Pros and Cons | Kevin Reviews Doctor Who Series 14/Series 1

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Welcome to 2024 where a new era of Doctor Who begins with the first full series featuring Ncuti Gatwa as the 15th Doctor and Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday.
Today I review the entire series and provide my thoughts and analysis
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[@FoggyD]

Classic Who got shorter as it went along too: about 40 25-minute episodes (9 or so multi-part adventures) in the black & white era, then about 24/26 (5-7 stories) in the 70s and early 80s, but ultimately just 14 (only 4 stories) for its last four seasons, airing in midweek in the autumn.
Actually, that's a point come to think of it: Doctor Who being back on Saturday night prime time, in the spring, is probably more important to RTD than the number of episodes.

[@jackunionjack]

- Yeah they looked MORE sixties before the costume change 🤣 I couldn't take the Cheesey Disco Doc seriously, he looked too silly.
- I didn't really care about the "mystery" behind Ruby, it was like a weaker rehash of the Impossible Girl.
- I can't say I've watched any of RTD's shows he made between his Dr Who runs. I might have watched Cucumber, I feel like I did, but I can't remember anything about it, so probably not. I agree he's matured as a writer, and maybe his scripts might be technically "better written", but I did prefer his original run to this one so far.
- I think he wrote six episodes in each of his previous series? But six out of eight is a higher proportion than 6/13! So that does make the season as a whole feel "Very Russell." I've still not read Writer's Tale but I gather even in the episodes in which he's not a credited writer he might have performed a lot of re-writes, to the point where it was basically his own?
- Without meaning to criticize Susan Twist, I don't think she's distinctive looking or recognisable to work for the season arch. I wouldn't have noticed she was the same person over and over again if not for speculation on online forums.
- I can see what Rusty was going for with Dot and Bubble, but it did feel a bit "old man yells at clouds."
- My problem with the new Sutekh is the same as NuWho's Cybermen. Old Sutekh was a schemer, a planner, and a do-er. He wasn't just a dog with glowing eyes! This one was just a monster who used puppets. There was little difference between him and the Beast from Satan Pit. And I compare him to the Cybermen because in Classic Who, they were humans with robot bits. You could talk to them, they'd talk amongst themselves. In NuWho, they're basically stompy robots who are always being controlled by a human (or the Master).
- As I've said several billion times, I think things are only "woke" if it turns out bad. I think S1 juuust squeaks past the line of being "good enough" to dodge that label, while also being heavy handed.
- As for Ncuti and the show itself, I don't have a strong opinion beyond he's fine, and it's fine. I don't love any of the episodes, don't hate any.

[@jvblhc]

I went through the series from the Christmas episode to the Sutekh episode, and I only liked Boom and 73 Yards. And without realizing it, those where the two Doctor Light episodes. I really do not like what RTD has done with Doctor Who. For me, it feels like a spinoff instead of it being Doctor Who.