November 4th, 2018
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Poll – What Did You Think of The Tsuranga Conundrum?
Now that the fifth episode of series 11 has aired what did you think? Was it everything you had hoped for or not what you expected.
“Risk to life: absolute.”
Injured and stranded in the wilds of a far-flung galaxy, The Doctor, Yaz, Graham and Ryan must band together with a group of strangers to survive against one of the universe’s most deadly — and unusual — creatures.
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The Moffat Paradox
November 5th, 2018 - 5:00pmGive me Vervoids over this joke called the Pting any time.
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
November 5th, 2018 - 2:59pmI’m also in that boat generally I think
The Moffat Paradox
November 5th, 2018 - 2:52pmIf the majority of people as judged by here are finding an episode overall risible then their not so intellectually invested in the finer points o it’s “plot” logic.
Mark Belsom.
November 5th, 2018 - 2:28pmNot a “watch again ” episod,was ok. Don’t know what it is but this new series has something missing, just can’t put my finger on it.
Pats86
November 5th, 2018 - 2:05pmAntimatter drive, particle accelerator, CERN, particles, atoms, positrons, electric-magnetic fields! Music to my ears.
Had this little discussion not taken place this episode would have got 0.5 from me simply because of Bradley Walsh, thanks to the science I can now push my score up to 1/10
The science was good but the episode was unbelievably bad!
Chibnall is clearly a poor show runner, I had high hopes he could do something good with this series but how wrong could I have been?
The BBC and Chibnall have been quite astute putting the series out on a sleepy Sunday evening slot, had this been on a Saturday evening I can well believe it would be attracting 2/3 million viewers! If that. I am not reading anything into the steady 6/7 million viewer’s it is attracting, the X Factor and other such drivel pulls in more than that regularly so it doesn’t mean much, people will watch any rubbish put in front of them nowadays. Including me watching this dreadful excuse for a once great programme. Will I watch next week? Yes, although I’m on my own because both my wife and daughter have now thrown the towel in sadly, but understandable.
Can it get any worse? Possibly but I hope not I would hate to see it cancelled again.
Next week looks interesting but I have a feeling it could be another preachy episode on how bad the British were back then, but we will see.
I feel for Jodie, she just isn’t cutting it at the moment. Lack of gravitas is showing only too well.
KORSAIR
November 5th, 2018 - 1:46pmWasn’t too keen on it to be honest, the episode was slow and thinly plotted and as for the Pting it was like a Scooby Doo monster. Overall a serious drop compared to the last two episodes mind you it won’t put me off I’ll remain faithful to the show.
Anonymous
November 5th, 2018 - 1:18pmit is like a cross between the worst episodes of star trek and the tomorrow people
Anonymous
November 5th, 2018 - 1:16pmMuch better on a second watch but still my least favourite so far. Mainly because there was potential to make this into a fright fest and I found it disappointing it went down the Disney route.
Ep 1 – Good
Ep 2 – V good
Ep 3 – Brilliant
Ep 4 – OK (So many lose ends)
Ep 5 – OK after 2nd watch
My opinion only- the above is not intended to start a keystroke riot.
Anonymous
November 5th, 2018 - 1:11pmI liked it, thought it was pretty good.
ADAM
November 5th, 2018 - 1:05pmChibnall must be wishing that he’d never opened his mouth back in 86. But he’s only half the problem. For as long as it’s been made under the BBC and it’s ott pc agendas,the show will never be great again.
me
November 5th, 2018 - 12:40pmwhat has happened to doctor who ? for the first time ever i turned over from it to watch a programme about bobby moore and i don t even like football. jodie whittaker could be a good doctor who .but the programme has lost something. but i do think bradley walsh is quite good in it
ADAM
November 5th, 2018 - 12:39pmThe series can’t get any worse…can it?…..this was awful on every level.
Anonymous
November 5th, 2018 - 12:24pmLiterally no PC stuff
Doctor Stu
November 5th, 2018 - 12:21pmBecause it would have come back again to start feeding some more, the whole point of the bomb was that it had enough energy to keep it satisfied for quite a while so the ship was able to escape while the Pting was outside feeding on the bombs energy. If they’d kicked it out just wrapped in the blanket it would have come straight back
Exterminator
November 5th, 2018 - 12:04pmOk here’s my actual comment,
Things I hated about this episode:
the Tardis team yet again needed medical attention (that’s getting repetitive), the companions just weren’t needed and to be honest should’ve been left in Sheffield last week, the alien was just rubbish, the pregnant bloke and I’m a strong woman general was just the PC brigade again, the Android didn’t really add anything by being there, they’ve lost the Tardis, they killed off the one character I liked.
Things I liked:
The guy that got killed in the escape pod, The medical ship sets looked good (but it needed some windows to look out to space), Jodie (I think she’s doing well considering the awful stories).
This yet again felt too childish to be on BBC1 and seems more like a spin-off of The Sarah Jane Adventures and should be on CBBC.
Anonymous
November 5th, 2018 - 11:48amIt was Nibbler from futurama crossed with a gremlin.
