SPOILERS - Doctor Who: The Star Beast Discussion - eviltoast

Haven’t seen a discussion post for the new special, so I’ll get the ball rolling. Thoughts, insights, bits you loved… let it all out.

  • Random Dent@lemmy.ml
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    1 year ago

    I loved it, personally! David Tennant and Catherine Tate felt like they’d been away for a month or two rather than 15 years, and it’s so nice for Doctor Who to just be fun and funny again.

    I know some people didn’t like the “let it go” resolution, but also that’s just Russell T. Davies I think. You get utterly bonkers ideas (Beep The Meep on primetime TV as a big comeback monster!) a political point of view that he’s not afraid to completely smash you over the head with, and an out-of-nowhere hand-wavy resolution that fixes everything (remember when the Doctor became flying space Jesus and then they erased the human race getting genocided back in the day?)

    Also I loved the conversation in the cab:

    “How’s Nerys?”

    “She’s fine.”

    “Since the accident?”

    “She’s not fine.”

    “It was her fault.”

    “She’s been fined.”

    ALSO I really like the new TARDIS interior. Someone on another site described Tennant running around it as like a dog with the zoomies lol.

    • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldOP
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      1 year ago
      • The Doctor has long been about inclusivity and it’s nice to see it addressed and managed like only Who can.

      • I was howling after that car conversation!

      • And the new TARDIS has a coffee maker! Totally making a Janeway meme about that one.