
Doctor Who blogging: “The Zygon Inversion”
I feel like we have finally met Peter Capaldi’s Doctor for the first time. At last.

I feel like we have finally met Peter Capaldi’s Doctor for the first time. At last.

Just when I’ve lost almost all hope for my show, we get an episode like this one: incredibly good science fiction storytelling, incredibly good Doctor Who.

So my Let’s Wait and See Plan after last week’s episode did not pan out. It’s not that there isn’t some good stuff here. But where it ends up is too easy.

Ah, so that’s my problem with the show lately: it’s a bit too Monty Python.

Part of the fun for me was that Doctor Who was always a show that rewarded extra thinking-about. Not such much anymore…

I don’t recognize this show anymore.

Doctor Who is now a meta representation of itself. The show has become its own T-shirt.

I think this is actually the weakest STC episode yet, storywise. But the original series had weak episodes, too, so that’s part of the tradition.

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