welcome-to-my-mind-shed a rĂŠagi Ă votre billet âthe problem with series 10, for me, is that it never ultimately...â
I really loved series 10, right up there with series 9 in my opinion. I hate it when I don't like something and I wish I would. I'm sorry you didn't like series 10 very much. All I can say is I hope series 11 is all that you wish it to be. :)
Thank you! Iâm glad you loved series 10! I didnât dislike it at all, it was just a bit sort of...same old same old. Iâd have just loved something self-contained but meaty and emotionally complex, which is something I think every other series has given us! Iâm pumpppeeed for series 11! Itâs probably a year away and yet...I want everything now. New companion reveal/Thirteenâs costume reveal/filming photos. Itâs all coming and Iâm beyond excited!!
steamedbunns a rĂŠagi Ă votre billet âthe problem with series 10, for me, is that it never ultimately...â
i find that s10 is my favourite capaldi season, probably because i had more of an open mind when watching it than I did with his earlier ones. but yeah, I don't think I'd actively go back and rewatch episodes. I wouldn't buy the dvd set like I did for most of elevens episodes. they were fun but not particularly gripping.
Yeah thatâs kinda the way I see it too. It was fun, I had a good time, but nothing substantially gripping, (World Enough and Time/The Doctor Falls notwithstanding!). For me, my fav Capaldi series is s9. Regardless of what you think of the stories themselves, (I think the Zygon two-parter is well-intentioned, but messy at best, insulting at worst...), series 9 did something super interesting and different with itâs structure, and took a lot more risks with itâs storytelling throughout, even Sleep No More had a good high-concept Black Mirror-esque premise, while, naturally, Heaven Sent was a huge risk worth taking, and the âforgettableâ The Woman Who Lived is at least emotionally driven and stylistically unique thanks to its lyrical dialogue ...  plus like. Iâm a sucker for that Twelve/Clara dymanic. Plus that glorious finale. Plus that Twelve development. Itâs just wonderful to me!
lullapiee a rĂŠagi Ă votre billet âthe problem with series 10, for me, is that it never ultimately...â
I understand you here. I was a bit 'meh' with some of the episodes this season and had no wish to re-watch them- namely the Empress of Mars and Knock-Knock. I'm not sure why this is but I just didn't find them that gripping and so the element of re-watching them isn't there. However, I am warming to the season by forcing myself to re-watch from the start. I'm hoping this time around I might get a better feel for the episodes and might enjoy them more.
Iâll certainly do that too at some point! I mean youâre talking to the person who agressively hated the Moffat era until they did a rewatch post The Time of the Doctor and then, well, everything changed! I absolutely find that when removed from the in-the-run-up hype and the week-to-week...waiting...things feel so much better so fingers crossed I find something super memorable in it too!Â
gallifreyland a rĂŠagi Ă votre billet âthe problem with series 10, for me, is that it never ultimately...â
I feel exactly this way too! It was fun while I watched it and I loved the finale, but the middle episodes just feel kind of average to me in retrospect. I think it might be because this series was a bit lighter on the 'powerful emotions' stuff â all the eps you mention above have a powerful emotional element, whether it's fear or love or the sadness of saying goodbye. S10 it seems saved it all up for the finale (which was great!) but it sort of suffered around the middle imo.
Yes exactly! The emotional element was missing. I think a lot of that has to do with the side characters tbqh? Heather/Penny/Erica/Hazran are the only side-protagonists I remember, (All four of whom are Moffat written so like..no surprises there!), And from them like...Heather and Hazran were from the opener/finale and...Penny and Erica are just dropped for no explicable reason like you would think given the story is a 3-parter that theyâd have both played a role in The Lie of the Land but...nope! Toby Whithouse just...drops the ball so hard from literally every angle that even the story-specific side characters just flat-out...dissapear! Maybe Iâd add the LGBT+ teen Romans from The Eaters of Light to the mix, but Iâd have to watch it again. Without memorable, consistent side-characters with episode arcs then where are our emotional hooks? It canât come from Bill and Twelve every time! Where is our Nancy or Elton Pope or Joan Redfern or Jenny or Liz 10 or Rita or Merry Gejelh or Ada Gillyflower or Kate Stewart or Ashildr? I feel like we really didnât...get one...this series...which is probably a massive reason why itâs so eh in my mind!
florencedrunk a rĂŠagi Ă votre billet âthe problem with series 10, for me, is that it never ultimately...â
Ultimately, I think the problem is that they trusted the Monks Trilogy to be that, but because of The Lie of the Land the previous two episodes (which are rather good episodes, in my opinion) deflated like one of Oswin's soufflĂŠs.
Agree 1000% - Extremis is wonderful, and Pyramid is at the very least conceputally interesting with some great set up for potentially iconic villains. yet. itâs totally. utterly. wasted. in The Lie of the Land, which is effectively one of the worst episodes of Doctor Who ever, in my book. So much potential squandered. So many plot points just? leading nowhere, (is it ever explained why the Monks can cure The Doctorâs sight? Or where they come from? Or...anything about them beyond âooh here they are for a 10 second montage of them doing vague...electrical...stuffâ, they literally do nothing in their big climactic episode 3 finale. Itâs laughable). so much...character assassination...(Why is Bill so trigger-happy this episode?  Not just in shooting her teacher/mentor/best friend 4 times but in??? wanting to beat up Nardole? Like?? Where the fuck did that come from?? You could try and argue 6 months of opressive despotism but when the entire point of the episode is about how Bill manages to hang on to her good-old-happy-go-lucky self despite all that it just makes no sense! What part of wanting to âbeat the shit out" of Nardole is in any way in character for Bill Potts? And then thereâs...The Doctor...merrily standing by while the human population is tortured and exterminated by invaders under an opressive reigime, and merrily partaking in said murderous opressive reigime before...calling the human race âannoyingâ for??? forgetting everything that happened? and running off to NASA totally guiltless of the months of mass torture he was complicit in.) Not even Missy can salvage it, thanks to some horrendously unconfident, patronising, writing. âYouâre so Caliente!  Thatâs Spanish for hot!â yeah thanks for explaining the joke that was totally neccessary! (that said the âpretty shapes in the smoke/your version of goodâ speech is A* A* so...) But yeah no overall that episode is just a hot mess...