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Just gonna make some stray observations as I watch the New Years Special.

-So this "enemy" gets split up into 3 pieces to be buried across the globe, but they only bury it like 6 inches deep in the ground? Why? (Especially since it can apparently just teleport itself back together if it absorbs too much UV light.)
-The third "custodian" gets killed by random thieves who rob him, but don't even bother to grab the obvious thing he's transporting?

-There's a place where it's New Years Day every day? The only way that even remotely makes sense is if that planet's rotation around its sun is perfectly synced to its daily rotation. I guess that's technically possible, but it's still stupid AF.

-The Doctor is a bitch. "I broke your chair, but you shouldn't leave chairs lying around. (In your own front room.)" Fuck you.

-The Doctor is condescending AF to Ryan's dad in the first 5 seconds of meeting him. She doesn't even know the man, yet she's clearly more pissed at him than even Graham or Ryan (who've actually had to put up with his shit) are.

-There is so much dumb about this Dalek. Why was it able to come back to life after being dead over 1,200 years? (The explanation they give is "UV light", but that's so fucking stupid I don't know how to reply to it.) Why is it able to magically teleport its dead pieces together? How is it able to latch onto a person and take over? Why didn't the Dalek kill the woman when it was done with her? The more they try to explain it, the dumber it is... This Dalek is bigger and better than any of the other Daleks we've seen because it's... older? But it still knows all about TARDIS's, the Doctor, etc? No, I don't buy that.

-I didn't realize that the UK used miles per hour. (They do, I was just surprised by that. So much for that fancy metric system.)

-The Ryan/Graham/Dad stuff was really good, the best part of the story by far. Shame it wasn't in a better show.

-Shoehorning the Daleks into this was the worst part of the episode, it would have worked better with almost any other monster of the week.

-So UNIT is gone now? Probably a good thing seeing as how absolutely incompetent their leadership has been over the past few years.

-This Doctor felt the need to point out that her "serious tech skillz" was "with a zed." Seriously fuck you. That isn't cute or quirky, it's just dumb. (and not just because you pronounced z wrong.)

-So the sonic can stop Dalek lasers now? (if only temporarily) That would have been handy back in the day.

-One line that got a genuine laugh from me. "Must remember, how long is a rel?"

-Even when this Doctor is trying to be nice, she's a bitch. "Oh you're good Ryan's dad, you're almost making up for your parenting deficit." FUCK YOU.

-So you're telling me that a Dalek (let alone the biggest and baddest Dalek of all time) has no defense against being bum rushed, surrounded, and held down by a couple of untrained, unarmored people?

-I would have liked to see Ryan's dad travel in the TARDIS, even just temporarily. I can see why they didn't though, can't have too many men on a show of course.

Needless to say, it wasn't very good. Also, it would have been better without the Daleks.
 
I think the best part of the episode was the dalek using that woman as a meatsuit and working its way towards weaponising itself.

I think the UNIT disappearing because of the lack of international funding (is it a Brexit dig or something?) is stupid simply because it's a multinational organisation, and in the Whoverse the UK has proven to be a magnet for most of the alien invasions.
 
Sable said:
I think the UNIT disappearing because of the lack of international funding (is it a Brexit dig or something?) is stupid simply because it's a multinational organisation, and in the Whoverse the UK has proven to be a magnet for most of the alien invasions.
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I read that was a clumsy Brexit/ Trump-against-the-UN reference too.
And immortal Dalek mutants? I don't think any show should be shackled to 'cannon', but at least pay 50 years of world building some lip service.
 
Sable said:
I think the UNIT disappearing because of the lack of international funding (is it a Brexit dig or something?) is stupid simply because it's a multinational organisation, and in the Whoverse the UK has proven to be a magnet for most of the alien invasions.
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yeah, but I mean, it makes more sense that UNIT failed when you see that they randomly put a chick in charge (because of nepotism) She fucked things up multiple times. It actually makes even more sense if you've been paying attention to UNIT over the past few series. (How badly they botched the Zygon invasion alone is enough to show how worthless they were with Lethbridge-Stewart's dumbass daughter in charge....)

But yeah, deleting this shitty bit of Moffat canon is literally the first good thing Chibby has done since he took over. Lets see how he messes it up.
 
2odastream said:
Um, @UnKillFill, sorry to tell you this but Chris Chibnall is the person who introduced Kate into NuWho. In fact, this is him deleting his own writing so he doesn't have to answer the question "where's UNIT when all this is going on?"
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If Chibs wrote the first episode with this shitty version of UNIT, that's all well and good, but it clearly wasn't his idea (he was answering to the whim of moffat at the time) If anything, it really just cements my point that it was Chibs deleting something he never wanted in the first place. (But was forced to implement by the previous show runner)
 
I don't know, that's debatable. Replacing the male of an established name with a blonde, white, middle aged woman at the helm? Seems like a very Chibbs decision to me.
 
