• rhabarba@feddit.org
    link
    fedilink
    English
    arrow-up
    5
    arrow-down
    1
    ·
    edit-2
    6 days ago

    A “reality war” it is, indeed. Much of episodes 7 and 8 was a war against reality, including the Doctor being called “Doctor Who”. … Sorry, I digress. Personally, I have not considered Ncuti to be a good Doctor, it’s all just the wrong personality for him. Maybe some of it was the script, but some if it probably wasn’t. (Time Lords aren’t human. I wish that the writers wouldn’t make them act so human.) We shall see how the new one turns out. I think it can’t be much worse anymore.

    Although I like that Omega, despite having been described as “the first Time Lord” incorrectly (depending on the canon, that’s either the Other or the Timeless Child), has been brought back and I think that the Rani is a more interesting villain than the Master, the whole series 2 had a lot of potentially interesting characters - and all of them were one-dimensional. Flat. Uninspired. (I hope we can agree that Maestro was a good example for that.) Last time we saw Omega, he was a force of nature, banished into the opposite of a universe, only to return as a plot device with no good explanation. Sigh.

    I wonder why neither the Rani nor the Doctor seem to remember that Omega has no body to extract DNA from. Plot hole?

    • Taleya@aussie.zone
      link
      fedilink
      English
      arrow-up
      3
      ·
      5 days ago

      Technically Omega was the first time lord - he created the technology that enabled their time travel.

      • rhabarba@feddit.org
        link
        fedilink
        English
        arrow-up
        2
        ·
        5 days ago

        It depends on whether Time Lords are “Gallifreyans with a TARDIS” or something more complicated, I think.

        • Taleya@aussie.zone
          link
          fedilink
          English
          arrow-up
          3
          ·
          edit-2
          5 days ago

          Well, the ability to regenerate is one thing, but i’m pretty sure it was mastery of time travel that made them time lords!

          Timeless child aside, i always loved the beta canon idea that the ability to regenerate came from the great vampires…