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Since I've seen Hartnell's episodes, those that survive anyway, I can tell you there aren't many children featured in early Doctor Who, so...?

It wasn't as bad as those goblins! But yes, sometimes I have to remind my myself it's a children's show. And when that doesn't work there's always rule 1. 😁

reading this tweet like: who let an astromech droid go to medical school? he has no bedside manner!

Whenever I see this abbreviation from friends in the UK, all I can think is “red ted dedemption 2”

I won't knock this, but we COULD have a serious live action Dr. Who, but we see time and time again we don't really want nice things. That, and the rise of Trumpism has made the media climate that could host something like Dr. Who directly antithetical to its values.

i think when people talk about it, they ignore the pretty good 3 part special before it, wild blue yonder is an all timer episode imo.

i remember enjoying space babies, but i don't remember anything else about space babies, up to and including what the basic premise of the plot was beyond the phrase "space babies"

i disagree that the world does not need doctor who in it. I think it needs good doctor who in it, like it needs good trek and good star wars. bt our systems for mkaing those things have eroded along with everything else.

Can confirm! They really wasted some classic baddies. I did like what they did with the Toymaker. But the others were just lame.

The Sutekh reveal was so awful. Series 14 was building up The Doctor's granddaughter Susan, so it felt like that would be the big thing for the finale, then they just namedropped Sutekh like the viewer was supposed to know who that is

I did. But I've been watching since 4. Im so old!

He's trying to capture the Master reveal from series 3. But it lacks the same weight. It doesnt have three years of "The Doctor is the last Time Lord" building into it. You didnt need to be hyped because it was the Master. You could be hyped because you finally get to see another Time Lord.

Genuinely don't think there is much more interesting that can be done with Who that hasn't already been done while fitting in the box the BBC wants for it. Let it be done, it's fine.

Inconsistent in episode to episode quality, ever since late moffat, which would be about a decade ago, I don't think many shows can survive can survive essentially a decade or so of being consistently middling to shit with very occasional bright spots, especially in a modern media environment.

It's clearing the first hurdle of knowing that you have to appeal to children without clearing the second hurdle of knowing what sort of stories will actually do that.

He wrote some of his best episodes in the RTD2 era, he just for some reason pulled a Chibnall and decided to write 90% of the episodes for no reason which diluted their impact

he made a Faustian bargain with the Mouse and gave up his ability to write doccy who in return

this rules. how could disney not secure a sugarbabes song what the hell were they doing over there

I feel like it made for a very unappealing contrast against The End of the World which also dealt with the time travel overview effect while still being mature yet having goofy stuff.