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Oh wow it’s coming way sooner than I realized, I was getting so used to the multi year waits. Really refreshing to have it back less than a year after last season premiered!

 

yeah they made the last two seasons essentially back-to-back which explains the quick turnaround, and why they're both 8 episodes unfortunately. Disney is keeping pretty quiet on if they're still gonna distribute the season after this one though, so any DW next year is looking kinda up in the air. at least that spin-off will be coming out at some point

 

They’ve seemed pretty happy with its performance as far as I can tell.

 

I guess it's just a matter of hoping they put their money where their mouth is on this one, haha. RTD previously seemed pretty confident that they'd be filming s3 already which is a little bit worrying, but I'm not trying to be one of those 'DW is always about to be cancelled' doomsayers

 

back this week, tentatively optimistic. been avoiding leaks like landmines this whole week

 

pretty good premiere imo, first 10 minutes felt very clunky but it settled in pretty well. rolled my eyes and laughed at "planet of the incels" and the AI reveal but in a fun enough way. visuals during the timewarp bit were really fucking cool and bold for this show

Belinda is great so far and it's a huge relief to have someone with a more tense relationship with 15 after his instant besties dynamic with Ruby. that being said not sure how I feel about yet another impossible girl arc, man I want another companion like Bill

 

Thought this was a great premier. It was a lot of fun, and I'm definitely intrigued to see how things with Belinda turn out. I agree it feels a little too similar to the Impossible Girl situation, but hopefully it'll make more sense. My early guess would be that Belinda gets trapped in the future and the girl the Doctor met before is so similar to her because it's not a distant descendant but her actual daughter or something.

 

I’ve loved 15’s era so far, but Lux may be my new favorite of it. Super fun and creative while still having a lot of heart and depth.

 

yeah this week's episode was WILD holy shit. loved it

 

Ya that was a lot of fun. I loved how they broke the fourth wall without like really doing it. The way I actually felt scared when I realized it was another pantheon villain made me realize how much those are actually working for me.

 

this was the first time that villain thing really landed me because he was so unhinged and surreal. Alan Cumming killed it with the voice work

did anyone else think of the Torchwood episode where the characters in an old film come to life though lmao

 

holy FUCK that twist this week

 

I fell asleep a little over halfway through this week's episode last night, so I'm not completely caught up, but all the comments about no one knowing what Earth is or who humans are got me thinking - perhaps obviously - that we are probably dealing with a multiverse story. Maybe from when they went through the time warp thing in the premier.

 

Having learned that The Well was originally an unrelated story that was retroactively refitted to make it a Midnight sequel, my opinion is that it's a really good episode in its own right, but I actually think those elements are probably the weakest.

Also probably the best opening three episodes since series 1?

 

I was basically doing backflips when that reveal started to happen so I've gotta disagree, that brought the episode to another level for me

...if you mean Eccleston’s s1 then can't agree there either, The Robot Revolution really drags this run down for me. think The Magician's Apprentice/Witch's Familiar/Under the Lake would get my vote

 

lmao this was the most RTD episode to ever RTD and he didn't even write it

that Ncuti speech at the end WHEW

 

I want to feel better because it was objectively a good episode and interesting story, but it was almost too real and unintentionally has a feeling of hopelessness because of it? Like ignoring the Mrs. Flood element even if the Doctor is right about his future, the damage is still done, people (Mostly Ruby) were still hurt, and there’s definitely more who still believe him regardless, so despite being called out as small and shown as a fake, he still won. In the real world, we see tons of people like him thrive regardless of all that and without a more conclusive “how we win” it just feels sad and hollow. I don’t know, for a show built on the power of kindness and hope and perseverance, something in this episode felt wrong.

 

it was definitely grim but RTD has always had that kind of a mean streak in his writing. think this was probably more optimistic than Dot and Bubble on the whole

 

God this season is good. It makes me wish Empire of Death was better/less controversial, because this RTD2 run is really good it's just that that lets it down.

 

all-timer episode today imo, just full body chills when Fugitive showed up and the clips of old Doctors and like a dozen other moments lol. was choking back tears more than once. episodes like this should be the future of the show

 

holy shit this episode lmao. kind of a mess but Classic fans absolutely salivating rn

 

Lucky Day: the villain causes Kate to go too far, Ruby intervenes, the Doctor gives a Big Speech about how he's met people like him before

Interstellar Song Contest: the villain causes The Doctor to go too far, Belinda intervenes, the Doctor gives a Big Speech about how he's met people like him before

 

Caught up on the last few episodes this weekend, and yep I gotta say this season is really hitting for me honestly. Every episode has at least intrigued me, and I think it's some of the most fun the series has been in years.

But also I do feel kind of confused at the same time by how much they're kind of throwing out there. I mean they are intentionally dangling a lot of mysteries in front of us right?

Mrs. Flood, the Fugitive doctor reappearance and the comment that "maybe that story will be finished' - which I frankly don't even remember where it left left off, was it the timeless child that Belinda saw, the gods (are the ones the doctor talked about in The Story and the Engine the same as or related to the pantheon villains or is there a separate batch of gods).