Catsmate
13th Incarnation
I Ate'nt Dead.
Posts: 3,859 
Favourite Doctors: Thirteen, Six, Five, Two, Eight, Eleven, Twelve, One, Nine...
Traits: Eccentric, Insatiable Curiousity.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 6, 2021 16:51:33 GMT
Putting the poll up a day early due to being down with Covid. Also it's correctly spelled....
FYI, the initial broadcast is tomorrow at 18:15Z on BBC1.
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Post by markrand on Nov 6, 2021 20:13:03 GMT
I'll DVR it off from BBC America tomorrow night and watch it next week. After that, I'll give you my opinion.
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Post by ninjaconor on Nov 7, 2021 19:26:12 GMT
I really enjoyed that one. There were a couple of cringy jokes and weird bits of dialogue, but overall it was probably the best Sontaran story in a very long time. I know we're only two episodes into this series, but it feels like Chris Chibnall is finally bringing his A-game. It's kind of a shame it took him so long to get here.
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Catsmate
13th Incarnation
I Ate'nt Dead.
Posts: 3,859
Favourite Doctors: Thirteen, Six, Five, Two, Eight, Eleven, Twelve, One, Nine...
Traits: Eccentric, Insatiable Curiousity.
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Post by Catsmate on Nov 7, 2021 20:30:18 GMT
I thought the second episode wasn't as good as the first, a bit all over the place. Tricky trying to handle all the plot threads,
But not bad.
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Post by markrand on Nov 8, 2021 18:42:27 GMT
I thought it was good, but a bit confusing in places.
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Post by Stormcrow on Nov 9, 2021 14:43:18 GMT
Mildly disappointing. The Sontarans' look has gone backward, resembling the men-wearing-rubber-masks-and-tin-cans look they had in classic Doctor Who. The final fix of the problem was "ram one ship into a couple of others and a 'temporal implosion' will magically make the Sontarans go away." The villains on the planet Time are cartoonish, both in look and in behavior. And speaking of the planet Time, Chibnall is once again rewriting Doctor Who history: a Time Lord doesn't know how time itself works? And this is how it works?
The battle in the Crimean turned out to be uninteresting: "Don't go," "We're going," "You'll be slaughtered," "We were slaughtered." It didn't help that I know very little about the Crimean War and had no idea who Mary Seacole was, so there was no attachment there for me.
Dan's parents suddenly appearing out of nowhere was impossibly contrived, and the only reason they showed up was to provide exposition about how the Sontarans had taken everything over.
My favorite part was where Dan keeps running into Sontarans and keeps using the same straight-faced lines to try to get out of trouble.
So what made Dan suddenly appear at home? What made Yaz suddenly appear on planet Time? How did the Doctor find her? The whole progression here feels contrived and handwavy.
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scottbarratt1989
2nd Incarnation
You know, the very powerful and the very stupid have one thing in common..
Posts: 27
Favourite Doctors: Davidson, Smith
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Post by scottbarratt1989 on Nov 13, 2021 16:36:50 GMT
Overall, I enjoyed it. I'm starting to find the Doctor a bit confusing; when Dan kills the Sontarans it's fine, but when General 'Whatshisface' does it, he's a villain and the Doc gets very cross.
My main compliant is because we went from the cliffhanger last week to everyone just being ok, I feel like I missed an episode.
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