Orphan 55

This was terrible.

Plain and simple this was the worst episode since the show made a return. Not only are the viewing figures tumbling, but the quality is as well, it pains me to slate this show, but this was awful, the story was dreadful, the TARDIS crew were terrible, and as for the thumb sucking moment, I couldn't believe my eyes.

At this rate the show will be dropping into the 3 million viewer numbers, worrying signs. People give feedback with their remote controls, an epic fail, I am worried about the backlash after this.

The minor positive, the monsters, I liked the design of them, gruesome looking, but considering the elaborate goings on they were rather primitive, their appearance was curious, until the heavy handed ending.

Crayons and spam Sums it up nicely. We get more preaching....

Ryan, you are the worst companion of all time, you make Dodo look like Sarah Jane Smith, that's not the fault of his acting, but the poor guy hasn't got a chance with the script he's working with. They are deliberately making him useless, clueless, gutless and dismal.

I watch Countryfile each week while I wait for this, and genuinely the number of swans in that pond was more interesting than this trash.

Diabolically terrible. 3/10

After watching this episode I thought it was OK. I couldn't understand all the negative reviews. So I went back and re-watched some David Tennant, Matt Smith and Peter Capaldi episodes. I was literally shocked to see how far the quality of this show has fallen. Something needs to be done about this before it is too late. It's not just the writers but also the actors. They don't seem to understand what they are doing to Doctor Who's legacy. And I was amazed at how much Jodie seems to be trying to mimic the 10th Doctor. I can't think of any other way to fix this problem other than to get rid of Jodie, her companions and Chis Chibnall and try to start over. As an avid fan since 1966 who managed to make it through the hiatus between classic who and new who it really pains me to see what is happening.

Very poor even by the substandard efforts of last season. All written to deliver one message that most tuning in to Doctor Who a sci-fi program are trying to escape from especially the way it is lectured at the end. Current affairs and agendas are top of the list now superceding story and plot and will likely be the final nail in the coffin of this once great programme unless sackings happen sooner rather than later. If more effort was made to keep the story believable then maybe the less than subtle preaching wouldn't seem so bad but sadly no just plain terrible.

Poor Jodie is being hung out to dry.

The doctor and her groupies conveniently end up at a simulated resort on a near-dead planet only to find out an inconvenient truth. The plot is simply an excuse to string together some monster footage (reasonably well done) and to set-up a heavy-handed 'message' typical of the show's increasing self-righteousness. The script is silly, plot-holes and coincidences abound, and the cast is showing no signs of improving (although at least Jodie Whittaker cuts back a bit on the 'lovably goofy' shtick). The Doctors increasingly convenient 'psychic powers' (last week it was memory erasure, this week it's mind reading) are going to make future stories difficult to construct. Ironically, the plot's disregard for basic science is worse than that of the people that it's chiding.

Imagine someone asks a 12 year old child to write a Science Fiction story, get every cliche in the book and put it into a blender, and bam, you have this episode.

It feels like nobody knew what to do with this episode, how to give the message or what was it about. At first I got big Emoji Bot vibes, and then... everything tunrs so stupid you can't help but to laugh. Twist after twist is just a mess, you just can belive someone wrote this and thought "Yes, this is Doctor Who Material". There is even one scene that leaves you "Is Doctor Who seriously doing that kind of scene?", I mean, is not a bad message, is never a bad message, and is canon in Doctor Who, even The Mysterious Planet did it, but the way they did it was... so hillariously bad.

I miss Spyfall already, because this, while is not Season 11 bad where it was so bad it's infuriating, it's still a kind of bad that you have to watch to belive that someone pulled this off.