So I didn't hate series 11 but it was easily the worst since the show was brought back.
But this opening two parter was absolutely superb. I love Jodie but her first series suffered from some fairly boring scripts and some terrible dialogue that didn't really show her Doctor off. None of that here, she was given some great stuff to do and effortlessly pulled it off. A great script from Chibnall who historically hasn't written great Who stories but really pulled it out the bag for me this time. Also loved Jodie's chemistry with Sacha Dhawan, who did a great job with the Master. My only hope now is that this story arc they are teasing is properly planned out and has a decent pay off rather than Moffat's tactic of making it up as he went along, throwing in stuff suddenly to try and make the story work or resolving plot points with throw away dialogue. Follow in RTD's shoes please Mr Chibnall.
My only massive criticism, and this is for the 13th Doctor in general, is there are too many companions. It's not that they're bad actors, there just isn't enough time to flesh them out and make 3 people interesting. Yaz in particular I find extremely boring and hasn't developed in any way since she was introduced. Ryan is fine but I feel like whatever small character arc he has is over. Bradley Walsh is great as Graham though and they should've just had him from the start.
Also one small criticism: those laser shoes were ridiculous
Very excited to see how this series pans out
But this opening two parter was absolutely superb. I love Jodie but her first series suffered from some fairly boring scripts and some terrible dialogue that didn't really show her Doctor off. None of that here, she was given some great stuff to do and effortlessly pulled it off. A great script from Chibnall who historically hasn't written great Who stories but really pulled it out the bag for me this time. Also loved Jodie's chemistry with Sacha Dhawan, who did a great job with the Master. My only hope now is that this story arc they are teasing is properly planned out and has a decent pay off rather than Moffat's tactic of making it up as he went along, throwing in stuff suddenly to try and make the story work or resolving plot points with throw away dialogue. Follow in RTD's shoes please Mr Chibnall.
My only massive criticism, and this is for the 13th Doctor in general, is there are too many companions. It's not that they're bad actors, there just isn't enough time to flesh them out and make 3 people interesting. Yaz in particular I find extremely boring and hasn't developed in any way since she was introduced. Ryan is fine but I feel like whatever small character arc he has is over. Bradley Walsh is great as Graham though and they should've just had him from the start.
Also one small criticism: those laser shoes were ridiculous
Very excited to see how this series pans out
