We don’t have to wait much longer, thankfully! Pretty sure she’ll show up in the 60th. Her, Smith, and Tennant would make a fun special.

Even burned out Moffat (S7) or running-on-autopilot Moffat (S10) is still miles ahead of Chibnall at his best. Same for Davies.

Maybe for you. I still personally feel that their weakest seasons (2 and 7, respectively), are still decent tv. And their frequent best (1, 4, 5, 8, and 9) are outstanding. Chibnall is the worst steward, by far, that this show has had since Eric Saward. I simply don’t agree that all of Doctor Who is this bad.

It’s odd how you see certain criticisms pop up over and over. The back half of Death in Heaven, Hell Bent, and The Doctor Falls are by far some of the most intimate finales of modern genre tv.

Let’s just hope RTD memory holes this entire era as quickly as possible.

Filler episodes are what make the show great. Seeing whatever bonkers idea a writer can has and if the production team can convincingly present it on a BBC budget is at least half the fun.

All three of Chibnall’s finales deserve straight Fs.

I hope that he tones that spectacle down when he returns in 2023. It only undermined his episodes rarely for me--it’s one my favorite eras of Doctor Who—but I still think it’s not where his strengths are.

You can’t do anything too crazy on a macro scale, because the status quo must reassert itself in some form to make room for future stories. It’s the micro scale where the best drama is.

Promising “everything will change forever” on an infinitely running anthology show like Doctor Who is a terrible idea for that very reason.

Yeah, what I love about RTD is that he’s able to keep your focus on other things, so that the lack of cohesive plotting only rarely becomes an issue.

He could, but there were interesting things to be done with the basic concept, but expanded. And I stand by my statement that the added elements to the Angels in the S5 two-parter were fascinating and creative extensions of the basic ideas behind them.

Because the Doctor saved their entire civilization? Not out of the question that they’d make an exception for a Time Lord like that.

Enjoy! I didn’t realize they put it on Netflix, lol. I wonder how many people will watch the live action one when the anime’s sitting right there....

At least it’s better than the Cowboy Bebop live action remake, lol.

That wasn’t bold or new. That was continuity fetishism of the worst sort. It was written entirely to fill a plot hole from 1976 that no one cared about.

I’d go:

It’s an absolute joy to watch, and yeah, it’s easily the tightest on a scene-to-scene level. I love The Master as well, but it’s much more difficult to like.

But at least that season had Neal McDonough. Which is more than Season 6 had, lol.

It’s a fair argument, but I’m willing to accept such things if there’s a genuinely good story to be told with them.