Episode Discussion: The Reality War

I dont have words,i didnt hate it,thought it was good in first half then shit in middle then again fine in last half,all in all a 7 i think

Terrible decision. I’m absolutely thrilled.

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Hmmmm.

NCUTI GATWA as the Doctor
JODIE WHITTAKER as the Doctor
And Introducing BILLIE PIPER

…but not ā€œas the Doctorā€

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Jodie is in Unleashed but not Billie

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The official video also doesn’t say ā€œThe Fifteenth Doctor regenerates into the Sixteenth Doctorā€.

Sus.

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What a shit day

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What the ACTUAL ā– ā– ā– ā–  did we just watch??

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I really don’t like Belinda having retroactively been a mother the whole time. I generally dont like women having babies forced on them for magic sci fi reasons

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I think that Billie will be a fantastic Doctor! But I don’t think that she will be the Doctor for more than 5 episode.

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Well among all this, I’m just glad that Omega wasn’t a CGI Claw and Mel didn’t die which somehow turned out to some of the only false leaks

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Russell T Davies you can burn in hell you bloody maniac

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Never have I been so ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā– ā–  pissed at an episode of DW

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That was the weirdest hour of television I’ve ever watched :rofl: I couldn’t even tell you if I liked it or disliked it (I’m leaning towards the latter unfortunately), but I think it absolutely represents RTD finally eating his own tail. This was just a mess from start to finish, and regardless of how I end up rating it, it has confirmed for me that I don’t want another series from this creative team - please give someone else a go now. I can just about accept Billie as Sixteen (although I hate that we’re going back to the 2005 cast well again), but I don’t need any more episodes written by RTD. He’s done tons for the show, written some fantastic stuff, and for that I’ll always appreciate him, but I don’t want him in the showrunner position.

I am very happy for @DontBlink, @thirteenswife and @ProfessorSummerfield though, who I’m sure for no particular reason will absolutely love this episode :wink:

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I really didn’t like the episode, omega and the rani were just sidelined for some poorly explained retroactive reasoning. Is Billie Piper really the next doctor???

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The first half hour, I was enjoying myself. Downhill from there :confused:

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I guess ā€œThe Bossā€ and Susan are also parked for Season 3.

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I am the opposite. I love the new doesn’t give a ā– ā– ā– ā–  RTD.

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Speculation: S3 is written with Gatwa in mind, to round off the era. RTD then gets Gatwa’s notice, wanting to leave. He needs someone to step in temporarily to bridge a gap before the next Doctor, in pops Billie for a special / for a laugh.

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Absolutely, I fully agree she’ll make a fantastic Doctor! Likewise, I’m not convinced she’ll stick around for very long though. I think for me, I would just much rather we weren’t going back to RTD1 again!

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