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(Original review here)
I think it says a lot about our (my son’s and my) ‘meh’ feelings about our first watch of S11 that it’s taken us OVER TWO YEARS to get to our rewatch of it, though admittedly it’s partly also because we were rewatching the whole lot from S1 again and took that long to get here. But now that we are here…
Two episodes in and I’m afraid I’m still ‘meh’. The reasons I covered here are, I'm afraid, still valid. Son and I agreed, on discussing after this episode (Ghost Monument) that everything is just too safe and nice. I love Thirteen, Graham, Yas and Ryan, they're lovely people, but they're too nice. Where's the conflict? A little tiny bit of mild aggro between Graham and Ryan but that's about it. They all have absolute faith in the Doctor so no conflict there. Hell, the two guest characters had more character than this lot!
It has been mentioned before, I can't remember by whom (probably Elisi, maybe Astrogirl, maybe both) that Thirteen took Twelve's advice to be 'kind' and turned it into be 'nice' and this totally feels like what I'm seeing here.
In that post I linked to I mentioned the lack of humour, which I definitely felt here, but upon reflection and discussion with son we realised it's not just humour but silliness. Doctor Who has always been silly. Sometimes the Doctor himself has been silly, but if not (e.g. One) then it's been other people poking fun at him. But the show has always poked fun at itself. But I feel here like this new show is taking itself incredibly seriously, and in doing so, it's lost a lot of what makes it Doctor Who.
I think it says a lot about our (my son’s and my) ‘meh’ feelings about our first watch of S11 that it’s taken us OVER TWO YEARS to get to our rewatch of it, though admittedly it’s partly also because we were rewatching the whole lot from S1 again and took that long to get here. But now that we are here…
Two episodes in and I’m afraid I’m still ‘meh’. The reasons I covered here are, I'm afraid, still valid. Son and I agreed, on discussing after this episode (Ghost Monument) that everything is just too safe and nice. I love Thirteen, Graham, Yas and Ryan, they're lovely people, but they're too nice. Where's the conflict? A little tiny bit of mild aggro between Graham and Ryan but that's about it. They all have absolute faith in the Doctor so no conflict there. Hell, the two guest characters had more character than this lot!
It has been mentioned before, I can't remember by whom (probably Elisi, maybe Astrogirl, maybe both) that Thirteen took Twelve's advice to be 'kind' and turned it into be 'nice' and this totally feels like what I'm seeing here.
In that post I linked to I mentioned the lack of humour, which I definitely felt here, but upon reflection and discussion with son we realised it's not just humour but silliness. Doctor Who has always been silly. Sometimes the Doctor himself has been silly, but if not (e.g. One) then it's been other people poking fun at him. But the show has always poked fun at itself. But I feel here like this new show is taking itself incredibly seriously, and in doing so, it's lost a lot of what makes it Doctor Who.