Haven't seen a discussion post for the new special, so I'll get the ball rolling. Thoughts, insights, bits you loved... let it all out.
this post was submitted on 26 Nov 2023
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Loved it. It was fun, cheesy at times, but also down to earth where it mattered. Also a big fan of RTD giving a big middle finger to everyone who complained about Jodie's era being too "woke." I find it kinda funny that RTD did more with a female doctor in one episode than Chibnal did in 3 years, and he didn't even have a female doctor.
Only complaint is the resolution to the metacrisis where they just get rid of it. Feels a bit hand-wavy and also the one thing in the episode that I felt was a bit preachy. Loved the stuff before it though, with Rose inheriting it.
RTD and hand-wavy plot shrugging. Name a better duo. Still a fun special all the same.
Lol, to be fair I feel like every modern showrunner has had that issue. Moffat especially tended to have finales that were basically just "let's hold hands and hope things work out."
Its the journey, not the destination that matters.
This episode was like RTDs whole run - generally good but with some almost unbearably cheesy moments
Donna spilling the coffee was both hilarious and baffling (is the console lactose intolerant?). That was definitely the TARDIS herself setting that up as a thinly veiled excuse to take them both somewhere.
Of course it was hand-wavey. It's RTD's Doctor Who. :)
Chalk it up to the DoctorDonna needing fifteen years or so to finish the calculation that would solve her problem, which it turns out needed two processors running in parallel.