Well damn

[elisi]

TIBERIAN THOUGHTS – Sheffield Steel, or a Subjective Look at the Thirteenth Doctor #7: “Kerblam!”

This might be the most indepth take so so far. And the most... brutal, I think. The conclusion *burns*.


The thing is, I am easy to please. It takes a lot to genuinely offend me (when it comes to TV), and Kerblam! managed it.

In happier news, I watched 'The Twin Dilemma' this afternoon and it was DELIGHTFUL. <3 (Haters to the left.) All the love for Six. Gimme a Doctor who is arrogant, doesn't give a crap about niceties and is happy to destroy the bad guys, it's like balm to my soul. :D

(I am really REALLY hoping the S11 finale does something drastic. Otherwise I am going to seriously doubt my commitment to Sparkle Motion.)

Comments

[classics-lover.livejournal.com]

Kerblam! is genuinely the first time I've actually been disappointed by The Doctor. It's almost like she was in a completely different episode to the one I was watching, and then something something sci-fi quantum parallel universe happened and that third act bait and switch happened. I'm especially annoyed that my first let-down was by the first female doctor. And I wonder how I'd react if this had been a Tennant or Capaldi or Smith episode, and now I have to go and examine my internalised misogyny to see if I'd be as unforgiving of a male Doctor. Grrr.

[elisi]

My ire is 100% aimed at the writer (well, the writer, producer, showrunner etc.) Doylist all the way.

On a Watsonian level, the crack ate it. Gone, vamoosed, Kerblam! never existed.