OMG You miss Moffat! I knew ppl would say this, but not you.

Me too! I am no longer scared of spiders, at all. Once I got a question, if I would rather be in a room, with 50 cockroaches or a tarantula. First of all, I was imagining being in my bedroom, for 1 night, with a massive tarantula, and I thought of it as fine. But it probably didn't have to be in my room, for nearly as long, and it probably meant a normal sized tarantula. Please.

#BringBackMoffat!

I had a lot of fun untangling his episodes in videos. It was kind of inevitable really

To semi-quote the: 'Eleventh Doctor,' from: 'Amy's Choice,' This series is so dull! Nothing's happening. I don't feel any connection, I don't feel any excitement, I don't... Sigh. Chris Chibnall needs to listen to some: 'Big Finish.'

My viewing of it was that she was upset because he didn't shoot it as a mercy killing. He shot it because he saw it as a monster. The Doctor's had a long history of admiring the supposed beauty of creatures that humans see as monsters. She was hoping for another way out, and he permanently and deliberately rejected that hope. ~ TDG

Spiders also have cannibalistic tendencies. So those would resort to killing and eating other until there were no more spiders to eat.

I'd of had the doctor shoot the spider, a mercy killing. Show that this doctor has a cold hard side to her.

That would have been great!

Good call, they aren't talking spiders though so there may be a cultural clash.

You could virtually squeeze an episode out of race relations between the talking spiders and the non talking spiders, this show is spoilt for choice when it comes to ideas but the creators never think of them.

@@bezzaderbane9890 Zygon Inversion redux! Again!

The sky is the limit.

Stop watching the show and find something you find more entertaining?

@@bezzaderbane9890 Heaven forbid I may have any kind of a criticism! All praise Chibnall and his flawless scripts!

TheUltimateVideoMan literally all they suggested was you stop watching the show if you’re no longer enjoying yourself. I don’t see how that’s discouraging criticism.

lol Didn't realise I was talking to a professional screenwriter, I do apologise. You best get a job at the BBC and help them out then Man since you seem to know what it's all about.

Bezza Derbane Oh, so only professional screenwriters can have issues with episodes watched by millions of people? How silly of me.

LaviArray That's true. But I think this series was intended to be a stepping stone for a lot of new fans and seeing that this series has consistently been getting higher ratings than all of Moffats Who it shows it was a stepping stone for a lot of people. This is why it started so..... Simple with the sci fi. I think demons of the Punjab had a better idea with the aliens who tribute the deaths of others. I think it was a great idea. The final episode this series by Chibs also sounds like it's gonna be more than what we've had so far. I think in general he is writing too many episodes and you can clearly see that the first two had more time (first in particular) put into them than episodes 4 and 5. I don't mind the directions he's taking with the companions. I just think we need more writers writing each story.

Or kiss kiss bang bang with talking fish headed aliens drivibg sports cars in Wales to the tune of Sarah brightman and hot gossips i lost my heart to a starship trooper.

Yeh people just whinge too much in general for a show that is essentially a kids show. Chibnail is definitely a bland writer but after Moffat I'm content to coast on some bland for a while and cleanse my palet of the last 7 fucking years of overhyped shite.

I'm not as harsh on the Moffat years (well at least the Smith years and Series 10) as you seem to be but I agree, Chibnall is a much needed palate cleanser after whatever the hell the Capaldi era was. It's why I don't think Tsuranga Conundrum is bad either- is it bland and very mediocre? Yes. Is it a disaster like Hell Bent? No. For me this series has been a welcome return to form and the historicals have been far and away the best episodes. Funny how the best episodes aren't written by Chibnall.

Oh I liked series 5 of Moffat his debut season but it gradually waned the longer he stayed on because he is not good at doing ongoing series his strength is only in doing one offs or limited runs which is why he was so good as a solo episode Dr Who writer or decent when doing Coupling or Jekyl and Hyde but even Sherlock got progressively crapper as it went on, the first two series were perfect but the last two series became stupid and sensationalist because after series 2 he got public attention so seemed to feel compelled to start amping everything up and over hyping it with a lot of whimsy and nonsense in his scripts. When he doesn't have the spotlight on him he does much better work.

@@bezzaderbane9890 Bland is being too kind. You're opinion of Moffats era would be more at home with Chibnalls. Every episode he has been a part of I have felt isn't Doctor Who. At one point when watching the Tsunami Conundrum (I don't know nor care to remember the name) someone came in and asked what I was watching, and when the saw her wave the sonic like a stick they couldn't beleive it was Doctor Who. Isn't anything like RTD era and that's pretty much what we were promised.

The RTD era wasn't much like Dr Who either frankly, when do you recall the Doc in the old series having borderline sexual relationships with his companions? Every era is different there is no "definitive" Dr Who so that comment is fairly redundant, the only constant is that the character is quirky, travels in a police box time machine, usually takes friends along for the ride and ends up sorting out one problem or another during their travels. Beyond that the rest is variables of style down to the individuals running and writing the show that program was just that the usual siege scenario the show does all the time so yes was still Dr Who, don't particularly see how it wasn't, you might not have enjoyed it, which is fair enough but it was the show.

I agree with some things 😂 but overall I still like it. As bad as TTC was I think the scene of her admitting she was wrong at the start was brilliant. I think this doctor, like the companions has been building slower than usual but I quite like it tbh.

