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Once more they gave me a good 40-45 minutes and then absolutely crapped the bed in the final moments. Story of this season.

Due to working patterns(nights ) , I'm having to catch up on them all.

Has Yaz forgotten she's a police officer? In the spider one, she doesn't even queary an illegal firearm. It was an episode set in the here and now, rather than any obvious parallel universe, so she should have known pistols are prohibited to the public.

Loving the return to the original concept of education while entertaining. I was aware of black segregation and division of India. I hope we get more, with the emphasis on the ordinary persons view of it.

Loving the Dr too. The way I see it, at the moment she is having an identify crisis. The personality of previous incarnation are coming through, but aren't the right ones for the present body, so , the next episode we see a different personality coming to the fore. I'd expect the real 'new' doctor to be herself next series.

Just watched the Punjab episode. The DR would never go back to see one of her companions relatives in history, an accidental meeting would cause the dr to have major concerns. A deliberate meeting wouldn’t be planned. Can’t think of any occasion the dr did something like this just out of interest.

I tend to try to not overthink that too much (it being timey wimey wibbly wobbly and all that), but it is a jump between that and the whole incident with Rose's dad.

Decent enough episode, I like the historical ones but it was silly to write in the dr deviating from a principal he has held for decades.
Is it because he is a woman now??

 Knockagh wrote:
Just watched the Punjab episode. The DR would never go back to see one of her companions relatives in history, an accidental meeting would cause the dr to have major concerns. A deliberate meeting wouldn’t be planned. Can’t think of any occasion the dr did something like this just out of interest.

The 9th Doctor specifically did this, and then took Rose back a second time to see her father again and nearly bump into their earlier selves!

But one of my objections to that episode was that Doctor wouldn’t have been so reckless on that occasion either.

BBC have confirmed that no new season until early 2020. Sounds like it’s moving to an 18 month cycle moving forward.

Another decent episode.

This series has been somewhat refreshing. Whilst not perfect (Yaz needs more time in the limelight), it’s been a pleasant hark back to Classic Who. And the lack of older enemies feels much needed in hindsight. Equally pleasing was the lack of sheer scale. Just The Doctor and Co sorting one problem before moving onto the other. No universe shaking backstory. No resetting time for the umpteenth, erm, time.

It’s felt very stripped back to the core of what makes the show work, and I for one think it’s paid off.

I agree.

It is very disappointing, though, that there will be no more until 2020. It gives me the feeling that the BBC are gradually withdrawing support for Dr Who.

We've had only 8 episodes this year. The excuse given is that they are a bit longer but in the old days stories were able to develop over mini-series of two to four short episodes.

The new Doctor and adventure team have started to develop nicely but it still feels like early days. It's hard to believe we won't see anything for nearly two years.

There’s still the New Years episode yet.

 Kilkrazy wrote:
I agree.

It is very disappointing, though, that there will be no more until 2020. It gives me the feeling that the BBC are gradually withdrawing support for Dr Who.

We've had only 8 episodes this year. The excuse given is that they are a bit longer but in the old days stories were able to develop over mini-series of two to four short episodes.

The new Doctor and adventure team have started to develop nicely but it still feels like early days. It's hard to believe we won't see anything for nearly two years.

Could also be due to scheduling conflicts etc. And if it means better stories, I’m all for a bit of a break.

A break might be a good thing, I'm two episodes from the end and whilst it's been fun I'm still not quite sure 13 ? (or 14 ?) has a distinct persona, as whilst Jodie is doing a fine job its a lot of channeling a jumble prior incarnations

Hopefully a bit of time will let them come up with something

Also Bradley Walsh, who'd have thunked, bestest sidekick for ages

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:

 Kilkrazy wrote:
I agree.

It is very disappointing, though, that there will be no more until 2020. It gives me the feeling that the BBC are gradually withdrawing support for Dr Who.

We've had only 8 episodes this year. The excuse given is that they are a bit longer but in the old days stories were able to develop over mini-series of two to four short episodes.

The new Doctor and adventure team have started to develop nicely but it still feels like early days. It's hard to believe we won't see anything for nearly two years.

Could also be due to scheduling conflicts etc. And if it means better stories, I’m all for a bit of a break.

I wouldn't be surprised, and they really don't want the first female Doctor whizzing off after just a season like Christopher Eclestone did

 Turnip Jedi wrote:
A break might be a good thing, I'm two episodes from the end and whilst it's been fun I'm still not quite sure 13 ? (or 14 ?) has a distinct persona, as whilst Jodie is doing a fine job its a lot of channeling a jumble prior incarnations

Hopefully a bit of time will let them come up with something

Also Bradley Walsh, who'd have thunked, bestest sidekick for ages

He's very human, and has a distinct role as a sort of 'Dad' to the group. Not getting in the way of anyone's fun, but still looking out for them.

I can't believe I am saying this but I am enjoying Legends of Tomorrow more than Dr Who for my time travelling tv show. This season of Who just felt a bit meh, loved Jodie and her gang but it just felt like it lacked something I can't put my finger on. I don't think the shorter season helped it, while most british tv really benefits from a short number of episodes as it can tell a short story really well, Dr Who didn't have an overarching story which is the whole point of a short season.

