resourceful

[solarbird]

You know you’ve got a decent rep as a supervillain when a Dalek comes to you for help finding parts. I mean, I don’t mean to brag, but screw that, actually, yeah, I’m kinda bragging. I’d say that depends, cyborg – whatcha got for me?

On a not-entirely-unrelated note, I decided over the summer that I’d give the new series of Doctor Who a chance, after last year’s trainwreck. I’m not convinced – it’s got a bit too much fanservice and we are again retreading old ground, even if they do acknowledge it outright – but it’s still better than anything I saw last year. I quite enjoyed the first 15 minutes, which is something I couldn’t say about last year at all.

Regardless, it looks like they’ve backtracked on a few bad ideas, and I do like Michelle Gomez’s take on Missy/The Master – particularly with these rectons – so… we’ll see. Modern Who is back up to probationary status, at least for the moment.

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Comments

[vatine]

I did end up watching it "after the fact" (all hail iPlayer) and it was less dire than I had expected based on having given up on last season. I'm tentatively tempted to watch the next episode before making any sort of verdict on the current season.

[solarbird]

Yeah, it's on serious probation, but I'll watch the second half of this.

[arethinn]

There are some things I could complain about, like that it felt too rapid-fire, trying to throw too many plotlines out there at once and not actually serving any of them that well, but overall it actually held my attention for the run-time and I feel like watching it again, which isn't something I could say at all for most of last series.

[solarbird]

Oh, it's not a revolution. It has many of Moffat's problems. But even more than you - I quit last year it was so terrible. If he'd stay at this level... I'd watch this.

[stickmaker]

*Never* give a Dalek credit. Payment up front or on receipt, always.