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3PiesAndAFork posted...

Haven't seen any with 13, but having watched 12 all I can say is that I bet any problems will be with the writing. Capaldi would have been one of the better ones if he had decent material to work with, and from what I've read it seems the writing went even more downhill with 13.

Unfortunately, that seems to be the case. I think the issue is that no-one could write a 4 person TARDIS team.

Ryan and Graham had a storyline in series 11, but it was resolved by the time season 12 came around so Ryan kept getting bumped to the back and Graham became a machine for one-liners. Yaz had no personality for the first half of series 11, though there's been some subtext between her and the Doctor ever since Arachnids (the episode where she got shafted by the script in favour of her own mother). I legitimately think there's been an overcrowding problem, or at least no-one has really utilised a proper A and B plot with the group splitting up as often as they should have.

Capaldi's Doctor was defined by his inconsistency. His first episode was arguably his greatest, where you can see a man out of place responding to not knowing who or what he is - and he leans into being a bastard in series 8, which ended up being more polarising than I thought it would be. Series 9 had the Sonic Sunglasses and him playing the guitar, and series 10 was him going through the wringer. He starts his run with no idea who he is, he spends the entire run changing, and as he regenerates he defines an ethos and a blueprint for his future incarnation to avoid the mistakes he made and retain all of the goodness he had gained. In a way, the end of his run recontextualizes a lot of it, and I kinda like that angle - but that doesn't make it good, or any less haphazard.

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