lower lows than the first series and on the whole a more middling rest of the time. Orphan 55 and Praxeus were both genuinely insulting. The other Doctor appearing felt at the time like someone trying to be shocking and having no idea where to go with it, and I get the feeling she's going to quietly disappear without a real explanation. Good. Spyfall was great and more in line with what was so enjoyable about earlier series, with the sense of something genuinely affecting the whole world and with real consequences if it didn't go right. Lenny Henry was good. The new Master's teeth are too big and there's something about him that seems a bit too fanservicey - like the speccy woman from UNIT who wears a scarf, only rather than obviously being written as an fan insertion he's just over-acted to the point of absurdity. John Simm was unhinged but always in control of what he was doing, Missy was something different and a perfect opposition to Capaldi's Doctor, the new guy comes off as a spoiled child in an extended tantrum. The closing of the series and the Cybermen/Time Lord combo was shite as well. The Doctor's backstory and Lore is about the most engaging part of the character for me but the only time it's had any significance is when Timothy Dalton was making David Tennant visibly scared for the first time in his incarnation. Turning up on a burnt out Galifrey with what, ten? fancy engraved robots doesn't have the same impact. Of the other episodes I remember, the one with the Shelleys was good aside from looking like it was filmed during a power cut and the one set in Aleppo looked like a good concept wasted because they wanted to do an episode about a place in the Middle East that's currently getting bombed and so the Doctor could say "Muslim doctors in the 13th century were actually really good at treating mental illness!" After feeling like three companions were there to compensate for Whittaker's Doctor not having a personality there was some improvement. Bradley Walsh continued to be the highlight and Ryan also had some agency about him. Yaz got even blander and it's probably not a good thing that she's stayed and the other two have gone. Replacing Bradley Walsh's Sheffield with John Bishop's Liverpool is tantamount to a war crime, and I'm glad he got kidnapped by a talking dog. Hopefully he gets fired into a black hole before I need to see him go back home. All of this comes back to the fact that I still don't think Whittaker is a good Doctor. I've never seen her in anything else so I don't know how much of this is her and how much of it is the part, but there seems to be a constant conflict about what sort of character the Doctor is supposed to be. Her outfit is daft and it staying the same for two series has a whiff of staleness about it for me, and I think this is reflected in her character not really evolving from the first series either. She seems to flit between know it all child on a school trip, harassed parent on a school trip and petulant middle class teacher on a school trip dealing with a local who isn't doing what she wants. None of this is helped by the filming which, as I've said before, is the biggest problem I have with it since Capaldi started. There's a tweet thread from Limmy that I'll be buggered if I can find but he complains about the same thing - a programme filled with shots that are obviously meant to be serious and thoughtful, with the camera sort of above where the character on screen is, them slightly off-centre, looking at something to the side while they're talking. A picture that's more ceiling than subject. I couldn't take to the His Dark Materials series for the same reason, it feels like it's supposed to look cinematic and high quality but to me it ends up looking like it's all filmed in the same place as everything else on the BBC. I know @Shandon Par has posted about this before so forgive me for tagging you - what is it you have against the way BBC dramas are filmed and why do they all look shite? The Tardis interior is shite as well. It looks like a cave. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted March 1, 2022 Share Posted March 1, 2022 Is Flux a shorter series because of Covid, low viewing figures, because it was always supposed to be or some mixture of these? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted March 8, 2022 Share Posted March 8, 2022 Flux, John Bishop, the Swarovski-faced gimps, the big snakey boy taking down UNIT, the sassy talking dog Just let it end. I might go back to the beginning and watch Tennant and Piper gurn and skip their way round council estates just to cheer myself up. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 15 hours ago, Miguel Sanchez said: Flux, John Bishop, the Swarovski-faced gimps, the big snakey boy taking down UNIT, the sassy talking dog Just let it end. I might go back to the beginning and watch Tennant and Piper gurn and skip their way round council estates just to cheer myself up. Flux had Jonathan Watson, though... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 2 hours ago, scottsdad said: Flux had Jonathan Watson, though... Oh good I have the Only an Excuse guy as a Sontaran to look forward to in the last episode. That'll improve things. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GordonD Posted March 9, 2022 Share Posted March 9, 2022 23 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said: Oh good I have the Only an Excuse guy as a Sontaran to look forward to in the last episode. That'll improve things. You'll recognise him when he comes on and asks, "Where's the burdz?" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 Did we really need to wait three years before confirming Yaz is a lesbian? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerthewitness Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 1 hour ago, Miguel Sanchez said: Did we really need to wait three years before confirming Yaz is a lesbian? Exophile, Shirley? 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miguel Sanchez Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 14 minutes ago, badgerthewitness said: Exophile, Shirley? I could also have presented you with this: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
badgerthewitness Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 3 minutes ago, Miguel Sanchez said: I could also have presented you with this: "I want to, believe!" 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottsdad Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 We had pretty much run out of things to watch with my daughter as she is well caught up with her superhero shows. So last night I put on Rose. She wasn't keen, having watched a few Jodie Whittaker efforts. What a difference - it was actually enjoyable and a bit scary. It was about living plastic but there were no speeches about how plastic was ruining the planet. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Naitch Posted March 28, 2022 Share Posted March 28, 2022 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Naitch Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 As one off stories go I've seen worse. That preview at the end of what's coming next was next level stuff, though. Can't wait. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Naitch Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 8 minutes ago, The Naitch said: As one off stories go I've seen worse. That preview at the end of what's coming next was next level stuff, though. Can't wait. I mean, come on... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jaggy Snake Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 (edited) I thought tonight's episode was somewhere between okay and dull. It started poorly but picked up a little as it went on. John Bishop's character, whilst not as good as Graham, still remains more watchable and enjoyable than the Doctor, which says a lot. I could do without more Daleks and Cybermen for the finale and frankly will just be glad when this run is over. Edited April 17, 2022 by Jaggy Snake 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clown Job Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 I thought it was pretty boring to be honest, and some crap acting from the guest stars 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bully Wee Villa Posted April 17, 2022 Share Posted April 17, 2022 There were always going to be Daleks and Cybermen in the 100th BBC anniversary episode and, most likely, in the Doctor's 60th anniversary episode next year, too. Tonight's episode was alright, nothing more or less. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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