The writers forgot science is part of science fiction.

I disagree, she certainly stands out more than Capaldi did when he started, she states her personality and intention from the get go "Sorting out fair play in the universe" and comes across as friendly and approachable, with Capaldi's debut we got wishy washy "Am I a good man" nonsense and Matt Smith having to even come back to moly coddle fans who couldn't handle the character being old again which was pathetic. To say "all that makes her different is that she's a woman" is a typical male perspective that because there's now been a gender change her only defining characteristic is that she's a gender? So women don't have personalities? What utter rott. What you mean is because youre too busy focusing on the fact she's a different gender you can't actually identify her incarnation's personality.

Bezza Derbane no I’m saying that I can’t actually she her doing anything that other doctors wouldn’t, you could give all her story’s to other doctors and they wouldn’t feel out of place as so far all she’s got it “quirky” and Jodie isn’t the best actress in this show anyway so maybe with a different women playing the role I wouldn’t be feeling like this but she seems bland sort of like the modern who’s 5th doctor she just is the doctor and I couldn’t tell you one thing about her that I couldn’t say about other doctors but with 9 it was his PTSD with 10 it was his refusal to give 2nd chances and the way he gets hung up on past companions (even his hypocrisy) with 11 it was his quirky nature but he had that to hide his coldness and ruthless (like how he left Amy to die and the captain runaway situation) and then with 12 it was him questioning if he was good or bad and then Moffat got a bit mental with it but you can see how he changed and developed to a man about kindness, with 13 she doesn’t seem to have anything that solely defines her incarnation. Like I said before I can imagine other doctors in her episodes but you can’t say you could see 11 in Dalek, 10 in heaven sent or 12 in something like the crimson horror as these episodes were written around a certain doctor not just the template Chibnall seems to use

I agree with your points. I like Jodie but I think she's like a female Matt Smith

....okay that kind of sounds awesome and I totally want to read that

@@Stubagful It's definitely a fun read, it also stars a talking elephant with wheels that only eats embers. I'm quite tempted to lick the pages to see if it's printed on giant LSD tabs instead of paper

Absolutely. I'd much rather have a messy but fun show whose heart is in the right place over what Moffat's series became. I felt like he was just writing to show off with ridiculous plot twists and over-the-top arcs instead of actually considering the audience. It was fine for awhile, but eventually it just gets tiring. At least here, even the worst episodes haven't bored me and the characters feel much more real.

"The Doctor's anti gun messaging got ludicrously silly here as well." Yeah, I mean, it's a fairly humane way to kill a spider, all things considered, and we kill spiders all the time anyway. (I try to limit the killing of spiders and other carnivorous bugs, since they are good pest control regardless.) I mean, how else were they gonna get rid of them? Construct a giant boot to smash it? We exterminate pests all. the. freaking. time.

JackIntheBox what didn’t make sense about the gun but was why the bodyguard’s gun did fuck all to the bathtub spider but somehow worked against the room sized spider.

@@Warmishcookies Why didn't Yas, the police officer, call out the possession of an illegal firearm?

yes, thankfully

Casual CraftMan I’d take Moffat back as a guest writer under two conditions; 1) he’s not allowed to touch any mystery box / arc related stuff, 2) he’s not allowed to do any call backs or base the plot on some element of the Doctor’s past. Frankly I’d love to see Moffat do a completely self contained story again- one where he can’t rely on setting up / paying off other episodes for a cheap pop, and has to focus on ONE central concept.

I do want Moffat back in Dr Who... in a Vervoid costume.

I want Russell T Davies to come back playing a Time Lord who regenerates and his next incarnation is played by Moffat.

Would you mind explaining why you loved The Tsuranga Conundrum? I'm genuinely curious. It had few moments I liked (particularly Graham and Ryan helping to deliver a baby and their banter while doing that and the Doctor loving and explaining the science behind the spaceship's drive) but mostly I didn't really feel anything at all about this episode so I'm curious about what is in the episode that makes you love it.

rogue meteorite there’s actually a video on my channel going over it, but the (relatively) short version is that I love the Pting both as an idea and as a visual effect (easily the best all CG creature on the show to date), I found the ensemble all likable and well utilized (the siblings Eve and Durkas were particularly compelling to me- I spent the whole second half of the episode hoping Eve would make it out ok and was genuinely sad when she didn’t). Even Astos, who I think was portrayed by the worst actor the show has had on in a while, had a great moment giving the Doctor a reality check- something that almost happens in this show since it almost invariably sided with the Doctor against authority regardless of context. And say what you want about Chibnall, I think his understanding of the Doctor as a character is impeccable, and scenes like her “Doctor of Hope” speech to Mabli, and her geeking out over the Anti-Matter drive are just this character in a nutshell and delivered SO well by Jodie. To top it all off I found the ending of everyone coming together in remembrance of Eve and ending on that note weirdly powerful. I think it’s maybe Chibnall’s strongest episode.

@@ThePonderer Thanks for replying. I agree actually everyone coming together to remember Eve was a good moment. I think my biggest problem with this episode was the pacing and uneven tone, more than the characters.

Stubagful has actually released some short stories on KZfaq, my favorite of which being Be Brave (Printer Old Friend [or something along those lines]). I recommend checking them out. [insert arbitrary outing here]. If you were being sarcastic, it already kind of happened.