Dr Who

[Unorthodox]

The "Doctor and Santa are Back" at the end is kinda misleading then? 

[Buster's Uncle]

Santa appeared at the very end of the last episode of the season - or it was a joke; I dunno.

[Buster's Uncle]

S08E13 Last Christmas

[Valka]

They've had other Santa references in the Christmas episodes (ie. Santas that were really Autons).

I won't spoil this one for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, but...

I didn't like 99.9% of it.

[Geo]

I think I read something about the Doctors' sidekick signing on for another season?

[Valka]

Yeah, dammit. 

[Buster's Uncle]

The problem isn't Clara - it's bad writing...

[JeroenDStout]

They've had other Santa references in the Christmas episodes (ie. Santas that were really Autons).

I won't spoil this one for anyone who hasn't seen it yet, but...

I didn't like 99.9% of it.

(SPOILERS)

The only part I liked was the dancing. That was the only part where I genuinely had no idea what was going on and felt anything could happen. Then everything became Moffat-y again.

[Buster's Uncle]

Meh.

It wasn't good, but I didn't hate it.  I don't get why innerwebs nerdz get so upset when a Dr Who episode doesn't make sense; they've never been reliable about that, and this one didn't make sense by design...

This series of Who was weak, to be sure.  Most everyone seems to agree that the new Doctor is working out but the episodes aren't very good.  That's bad, but not hopelessly bad, writing, I should think.

[Buster's Uncle]

Doctor Who Series 9 Trailer

[Valka]

I don't get why innerwebs nerdz get so upset when a Dr Who episode doesn't make sense; they've never been reliable about that, and this one didn't make sense by design...

I get upset because unless it's some kind of experimental writing that has another purpose to not making sense, a story has failed if it doesn't make sense.

The weirdest story I ever read was for my 2nd-year university French class - a "nouveau roman" called Le rendez-vous. The characters were changing ages, being young and old at the same time, there was some kind of weird noir mystery going on that I don't even remember what it was about... it's the most bizarre story I've ever read in any language, and if I wasn't such a stickler for recycling paper, I'd have torn that thing into little tiny pieces and thrown it out as soon as the course was over. It was that frustrating.

It was on par with some of the worst of the Matt Smith era, with its I-need-a-flowchart-to-figure-out-what's-going-on garbage.

 

[Buster's Uncle]

But the acid test is whether you enjoyed it, confused or not...

[Valka]

I didn't enjoy the French book, and didn't really like the Matt Smith era. The Capaldi era has had its ups and downs, mostly the latter. Actually, I didn't mind the character of Danny Pink as much as some people did.

I realize that this is not what most nuWho watchers think, but I'm really tired of actorswhotalktoofastormumble, and extraordinarily tired of stories that have dumbed-down the science to the point where we might as well be watching cartoons or fairy tales.

I've just started on my umpteenth re-read of Poul Anderson's Time Patrol series... now those are good time travel stories!

[Buster's Uncle]

...It does seem like for all RTD's annoying writing tics, Moffat just isn't nearly as good a writer of adventure fiction.  If they get too afar of adventure in genre too often, that's a serious error, I think. 

Also?  Some of their big seasonal villains have really sucked hard.  Spare me the frequent dried-up sixtyish women, please.  I did notice, unhappily, what I think was Missy in that trailer...

[Buster's Uncle]

Doctor Who Series 9 Trailer #2