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Back by popular demand.
We go back in time to the evening of 7th October 2018 where
our comrade Agamemnon has now become The True Doctor and here
is his (giving a chance) review of the 13th Doctor's debut
episode.
The memory might fail in time, but the RADW archive lives on...
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From: "The True Doctor" <
agamemnon@hello.to.NO_SPAM>
Subject: S11E01 The Woman Who Fell to Earth
Date: Sun, 7 Oct 2018 22:02:10 +0100
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Even before the new series actually began the BBC decided to
show a 3 minute long trailer featuring nothing but misandristic
garbage they dared to call drama, showing nothing except female
protagonists and attacking men.
It is blatantly clear the message the BBC was sending. Men can
fuck off and go to hell, Doctor Who is no longer for you.
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<REVIEW>
The only positive thing that can be said about the new series is
that the new titles are infinity superior to the stupid idiotic
clock faces and cogwheels that were inflicted on viewers for 3
seasons of Capaldi. They are reminiscent of a the original black
and white sequence mixed with the Tom Baker titles.
Unfortunately you had to wait until the end of the story to see
them, since there were no titles or theme music at the
beginning. A big mistake. The new mix of the theme, samples the
original and adds a new backing track and is not bad. Gone is
Murray Gold's intrusive backing music and a less intrusive
electronic sound which fits better with the action is composed
by Segun Akinola.
Unfortunately everything is ruined by the BBC's sick
misandristic, sexist and racist agenda.
Without any opening titles to indicate that this is Doctor Who,
Ryan is shown making a YouTube video. I thought advertising
brand names on the BBC was banned? So begins the BBC's
misandristic agenda since the video is dedicated to the greatest
woman he ever met.
Ryan is then demeaned in the next scene, pure soap opera, which
shows that he is unable to ride a bike, because he has
dispraxia; being ridiculed in front of this grandmother and
step-grandfather Bradley Walsh.
In this racist and sexist monstrosity all men have to be
humiliated and belittled in order to make the women look
superior.
So Ryan decides to throw the bike off the top of a hill into
some trees, and his grandparents take the train home.
In this scene we are also exposed to dreadful regional accents,
the grandmother from up north, the step-grandfather from London,
and Ryan having an accent which oscillates between the two.
Ryan then goes to retrieve his bike which is now stuck up a
tree, discovers an alien pod in the woods, and calls the police.
Meanwhile Yasmin is dealing with a traffic dispute and when that
is sorted is sent to investigate Ryan's situation, and sees that
the pod is cold to the touch. Ryan then gets a call from Bradley
Walsh on the train which has been hit by alien energy and has
stopped in the middle of the line. Yasmin takes Ryan to
investigate.
Whittaker then crashes in through the roof of the train, with no
explanation whatsoever as to how she survived the fall, just as
an alien octopus like creature begins attacking people, and they
all meet up, Ryan, his grandmother, step-grandfather who he
refuses to acknowledge as such, Yasmin, and Whittaker, who's
forgotten her name.
Jodie Whittaker is a bad choice of actor to play the leading
role and is totally unsuitable for the part. She has no acting
range whatsoever and is just repeating the lines on her script
without showing any sense whatsoever of understanding them.
Other actors might not have understood them either, but at least
they acted them as if they did.
Whittaker has only ever played the part of hysterical woman in
her entire career, and this is the part she plays in this
episodes. Her inability to act is compounded by the fact that
the only accent she is capable of doing is her native Yorkshire,
an unintelligible, ear piercing, high-pitched screech like
Mickey Mouse, which conveys no sense of authority, knowledge, or
understanding.
Mandip Gill who plays Yasmin is even worse than Whittaker,
screeching in undecipherable Yorkshire. Their screeching voices
are virtually indistinguishable from another, making following
the dialogue, especially in the dark green tinted, dim, day for
night scenes extremely difficult, and sometimes you can't tell
either of them apart. Apparently they engaged in some sort of
competition in who could be the most northern and Gill won.
It would have been better for the characters to have used
neutral accents; especially the Doctor, who has to appeal to
everyone, and not just a minority, so should not be speaking in
a thick accent of any kind; and for the companions to have toned
down their thick accents for the benefit of people in other
counties, and even this one.
When RTD brought back Doctor Who, Peter Eccleston, although he
had a Mancunian accent, did not use it thickly, and everything
was upbeat, lively, captivating, and uplifting. Not so with
Chibnall and Whittaker and this drab downbeat story.
