Damn, damn, damn!

I love it, I’m in.  Bring on the crazy alt-universe versions of our CW heroes! Also, somebody visit Black Lightning, please!

Dude, it get crazier. 

Johnny Quest please.

“Why is there a Watchmen TV show?”

So far the show, to me, has felt quite self-centered, not an expansive, empathetic Doctor Who as the NuWho had become. I’m not sure I can appreciate that. Chibnall also seems to be deliberately, obviously, awkwardly avoiding phrases people now expect with Doctor Who. “Move forward fast” instead of “Run!” Really.…

Not to mention the lonely god angle was explored as much as it possibly could have been in the last 10 seasons. Hell, Eleven reboots the universe in his first season. At some point, you can’t keep going bigger and bigger. I appreciate Chibnall scaling things back for now.

A friend of mine reports that as soon as the episode ended, her daughter started running around the house saying that this was her favorite Doctor and her favorite TARDIS. And as an old Whovian (11pm Saturdays, WUCM Channel 19), I can’t really argue with that.

I know it’s not right, but when the rags were talking about the Timeless Child, I thought of Susan for some reason. Well because the First Doctor was in two episodes ago. And last episode the Doctor mentioned she didn’t have a family any more... which was a bit grim.

After finding the last episode middling to meh... I thought this one was pretty good.

I think callbacks to the VERY beginning would be kind of fitting, considering how her regeneration was right after/inspired by the First Doctor. And thematically, Susan was the actual first woman Gallifreyan we saw, right?

“You know that sound the TARDIS makes? That wheezing, groaning? That sound brings hope wherever it goes… To anyone who hears it, Doctor. Anyone. However lost. Even you.”

I dig the lower stakes, I dig the slow build back into the mythos, I dig figuring out a way to say “it’s bigger on the inside” without saying it.

Longer thoughts - I am enjoying Who more than I have in a long time (probably since 11th’s first season). It was a good self-contained throwback to the previous episode with the Stenza (calling it now, we’ve got a new all-time classic Who, the first since the Weeping Angels). I prefer it when the show ends up taking…

I didn’t hate it, now that the TARDIS is back (which many said wasn’t going to happen) I feel much more at home watching the show again. Though a spinning toy TARDIS inside the TARDIS seems very much like product placement, unless we get an episode were either... The exterior shell changes and the interior toy TARDIS…

“Butt soft! What wind through yonder sphincter breaks?” *fart noises*

From what I remember reading, Netflix has those shows/characters for as long as they want to keep making them, and Disney couldn’t just take them back if they wanted to.

That was my first reaction. It’s the logical transition. 

Honestly, if this means Heroes for Hire and Daughters of the Dragon TV shows I’m 100% fine with that.

With McCoy eyerolling in the back