Doctor Who - 12x09 - Ascension of the Cybermen Promo

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ONTD, what did you think of tonight's episode?

Comments

[therearewords]

Cybermen always scare me. Doesn't ontd watch Who anymore?

[kaiserschmarrn]

Does anyone? Just kidding, I quit the show a few seasons ago but plan on catching up this year. I thought last season the ratings climbed again, guess not? Feels like the pop cultural moment of the show has passed.

[therearewords]

I think/feel like people are surprised that it didn't crash and burn because of a female Doctor but didn't continue to support it because it's still DW. And maybe the regulars just aren't that vocal?

[frelling_tralk]

The ratings shot right up for last season and I think started at around 10 million, but then with season 12 they seem to have dropped really drastically to 3-4 million. My guess is that a lot of new viewers were interested in all the hype around the first female doctor, but that the writing couldn’t really keep invested enough to stick around.

[sea_thoughts]

Having three new companions AND a new Doctor was just too much, they clearly struggle to give everyone enough focus and the result is that Yaz has barely had anything to do.

[pretty_angel]

They should have kept Bill for another season.

[sea_thoughts]

It definitely would have made things easier for the writers instead of having to introduce three brand new people. *sigh*

[izzzzy23]

I think this season is a lot better than last season but yesterday didn’t really work for me until the Cyberman showed up. I generally prefer the historical episodes to the space ones but I guess I didn’t find the Shelleys and Byron particularly compelling.

Still want them to get rid of Graham

[veracity]

I wish they had focused more on Mary than Byron. I don't need to watch that fucker be all Hugh Grant disarming. I did however like the fact we got Byron AND Lovelace in the same season. That was a nice callback.

[a_proclivity]

I was annoyed af that they gave all that shit to Byron when Mary was right there, ngl.

[hypertwink]

I always knew of the story about how a weekend of drugs and debauchery produced Mary Shelley's Frankenstein but fine, meeting the Doctor and being terrorized by a Cyberman, that works too lol

[havens]

I hate cyber men. They always freaked me out.