51 Reply by kric

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Every Doctor is different, and this new one is definitely his own Doctor.  Production quality is clearly much better now with the money Disney has added.  For those complaining the show is too woke, get over it.  The Doctor has always been "woke".  2nd season starting off well, and I like the new companion too.

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> Production quality is clearly much better now with the money Disney has added.

We're not watching the same show then.  Or not looking at the same things for "production quality".  If you're meaning "props and set budget" then I'd agree with you.  The robots from s02e01 for example (as I said already) are really nice and high end.  But much of "production quality" has been dropped over the years: Like good script writing, good music composition, good directing... all of that is very much done and gone.  Watch a couple episodes from Doctor Who (2005) season 1 or 2, then jump straight to Doctor Who (2024) season 1 and its a hard jarring transition where the drop is REALLY in your face.

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The budget was much smaller back in 2005, way smaller for everything in the show; and it’s pretty easy to pick episodes/stories that are simply “silly” or “cheap”.  I could probably go through the whole of Who episodes and pull out more “bad” than “good” stories.  But we were more forgiving back then maybe because “good” Sci-Fi was so unusual.
The Chase for instance and The Krotons, both were like they were because the money ran out before that season was over.  This was a common occurrence; the shows budget being blown on the early stories and there being nothing left over for the final ones.
Plot holes are also a common occurrence; one example being in The Angels Take Manhattan.  The Doctor can’t go to New York to rescue Amy and Rory, so why not go to another town/city and get to New York the “long way”?
I agree that the current series is also not “my thing” particularly, but there are normally a couple of episodes that I can enjoy, Boom and Dot & Bubble for example, so I’ll keep watching if only for those one or two episodes.

54 Reply by SgtSaint (edited by SgtSaint 2025-04-29 07:44:40)

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I will say... s02e03 "The Well"... Not bad.  Approaching an acceptable take for a Doctor Who.

Good money spent on props and sets.  Tension was good.  Callbacks to other seasons and even previous incarnations of himself.

Then they blow a great big plot hole in their own mythos within the episode:

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If you're behind the entity you get killed.  Then they show camera angles where you can see troops directly behind the deaf girl.  And again at the end when the group goes to the airlock and then when the commander is running away and the surviving people are right behind her.

I know there's often a missed thing here or there but this 2024 production team / continuity manager / whatever... Just doesn't seem to see even the really big obvious stuff. Not just concepts or deep canon stuff but the stuff ON SCREEN in this very episode. Or feels the audience is too dim to notice.  Either way its insulting and infuriating.  To me anyway.

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How can they be on Season 2, and still Next Episode has it listed wrong?

It's Doctor Who 2023, NOT 2024.

There is a 2024 series, like Doctor Who Confidential, called Doctor Who: Unleashed.

The real series is named 2023!

thetvdb•com search?query=doctor+who+2023

Please fix it already!

56 Reply by SgtSaint (edited by SgtSaint Yesterday 03:08:42)

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Well - they keep changing it depending on who you're looking at: TVDB, IMDB, Disney, etc.
It changed identity like 3 times in IMDB.  For a while they were just calling it season 14 of Doctor Who (2005) - then Disney called it Doctor Who 2024, which would be 2024 = s1, and 2025 = s2
The producers can't figure out the identity of the show so can't really blame sites like this one trying to keep up downstream of the changes.
Depending on how you search it, it comes up '23 or '24.
Doesn't much matter.  Call it what you like, its still shyte.
https://search.brave.com/search?q=docto … eb7f08d392

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Updated it to '23.

Made sense to name it 2024 when it started airing (the regular episodes) in '24 and it was confusing to have it named '23.

Now it makes more sense to use the real premiere year (even though it only aired specials during '23).