There was no plot whatsoever, and nothing at all to attract
Children to watch. It was filmed like a soap opera, using an
anamorphic lens which turns out of focus bright lights into
vertical oval shapes. That and the pointless letter-boxing, and
drab lighting makes it look visually hideous.
When Doctor Who came back in 2005 RTD concentrated on the
character of Rose and developed her as well as developing the
Doctor. There was no character development with Chibnall
writing. Tonally it felt like I was watching a bad episode of
Torchwood. Compared to Rose, The Christmas Invasion, The
Eleventh Hour, and Deep Breath, there was no development of the
character of the Doctor whatsoever in The Woman Who Fell to
Earth. Whittaker has no personality or charisma and there is no
depth to her acting at all. Instead of introducing the Doctor to
a new audience, and tailoring the character to the actor,
Chibnall just gives Whittaker the same lines Moffat gave Matt
Smith and doesn't work. Whittaker is playing a demented old bat,
not Doctor Who, because Chibnall is making exactly the same
mistakes Moffat made with Capaldi.
Just like with Moffat's last two series, the story, if you could
call it that, amounted to sentimentalistic garbage, with
explanations for what was happening pulled out of thin air, as
if by magic, and no attempt make at including plot. There is no
kind of scientific methodology applied in conducting an
investigation and putting all the pieces together of a puzzle.
Whittaker builds a sonic screwdriver out of parts from a junk
yard, with no explanation about how it actually worked, or what
powered it, and how she programmed it, since it's revealed to
effectively be a magic wand.
After that, and after defeating a ridiculous alien invader, who
turns out to be playing some sort of hunting game for a random
target on a random planet--again this is not something that is
discovered by methodical investigation, but something which
Whittaker pulls out of thin air in a couple of lines--by
removing the bombs that the alien implanted in everyone's necks
and implanting them in the alien, none of which is actually
plotted or shown or even known about by the viewer, but is only
revealed in a throw away line by Whittaker near the end, she
then magically tracks down the TARDIS on a planet light years
away, but looking for its Artron energy signature. How? She was
only ejected from the TARDIS a few hours earlier and this energy
signature is detectable from light years away? How did it get to
Earth? Even at the speed of light it would have taken years. And
how did she build a transporter that then transported everyone
away from Earth to find the TARDIS, without any tools except her
magic wand made of Sheffield Steel, let alone any schismatics of
the alien technology she was using? And she did this in minutes.
It takes hours to build a computer after you've ordered all the
parts, or even to align a satellite dish, and Whittaker can
build something far more advanced in minutes?
So, anyway, the misandry continues. The character of Karl, who
turns out to be the prize that is being hunted, is portrayed as
wimp suffering from low esteem and fear of heights, even though
he operates a crane.
Through all of this Gill who is supposed to be playing a police
woman, makes not attempt whatsoever to call in back up, thus
Ryan, Tosin Cole's grandmother ends up being killed, pointlessly
trying to electrocute the alien, who was already beaten.
Thus it turns out that the woman Ryan is praising at the start
is Grace his grandmother, after which follows 15 minutes of pure
pointless sentimentalist soap opera covering her funeral and
Bradley Walshe's idiotic speech. This is a funeral of a black
woman, but only a handful of the people mourning were played by
black actors. But looking at the other characters, hardly any of
them a white. Thus the BBC succeeds in being totally racist
against everyone!
Then the misandry continues as Ryan attempts to ride the bike
again and again on top of the hill we saw at the start, and
keeps falling off. Hasn't he ever heard of using stabilizes? But
of course not; that would stop Chibnall being able to demean him
and every other male character. Even Bradly Wash is demeaned by
being made to be in remission of cancer. Thus every man is made
to look inferior to Whittaker.
And then finally, after everyone materializes in the middle of
space wearing no space suits or breathing apparatus, the title
sequence is interrupted with what's coming up next; but instead
of showing any action from any of the episodes, all that is
shown is a sequence of stills of actors' faces and names.
Chibnall is doing exactly the same as JNT did when Doctor Who
was in crisis, and telling everyone that the story and good
writing will always come last, last to the stunt casting and to
his disgusting agenda.
This is not Doctor Who. This is a parody, a disgusting, sexist,
misandristic, racist, pile of garbage and propaganda by Chibnall
and the BBC.
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