But only the Doctor would have that reaction, and he said "Don't make me laugh" to everyone, frequently
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And we got a regeneration and they are being foolish once more
Whovians have been a cranky lot since at least 1982, often deriding the current offerings as cheap panto unworthy of the diamond logo.
Arguably the RTD2 era has been even more harshly scrutinized, since he brought the diamond logo back for 14 and 15.
And yet, while the Eurovision parody was widely panned, The Silliest Thing Murray Gold Came Up With has been a genuine source of joy for the fandom.
As well as memes and mixes.
Arguably the RTD2 era has been even more harshly scrutinized, since he brought the diamond logo back for 14 and 15.
And yet, while the Eurovision parody was widely panned, The Silliest Thing Murray Gold Came Up With has been a genuine source of joy for the fandom.
As well as memes and mixes.
Well thanks to some spoilerish article titles getting my way before finishing the episode I had actually joked about the outcome to myself. And when the Rani made the off hand comment about Ruby, I was like nooooo they wouldn't do that. That one person I saw spoiled however never showed up... until the end 
This is going to be awkward should we see 14 again.
This is going to be awkward should we see 14 again.
He thinks Jenny dies at the end of that original episode. Stunningly they've never brought her back.
What was weird to me is Susan not being brought up at all given her being explained as his granddaughter last season and actual appearances in the eps leading up to this.
Thought we'd get an explanation for those visions.
-ZacWilliam, there is the "Boss" dangler but it seems as likely to be unconnected...
I get the impression RTD has a bigger plan here, way back with Toymaker he said he saw Sutekh but ran as "that's someone else's game" which may point to whatever boss the Meep and maybe Anita referenced.
I half expected them to work Omega in as a counter to the timeless child origin, a player behind the flux Or have the Rani be disappointed to find he just wants to go for a walk in the universe and enjoy life like he seemed to do in his last appearance.
Thing is, there's no guarantee at this point 1) that Doctor Who will even return (although I expect it will, and within a year or two at most), nor 2) that RTD will still be in charge (this, in fact, is rumored to be unlikely). Why go to all that trouble to set up stuff that you're not even going to be the person to resolve it? Is this that thing that TV producers do when they end seasons in cliffhangers, thinking that this will pressure the network to renew, inevitably resulting in never-resolved cliffhangers? Seriously, I HATE that. When has it ever actually worked, anyway?
My main gripe with RTD2 isn't the one I've heard from most other folks. It's more that,
My main gripe with RTD2 isn't the one I've heard from most other folks. It's more that,
when he DOES bring back a big-bad, he changes them so thoroughly that they barely resemble the original. The Rani actually worked out fine (bi-generation nonsense notwithstanding), but neither Sutehk nor Omega meshed particularly well with past portrayals (It wasn't lost on me that they NEVER referred to Omega's anti-matter universe, instead using language of "underverse" throughout. Perhaps this helps them to handwave that, originally, Omega no longer HAD a physical body that could become a corpse, let alone a heavily mutated and enlarged one).
Yeah, the show lost me somewhere in the Capaldi years. There were bits that I enjoyed, but the stories were getting harder and harder to watch due to bad writing. I mean, it was never hard sci-fi or masterpiece theater or anything, and I didn't need it to be, but when nothing in an episode makes any sense even within the context of other parts of that same episode, it starts to lose my attention. I've kept tabs on Doctor Who occasionally since then, hoping to hear that things had improved and it was a good time to jump back in, but it doesn't sound like that's happened yet.
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