# Doctor Who 2024 (Starting May 11 on Disney+ and BBC One) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** tv-shows-scripted, disney-hulu\ **Created:** [May 6, 2024, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191 "2024-05-06T16:58:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [June 24, 2024, 9:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/121 "2024-06-24T21:07:45Z")
That felt like the kind of episode you get when a show is cancelled and the writers have to try and haphazardly close out as many open arcs as possible. I mean, it’s fine to focus on character moments and emotional beats, and I think the season has done well on that front, but when everything can be just solved by handwave, you don’t really have any stakes. And yes, there’s always been an element of that to Doctor Who, but leaning into it too much has rarely led to the series’ greatest moments (like e.g. de-aging the tenth Doctor with the power of friendship). I did like that Ruby didn’t end up the umpteenth extra-special impossible girl, and I also liked the Doctor being clever and noticing Mel had been compromised, and using that to his advantage. I feel like there have been few such moments in recent seasons, with the Doctor often just reacting to events as they unfolded. Both of which however were immediately undercut by the whole dangling business of how Ruby could make it snow and so on, and the final ‘death \* death = life’ thing. And it’s not that there weren’t any possible resolutions to these points—Ruby could have acquired the weirdness that surrounds her thanks to the time loop she suffered, and you could still have her ‘ordinary’ origin. The Doctor killing Sutekh in the end also was intriguing, but ultimately, he was too easily defeated to warrant this sort of ultima ratio. ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/122 "2024-06-26T01:33:38Z")
Louise Alison Miller. LAM, reversed = mal, French for bad? When the Doctor was mentioning planets coming back to life, was wondering if Skaros was going to be mentioned again (one twist - Gallifrey being mentioned, but it wasn’t) Indications Ruby Sunday will be back, but not necessarily in episode 1. Mundy Flynn (or possibly another character played by Varada Sethu) will also be a companion (again, maybe not in episode 1) Metal spoons\* should be available, even if the entire planet is dead… I found the season… fine. Mrs. Flood remains unexplained. Brian \* to quote the Tick “SPOON!” ---
**Author:** ![N9IWP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/n9iwp/32/3154_2.png) [@N9IWP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/N9IWP)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 5:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/123 "2024-06-26T17:33:56Z")
Lots of bits from old episodes in the memory TARDIS: > **[Bonnie Langford's Remembered TARDIS Tour | Behind the Scenes | Empire of Death...](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCWUaVodJs0%2F)** > > Bonnie Langford tours the set of the Remembered TARDIS - what Easter eggs from the Whoniverse can you spot? 💙💙 #DoctorWho Subscribe to Doctor Who for more ... Brian ---
**Author:** ![Die\_Capacitrix](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/die_capacitrix/32/9_2.png) [@Die\_Capacitrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Die_Capacitrix)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/124 "2024-06-26T19:12:46Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > Lots of bits from old episodes in the memory TARDIS: > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCWUaVodJs0%2F](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCWUaVodJs0%2F) Thanks for sharing that. I hadn’t run across it before and both hubby and I enjoyed watching it. “Happiness Patrol” is one of the first episodes I watched with my husband, who had started watched 5 years earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slow_moving_vehicle/32/291_2.png) [@Slow\_Moving\_Vehicle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slow_Moving_Vehicle)\ **Post date:** [June 26, 2024, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/125 "2024-06-26T19:37:36Z")
> [@N9IWP](#): > > When the Doctor was mentioning planets coming back to life, was wondering if Skaros was going to be mentioned again (one twist - Gallifrey being mentioned, but it wasn’t) I thought about that too, that it would have been interesting to see the Doctor’s reaction to Skaro or Mondas reappearing; killing Sutekh also meant bringing back the Daleks and Cybermen. Also, it would have been a nice Easter egg (and completely in character for Gatwa’s Doctor) had he seen and squeed over the reappearance of Raxacoricofallapatorius. ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2024, 11:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/126 "2024-06-30T11:27:13Z")
