I really enjoyed this most recent #DoctorWho episode, but it does give me an excuse to dust off my old joke from the Moffat era: that all these "You can't [do basic thing it's natural to want to do] or you'll die!" threats are just a long-game setup for the ultimate threat that will destroy all life in the universe ... but they CAN'T... just so long as you don't roll you eyes! 🙄
We’re now seven episodes into #DoctorWho (2023) and there have been two I already consider all time classics (Wild Blue Yonder and Boom), and none of the others have been duds (although I’ve had problems with some). I like this version of the show!
#DoctorWho with #Boom commentary: Steven Moffat telling something about his second (!) script for Gatwa saying "he gives it the full Capaldi" AND NOW I CAN'T WAIT !!!
We've seen four episodes now of the "new new" #DoctorWho and RTD's take/vision of this era and I have to say, with the exception of #Boom, I remain very much on the fence. It's too "magical" for my liking, it doesn't do a lot of sci-fi stuff or concepts. And it has the usual silliness dialed to 11 (or 12), all amplified by RTD's sledgehammer writing style. It's somewhat ok and at times interesting, even charming, but overall I still don't know if it's for me. Which is fine.
So, that was Moffat’s first episode of this series of #DoctorWho… personally I thought it was better than the last two. Could tell the twist from like 3 minutes into the story, but the way they resolved the main dilemma was neat enough.
Didn’t realise the number of references to other parts of the Whoniverse til later though. Apparently these marines are from the Kovarian branch of the church? And the Doctor destroyed that company in a comic sometime ago?
Just was reminded about this little fact that Steven Moffat has written stories for more Doctors than any other writer in #DoctorWho history. And it's not a stretch to argue that he gave everyone of them their best episode as well.
I truly wish that Moffat would've written one episode for Jodie Whittaker as #DoctorWho, where she could've played to her strengths. Man, this might've made all the difference.
Why I enjoyed Ncuti Gatwa's portrayal of #DoctorWho almost from the start, it was #Boom that really "clicked" him into character for me. Brilliant lines (by Steven Moffat) and fantastic line delivery, love this man.
A while back, I re-created a graphic that featured in Stanley Kubrick's film 2001: A Space Odyssey. It was a very minor graphic in the film's cornucopia of special effects but I've always liked it. My original version of the BBC 12 logo contained a couple of errors (including the typeface), so I thought it was time to update it...
While I'm recreating fictional (or, in this case, previously fictional) BBC channels, I thought I might as well quickly mock up a vector graphic of 'BBC 3', which appeared (over 30 years before the launch of the real BBC 3) in the 1971 #DoctorWho episode 'The Daemons'.