A slightly panto Doctor Who episode. It's fine. But I've been disappointed all series because I was hoping that the weird childish-serious tone that Moffat introduced with Matt Smith, rather than the playful-serious tone of R.T.D. with Eccleston, would go away under Chibnall, but instead it feels like a more distilled version of Moffat, where serious and legitimate problems affecting humanity are presented but whimsily and above water for kids. I'm in my late twenties, and R.T.D. feels more relatable now than Moffat and Chibnall have throughout their productions. R.T.D. treated us teens like adults, and then Moffat and Chibnall came round and progressively infantilized the narrative and fantasy so that we couldn't really grow up with it, which has been an uncomfortable aging-backwards, often patronizing experience. I can only imagine that at some point the show will be properly Disneyfied by the B.B.C., return to R.T.D. levels of adult narrative and fantasy, or be cancelled.
Shout by stradzyBlockedParent2018-11-26T03:24:51Z
A slightly panto Doctor Who episode. It's fine. But I've been disappointed all series because I was hoping that the weird childish-serious tone that Moffat introduced with Matt Smith, rather than the playful-serious tone of R.T.D. with Eccleston, would go away under Chibnall, but instead it feels like a more distilled version of Moffat, where serious and legitimate problems affecting humanity are presented but whimsily and above water for kids. I'm in my late twenties, and R.T.D. feels more relatable now than Moffat and Chibnall have throughout their productions. R.T.D. treated us teens like adults, and then Moffat and Chibnall came round and progressively infantilized the narrative and fantasy so that we couldn't really grow up with it, which has been an uncomfortable aging-backwards, often patronizing experience. I can only imagine that at some point the show will be properly Disneyfied by the B.B.C., return to R.T.D. levels of adult narrative and fantasy, or be cancelled.