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The 'new' Dr Who

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LindsD May 2024 10:08pm, 27 May 2024 68,144 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Also loved it
roberton May 2024 9:09pm, 29 May 2024 1,576 posts	Quote Pin roberton Agree. 73 yards is easily my favourite so far. The best episode is quite a while. Massive kudos to Millie Gibson; I thought she was good in the earlier episodes but for me this proved it. Was a lot of "Turn Left" in it (a Russell T Davies episode) and also a lot of "Years and Years" (also RTD!) if anyone has seen that (don't worry if you haven't, it was interesting more than good IMO). One scene seemed very much a hat tip to "American Werewolf in London" too! Btw, I did enjoy Boom but was also a bit disappointed. Was fundamentally a much better episode that the first two, but for me there were too many things that I then thought it got wrong: the moral messages; the final reveal with the war; the romance while there is a flipping countdown happening! So quite good, but no more. Next one looks creepy...
3M May 2024 9:42pm, 29 May 2024 24,146 posts	Quote Pin 3M 73 yards was a really good stand-alone story. All the better for doing away with much of the dependency on CGI and flash bang effects!
Dibble May 2024 6:43pm, 30 May 2024 1,083 posts	Quote Pin Dibble So apparently '73 yards' was the first of this series to be filmed (while Ncuti was still working on something else). So like 'Blink' where something good came out of the necessity of having to cope without David Tennant.
Chrisull May 2024 9:33am, 31 May 2024 21,565 posts	Quote Pin Chrisull Also 73 yards - I'm always here for "folk horror" Doctor Who. What other episodes can people remember of the folk horror ilk? I think "The daemons" with Jon Pertwee, and definitely "Pyramids of Mars" although there's several others around that time that could qualify. Sure there's others from more recent series... definitely one or two Tennant ones.
Weath May 2024 11:02am, 31 May 2024 1,155 posts	Quote Pin Weath Chrisull wrote:What other episodes can people remember of the folk horror ilk? Horror of Fang Rock immediately comes to mind
Chrisull May 2024 1:24pm, 31 May 2024 21,567 posts	Quote Pin Chrisull Oh yes I know remember that one, excellent call! Lighthouses and giant comet/balls going up the stairs...
LindsD Jun 2024 8:02pm, 1 Jun 2024 68,231 posts	Quote Pin LindsD Really liked that. Reminded me of Black Mirror
Dibble Jun 2024 8:32pm, 1 Jun 2024 1,084 posts	Quote Pin Dibble I wasn't expecting much from that having seen the trailers, but agree that was another good episode.
larkim Jun 2024 9:20pm, 1 Jun 2024 24,422 posts	Quote Pin larkim Just caught up with 73yds. Very good indeed, first ep I've stayed awake through!