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[llywela13]

So Rusty is coming back to Doctor Who! Who'd have ever believed it?

Interesting news. Very, very interesting. And exciting! For a while there it was starting to look as if there wouldn't be any Doctor Who for the 60th anniversary, as if the show might even be rested for a few years, but now we know there is a plan in place. And that plan involves a

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[sherrilina]

Lol I feel like I'm the only one who isn't so hard on Chibnall! Sure, his seasons haven't inspired the same love and fannish feeling that the Davies era did (but then again, none of Moffat's seasons did either, everything since has felt like such a different, less engaging show), but IMO they were much better and stronger than what preceded it. I feel that Jody + the writing has done an excellent job of making the Doctor feel like the same person even with a new gender, exceeding my expectations, I have appreciated the diversity of the companions and the opportunities that contributed (especially the history episode about the partition of India, which was really compelling IMO), and in the most recent season in particular I was VERY impressed by how relevant (and therefore truly scary) many of the MOTW were, and that the show was willing to go there. (E.g. climate change making the planet uninhabitable, the problem of microplastics, the evils of Amazon warehouses, and the sinister hegemony of social media and data mining). It all hit

[llywela13]

:D In fairness, I criticised all three showrunners, not just Chibnall. They are none of them perfect. CC is definitely the weakest of the three, however. Like I said, I don't hate his stuff the way I hated large swathes of what Moffat did. He has some strong ideas and he hired some great actors. He just...failed to capitalise on those advantages. His output is more often lacklustre than not. If I was a teacher grading his work, I'd find myself stamping, 'could do better' on most of it!

RTD did plenty of things in his first run that I'm not keen on. But overall and taken as a whole, his era remains the strongest of the reboot, for me. I'm surprised they've gone back to him. I'm surprised he's returned to the show. But I'm excited to see where this appointment leads!

[sherrilina]

Yes but I agreed with your criticisms of the first two, hence my comment. ;) We will have to agree to disagree about Chibnall, as I found him stronger than Moffat, and that there were a greater number of episodes under his two years that were actually enjoyable and good than during the entirety of Moffat's reign. If he had followed immediately upon RTD's heels, I don't know that I would have lost interest in DW to the same extent as I did under Moffat.

Yes, Moffat made me angry in the first two seasons, but I feel that was more akin to Supernatural, where I was just trying to hold onto a show I once loved so much even as it was failing me. I soon felt total indifference during most of the Moffat era...even Peter Capaldi as the doctor, which had genuinely excited me when it was announced, couldn't solve it. *Sigh*

In any case, we shall see! 2023 seems a long way off, but on the other hand the years seem to fly by lately.