DR. WHO 2024 SEASON REVIEW

DOCTOR WHO, SERIES 14 (SERIES 1 REBOOTED) (RTD/GATWA/GIBSON SERIES).
Well, the verdict is in, at least for this season. So what have we got?
Disappointment I'm afraid. So far the Gatwa era consists of an extended cameo in David Tenant's "The Giggle," the Christmas Special "Church on Ruby Road," and an eight episode season starting with "Space Babies" and ending with "Empire of Death".
Overall impressions - the series turned out to be wildly uneven, with many of the flaws of the special on display, often amped up to eleven. It was a season that failed to gel, a scattered season with various ideas, many of them undeveloped or mishandled. A season that seemed to mistake shouting for thinking. A season in frantic motion that often seemed to be running in place.
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Good review. "Dot and Bubble" was reportedly an RTD1-era script rejected t the time because it would have cost too much. The racism stuff was tacked on and felt to me that way. I found it underwhelming and Eurocentric. Gatwa is a Tutsi refugee from Rwanda, where Tutsis were slaughtered by Hutus at three times the rate the Nazis killed Jews. There is so much to work with there for a more engaged writer. I'm pretty sure where the money went: to some episodes that we shall never see because Disney nixed them as too sexual. You may remember last year when RTD was talking about how 15 would spend a lot of time trying to _plook_ Ruby's boyfriend. What boyfriend? Exactly.