Anonymous
November 5th, 2018 - 10:55amBecause they needed it to drain the energy from the spaceship’s self destruct bomb.
the ergon
November 5th, 2018 - 10:41amFor series 12 they,ll need to push the boat out and give us a big old monster extravaganza to make up for whats been on display this season. I had high hopes with the promise of ‘all new monsters’ but for me its just fallen flat.
Angus Brown
November 5th, 2018 - 10:37amI agree with you about a lot of this. I don’t feel the companions have been given any space to grow really, and it’s definitely missing the effortless humour and intelligence of the Moffat era. I do have to disagree with you about the music though, I think Segun Akinola does a great job. Also, as regards political commentary I think it’s something that can be done really well (see The Zygon Invasion; Inversion) but Arachnids in the UK was the most egregious example of a complete failure to integrate it naturally into the storytelling. Disagreeing with Trump is not political commentary. It is simplistic and distracted and adds nothing to a dumb story about giant spiders. So no, you are not the only person who feels this way.
The Moffat Paradox
November 5th, 2018 - 9:55amBy the way 0.5/10.
chris7
November 5th, 2018 - 9:35amWhy didn’t they chuck it out of the airlock when they had it wrapped in that blanket thing?
Tim M
November 5th, 2018 - 9:01amChibnall had the cheek back in 1986 to have a go at Pip and Jane Baker’s storytelling! ‘Terror of the Vervoids’ isn’t a huge favourite story of mine either, but it’s miles better than the pc agenda driven, unfunny, absolute load of embarrassing rubbish we are getting served now. Seriously, Doctor Who has no future in this guise. Time to rest this show, until someone can come up with a serious proposition of improving this once great series.
Blungering Hinklesburn
November 5th, 2018 - 8:42amBut you have commented…
Anonymous
November 5th, 2018 - 7:40amUmmmmmmmmmmm
Did anyone understand what was going on
I mean everyone talked too fast
Either Jodie’s Preformance is getting better or Growing on me
The alien was cute though, I really screamed “I Want One” (well. A plush one), The thing about this episode all people do is talk. This episode is basically talk talk talk, all people did was talk really fast and say exprostion, This episode could literally be done in minutes, if the doctor just didn’t wait around for the last 10 minuteto do stuff. I said to my friend that I really wanted a really good episode as each episode has just been average
Rosa is a exspection as it’s above average
Please please please give us an amazing episode
Puddle
November 5th, 2018 - 7:08amTotally agree and having never missed a episode since 1967 it hurts to say that
Anonymous
November 5th, 2018 - 5:30amI know a lot of people won’t agree with me but, I feel like when I’m watching this new series of doctor who I don’t feel like I’m watching the same show anymore. The companions are dull, the storytelling has too many plot holes, and the music is awful. The other doctors and companions like Clara had great themes which you could listen too and instantly recognise, I don’t feel any of this with this new cast. In my opinion I just feel like the spirit of doctor who isn’t there anymore, and the writers only care about political issues with the world. The thing I always loved about doctor who was the fact that I could watch episodes and forget about all the worries in the world and watch a hero and his companions save the day from the Daleks or Sontarans
Dalekparadigm2
November 5th, 2018 - 2:24amI’m a big fan of Ben Bailey Smith (or Doc Brown) and thought he fitted into this episode really nicely. Would’ve loved to see him full time in Doctor Who but hey, maybe someday. Really liked this episode. Cute monster that immediately defies expectation, interesting science behind the ship’s engine (good that they’re returning to the show’s roots of teaching stuff) and the score for this one was captivating. Love a good old base/spaceship under seige story!
Dalekparadigm2
November 5th, 2018 - 2:17amI’m with both of you, I especially liked the push on teaching something scoentific. Thought it was tense, clever and there was a good old on-screen death! Huzzah!
RORY DOCTOR RIVER POND
November 5th, 2018 - 12:59amI did enjoy aspects of it, and liked it, but didn’t love it. I thought series 10 wasn’t that great, but I’ve found this series to be quite bland, bar episode 3 and maybe this one
The Pting looked ridiculous, and Yaz still doesn’t get anymore character development, instead we have more of Ryan, who I actually find quite blank
I don’t really see any classics in this series
I think I did like this episode as I did see it being quite sci fi, and for me it was a massive improvement on last week, although it still wasn’t amazing
I’m waiting for an episode to really blow my socks off, first one that did last year properly was ‘Extremis or ‘World Enough and Time’ – I don’t think anything has hit that level yet
I don’t see any cleverness, massive sci fi, or wit this season, which is what the Moffat era was full of
I am looking forward to next week, as my grandparents lived through the Partition
The Moffat Paradox
November 5th, 2018 - 12:58amDoing everything in their power to make this a turn off and to date proving Youtube’s boewlstrek’s prophecy that watching this as an adult in the hope that it will reinstil still confidence in the franchise is forlorn. Bordering on if not actually passed benefit of the doubt point. What is it the chasers’ say on Bradley’s other programme: trust your gut. Which told me on 16/07/17 as it did others that this was ALWAYS going to happen mainly because Chibnall has poor to mediocre previous form.regardless of main character gender controversy.