Well, I'm Never Going To Remember This Title Without Looking It Up

[astrogirl2]

Is the season over already? Where does the time go? Is it being eaten by Chronovores or something?

Anyway...

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[anonymous]

The thing about the Doctor facing consequences for her actions is that what happened to Tim - being thrown across the universe to another planet - comes out nowhere. It’s just not something one would predict, as opposed to, say, Tim going back to his planet and making trouble there that has wider consequences. So for me, it takes the sting out of it; there’s no way under the circumstances that I can really blame the Doctor for what happened. Even she seems to blame Tim more than herself. Plus, there are other loose ends this season which could have more credibly come back to bite her (I’m looking at Jack Robinson here

[astrogirl2]

I was going to say that for me the issue isn't remotely that what happens to Tim Shaw comes out of nowhere. Weird stuff like that happens in Who all the time, and there's something to be said, really, for the recognition that you can't always remotely predict the consequences of your actions, and that one of the things about not just flat-out killing a bad guy is that you have no idea what they'll go on to do afterward, only that they're likely to keep on doing bad things. All that having been said, though, I'm guessing it would probably at least have been slightly more interesting, thematically, if it were a more direct and predictable consequence. Even so, I do just feel kind of been-there-done-that about the whole thing

[jhall1]

I wonder if Chris Chibnall is setting up Tim Shaw to be a recurring villain, along the lines of the Master and Davros. Sooner or later either he's going to manage to escape from his static chamber or somebody will happen by and let him out.

In her slightly manic enthusiasm, Jodie Whittaker's Doctor reminds me a lot of Matt Smith's. I agree that her niceness seems to be a bit overdone, but far better to err in that direction than in the other.

[astrogirl2]

Leaving him in cryostasis like that does seem like a possible set up (or at least a possible future option) for bringing him back. Even though I found him more interesting in this one, though, I still don't think he's interesting enough to be a major recurring villain, so I kind of hope Chibnall's not planning on trying to make him one.

Interestingly enough, while I was writing that comment, I was thinking a little bit more about my feelings about different Doctors and how that does or doesn't relate to where their "nice vs snarky" dial is set. Unsuprisingly, it turns out to be very complicated. But it did occur to me that Matt Smith's dial is set pretty much exactly right for me. Hell, pretty much all of Matt Smith's dials are set just right for my tastes. He's sort of like my Platonic Ideal Doctor. :)

Of course, that is one of the cool things about Who. It changes enough that at some point or other, almost everybody has the chance to get what they want. And then things move on, and it's somebody else's turn...