I never really got the hating-it bit, but there were some episodes that were so eye-rollingly awful that it was best for your sanity just to come to mock. From Classic Who (much of which wasn’t) The Horns of Nimon (latish Tom Baker, where he was basically just phoning it in) and The Twin Dilemma (the worst of the many woeful scripts that poor Colin Baker had to struggle with) spring immediately to mind. I don’t think there’s ever been a bad Doctor, though some have definitely been better than others. But the worst periods are primarily let down by bad ideas and bad scripts.
I loved little details like the building of the new sonic screwdriver. I loved getting away from the Doctor and single opposite sex companion setup that had become very stale over the past few years as each companion became the most special human ever. But several of the actual episodes have been so mundane and uninspired that they’ve bored me to tears.
(Whisper it quietly: I still have three episodes of last season sitting on my cable box waiting for me to get around to viewing them. Because there’s always something shinier that I’d rather watch instead. And I completely forgot the show was on on New Year’s Day. That’s kind of sad, considering that I was obsessed with the show throughout my growing up years and - after a cautious start - very happy when it was revived.)
I’d hoped that we’d get a Chibnall of Broadchurch season 1 standard, especially when the handover got so delayed. Alas, we seem to have got the Chibnall of Broadchurch season 2 and the worst bits of Torchwood. At best.
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I loved little details like the building of the new sonic screwdriver. I loved getting away from the Doctor and single opposite sex companion setup that had become very stale over the past few years as each companion became the most special human ever. But several of the actual episodes have been so mundane and uninspired that they’ve bored me to tears.
(Whisper it quietly: I still have three episodes of last season sitting on my cable box waiting for me to get around to viewing them. Because there’s always something shinier that I’d rather watch instead. And I completely forgot the show was on on New Year’s Day. That’s kind of sad, considering that I was obsessed with the show throughout my growing up years and - after a cautious start - very happy when it was revived.)
I’d hoped that we’d get a Chibnall of Broadchurch season 1 standard, especially when the handover got so delayed. Alas, we seem to have got the Chibnall of Broadchurch season 2 and the worst bits of Torchwood. At best.