Can You Hear Me?

To be honest, I really like the character development in this episode. For the first time, I can understand the companions as unique individuals with feelings and desires - instead of just some Earth hitchhikers who willingly follows Doctor all the time. I'm deeply moved by the story of Yaz.

Doctor's character is also cute - the "socially awkward" part is a bit contradictory to her outgoing personality, but it works well for me because it reminds me of Peter Capaldi. Jodie's performance is great as always.

However, the sci-fi story SUCKS! The entire story is explained in a five-minute cartoon (the cartoon is cute and creative though) and the crisis is solved also in five minutes - can you find a more perfunctory DW story in the new era?????? (I haven't watched all Classic Who episodes, but I doubt if there are worse stories) I hope Chibnall let someone write sci-fi parts olease!

If I can rate things separately, I'll rate the character development as 8/10 and the sci-fi part as 1/10.

Couldn't wait until this episode was over. It was so boring. The doctor needs a makeover and get some new clothes. The companions need to be terminated, now that could make a good episode. Perhaps one of the earlier companions could be bought back. Bring back some earlier villains too. Make this show fun to watch again!

A recurring theme with this series is the episode's tendency to start with a certain degree of interest before it completely derails because it spirals into a pool of not knowing what is going on.

This episode continued this disastrous trend for the show. It appears to me that the writers combine several episodes into one, because the standalone episodes are somehow even worse than what gets produced, and when they do produce what gets recklessly thrown into the pot, it's a complete shambles.

Can you hear me? had good concepts with poor execution. The flow of the episode was nonsensical, from going to a ship of prisoners in one scene, then finding out one second later that they've randomly decided to take over the planet. It's painful to watch (and even more painful to write about) because it's immensely confusing and aimless at the same time. The fact Jodie is being used to describe the plot, rather than having it being told through what's shown on screen, is definitive of this episode being the worst assembled of the season.

While the bad guys were great, unfortunately they were the second act of the episode.

We once again saw a preachy episode this time about mental health.

It had very good moments, when the doctor talked about what mankind was, that almost gave me chills.

But most of the episode was a bore. Half the episode was spend on the personal lives of the companions.

A shame, the setup of this episode was really promising. If they had put more focus on making a good story, rather than preaching, this could have been an 8 or even a 9.

But with this execution, I cannot give it any higher than a 4.

I mean. It was really interesting episode. The different one. But in a good meaning :) And we have finally got some storyline for companions which is obviously step forward.