On Doctor Who 2022

[danieldwilliam]

Andrew Rilstone appears to have pulled his blog post on Doctor Who's Christmas Special. I was going to link to it but now can't.

For a long time I've struggled with Doctor Who. I've struggled with Moffat and the lack of narrative.  I don't have much confidence that the new head writer will be any better than Moffat

Now seems like a good time to take a break. Perhaps that break will be long, perhaps permanent. Perhaps, if the reviews are surprisingly good,  as Rilstone suggested in his now lost blog, I can watch all of Whitaker's episodes on Netflix over Christmas 2022. I expect she'll have quit by then.

But I'm quitting now.

EDIT:

The original Andrew Rilstone blog post is now back up. It may have been re-drafted a bit since I read it.

http://www.andrewrilstone.com/2018/01/doctor-who-twice-upon-time.html

Comments

[strange_complex]

Early Who - I really recommend it. If you find yourself casting around for something to watch while you're on hiatus from New Who, you could do a lot worse than just go back right to the beginning and watch in order. Yes, it's of its time, but I found it really rewarded taking it seriously.

Moffat's form - yes, I do agree. I found the 2017 series markedly stronger than his others, but you're right that it wasn't perfect, and I have a long-running hatred of fake character deaths in particular.

My reviews - bless you! I do want to get back to it. I'm currently trying to get back on top of a long-running book and film review back-log, but may return to Doctor Who when I've done so. I watched the classic stuff a bit randomly at first when I was doing so, homing in on Doctors I particularly liked or generally highly-rated stories. But in the end found that watching in order pays off most of all, so I'll be back to doing that through the Troughton era if I do it.

[danieldwilliam]

Fake character deaths are also something I really dislike.
Done well and very, very occassionally they work but Who, Moffat in particular, seems to have no other exit route for his characters other than a fake death.

I shall look up old Who. I think many of them are on Netflix.