Well, Doctor Who is now in the hands of a new show-runner, which means it's time for me to venture back in and give it a chance. As I said ages ago in my post on Doctor Who Season 9 I just couldn't handle Moffat's reign anymore and had to stop watching. I'm really hoping the new showrunner can bring back some of the elements of Who that I loved, but really, as long as the stories are coherent I'm good.
Well, I just watched the first episode and I have to say I am optimistic. It was a good episode that introduced us to a great set of companions. It had a story that flowed well overall. Jodie Whittaker was excellent as the Doctor. The post-regeneration antics were great, and not overdone. It makes a great entry episode like Rose back in 2005.
Best of all, the story was very low key, very contained, very grounded, shall we say. Things of import happened, but in the end they mostly happened to the few people who witnessed and took part in them and affected their lives, but didn't do much to disturb the lives of those around them. That's so refreshing after all the "girl who fell through time" and "impossible girl" and other such melodramatic nonsense we got in Moffat's era.
I wasn't a fan of the whole vlog thing at the start of the episode, but when I saw the end of it I LOVED it. It highlighted the fact that the whole episode wasn't really about the Doctor, but about the human companions and the way the events affected them.
I'll leave it here for now, but I'm really hoping that the rest of the series continues to put Moffat's era behind it and go back to logical storytelling.
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