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#261312 20-Nov-2019 16:02

No Xmas Special again. Series Premiere on New Years Day. Still no word if Jodie and Chris are sticking around for a third series.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/no-doctor-who-special-christmas-20917725

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#2358058 20-Nov-2019 16:30

I had high hopes for her on this role. After three episodes I gave up and have not watched since.

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#2358085 20-Nov-2019 17:10

freitasm: I had high hopes for her on this role. After three episodes I gave up and have not watched since.

Funnily enough, that’s how long I lasted. I wanted it to be good.........

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#2358091 20-Nov-2019 17:25

Good times.

Hopefully Jodi Whittaker is given some quality material to work with this season, along side some classic who villains.

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#2358094 20-Nov-2019 17:28

Dingbatt:

freitasm: I had high hopes for her on this role. After three episodes I gave up and have not watched since.

Funnily enough, that’s how long I lasted. I wanted it to be good.........

Same here, I was very disappointed. I have early-teen daughters and they have given up too (so it's not just a man thing); they very happily rewatch Doctors 9 to 12.

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#2358176 20-Nov-2019 19:40

I don't feel I can make any great judgement about Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor yet due to the crap stories and writing she was given last season.

I was really disappointed by the stories last season, Doctor Who has often suffered from "solve the problem magically in the last 2 minutes" but I think it was just taken too far and to add to that the characters just didn't seem that interesting to me, I didn't really feel like I cared about them.

Hopefully for the next season the writers have shaken off the cobwebs and we can get some really stellar episodes at least.

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#2358225 20-Nov-2019 20:58

Another long time Dr. Who fan who gave up.

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#2358467 21-Nov-2019 09:24

I'm hanging in there in the hope that the stories get better, which IMHO are the lacking element at the moment.

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#2358514 21-Nov-2019 11:09

Stephen Fry and Lenny Henry will appear in the Series 12 premiere.

https://www.radiotimes.com/news/tv/2019-11-20/doctor-who-series-12-lenny-henry-stephen-fry/

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#2358515 21-Nov-2019 11:15

I liked a few episodes of the last season but overall it didn't hold my interest.

Still hopefully they might have improved for the next one - my experience is it usually take me a season to fully warm up to a new doctor.

Having Stephen fry in for the series 12 premiere should at-least be interesting.

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#2358603 21-Nov-2019 12:32

I enjoyed it - both from a storyline and the gender neutral perspective.

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#2361630 27-Nov-2019 15:43

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#2361648 27-Nov-2019 16:00

The "I'm the Doctor" as the deux ex machine wears a bit thin after a while....

and IMHO keeping the number of "companions" to one (or maybe two) makes the stories easier to follow, three seems to be awfully busy....

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#2361650 27-Nov-2019 16:06

I'm more hyped for Star Trek Picard tbh.

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#2362267 28-Nov-2019 12:04

I hung in there with the last season as long as I could stand it. But it was truly awful.

I couldn't care less if the Doctor is a man or a woman; but it was all such in your face, preachy, politically correct garbage I just had to give up.

And the critics lapped it up. I see a trend more and more that critics heap praise on anything considered "progressive", even if the quality is appalling.

Another recent example of this is Batwoman, which is truly terrible on almost every level. Rotten Tomatoes has the critical consensus at 73%, the audience consensus at 12%.

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#2362292 28-Nov-2019 13:00

But what you didn’t say about rotten tomatoes is that only 45 people voted so far this season

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