So far this doctor seems lacking in mindfulness and confidence and it's throwing me through a loop.The scene where she's trying to turn around a medical spaceship because she wants to get back to her TARDIS is probably one of the most baffling character choices I've seen in a long time. I literally screwed my eyebrows up in confusion.
Like, sure, she wants to make sure it's safe, and she's a bit dazed and confused, but she's just nearly got her friends killed and she's on board a ship with who knows how many other injured people and she's acting like they left one of her companions behind. The Doctor constantly gets separated from the TARDIS; that's the set up to most stories.
It's stuff like that that makes it feel like Chibnall hasn't been watching the show for the past 13 years and so just binge-watched a few episodes, noted down that the Doctor is 'kooky', says 'weird stuff' and likes her TARDIS and ran with that.
In the pilot she got surprisingly sassy with a dude for killing a dude before she could kill him.
In Ghost Monument before the Tardis showed up, she flat out gave up and started waiting for death until her team told her to keep her chin up.
In Rosa when the villain got too lippy with her she just grumbled at him and walked away, leaving him to continue his timeline havok.
In Arachnids there doesn't seem to be any solid plan at all and the whole thing just fizzles out when a dude completely ignores her and ends the episode.
In Tsuranga she walks her team right into a mine and does jack shit about it, and her defining moment this time is needing to be thoroughly convinced that lives are more important than finding her ride.
the fuck is going on
Though I heard we're about to get to some episodes that aren't written by Chibs so maybe things are looking up. I'm going to keep chugging on regardless but it hasn't been a walk in the park.
I'm just happy the CC episodes are out of the way (for now). I've never really liked one of his episodes before he took over so I wasn't expecting much but I did like Rosa and the first episode which is something! Hopefully now the series can kick on a little because I still feel like somethings missing so far.
Rosa was the only episode so far where Chibs shared writing credit with another writer. Malorie Blackman.
Probably why I liked that one better.
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