{"id":2459,"date":"2020-03-02T14:47:37","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T14:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2459"},"modified":"2020-03-02T14:47:37","modified_gmt":"2020-03-02T14:47:37","slug":"so-what-did-i-think-oh-for-fucks-sake-i-cant-even","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/2020\/03\/02\/so-what-did-i-think-oh-for-fucks-sake-i-cant-even\/","title":{"rendered":"So, what did I think&#8230; oh for fuck&#8217;s sake, I can&#8217;t even&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Box-sc-9env3-0 Text-jjrgda-0 QTextPara___StyledText-anoo6m-0 kvqEEv\">In 1986, a teenaged Chris Chibnall appeared on BBC television to publicly criticize the 14 part serial\u00a0<em>The Trial of a Time Lord<\/em>\u00a0which made up the 23rd Season of Doctor Who. Now, in 2020, he is able to put his own vision of the show on screen. A vision which includes&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul class=\"Box-sc-9env3-0 eTwYpH\">\n<li class=\"_lists___StyledLi-sc-1u284ec-0 enrQae\">The Doctor in an incongruously colourful costume<\/li>\n<li class=\"_lists___StyledLi-sc-1u284ec-0 enrQae\">The unexpected return of The Master<\/li>\n<li class=\"_lists___StyledLi-sc-1u284ec-0 enrQae\">A heavy reliance on old enemies and PR-friendly guest stars<\/li>\n<li class=\"_lists___StyledLi-sc-1u284ec-0 enrQae\">An alternative version of the Doctor whose provenance is uncertain, and who we don\u2019t realize is the Doctor until later in the story<\/li>\n<li class=\"_lists___StyledLi-sc-1u284ec-0 enrQae\">A desolate alien planet revealed as Earth in the far future<\/li>\n<li class=\"_lists___StyledLi-sc-1u284ec-0 enrQae\">Evil capitalists who want to use human brains for their own purposes<\/li>\n<li class=\"_lists___StyledLi-sc-1u284ec-0 enrQae\">An over-arching season-long storyline revolving around Gallifrey and the Time Lords, which makes it hard for casual viewers to understand or keep up.<\/li>\n<li class=\"_lists___StyledLi-sc-1u284ec-0 enrQae\">Lengthy sections consisting of the Doctor watching Doctor Who via the Matrix instead of taking part in the story.<\/li>\n<li class=\"_lists___StyledLi-sc-1u284ec-0 enrQae\">In the final bumper-length episode, the Doctor and the Master disappear into the Matrix, a world of illusion where it isn&#8217;t clear what&#8217;s real and what&#8217;s not (a bit like in\u00a0<em>The Deadly Assassin<\/em>).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"Box-sc-9env3-0 Text-jjrgda-0 QTextPara___StyledText-anoo6m-0 kvqEEv\">Make of that what you will.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-sc-9env3-0 Text-jjrgda-0 QTextPara___StyledText-anoo6m-0 kvqEEv\">As to the content of this episode &#8211; I mean it defies reviewing really, doesn\u2019t it, being mainly gibberish. Not so much a sci-fi adventure story as a mad Whovian ranting his dreadful fan theories into your face for an hour. I may have some more detailed thoughts later, but for now I\u2019m just profoundly disappointed and shocked at the vacuous inanity of it all.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Box-sc-9env3-0 Text-jjrgda-0 QTextPara___StyledText-anoo6m-0 kvqEEv\">And then there\u2019s this.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Just for fun&#8230; an alternate end to <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DoctorWho?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#DoctorWho<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JLXXCla7ni\">pic.twitter.com\/JLXXCla7ni<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Nigel Auchterlounie (@spleenal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/spleenal\/status\/1234270652678496257?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 2, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>So&#8230; yeah&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1986, a teenaged Chris Chibnall appeared on BBC television to publicly criticize the 14 part serial\u00a0The Trial of a Time Lord\u00a0which made up the 23rd Season of Doctor Who. Now, in 2020, he is able to put his own vision of the show on screen. A vision which includes&#8230; The Doctor in an incongruously [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[18,19],"class_list":["post-2459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-doctor-who","tag-reviews"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5JY5l-DF","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2459"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2460,"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2459\/revisions\/2460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tomsalinsky.co.uk\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}