• admiralteal
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    1 month ago

    Jodie Whittaker was a fabulous doctor. I really liked her whole vibe, her personality, her presentation. I wanted to love that doctor so much.

    But the stories were boring and the writing was lame.

    An otherwise-mediocre show with great writing can still be a huge success, but even an otherwise-flawless show with bad writing will always suck. I’ll never understand why all the TV producers think they can get away with cutting all the corners on writing.

    • @Iheartcheese@lemmy.world
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      231 month ago

      Same thing with Capaldi. I liked him. His episodes sucked.

      …Missy is the best thing to ever happen to Who tho.

      • Flying Squid
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        91 month ago

        I would also add that not a single Whitaker episode reached the levels of stupidity of Capaldi’s Kill the Moon episode. That one made me angry, it was so stupid.

      • @Sigh_Bafanada@lemmy.world
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        11 month ago

        Yeah Capaldi is my second-favourite doctor (after Tennant"). But I’ve watches fewer than half of his episodes, cause the writing had already gone downhill at that point.

    • FaceDeer
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      91 month ago

      I’ll never understand why all the TV producers think they can get away with cutting all the corners on writing.

      My previous comment shows one possible reason - I said I didn’t like one of her seasons and now I’m getting downvoted. There’s a ready-made excuse to sling at anyone who criticizes the show.

      I was actually excited to see a female doctor when it was announced, but I’m not going to like a show simply because of the gender or race or whatever of the actors. I saw that the quality of the writing was bad and so I left. The new season hasn’t exactly enticed me back.