Ness
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Post by Ness on Mar 10, 2020 5:24:53 GMT -6
I'd say it was a nightmare but Chibnall's run has been... just so dull. I find it hard to think anything opinion wise about it at all. I loved the idea of the lone cybermen back in Villa Diodatti or however you say it. What a fantastic redesign of the cybermen both conceptually and physically. I love dropping the robot thing they've acquired over new who and remembering that they're augmented humans. Dude was scary and intimidating (that death he causes is dark af for Doctor Who) and it got me excited as hell to see what the race of cybermen is like that he comes from. Desperate enough to allow emotion to run rampant. What does that make the rest of them like? what are their goals now, given that traditionally supressing emotion is half of their whole point? What are their motives? Oh they.. they just want to destroy all biological life? despite being part biological themselves? And running counter the finer points of literally every cyber story ever? Neat... *sigh*
And the lone cybermen is written out of the final episode because the writer's have no idea what to do with him, lost in their finale circlejerk that they forget what the starting point of the plot even was. Villa concludes weirdly and it's all downhill from there. Nothing the lone cyberman represented or was is relevant to anything in the end, and the semi three parter just degrades into yet another long running franchise with new writer's possessing it late into its life cycle, determined to retcon its history because they're so desperate to leave their mark on the franchise and their writing talent alone isn't enough to do it. With that just awful Master actor hamming it up in the worst, least Doctor Who way possible to boot. (For the record I never liked Simm's master much). Exposition central from there and Jodie's doctor and companions just being so flat means I am having little to no fun watching the show anymore. Jodie has no agency, she does nothing, everything that happens in these episodes is just given to her and anything she comes close to achieving is always robbed by another character anyway. Just another in a series of humiliations for the show. In the meantime I am revisiting Capaldi's era and loving it! |
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