I didn't see this as anti-Moffat so much as riffing on various Davies and Moffat ideas. Riffing or just pilfering, I'm not sure. So far the season seems to do things in a more epic way, but it also seems to be doing a lot less that's new. I wonder if Chibnall was told to stick to tried and tested formulae?
I thought this was OK, nothing more (although I liked Dharwan a lot) and found Orphan 55 pretty lousy. I think I preferred series eleven overall, for all that much of it felt inconsequential. I'd like to see more things with the aesthetic of The Woman Who Fell to Earth although I think I would struggle to say what that aesthetic was, except that we haven't really seen it anywhere else.
I also felt that destroying Gallifrey again was not such a great idea and that there was a lot of telling about Ada being wonderful, but little actual showing of it.
I wonder if the WWII Resistance setting was chosen before Sasha Dharwan was cast and then someone pointed out the consequences and Chibnall wrote a handwavey few lines. I don't know if they were deliberately looking for a non-white actor or not.
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I thought this was OK, nothing more (although I liked Dharwan a lot) and found Orphan 55 pretty lousy. I think I preferred series eleven overall, for all that much of it felt inconsequential. I'd like to see more things with the aesthetic of The Woman Who Fell to Earth although I think I would struggle to say what that aesthetic was, except that we haven't really seen it anywhere else.
I also felt that destroying Gallifrey again was not such a great idea and that there was a lot of telling about Ada being wonderful, but little actual showing of it.
I wonder if the WWII Resistance setting was chosen before Sasha Dharwan was cast and then someone pointed out the consequences and Chibnall wrote a handwavey few lines. I don't know if they were deliberately looking for a non-white actor or not.