The Doctor Who Spoilers and Speculation Thread V3 - "Oh, brilliant." - Film, Television and Music

I hope Chibnall and Whittaker stay beyond Serise 12, else it will just give the arse holes out there who have been screaming about 'POLITICAL CORRECTNESS GONE MAD' some ammo and be like 'SEE BBC! THE PEOPLE DON'T WANT YOUR DIVERSITY PROPAGANDA!' even though the viewing figures have been some of the biggest of both modern and classic Doctor Who... Plus, Doctor Who is up for renewal soon, last was renewed in 2015 for five years so at some point over the next year or so the beeb will weigh up if they still want to take it forwards, so if the next series dose get delayed till 2020 and Chibnall wants out after his next series, Whittaker wants to go when he goes and there is no one really in wings to become the next show runner then, well, they could decide to just end it there and then rather than doing another soft-reboot after only twenty or so episodes of this newer version. Keep it neat and tidy so they can bring it back later. Granted given how strong the view figures are at the moment and I really don't think a year out will damage the viewing figures all that much and I am sure that Doctor Who is still profitable for the BBC I don't think they will do that, but, even so things feel a little murkier at the moment than they really should given that we are only just half way through a new series with a new show runner and a new Doctor, this should be a time for optimism even if there has been the odd naff episode here and there. And yet, Christmas episode gets canned due to not having any ideas (And yes, there is still a new year's special but even so not having any ideas is not filling me with confidence), next series may be delayed till 2020 and the new show runner and Doctor may not even be still with the show after that. I have no idea what is going on in the background, I hope it is just hearsay and bullshit but at the same time, this is Doctor Who, where the drama's behind the scenes can often be more dramatic than what happens on screen...

I don't want anyone to stay any longer than they want to.

https://www.starburstmagazine.com/doctor-bbc-confirm-series-12-broadcast-2019 Next series is not delayed.

Still not seen any actual BBC confirmation, don't get why everyone is posting that article like it's gospel.

I feel like this season has higher lows but also has lower highs - and while I'm fine with the former sadly I'd prefer the latter (and also personally I think spider one has been the worst so far just due to the pretty poor ending)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpTJL1fkN0o Why, BBC?

a banger of an episode (both literally and figuratively), my favourite of the season so far

So, Kerblam delivered! HA!

I really enjoyed that. Getting a delivery tommorow... might have somebody else open it.

Awesome episode! Actual twist that I didn't see coming. I thought Lee Mack would be around for longer though RIP One of my faves in the season, more of this writer please! Also laughed at the continuity announcer over the credits basically saying 'attention all schoolchildren, the doctor is in trouble and she needs your help'

I think the message was more something along the lines of that corporations - as a concept - aren't evil, it's how the people that run them do so that matters (whether it be bad or good)

the politics and morals of this episode were all over the place. the activist/protester/"our generation gets things done!"er was portrayed as an actual full-on terrorist, but then again he was humanised by being in love with someone, an innocent person who was then literally murdered in front of him by the system he was fighting as a random attempt to try and get him to stop (instead of uhhhhh Just Telling Someone What He Was Doing) and the doctor was just like "oh i get it lol the system was teaching you how bad people being killed is" instead of being like "actually that's extremely fucked up" but then his demands were also met and the doctor deliberately told the delivery bots to blow themselves up by specifically telling them to fuck around with the bubble wrap for some reason, blowing themselves and the warehouse and also the activist up so?????? i mean it was an enjoyable episode but those last few minutes were such a clusterfuck of contradictions i don't know WHAT they were trying to do

like just teleport them to space? or the surface of that mOOON anyway, good episode

So why exactly did The Doctor decide killing the dude was the best plan? It goes against like everything we've been told about The Doctor since Eccleston.

She never intended tohe went down to the robots and never made it back up in time before they exploded. Plenty of villains in Doctor Who meet their end as a result of their plan blowing up in their face, in this case it was literally.

Yeah but she didn't have to send them there, she could have sent them into orbit or into an empty area of the moon or pretty much anything that wouldn't have even put him in that situation.

Since she starts telling him to come back up, and it looked like he had enough time, I think she expected he'd give up and run once he saw the packages being opened, but he did not. Oh, and Graham sticks his hand in a bucket of liquid corpse juice and on being told so, just goes "has anyone got a tissue?". Is this a clue to the secret darkness lurking within his heart?

That was a great episode, lots of fun, and a good little twist.

I kinda feel bad for the System tbh,they make a whole thing about how the company is going to be organic run from now on.... but the System wasn't at all at fault, it was the one who managed to get help to begin with

Oh yeah, is this the first villain who didn't get away?

Even though it did kill a person to prove a point

Wasn't this episode basically Robots of Death, but instead of a robot activist you have a human activist? Not that that's a bad thing, it felt like a classic episode of Doctor Who because of that.

I think the main question that this episode raised was "Should Lee Mack do anything outside 'Would I Lie to You?'" and the answer was yes.

Yeah they killed him off extremely fast, honestly why did they even bother casting him in the role for something so inconsequential? I guess he just wanted to make a cameo appearance.

Ratings up on last week despite the timeslot change so RIP the "RATINGS IN FREEFALL" headlines.

I'm pretty sure I saw an interview with him ages ago when he was first cast where he was basically like "I asked Chris Chibnall to put me in literally any role however small, please, I just want to be in Doctor Who"

I really enjoyed the episode.

getting fukken horrible flashbacks of my time in amazon. no thank you with the fulfilment centres

Also Would I die on You?

One thing I like about the new season of Doctor Who, is that since there is no convoluted overarching plot that slips into every episode, you can show any episode to new viewers and they'll understand everything without having to explain who these people are and why they are saying shit. I went back and looked at 1-4, and it's the same there, but for 5-10, only 3 and a half seasons of those 6 seasons can you really just watch randomly, but still need a few explanations here and there. Those ones being S5, S7 Part 1, S8 and S10.