Well, that was a pretty depressingly lame new episode of Doctor Who. While the new Russell T. Davies era has generally been better than the Chris Chibnall era, I get the impression sometimes that Davies' solution is to do what Chibnall did even harder. So Pete McTighe, a writer from the Chibnall era, wrote Saturday's new episode, "Lucky Day", and it received the lowest ratings in the relaunched show's history.
It reminded me of a more belligerent version of the Oscar Isaac/Laura Dern conflict in The Last Jedi. Instead of a decent, headstrong guy whose desire to go against the dictates of authority led to problems, we have a smirking, bottomless pit of inexplicable spite and an authority who's willing to sic man eating beasts on him because he offered her a personal insult. This was not the best setup for the UNIT spin-off, that's for sure.
The Doctor shows up at the end to lecture the villain and tell him how horrid he is. Villains can certainly be smirking and thoroughly bad but the show needs to ask itself more often, "What would Tom Baker do?" in the face of such a fellow.
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