UnKillFill said:
yeah, but I mean, it makes more sense that UNIT failed when you see that they randomly put a chick in charge (because of nepotism) She fucked things up multiple times.
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Her dad was kind of a fuckup too. Otherwise the Doctor wouldn't have had so much to do.
 
Buster O'Keefe said:
And immortal Dalek mutants? I don't think any show should be shackled to 'cannon', but at least pay 50 years of world building some lip service.
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From what i've seen although there are a bunch of asspull powers and timeline inconsistencies with the daleks in this episode, but thats always been a problem with them even back to the Hartnell era. I'm not gonna excuse it, its still a problem but come on, its not some outrageous unprecedented thing.
That being said it being a dalek really felt forced and introducing a new creature that did the exact same kinda thing would be cool.

And a couple of nitpicks that UnKillFill missed:
The dalek says that it controls both the womans body functions ad brain functions but if it did then it would of been controlling what she thinks or feels if you wanna say this is a lie, i dont think the deception added anything either in the writing or in world.
In its armor it had the very clear weak spot that was the middle panels that were made from terrestrial metals and should of made it really vulnerable to attack, yeah it had the tank shot get deflected so it missed but that chink in its armor really made treating it like an unstoppable threat kinda unbelievable and it doesnt even mean anything in the end.
I did like the grabby arm without the plunger that was pretty cool.
 
Buster O'Keefe said:
I read that was a clumsy Brexit/ Trump-against-the-UN reference too.
And immortal Dalek mutants? I don't think any show should be shackled to 'cannon', but at least pay 50 years of world building some lip service.
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Yeah something that Nu Who has done since the Russel T Davis era is to disregard all previous canon regarding "modern day" earth that the show has built up over the years and instead shoehorn in cringeworthy political jabs and rants about whatever is the current bugaboo/obsession among smug british media people.

Back in the day it was various kinds of REEEEE BUSH REEEEE! including his stand in being murdered by the Master after making himself out to be an utter asshat, and this later devolved to MUH OBAMA IS JAYSUS! with the 10th Doctor's regeneration story having it be a repeated plot point that he was personally saving the world economy (yes...really).

Political autism aside though, the wholesale neglect of previously established events and canon in the "modern day" era of the show is one of the main factors that made me realise that Moffat was a hack and that the show was in terminal decline. Like if the events of a supposedly world changing episode are forgotten the very next season (or indeed next episode) from alien invasion to mass genocide to cosmic fuckery then the world feels lifeless and meaningless.

Probably the worst example IMO is the Torchwood Children of Earth miniseries which randomly has the UK forcibly taken over by a single US general because "you made a deal with aliens back in the 60s and thats bad" despite...well...everything that happened in classic Doctor Who kinda contradicting this being some great unprecedented no-no. But then this is the same story which had the Doctor refuse to intervene in mass child worse-than-murder because "oh he is so ashamed at humans acting like this" despite the fact he had repeatedly tried to help the fucking Daleks to reform at this point in the show.

I mean hell, it could have actually been a halfway decent sustained storyline throughout the past decade that contemporary earth was changing ever further from our own due to repeated alien attacks and the resulting radical changes in society (as in "holy shit we are in a lovecraftian nightmare universe" becoming the general mood), politics ("ONLY BY AUTHORITARIAN DICTATORSHIP CAN THE XENOS THREAT BE FOUGHT!"), and technology (because jesus fuck there must be a lot of alien tech lying around). But then that would have required a minimum of investment in the world for its own sake from the writers so im probably expecting too much.
 
Doctor Who canon has always been a joke this isn't a new thing nor is it exclusive to New Who.
 
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LMAO.
 
Oscar Wildean said:
That's a shitty way to write an introduction where a character mentions that they're gay.
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They should have a couple more where people admit they're gay and are just immediately murdered. Some guy says he likes show tunes and gets shot. Someone puts on a Barbra Streisand CD, and is immediately curb stomped by a gang of Cybermen. Etc.
 
^All this gay-bashing is making me wonder why nobody has yet to bitch this hard about Captain Jack Harkness getting the fuck killed out of him regularly.

And speaking of homogays...
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https://www.bigfinish.com/news/v/captain-john-returns
Some time ago Big Finish announced their intended first boxset for 2020, The Sins of Captain John, starring Spike from Buffy the Vampire Slayer.
 
SnowBall said:
Doctor Who canon has always been a joke this isn't a new thing nor is it exclusive to New Who.
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I'm not automatically pissed off when a show ignores canon. Some canon is stupid, and *deserves* to be ignored. (This entire past series for instance) But when they break canon in a way that is completely unbelievable to the point of taking me out of the story (Pretty much everything involving the Dalek in this last episode) then I get miffed.

Also, why was this episode called "Resolution"? Aside from the doctor being obnoxious at the beginning, this episode had nothing to do with New Years.
 
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