Monster of the week episodes are great but you need a lot more of them before you can start to feel the characters grow. I feel like Graham was the only one who got fleshed out really well (particularly in the last couple of episodes), the other two didn't really make an impact on me despite doing really well in their roles.

I also like a good cliffhanger so having each episode neatly wrapped up was a bit of a shame, I feel like a secondary plot throughout the season might have helped even if it wasn't something major. The lack of regular villains made a nice change however, I still want to see them show up on occasion but it is nice to have some stuff that the Doctor has never encountered before as it makes the universe feel much bigger.

Interesting that they are taking a break until 2020 but I think it will be a good thing. Gives the writers more time to work on everything and come up with some good stories. I wonder if the delay is due to scheduling Jodie Wittaker and not wanting to recast the doctor again or just the BBC thinking it needed some time off the air?

Well, the preview of the New Year episode makes it look like a wrap up for this year as a whole, so I suppose we should wait and see that before our final analysis.

But going on the so far, I somewhat agree with you. While I've enjoyed all the episodes, and I've enjoyed not having the multi-verse saved from destruction in a overarching plot, I still feel there is something missing.

Maybe the larger crew required more episodes to bed them in, rather than just slightly longer episodes.

I'm not a fan of a break until 2020. There are only three main repeating TV series I look forwards to ; Strictly, Doctor Who, and Death in Paradise. They are all clustered in the autumn to winter, and I will miss Dr Who next year.

However if it comes back stronger than ever, I will be prepared to forgive the BBC.

It would be good if they could do a Christmas special for 2019.

I get what you mean.

For me, I feel the stakes could've been a wee bit higher in some of the episodes. Not all of them, it's nice to have a fallow period after all.

And a repeating theme seemed to be 'not actually evil, just completely misunderstood, except For Mankind'. That I liked, and I absolutely adored the historical episodes (more of those please).

But it needs a central baddie. Tim Shaw was a cool invention, but arguably slightly underused here. I'd like to have seen a smidge more about his species overall. Because for all it was nice not to have the Daleks or Cybermen be thwarted again, a season does need some form of central villain. Someone to consistently work against The Doctor.

Still, it serves beautifully as a palette cleanser, as did the first Moffat series (far less camp than RTDs take, which was needed after several years of it).

And for me? More of The Doctor exiting stage left with 'did I tell you about that time I did....'. Just a nice little touch, and a way to show she is educating her companions, and reminding us they are a being of action.

An amusing Doctor Who factoid; Peter Capaldi of course played Doctor Who until recently as we know and a few years ago he played the role in the film World War Z of WHO Doctor.

Finished the series. Overall a good enough series. Not my favourite but I definitely enjoyed it.
Did Jodie try a little too hard to be eccentric? My wife and I both though so. She’s a great actress and filling the dr shoes was a massive ask. I think she did well and I certainly want to see more of her. But perhaps she could tone down the franticness (not a word I know) of her acting, just a little.

I think the 2 parter format did well in the last season. I think this one would have done better if there was more to the stories, as it stands, there doesn't really feel like there was 'much' of Doctor Who in them.

I liked the companions, would have definitely have liked to see Yaz do more though, especially more stuff relating to being a police officer. - Like, they could have played with that a bit including the TARDIS' disguise. I'd also sort of like the idea of her being a good 'police role model' too, enhanced by the Doctor's instruction. But that wasn't explored.

In saying that, it's a case of too few episodes. - Ryan and Graham's character arcs were great though.

And yeah, the show needed a "The Doctor is utterly terrifying" moment that was missing. - It could have been a really awesome thing to fit into the last episode, when she confronted the villain after he threatened the Earth.

A real, "you dun screwed up here, mate" moment

"Resolution"

Well - that was one of the better one's fo Jodie's run. I won't say any more - spoilers an' all that.

Yes indeedy! I enjoyed that. It had enough light or jokey lines to give it a holiday feeling.

Good episode. 8/10 for me. Yazz still under utilised as a character though.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
Good episode. 8/10 for me. Yazz still under utilised as a character though.

haven't seen it yet she did seem to suffer from that during the run, maybe she needs a partner / foil to play off, maybe a metal (police) dog

It may actually be that. Graham and Ryan are a decent double act, but poor old Yazz hasn't got that dynamic.

And it's not the actress. When the episodes have given her space, she's shown her chops and no mistake. Demons of the Punjab was particularly good.

Just needs the air time.

 Mad Doc Grotsnik wrote:
It may actually be that. Graham and Ryan are a decent double act, but poor old Yazz hasn't got that dynamic.

And it's not the actress. When the episodes have given her space, she's shown her chops and no mistake. Demons of the Punjab was particularly good.

Just needs the air time.

Spoiler:

For instance, I felt Ryan's Dad was a bit superfluous in this episode. Why not give Yazz that screen time?

U.N.I.T being 'gone' is just what Lethbridge Jnr and the Oss' want you to think