> [@vislor](#): > > I liked the nod to Pyramid of Mars. I liked bringing back a previous enemy rather than making a new one. One little Easter egg that I don’t think anyone has mentioned: Gabriel Woolf, who voiced Sutekh, is the same actor who played him in “Pyramids of Mars.” He’s in his nineties now, but still has that nice, evil-sounding voice. For those of us who remember “Pyramids,” it was a nice touch. I only caught up with the series last night, but I agree with the general consensus that I liked a lot of what Davies was doing, and think Gatwa is fine Doctor, but the ending was weak. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/127 "2024-12-26T01:51:32Z")
This year’s Christmas special was pretty enjoyable. Some typically stupid science and a seriously syrupy ending, but overall I’ll chalk it up as a win. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/128 "2024-12-26T02:20:12Z")
Yeah. I liked it too ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/129 "2024-12-26T13:22:02Z")
Yeah, spotted exactly where it was going to end about 20 minutes in, but enjoyed getting there. ---
**Author:** ![DSeid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dseid/32/20194_2.png) [@DSeid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DSeid)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/130 "2024-12-26T15:39:10Z")
‘zactly. I loved his berating his future self and the chairs line. An episode like this doesn’t need to make sense or have unpredictable twists. It’s just FUN. I hope Anita finds the love she seems to want … sometime. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/131 "2024-12-26T21:00:45Z")
The Doctor’s retirement (in Tennant-form) appears to have done his current regeneration good. Matt Smith’s Doctor did not deal well with being stuck in one place for any length of time. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/132 "2024-12-26T21:49:46Z")
> [@Andy\_L](#): > > Matt Smith’s Doctor did not deal well with being stuck in one place for any length of time. How about the Christmas that he spent 300 years on Trenzalore? > **[The Time of the Doctor (TV story)](https://tardis.fandom.com/wiki/The_Time_of_the_Doctor_(TV_story))** > > The Time of the Doctor was the 2013 Christmas Special of Doctor Who. It was Matt Smith's final regular appearance as the series lead, but unusually it did not formally introduce his successor, since Peter Capaldi's Twelfth Doctor had already been... ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2024, 9:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/133 "2024-12-26T21:56:10Z")
He’s got constant attacks from the fleets surrounding the planet to keep him distracted. Compare with “Power of Three” when he’s stuck on Earth with nothing to do. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/134 "2024-12-27T01:02:17Z")
Watching it now. “Oh, the Doctor’s in the room. It’s man-splain central.” 🤣 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [December 27, 2024, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/135 "2024-12-27T15:56:31Z")
Has Ncuti Gatwa joined the knee injury club? IIRC David Tenant had knee problems too. David said it was from running on a set. They have to sprint and then immediately stop at the end of the set. > **[Doctor Who: Why So Many Doctor Actors Get Injured](https://screenrant.com/doctor-who-actors-injuries-how-reason/)** > > It can be painful to play the Doctor. > [@](#): > > both Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi suffered the same injury, a tear of the meniscus in the knee, which holds the knee together. "_I have exactly the same injury as Matt Smith did,_ " Capaldi told _[Radio Times](https://www.radiotimes.com/news/2015-11-12/first-it-was-matt-smith-now-its-peter-capaldi-apparently-theres-an-injury-that-you-only-get-if-youre-the-doctor/)_ in an interview in 2015. "_When I first met Matt he was on crutches and I asked ‘what happened to you?,’ and he said, ‘this show, mate.’ And it turns out we have exactly the same thing!_ " ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/136 "2024-12-28T22:54:05Z")
I also found the episode enjoyable and appropriately heart-warming, if maybe not exactly a future classic. One thing I noticed is that the ‘mavity’-thing appears to have stuck. I still wonder if there will eventually be any payoff to that… ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [December 28, 2024, 11:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191/137 "2024-12-28T23:29:16Z")
> [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](#): > > One thing I noticed is that the ‘mavity’-thing appears to have stuck. I still wonder if there will eventually be any payoff to that… I think it is just the joke. And one day, they will say gravity again and move on. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/doctor-who-2024-starting-may-11-on-disney-and-bbc-one/1001191.md?page=6)