Other complaint is just how it left too many mysteries unresolved. What could any entity possibly say that would make even her loving mum completely believe it and suddenly be full of such fear and loathing? I guess maybe this will all be explained in the finale. And that her old self is telling them to look at her in disgust and flee no matter how much it hurts her younger self, for... reasons. How that works with the PM I have no idea. What reason could ever be written that makes sense I have no idea. I think in the end it'll either be an amazing "OH SHIT!" twist at the end (ugh) or just some half arsed crap pulled out of his arse as I'd have expected from the Moffat-Smith era. But I live in hope that this episode will be part of a bigger story and make sense later.
As such it's one of those.... very good, pending a future episode proving that the writing is.
Also I do share my dad's frustration that so much modern storytelling on TV is "leave you with a fuckton of mysteries and solve them all in the finale". Modern Trek does it a lot too and it's frustrating as you're going along. You have to put a lot of faith in the "long game" style being well written and delivering well enough at the end to be worth all the patience and faith.
Enjoying that realisation that the exact same actress - a lady called SUSAN TWIST - has appeared in the last 5 episodes as an entirely different character each time.
Can't work out if it means anything, or if RTD just saw a name like SUSAN TWIST and thought he'd be mischievous knowing that the fans would think it meant Susan was coming back
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From watching Unleashed - it's not intentional, but was a necessity if they were to deliver the series in time for there to have been a 2023 Christmas special and series this year, and allow for Ncuti to be the Doctor.It was great but it really felt like a Doctor lite episode again! They really need to give Ncuti a bit more screentime (he was excellent in the final scene, but it just seems so weird they are sidelining him so much)
2.12m in the overnights. That doesn't include people watching on iPlayer before broadcast, either.
On overnights only
Space Babies 2.6m
The Devil's Chord 2.4m
Boom 2.04m
73 Yards 2.62m
Dot and Bubble 2.12m
No idea, but I don't think it's that significant for the overnights figure, particularly. I imagine that things like the weather and what the competition was at the time of broadcast has quite the impact - it will be more interesting to see how it levels out compared to the others after 7 days, by which time of course word of mouth amd critical reaction can also play a part.Any idea why 73 Yards was the highest? Feels weird to see it so much higher than it's preceding and following episodes.
I've only seem them release info for UK broadcasts, when they report to BARB.Also do we know how it's doing on Disney+? Do they release any figures at all?
JON PertweeMy dad was a massive Doctor Who fan so he had me watch it when I was old enough, even though I was born after it had originally stopped, and I had a bunch of DVDs of the classic series once they started getting released. John Pertwee was my favourite followed by Sylvester McCoy.
Though Tennant is easily my favourite now, especially as 14.