Americans like to say that but when fascists and authoritarians turn up the most gun obsessed Americans always love them.

Ha! They must have missed the billboards, front page newspaper articles, TV reports, and public service annou- oh wait.

Looks like you figured it out yourself. Must’ve been due.

Oh I see, no I’m happy with that.

I mention the comparisons to other media because that media did it well and Flux didn’t. You see the flux a handful of times but in the end it’s just something happening on the background whilst these immensely unoriginal and boring supervillains wander around being similarly uninteresting. Even on a more basic level, it’s yet another antagonist destroying the entire universe. Doctor gets between universes again, just gets jerked around constantly and only ever reacting to things because even she doesn’t know what is happening. And people get teleported around constantly, often as the means it escape from danger which is unspeakably cheap, a man who has barely seen a lightbulb steps inside the TARDIS and is only mildly surprised by how completely impossible everything he’s seeing is. Episode ending cliffhangers not resolved but subverted within a minute of the beginning of the next episode.

In what world is it too early to “jump” to immortal god, considering that’s basically what they said in the show? Thousands of lives, she doesn’t die she regenerates indefinitely forever. She IS immortal and that’s the power of a god. Previously there have been references to the doctor appearing godlike due to the basically magic-seeming TARDIS, her tech, being benevolent, helping out everywhere and then disappearing. Well now it’s not a naive, yet charming notion from a lifeform that’s not advanced enough to understand. She IS one. She is no longer the roguish timelord objector going on adventures, which is the dynamic I liked.

Future huge story reveals will be about her past, and it’ll just be unknowable, impossible to empathise with things like “oh it turns out I’m an ancient god” or “it turns out I’m the last of a different and even more powerful race now” which I think would actually be worse, imagine wading through all this shite just for it to basically be the same as before.

I like the traveller encountering problems and fixing them setup, I don’t really like the “person showing up to a random problem happens to be the most important person that’s related to that problem and also in the universe” really, especially when she’s a god. You say you won’t mind unless the doctor gets superpowers, but I wouldn’t be surprised if something similar turned up. I bet there’s a thing the doctor will have to do because they’re a powerful ancient race, the only that race could withstand it.

On the other hand I didn’t hate the Christmas special, so we will see. At least the butcher that wrote the flux is gone.

See it didn’t feel briskly paced to me, it felt pretty slow because I never knew what was happening up until the end of the episode, then it’d go into high gear for five minutes to setup a cliffhanger, often doing so in a cheap way as well. And what was happening wasn’t really interesting. It’s a cloud destroying the universe, it’s the Nothing from Neverending Story, meh. And the villains seemed like they were taken out of Destiny, yet more noble-ish scifi superbeings.

Maybe it if it was well written I’d like it more, but it’s poor and the way characters act is absurd even for Doctor Who. I mean, Yas can just walk onto an alien ship - one she’s never seen before - and knows how to use its systems. Nobody reacts to things they should find unbelievable to the point of freaking out beyond a sentence saying “what was that?” These issues pop up in the preceding few seasons, but Flux is just poorly written throughout, so maybe that’s why such a massive change is such an issue.

Maybe it’s because what was once a rogue timelord skipping about time and space and doing good, having adventures, and saving people is actually another superbeing that is the means through which the timelords were created, an immortal being of incredible power. It just changes the context, well-meaning roguish timelord versus immortal god.

There are brighter spots. I actually liked the dog alien guy, I thought that was going to be bad when it revealed what was going on but I turned out to quite like him. Of course he was paired with John Bishop who I just don’t think could pull off the role, which is a shame as I like John Bishop.

What other changes did 13 bring to the show?

It’s a pretty significant drop in quality, I was enjoying myself until I got to Flux, even though there was a clear drop it the quality of the writing before it. It spends so much time trying to build a mystery but doesn’t give enough information to really make it intriguing for me, then it just solves whatever that was over the course of a few minutes and skips over to another.

Flux is poorly written throughout and it destroys everything we know about the doctor. Previously the doctor was basically a rogue escapee of a morally ambiguous and very powerful alien race, but now is instead the entire reason for that race’s existence. Powerful, immortal, and with a past we now know practically nothing about…it completely changed the dynamic of the show and retconned the doctor’s entire backstory just for a cheap surprise that goes completely against everything we knew, and they didn’t even manage to deliver it well. May as well make the doctor “the chosen one.”

Whittaker’s really good, she carried her run until the Flux, which I watched for the first time last week. It was shit, even she couldn’t save it. It was so bad that the Tennant episodes that follow it are better in comparison, despite them being pretty poor and repeating themes from RTD’s run, like he didn’t have any new ideas. A mysterious monster from the void of space that steals your voice and turns into you? That’s Midnight.

I use Flud on mobile and Transmission on PC, personally.

I listen to an audiobook every day, watch TV and movies regularly.

Yep, it was great. I picked it back up after not finishing it so did the DLCs to stretch it out as I was near the end. Finished The Foundation yesterday, not as good as the main game or AWE. I’ve downloaded Alan Wake Remastered now, so that’s next.

This is the weirdest comments section I’ve ever seen. Stories are why I play every single one of my favourite games. I just finished Control and it’s absolutely phenomenal. Yes it plays and looks great, but the story and lore is why it’s so good.

You clearly have no idea what playing these games is like. You should’ve tried them before forming your opinion.

You mean it’s better than this legendarily shit thing? You don’t say?