Space Babies

Space Babies is the most painful thing that I've forced myself to watch in a very long time. Appalling intellectualy insulting pun based concept, insulating terrible exposition and cringe worthy acting from the entire cast not that the babies were acting at all. It's shocking that in 2024 something this terrible could be commissioned - also the creature effects remained me of classic Who and not in a good way.

There was a time when Russell T Davies could write a good script and screenplay, I really don't know what happened here, but I'll take a guess that he literally pulled it out of his nose.

It's a day later and I'm still angry about how bad it was.

The chemistry between Ruby and the Doctor was fantastic. They clearly feel off each other as actors and you can just feel the casual connection they have with each other. Gatwa and Gibson physical interaction was the feel of long time friends and shows genuine fun and warmth between the characters. I have a feeling that along with their superb acting will generate a lot of positivity towards this episode. I think after a couple of seasons (since 2 is confirmed with Gatwa) that this will be viewed as one of the weakest episodes.

On to the story, Davies has always had political or social undertones. None of them detracts from the story even though they were clearly complaints/comments. The writing was clearly meant to be juvenile. 6 years olds in onsies. Overall, but the overall poop, smell, and dirty diaper jokes throughout the story is classical low hanging fruit that Davies gets fixated on sometimes. Tarnished a story with a lot of energy and chemistry along with some really funny buts and some scary moments.

I am a Doctor Who fan since the new era in 2005.

I was a bit down on doctor who for the last seasons as i did not like the showrunner and the way they moved with the show but i stucked in.

I was kinda hyped for Russel T Davies to be back and even i am an Moffat Fanboy i kinda liked Davies stories.

I likes the Special Episodes and also the first episode i think was kinda fun.

This episode made me stop watching and i have not yet watched episode 3+ yet half a year in ... This episode is SO UNBELIEVABLE bad that i dont even know if its the worst doctor who episode, or the worst episode of any show in tv history.

I encourage everyone to skip this episode or you end like me and stop watching it all together.

I was looking forward to the new Dr Who series, but the first episode is disappointing. The plot has no nuance or substance, a far cry from the intelligent stories of seasons past. The pacing is strange going from a frenetic beginning to slow and erratic finish. It feels like the writers ran out of ideas and needed to pad out the show to an hour.

The big problem however that will be difficult to fix in future episodes, is that the two main characters are just cringey and unlikeable. The show may have worked, with a little more substance to the characters. It feels like the Lego movie where, "everything is awesome" but without the comedy.

Give it a past, watch to older seasons, much better.

Disappointing start to the new season, boggies and fart jokes dont really cut it for me. I had high expectations and wanted to really like it, but a poor opening to the season.

The doctor and Ruby have good chemistry just suffered from a poor script and lame jokes, joking for more from ep 2 and the rest of the season.

Lots of money coming in from Disney but needs to be put into better scripts and jot just thr special effects, which were great, but they never really made doctor who the storylines did.

The bringing on of Disney viewers to the whoniverse was great and best part of the episode, of course I'll be back for more and see how it goes ....