ive been a doctor who fan for a very long time , so long in fact I was watching it when it was really bad to be a geek in any form .
with the new episode airing just yesterday what do I think? well lets get the elephant out of the room there was a mention at the end of the episode of the doctor having brought womans cloths in the past well thats rubbish given that no other regeneration has ever been a woman at all and the doctors not a cross dresser so I rest my case with that.
lets split this up a little
cast : all the characters seemed to gel really well and I did end up liking them all I did like the way ryan seemed to be almost obsessed in proving he could ride a push bike with dyspraxia , why Ryan was trying to learn to ride a bike when driving a car would have been far better challenge at least to me and I did like his uncomfortable relationship with graham, tosin dose a really good job in his role and im hoping for interesting things from his character
when I first heard about graham I thought well hes dead after the fist episode or he would be reduced to a background character well I was mostly wrong ,graham is married to ryans grand mother grace, this give him and ryan abit of a difficult relationship as ryan seems to see graham as just married to his grandmother and nothing more ,bradly walsh dose a pretty good as being the fairly stand offish new grandad and hes also given most of the small jokes in this episode.
now we come to Yasmin a young, confidant rookie police officer who wants more out of her job we first meet her when shes dealing with a "traffic dispute " one that would in real life have ended with 2 arrests , when it come to her character I found it to be a fairly well rounded one and mandip gill did a good job, I did find the scene were its revealed that yasmin and ryan went to the same school abit to coincidental but I guess its a place were they can have some history.
we now come to the star of the show Jodie Whitaker as the doctor, when this was first announced I was sitting in a pub at a heavy metal gig with my ex and she asked me what was wrong and I said the doctor was now a woman im still shocked she didn't go nuts at me for being to ridged with my opinions on a female doctor.
im happy to say I was wrong Jodie Whitaker plays the doctor really well and if the first episode is to go by she could be a really good doctor (no I told you so's ) she bring something new to the doctor character and im hoping they reduce her clumsiness just abit but I can really see her having 3 seasons at least.
the only bit that I did find annoying was right at the end of the woman who fell to earth the doctor said it had been along time since she had brought woman's cloths which unless she got them for a companion is utter rubbish , the doctor has never been a woman ever unless Chris Chibnall dose a war doctor and trys to pull a there was a forgotten doctor on us which if im honest would be really stupid of him and could cost him a lot of fan faith.
now lets talk about what's to come , there will be no cybermen, no daleks and no siloriuns Chris Chibnall has insisted that all the monster's and story's will be fully original and new no retellings no old story's explored which is good, the show has a new lick of paint and refined budget thanks to loosing 3 episodes which really shows the camera work was clean the special effects were crisp and it looks really really good.
the shows focus will if Chris Chibnall is to be believed be a more history teaching style which im dubious about given that William Hartnell's doctor who was meant to be a teaching tool with sci-fi elements and was later turned into the show we all love with an iconic theme tune and speaking of the theme tune.
we get what is one of the most interesting theme tunes going , it has so many elements of the original theme that its really hard to miss as well as a lot of new elements which seem to work I guess ill have to see if I gel with it or I will be skipping the opening to get to the episode or let the credits run.
its verdict time im going to go with an 8/10 why not a 10 well there was elements that worked well and some that fell a little flat most of this episodes issue I attribute to growing pains or baby's first tooth it hurts to start with but when its done growing if looked after itll be strong and glinting .
id go and watch it if I were you , let me know if you agree with me thanks for reading