The Tsuranga Conundrum

I loved this show and never missed an episode. Now I struggle to sit through this drivel. Where is the fun? Seriously, it feels like all the fun has been sucked out of this show - it's so bland and sterile. The writing has been awful - Chibnal clearly has no clue how to write engaging sci-fi stories. Also not a fan of Jodie as a Doctor - sure she doesn't have a lot to work with because of the woeful writing, but she looks completely lost and out of her depth most of the times. She just doesn't have natural charisma. It's not really her fault, but it's a reality. Charismatic actors capture audience's attention as soon as they are no the screen, they command attention. Unfortunately Jodie just doesn't have any charisma at all. She feels just as bland as the show and her interpretation of the character seems unoriginal and boring. Also I wish they didn't go the many companions route - it doesn't work. It takes screentime away from the Doctor and from the story. It works best with one companion, sometimes it works with 2 companions, but more than that and it's just a mess.

The dialogue is very patchy and quite clunky. Jodie Whittaker isn't the let down here, it's the screenwriters.

A ravenous gluttonous being, without morals or ethics or feeling, incessantly scours, for sources of power, a binge feasting thing called a Pting.

Male humanoids who come from Gifftan, gestate their generations of man, a week for the girth, then time to give birth, delivered through caesarean (how else!).

The trouble with the current series is a writer that can't seem to get to grips with, or doesn't care about, complex sci-fi characters and plot elements. It wasn't the worst, but I'd still describe it as fast food sci-fi, rather than anything that deserves the Doctor Who name.

I'd like to see future episodes contain more of the depth and intrigue we have seen in previous years.

It's bad... The worst episode this series easily. The Tsuranga Conundrum initially displays promise, an interesting beginning leading to the main cast stranded at the mysterious Tsuranga, a hospital, without the TARDIS.

That's about where my positivity ends as far as this episode goes; the pacing is very slow, with the antagonist of the episode rarely seen, nor really feeling particularly threatening despite its reputation. The side characters are bland and seem to lack personality; including one of the characters who gets a whole side-plot that seems completely out of place and is quite cringey in my opinion.

The dialogue? Poor, really poor; it's strangely tired and delivered a bit weirdly (perhaps this is the fault of new to the show director Jennifer Perrot). The character development moments seem very crowbarred in, with characters having a chat about each others' feelings right in the middle of a supposedly dangerous situation without even any sign of the danger. Maybe as a result of this, the character development that has been consistently good in this series so far fell short in this episode.

I feel no desire to watch this episode again.