They can keep Yaz if she ups her game, but Ryan isn’t doing it for me: he doesn’t really seem to do anything but pout. He’s kind of the Adric of this Tardis.
Which is why it is not only a sad and lonely conscious universe but also such a good all around strength building exercise machine. 
Well the Tooth fairy is back, our favourite Senza seems to have found a home on some god forsaken planet and is up to his usual mischief. All I will say is if this fuck shows up next season in some capacity other than flashback then he needs to terminated with extreme predudice, regardless of what hippy dippy doc wants. If Graham was the better man, then he would have terminated toothfairy and lived with the moral consequences.
No more Doctor Who until 2020.
The holiday special on New Years will be it for awhile.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/io9.gizmodo.com/doctor-whos-next-season-lands-in-2020-1830970066/amp
I’m not sure how any show can keep an audience with these long breaks.
They have a new Doctor and want to go on hiatus? I hope they know what they’re doing.
So was the beam supposed to be targeting the Earth of 2018 or the Earth of 5425? Because Yaz mentioned “seven billion people”, and that is the 2018 figure.
*pique (bolding mine)
He’s not even the Adric. He’s the Mickey (or as Mickey himself put it, he’s the tin dog). But at least he’s not the Adam.
Once again this “we can’t shoot them but we can do things that are even worse” approach baffles me. So they’ve put him in stasis in a locked-off floating fortress on a planet that messes with your mind and left him there…and this is somehow better than shooting him? It’s the spiders all over again.
I think we can excuse that one on the basis that Yaz was more focused on the whole “everyone on Earth dying” thing rather than extrapolating population figures.
I agree with all of this. The Doctor/companion relationship has always been a large part of the show. At times, that relationship has even essentially defined the Doctor. (I’m looking at Matt Smith and Karen Gillan here. And adding Rory was fine there because the Amy/Doctor relationship was so well established by then.) Here, with three companions right from the get-go, I’m not feeling the signiture bond between the Doctor and any of them. The focus is just too split. I want to like Ryan more but, yeah, he’s a waste of space.
And this. I get the new crew trying to put their own stamp on the series, but abandoning everything from the past seems like a mistake. Before, even if the entire cast turned over, I always felt like I was still watching Doctor Who. Now, not so much. At least throw some Daleks or Cybermen our way!
This season hasn’t been a disaster, and there are some things I’ve liked about it. But I really wish I liked it more than I do.
Man, I for one am happy to not see Daleks and Cybermen or the Master. I’ll take a call back to something less common, would love a reference to old companion from either Old Who or New Who, but Daleks and Co. are overused. No angels either please.
I do agree Ryan basically adds nothing.
I can’t decide if it’s the actor or the character that doesn’t work for me with Ryan. I liked him at first, but he always seems to be so flat about everything, like even when he’s angry about something he seems half-drugged.
I want to like the character, but I wish he’d show a little more spark. I agree that there are too many companions. So far the only one who seems to have any chemistry with the Doctor is Graham, though, and I doubt anybody (including me) wants to get rid of two POC companions and keep the straight white dude. But even if they cut back in whatever way on companions, I hope they spend the next season focusing more on the Doctor. I love this new Doctor and I want to see her get tested more. I’ve always tuned in to Doctor Who to see what the Doctor is up to–the companions were always secondary for me.
Yeah, not even a prison cell where he could reflect on his life and mistakes made. At least they could have sent him to that prison that the dude from the Rosa episode came from.
I had the same thought, but Yaz/Mandip Gill has been fine. She’s been more dynamic and proactive, her interaction with her family is more or less believable (in a “TV family” way) and we’ve seen her use some of her police training from time to time. Ryan, on the other hand, is a “companion’s companion”; he’s more Graham’s companion than the Doctor’s in the same way that Mickey was for Rose and Rory initially was for Amy before he became badass in his own right. Mostly he’s there to help develop Graham’s character, and while he’s occasionally useful it’s hard to care that much about him.
And another “no thank you” to Daleks and Cybermen from me. Done to death in 147 different ways. There are a few NuWho characters I’d like to see return as one-offs - Lady Christina de Souza (who has done some additional audio stories), Sam Swift, Jenny (the “Doctor’s daughter”), and at least one scene between the new Doctor and River - but no overdone villains please. There are probably some other baddies we could bring back instead, I imagine.
There’s a stipulation in the contract the BBC has with the Terry Nation Estate that if they want to be able to use Daleks at all, they have to be used a certain number of times within the series seasons, I think it’s once every two years or something, so for that reason it’s likely to be Daleks in the New Year’s episode.
But I don’t know for certain, they may have moved on, renegotiated, or otherwise have some leeway to avoid using them a bit longer.
I can’t believe they didn’t learn their lesson when none of the Old Doctor Who fans came back when New Who started back up again in 2005.
I did!
I was there right from the start. Saw the first episode in November 1963 - though there were other memorable events that week as well.
What? That most certainly is not what happened. Loads of old-school fans have been enjoying the new series. Where did you hear they didn’t?
Yeah - another Old Who fan checking, I’m still here and still watching! Been a fan for over 35 years.
People, please use your sonic screwdrivers to adjust your sarcasm meters.
**Drunky **was being, … come on, 3 guesses … yep, sarcastic.
What we have here is a good old sonic whooooosh.
Context unclear.
Well that finale was total shit. Worst episode of the season by far. I am so goddamn sick of this Doctor’s whole moral superiority about killing something.
But thank *God *they did not have fucking Daleks or Cyberman *again *this season.