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  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 17,753
    This is a good trailer


  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    edited April 13 Posts: 25,789
    Apparently there was a new episode of DW last night, all my life I would be waiting and counting down to a new show. Now I have become apathetic which is a shame, I only knew it was on last night as a review appeared on my YT feed.

    Started watching The Robot Revolution, good god this is more childish than Sarah Jane Mysteries.
    The Doctor just killed god knows how many people on life support in that hospital.

    Ripping off Superman III.

    It only took 17 minutes for the Doctor to cry.

    The impossible girl trope is overused at this point.
    Planet of the incels
    😂 I almost coughed up my coffee.

    Not a great start to the season, was boring and nonsensical.

    The last scene in the Tardis was good, with a chilling last image, I liked that.


  • QBranchQBranch Always have an escape plan. Mine is watching James Bond films.
    Posts: 14,984
    Whaaat? I vividly remember the new season was starting on the 17th. Who's been playing with time?
  • bondywondybondywondy Uk
    Posts: 492
    The Robot Revolution is a record breaker. Lowest overnight ratings in the show's history. Two million viewers.

    shrug.gif


  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 14,125
    I knew it was on, I was watching something else. Apathetic sums up my feelings to @Fire_and_Ice_Returns. I'm patiently awaiting the next Doctor, in the hopes that they might be more to my liking.

    I had heard what the planet was called, but I thought it was someone taking the proverbial. They actually called it that? :))

    As for the viewing figures, I thought RTD said that for every fan that stops watching, 2 more will replace them? :-?
  • Fire_and_Ice_ReturnsFire_and_Ice_Returns I am trying to get away from this mountan!
    Posts: 25,789
    One of the characters says it when talking to the villain
    Planet of the incels
    .

    I am hoping we get chance to see a new show runner and Doctor though I have heard DW may get cancelled, not sure how much validity there is to that.

    One issue is we aren't even following the real Doctor, it was a mistake having the bi generation thing as it led to nothing so far.

    God knows if the so called Whoniverse is still a thing as I have not heard about any other shows being developed.
  • CharmianBondCharmianBond Pett Bottom, Kent
    Posts: 563
    It was messy but I really enjoyed it, that might be partly down to it copying Series 5's homework. But Varada Sethu was amazing and I can't wait to see more of her.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    edited April 14 Posts: 17,753
    bondywondy wrote: »
    The Robot Revolution is a record breaker. Lowest overnight ratings in the show's history. Two million viewers.

    shrug.gif


    4th most watched show across all channels for the day, 2nd most watched for BBC One. That's not bad no matter how you spin it. TV is watched differently these days- I watched it on iPlayer at lunchtime as it went on at 8am.

    I thought it was really good fun. It went a bit fuzzy with the ending, not the best episode ever, but enjoyable space adventure fluff, and it looked wonderful.
    MajorDSmythe wrote: »
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    I had heard what the planet was called, but I thought it was someone taking the proverbial. They actually called it that? :))

    It was called Miss Belinda Chandra, yes; it was all dealt with in the plot of the episode.
  • MajorDSmytheMajorDSmythe "I tolerate this century, but I don't enjoy it."Moderator
    Posts: 14,125
    I don't want the series cancelled either @Fire_and_Ice_Returns. Same as you, but I have a feeling that it's becoming more likely. RTD has even suggested a hiatus might be on the horizon. Now either RTD just played a 4D chess move, or he has read the writing on the wall.

    The 7 day figures don't jump up that much from the overnights, so if overnight has sunk as low as 2M, i'd be surprised if the 7 day figures can break 5M.
  • 007HallY007HallY
    edited April 14 Posts: 5,013
    I think it’s tricky for a show like Dr. Who today because viewing habits have changed so much even compared to when it came back in the early 2000s. I remember watching the Tennant series and each weekly episode felt like a sort of communal event one would watch with siblings, family, or even friends. Each episode was different, some better than others, but you’d always tune in.

    Nowadays with streaming/how we watch TV I think it’s less likely people will consistently watch the show and are more likely to skip certain episodes if the premise doesn’t take their fancy. I’m certainly not a Who fan and haven’t really kept up with it past Tennant, but this is more or less my experience with Gatwa’s ones - I’ve only seen a few that have interested me and I don’t feel that same habitual need to keep up with it weekly or watch certain episodes I feel less drawn to. In fact it’s a case where I’ve watched some of them months apart. The episodes themselves are… fine I guess. Not my cup of tea I suppose.

    I could be wrong but I don’t think this helps things. I don’t know if there’s a way the show can be shaken up to keep viewers watching consistently.
  • mtmmtm United Kingdom
    Posts: 17,753
    MajorDSmythe wrote: »
    The 7 day figures don't jump up that much from the overnights

    They routinely nearly double...? I would call doubling pretty much a jump. 28 day in the 4-5m range for all of the previous season, always in the most-watched programmes list for the week.
    I know people like to say that because it's not getting what it was getting 20 years ago then it must be in crisis, but those people don't tend to compare it to what TV shows today get, just with what they got twenty years ago, which is meaningless.
    It's doing fine. It's not spectacular, but it's fine.
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