This makes me sad, but this was probably the last episode of Doctor Who i will watch.. It's sad to see that after 854 episodes, since 1963, that a single director can screw up the show this much and get this amount of crap back without making any changes to the way the show is made.
When i sit down to watch tv i want to escape reality for a short amount of time and watch something entertaining and fun, not be forced to listen to political preaching.. I agree we need to take care of the environment and that racism is bad, but this is not the setting in where i want to be force-fed those messages. I sat down to watch an entertaining show..
For the people that say that previous doctors also have done this i just say.. There is a difference in placing a story in a setting that is a bit similar to here and then let people think and talk about it.... This is the first where every episode force-feeds it's viewers with the producers/writers point of view.
To sum it up for the Jodie era...
- Bad scripts with huge plot-holes and inconsistencies with previous seasons.
- Too much preaching..
- Complete personality-change of the doctor, like leaving people to die when they could have been saved with the tardis after they where teleport'ed back.
- Too many useless companions.
- Companions seem to steer the doctor instead of the other way around.
- It's a show about space and time, not about being on earth at different times.
- Too much bad acting (bad scripts and/or bad actors)
I think Jodie could have been a great doctor, with better scripts, and i did see a few scenes where i really liked her way of portraying the doctor. But with all this forced preaching and bad scripts there is probably not much hope for her.
I take back what I've said about this season, if this is the kind of crap to expect from this season, I'm not watching Doctor Who anymore.
Doctor Who is supposed to be about saving planets, not lectures on today's politics. While I do agree with the premise that we need to do something NOW, that doesn't mean that I want to be preached at while trying to be ENTERTAINED! Politics have their place, please leave the preaching of politics to the news and god forbid, "alternative media" (it's all just someone's opinion on what they saw on their favorite news network)...
Moral standards? Sure, that's classic Who. But show the moral standards from a more nuanced and far less preaching-to-the-choir blatant political rant.
The beginning started out fine, up until the "this is earth in the future" when that directly contradicts the conditions of earth throughout time in the rest of the Doctor Who series. THOSE inconsistencies piss me off.
What about Rose Tyler watching the world blow up? There was no mention of the Dregs, no mention that it was climate change that caused them to leave, nothing. And that's what makes Doctor Who DOCTOR WHO! The unanswered questions! I mean come on now, who is the Doctor? What's his/her name? Definitive answers to earth shattering questions has never been Doctor Who, they're left to the viewer's imagination or drawn out over the season but this episode ruined that opportunity. 1 star from me.