And I will readily agree that the Doctor's speech was the one thing that should have been better/that scene should have been more somehow.
I couldn't figure out if she was being honest about wanting to stay or not - and while I don't necessarily require everything spelled out for me - it's quite important to how you understand the character to know if she was saying something in order to save the others in the hope she'd figure a way out eventually or whether she was genuinely so taken by the frog that she wanted to stay.
Series 11 was very different. I feel it was closer to early Hartnell (or at least what early Hartnell would look like if made now) than anything in NuWho, though of NuWho I think it was closer to Eccleston's series where the Doctor was mostly catalyst rather than protagonist. I appreciated it for what it was, though I've enjoyed series 12 more, but I have sympathy with those, like the Teenager who take the line that Hartnell was 56 years ago and not relevant as a defence for why it should be considered particularly Doctor Who-ish. She's way, way happier with this series than the last which she quite aggressively disliked.
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I couldn't figure out if she was being honest about wanting to stay or not - and while I don't necessarily require everything spelled out for me - it's quite important to how you understand the character to know if she was saying something in order to save the others in the hope she'd figure a way out eventually or whether she was genuinely so taken by the frog that she wanted to stay.
Series 11 was very different. I feel it was closer to early Hartnell (or at least what early Hartnell would look like if made now) than anything in NuWho, though of NuWho I think it was closer to Eccleston's series where the Doctor was mostly catalyst rather than protagonist. I appreciated it for what it was, though I've enjoyed series 12 more, but I have sympathy with those, like the Teenager who take the line that Hartnell was 56 years ago and not relevant as a defence for why it should be considered particularly Doctor Who-ish. She's way, way happier with this series than the last which she quite aggressively disliked.