Why the Female Doctor Who is a flop.

I appreciate the sentiment, but please don't include me in this. Max is wrong quite often... and proud of it. Being right is easy. It takes intelligence to be wrong.

Any fool can win an argument on Able2know. I am one of the few people here who have ever lost one.

For those of you pissed off that you get Doctor Who a day later than us I'd just like to point out that the new episode of The Simpsons I saw last week was the Halloween special.

That's over three months later.

I liked last night's episode, it reminded me of the Tom Baker episode State of Decay



Ian Gelder was reminiscent of Richard E Grant.

Very creepy.

No celebration of Rush Limbaugh getting his medal so Max won't like it.

The episode was titled ''Can you hear me?''

A better title would have been ''Doctor Who and the Wet-Willy''

We don't call it that over here, willy meaning something else.

Having said that I don't know what we do call it, if we call it anything.

Episode 7 review: Can you hear me.

What a strange strange episode! This one is trying to be some combination of Mr. Roger From Mr. Roger's neighborhood and Freddy Kruger from Nightmare on Elm street.

This episode is a disjointed mixture of several narratives, each one misses the mark. This is the second worst episode of a disappointing season.

Spoilers below.

The plot:

A woman in 14th century Syria working with mental illness is attacked by bipedal tiger-bear-lizard things. She warns the other people to save themselves. Everyone except her dies. The doctor comes by herself (leaving the team behind).

Ryan has a boring conversation with his depressed former best friend. Yaz has a boring talk with her sister. Graham has a boring talk with a diverse group of friends (if you have "little person" on your diversity bingo card, you can mark it off).

Some rather mundane science fiction happens (the main plot is copied from the Magicians). Two immortal beings are stealing nightmares.... blah blah blah. The Doctor defeats them with standard sonic screwdriver waving ex machina.

Then Yaz visits an old friend with a trite little side story.

Then Ryan convinces his depressed friend to go to therapy in another trite little side story.

Then Graham confide in the Doctor in another trite little side story.

Thoughts on the episode

1. This is very clearly intended to be a PSA about mental health. The science fiction story about monsters feasting on human nightmares is cliche. The writers don't even really try to tell a good story.

2. The Doctor apparently needs a lesson in consent. She forces Graham to connect to the telepathy circuits over his protests. He never says yes. I found this scene to be disturbing.

3. The image of the bogey man appearing in the bedroom was creepy. I thought the fingers coming off were silly. 5. This episode was 50 minutes of boring with 5 minutes of scary suspense.

4. The Doctor scolded the villains... "you immortals, so entitled". That line made me laugh.

5. Nothing more about the Master, or the Timeless Child. There was nothing to move along the greater story.

6. The writing again was truly horrible. It is formulaic, predictable and superficial.

Still no understanding of the Doctor Who arc. It's always been common practice to give a taste of what is to come then keep quiet for a few episodes.

There is a connection with the second adventure with Jodie Whittaker, Ian Gelder also played the voice of the Remnants, and they may be the same character.

This was a echo back to the days of hiding behind the sofa.

And as you're having problems keeping up, I need to remind you that you don't have to watch it.

I actually thought of Izzy during the scene where the Doctor is trapped with her hands above her head. The Doctor wills her light saber/sonic screwdriver into her hand to cut/screw her way free in a clear nod to the Disney classic.

The writers of Doctor Who apparently like the Star Wars movies.

I don't remember it like that at all. It looked to me like it was more like Arya killing the White Walker. Anyway telekinesis was a feature of S/F long before Star Wars.

You could easily argue the writers were fans of classic British S/F series The Tomorrow People which first aired in 1973, four years before Star Wars.

George Lucas didn't invent Buddhism either.

It is poor writing on the part of the Doctor Who writers. They are leaning on science fiction tropes. This is supposed to be a appeal to younger viewers and to paint the Doctor as strong and capable.

It came across to me as disjointed and lazy.

The image of the bald guy in the bedroom creeped me out, I thought that was an effective scene as far being truly scary. But then his fingers popped off... what the hell were the writers thinking?

And you come across as dishonest and misogynistic.

If you knew anything about writing you'd know all writers borrow off each other. Shakespeare didn't make Julius Caesar, Romeo and Juliet or any of the history plays off the top of his head, he used established sources.

Doctor Who will still be running when your precious little S/F shows with "acceptable" gay characters are all long forgotten.

You may not be scared by fingers coming off like that, but you are supposedly a middle aged man. Kids who watch Doctor Who are another story.

And as you never had a childhood hiding behind the sofa from ice warriors cybermen and daleks you would not understand that.

Like you don't understand the impact of well known television stars like Lee Mack and James Buckley because you don't know them. We do, and we know the type of character they play.



Doctor Who is not written for an American audience, get used to it.

Wow, even as you force yourself to suffer through viewing Doctor Who, you managed to add a bit of levity.



Concerned about your discomfort with bald men. Why is this?

Who said I am suffering? Doctor Who sucks this year. That doesn't mean I can't enjoy watching it. I am a Doctor Who fan the same way I am am a New England Patriots fan, I suffered through the seventies, eighties and nineties. After 18 pleasant years I will likely suffer again.

It is probably the same reason you and Izzy keep reading and responding to this thread. Obviously you are enjoying it, or it would be ridiculous for you to be here when it would be so easy for you to simply ignore it.

Apparently you enjoy reading posts by bald misogynists. I won't hold that against you.

Izzy, or anyone else who watched, I would love to hear your view of the issue of consent.

Did the scene with the Doctor forcing Graham into the telepathic circuit against his will bother you at all? I was also distressed by the mind wipe of Ada Lovelace against her vehement protests... both of these scenes felt like physical violations.

What do you think was going on there?

I think you're seeing loads of **** that's not there.

I'd rather talk to real fans about the programme. You just want to sneer because there's a woman Doctor and you don't like it, so you make up a load of other nonsense.

I like talking to Sturgis and Real Music on this thread because they're interested in the show, not in their own emasculated agenda. You're more of an irritation than anything else, opinionated and ignorant.

That's nice Izzy.

Would you care for a Jelly Baby?

How do I put this to you? I didn't know you are bald. Doesn't matter either.

As for Doctor Who, I've been enjoying the stories this season.

Another thread that begs the question.

Are you an Izzy sock puppet, or just an Izzy fan boy? You keep popping up to support Izzy on threads about topics you don't seem to care about.

The scarf and the voice.