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Is it just me or has Doctor Who become more incoherent recently?

BILLIE???

That mess of omega just cracked me the fuck up. Oooh creator of the timelords how much was the Doctor biting their cheek given that the real genesis was their DNA? God of time feasting on timelords? You literally just ate a third of your food supply and there aren’t any more.

As I’ve enjoyed saying: the show has reversed the polarity up its own vortex. A day after watching and I’m still traumatised by the exuberance of the shark-jumping I saw. The Doctor riding a Flash Gordon-like skysled to crash into Ming’s Rani’s HQ was just one I can’t seem to shake. Or the Two Ranis Ronnies’ joke. “It’s goodnight from me.”

RTD episodes look like his, the last few in particular.

I said this felt like Doctor Who then a turn to more of a Torchwood (both the silly and the 2 movies), and then the worse thing happened and it somehow became Sara Jane adventures. Nothing wrong with Sara Jane adventures, but they are even more for kids than Doctor Who. Look a Skysled! Bone Monsters! Wheelchairs burning rubber!

While I enjoyed some of the dialog a lot, and even some of the campy action, that second part was… difficult. When it looked wrapped up and there was still something like 20 minutes left, I was hopeful. There were several options and possibilities that could have made this incredible.

Sadly, we got what we saw. And we don’t have a renewal date, so when next? I ever?

A “reality war” it is, indeed. Much of episodes 7 and 8 was a war against reality, including the Doctor being called “Doctor Who”. … Sorry, I digress. Personally, I have not considered Ncuti to be a good Doctor, it’s all just the wrong personality for him. Maybe some of it was the script, but some if it probably wasn’t. (Time Lords aren’t human. I wish that the writers wouldn’t make them act so human.) We shall see how the new one turns out. I think it can’t be much worse anymore.

Although I like that Omega, despite having been described as “the first Time Lord” incorrectly (depending on the canon, that’s either the Other or the Timeless Child), has been brought back and I think that the Rani is a more interesting villain than the Master, the whole series 2 had a lot of potentially interesting characters - and all of them were one-dimensional. Flat. Uninspired. (I hope we can agree that Maestro was a good example for that.) Last time we saw Omega, he was a force of nature, banished into the opposite of a universe, only to return as a plot device with no good explanation. Sigh.

I wonder why neither the Rani nor the Doctor seem to remember that Omega has no body to extract DNA from. Plot hole?

Feels like this had so much promise and just fell flat on its face, losing the plot halfway through.

Then the ending with Billie piper the one face no face wanted to play the doctor

Y’know, I looked forward to Ncuti’s run as the Doctor, because RTD was returning to run the show again, and I thought he might hit the heights he hit during his first time show running, but I forgot that RTD’s arch-enemy would be returning with him, and sure enough, RTD with streaming money is his own worst enemy.

Torchwood: Miracle Day was a bloated mess, where he took a 1 or 2 episode plot and turned it into a way too long series for what little story was there. Now, he took over show running again, and the first thing he did was give us Tennant again as the Doctor, starting the run of self-indulgent writing that marked T:MD. He undoes one of the most iconic acts of Tennant’s first run, by undoing the Donna memory issue, then giving us dieties as enemies, deciding that Doctor Who isn’t a sci-fi show anymore, but rather a fantasy show now. And, then he decides the Doctor is an amoeba, and has the Doctor pop off another version of himself, and then uses cartoon logic to make the Tardis also bigenerate.

And that was just the beginning of his run, what followed was just as nonsensical, with Goblins, Dieties that can be defeated with Mr. Mxyzptlk like logic, one of the blandest companions ever, and the ever present old lady everywhere they went. So, I didn’t expect anything to be better at the end of Ncuti’s run either, and sure enough I wasn’t disappointed. RTD did do some course correction, with making the 4th wall breaking lady turn out to be the Rani instead of whatever he had been planning for her. He also had the last of the Pantheon turn out to be a magic wish baby, so we didn’t have another hammy performance.

But, it still didn’t save things, and that last reveal with the Doctor’s regeneration at the end, just smacked of desperation. He realized that he had screwed up, and tried to remind everyone of when he revitalized the show, and get everyone excited for another season and thus get it renewed, but it felt forced and desperate and really didn’t undo all the harm he had done to the show during Ncuti’s run.

So, the show will probably die here, as they won’t make any new episodes, and then in 10 years or so, they’ll announce a new re-imagined Doctor Who reboot by some popular showrunner at the time. And, it’ll be ironic that the man who brought the show back from the dead, winds up being the man who winds up killing it. I hope I’m wrong, but after the mess that Chibnall and RTD made, I wouldn’t be surprised.