This preceding weekend ensure Doctor Who kick off itsSeries Finaléwith the shocking reveal of adversary Missy ’s true indistinguishability – except I was n’t really go away shocked by it , just kind of disappointed . Oh , Doctor , why ca n’t you try something fresh ?
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Warning : This mail features MAJOR coddler from the latest instalment of Doctor Who , Dark Water . If you ’ve not construe it yet , do n’t read any further !
I for the most part enjoyed Dark Water as I sit down to look out it this preceding Saturday , but the slow build up of The Doctor and Clara meeting Missy for the first time , to the big cliffhanger let out that she ’s not just behind the Cybermen ’s late encroachment of Earth , but also a new positive feedback of The Doctor ’s archnemesis The Master , left me find cold . As a dyed - in - the - fleece Doctor Who fan , I in all likelihood should ’ve been bouncing off the wall – The Master ! Not seen in four years ! Hooray ! – but all I could think about as the credits roll was only ‘ why could n’t she just have been a raw baddie ? ’ .
Now do n’t get me wrong – I make out the idea of a distaff Master , as well as its subtle - as - a - brick - to - the - face statement that if The Master can be a cleaning woman , so can The Doctor . Michelle Gomez is a mythologic actress , and I ’m sure she will do the character ’s legacy a great service . My grow problem with Doctor Who is with its increasing reliance on its own story for stories , or else of forging onwards with new ideas , novel grapheme and new baddie .
Doctor Who ’s lengthy history is both a blessing and a whammy – so few other shows can claim to be over 50 age old and still on the air ( well , let ’s ignore that empty bit in the 90 ’s for now ) , and if offers an immeasurable hoarded wealth treasure trove of idea and characters to mine . But at the same time , such over - reliance on Clarence Shepard Day Jr. gone by bequeath the show in peril of repeating itself a bit too often – something that ’s starting to show a little too often in NuWho .
Back in the 80 ’s under John Nathan Turner , Doctor Who commence steadily more parochial in an attempt to do by its diehard fans . More references , more yield teras and fiber , it all served towards the show ’s eventual stagnation . I ’m not go to fearmonger and say that this is what ’s happening here , if anything Who is as substantial under Capaldi than it ever has been , but it ’s hard not to see the analogue forming . physician Who prosper on unused ideas , and it feels like it ’s commence to lose that sheen a little every time it navel gaze or brings back an erstwhile villain .
It feels stranger for all this conversance considering we ’re come off the back of a nostalgia - filled fiftieth Anniversary last year . Part of the the impulse of the 50th jubilation was while the show would wait to its preceding – completely satisfactory , ego - indulgence at such an upshot should be advance – but that the show would wait to its hereafter , the search for Gallifrey symbolic of that approach . And yet … nothing . The show has trod familiar ground over the course of instruction of serial publication 8 , culminate in the return of three of the series big villains . If this had been last year , it would ’ve been intelligible , now that the company ’s over , should the show not seem to be creating new icon , young characters that can stand up the test of the next 50 years ?
That ’s not to say that Series 8 has n’t been trying young things . The more harsh Doctor , the Brobdingnagian accent on ( and improvement of ) Clara ’s character spark have felt like subtle sea of change for at least the revivify version of the show , if not in comparison to its whole . Flatlineitself as an episode perhaps galvanize those to approaches the most , delivering not just one of the in force episodes of the show in a while , but a brisk coming to twisting the format to give us something a piddling new – and it was invigorate . Coincidentally , it also happened to be from Jamie Mathieson , a author completely Modern to the show in series 8 .
This Year , Doctor Who is Built Around A Character Arc , And That ’s Major
It ’s the sort of approach Doctor Who take to start taking more often , both on the screen and behind it – fresh monsters , raw coming , new writers . The show require these new ideas to conserve itself and render a unexampled basis to build the next geological era of it ’s legacy on , instead of return to the Cybermen and The Daleks and The Master , again and again . It ’s why I think , for a good long while at least , the show needs to jettison its past .
No references . No old giant . Just The Doctor , his Companion , the TARDIS , and pastures Modern . Liberated from the chains of its past , the show could presume to strain new thing , shake it all up a bit . What make Doctor Who so brilliant is that it can beso many unlike things . calendar week in workweek out . Its format is such that it commute thing up all the time is something that posture at the core of the show – the chief character can literally become a wholly raw person every few days . It ’s gamey time MD Who as a show tried doing that again , or else of rely on new faces over old theme .
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