Markus_Lucidiou

Complete series review: Chibnall does what no Dr Who baddie has ever done. Kill Dr Who. There are several scenes throughout the series that are genuinely good. Unfortunately that is nothing to do with the Doctor or the companions. The extras they employed had far better acting and performance skills than any of the 'fam'. There is far too much to mention as to why and what went wrong tl;dr - Chibnall cannot run a piss up in a brewery. To really highlight the continued exposition from episode to episode would take far too long but allow me to put it this way, in the final episode the main character, the Doctor, quite literally stands still and does nothing for at least 3/4s of it while we get exposition from the Master. The core tenet of this series appears to be "Talk about stuff don't show stuff" The show creators and production crew can wax lyrical all they want about the amazing journey that the Doctor and co have been on, but we never see it. It took until the finale for Graham and Yaz to have a conversation. Two whole series, and the first actual conversation is in the finale. Lining the actors up and having them recite their lines one after another doesn't count Chibbers. Lazy writing, lazy editing, lazy acting.

There was something very intriguing about this. I watched the first series in one night, happily even eagerly consuming each episode. I liked the fact it wasn't fully explained and had an air of mystery around it. However that evaporated almost instantly with season 2. The first thing was the replacement actors, they lacked the charm and indeed character of the originals. It was around episode 3, that I realised the original showrunner had be replaced too, and this was evident from the lack luster plot development, where season 1 had mystery season two had horror. It felt weak, and half hearted. So I'd rate season one 7.5 out of ten, but season two 3.5. A real shame.

[SPOILER ALERT: This review contains spoilers.]