Doctor Who- 73 Yards was "an interesting mess" says Memento Mori

My issue is not with it being woke.... I think Dr Who has always been political but I think that it used to be filled with stories which made good social and political points but also stood on there own as stories even if you didn't have any interest or knowledge about that sort of thing you could still appreciate the tales being told. I think now days sometimes its just so obsessed with hammering home one agenda or another to the degree the story around it is so paper thin and only half finished.... they'd sooner wink to the camera and tell people they are included rather than actually try to use the medium of Television to engage people and to try and win the hearts and minds of people who otherwise would not consider engaging with new ideas or looking internally at there own ignorance's and prejudices.

Jingle Ord The Way wrote:Ah man! Nah! There is a LOT in there! It's actually well edited and funny and the guy knows his stuff. It delves into classic Who right through to present. I do recommend watching it, even in segments. It is actually very good.

Just finished watching it. It's a really good video although I'm not sure I agreed with everything. But the general points on the recent stories were pretty sound and I feel much the same way about this weird it's a fresh start but it clearly isn't decision.

Barely 10 minutes into that video and I’m convinced the guys is talking out his ass

shy guy 64 wrote:Barely 10 minutes into that video and I’m convinced the guys is talking out his ass

Literally? :dread:

Moggy wrote:
shy guy 64 wrote:Barely 10 minutes into that video and I’m convinced the guys is talking out his ass

Literally?

Well I was listening more than watching so o can’t be sure

YouTube

Boom
Moffat wrote another banger and it''s the best story for a good long time. It has all the usual Moffat tropes, but that was great!

Jingle Ord The Way wrote:Boom
Moffat wrote another banger and it''s the best story for a good long time. It has all the usual Moffat tropes, but that was great!

Agreed. It had its faults, but overall was easily the best Who episode in a very long time.

That was a very Moffat episode, but I mean that in a good way

shy guy 64 wrote:That was a very Moffat episode, but I mean that in a good way

Moggy wrote:
shy guy 64 wrote:That was a very Moffat episode, but I mean that in a good way

How long have you been waiting to use that?

shy guy 64 wrote:
Moggy wrote:
shy guy 64 wrote:That was a very Moffat episode, but I mean that in a good way

How long have you been waiting to use that?

Since I noticed the episode title about 2 hours ago. :lol:

1x03- It was fantastic.

Moggy wrote:
Jingle Ord The Way wrote:Boom
Moffat wrote another banger and it''s the best story for a good long time. It has all the usual Moffat tropes, but that was great!

Agreed. It had its faults, but overall was easily the best Who episode in a very long time.

Without looking at Wikipedia to remind myself I would guess it's the best episode since Heaven Sent.

Plenty of problems and the resolutions is completely twee and unearned but the cast do fantastic work carrying it.

Don't think it's up there with peak Moffat but that was the best ep since he left the show.

didn't think the call back to fish custard would please me so much

I think Boom was great.... after how silly the last two episodes were this is more like what I want. I think it really let 15 shine.

Honestly did not realise this was what the Moff was doing.

It's a minefield trying to keep up with my rewatch and avoiding spoilers for the new stuff. :lol:

Anyway Matt Smith has been and gone and we're three episodes into Capaldi.

Smith was excellent. Really loved him by the end. He had a really fantastic way of going from his slightly wacky persona to his more serious moments where he genuinely feels like an ancient being. He really manages to capture that world weary oldness at time. Like he looks young, but you can tell he's been around for a very long time. Wonderful actor.

Still think Season 7 would have been better with Amy and Rory all the way through but Clara has grown on me a bit more this time around.
I don't hate her like I did originally. :lol:

Not sure I'd go as far as to say I like her, but she's not quite as bad as I remember.

The specials were great too. The short 8-minute "Night of the Doctor" was as fantastic as I remember. We never got enough McGann. :wub:

I'm hoping the rumours of a spin-off for him are true. Seeing his stories while the Time War rages in the background would be so good.

Capaldi is strawberry floating great though. :wub:

His first two episodes were great, then Robot of Sherwood.... I remember thinking that episode was trash the first time I watched it. So I was pleasantly surprised to find myself quite enjoying it.
At least up until they fire the Golden Arrow at the escaping ship so that is has enough gold to escape somehow. :fp:

Thought it was one of the most bullshit, pulled out of nowhere dumb solutions I've ever seen.

It was obvious that the arrow would be important, but I fail to see how plonking the arrow into the side of the spaceship was supposed to make it suddenly fly better. Made absolutely no sense whatsoever and just pissed me off. There were so many other things they could have done. Make it so they need to shoot something off the ship to stop it exploding or something. Anything would have been better than what we got.

Such a dumb way to end the episode. And I say that as someone who is being far more accepting of "It's just silly" and "Don't think about it too much" when it comes to Who. This was just too far for me though. :lol:

Cheeky Devlin wrote:It's a minefield trying to keep up with my rewatch and avoiding spoilers for the new stuff.

Ironic.

shy guy 64 wrote:didn't think the call back to fish custard would please me so much

See oddly enough I hated that. That was 11's thing. 12/13/14 didn't call back to it. It just felt like a memberberry

Doctor Who- 73 Yards was "an interesting mess" says Memento Mori

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