I don’t really like it either.
It’s very pretty but almost too pretty and bombastic. It makes me feel like the TARDIS is going into battle rather than on adventures, is the best way I can explain why it bothers me.
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The only thing I didn’t like was the PowerPoint-esque manner in which the logo appeared in the 60th, but they fixed that.
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I like the theme. I think my favorite bit of it is the little melodic inversion they did in the middle 8. If you compare them directly, you’ll hear what I mean, but when I first heard that but I went “ooh, that’s different and neat.”
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But the rhythmic breathing…
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Yeah, that is the bit I don’t care for.
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The editing is the biggest issue for me with the new title sequence. I think the individual shots are good visually, but how they’re cut together is very awkward. Most of the shots are very dynamic and have a specific direction of movement, but they don’t flow into each other very well.
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There have been far worse title sequences tbh. 7’s comes to mind - as much as I love the theme itself, the sequence is not the best imo. 6’s too - it’s literally the same as 5’s with a few minor adjustments
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Every episode discussion this year adds weight to my ‘spoilers are evil’ edict. I honestly think fans are doing the writers and production team a massive disservice by going in knowing that certain things are going to happen and that means stories are not being fairly judged because those beats are not having their planned effect.
I’m going to go out on a limb and say I actually don’t understand why anyone would want to go looking for leaks or spoilers. I just don’t understand the mentality. But what is even worse is putting them on social media where people can innocently stumble upon them. So not only are you deliberately spoiling your enjoyment of the story but you are also making sure that other people, whether they want to or not, are having their enjoyment spoilt.
Leaks and spoilers are the anathema of storytelling and I think they are contributing to poorer discourse about stories.
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100% this, I can understand why some people might go looking for spoilers and leaks, which is fine, but as soon as they start casually spreading it around, it becomes a major problem. This season especially has had so many magical moments that would be (and have) been ruined by leaks. It must be so frustrating for a writer and showrunner to craft the perfect twist, and then watch as some rando blurts it out for the entire world to see just so they can get 5 minutes of fake internet fame. I’m grateful the mods here have been pretty on the ball about getting people to keep leaks in the appropriate thread, your sacrifice will be remembered 
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Firstly I would like to say that I do agree with everything you say, I think that people who spoil or leak stuff for a series that hasn’t even come out are ruining enjoyment - god knows that’s true for me this series because I read too many leaks. But why I did that? Nosy, I guess, a morbid curiosity and having the leak thread here made it easy to passively read it.
Generally I am a believer that if knowing what’s going to happen makes your show completely unenjoyable, you failed as a creator. But that’s not to say that going into things blind isn’t better - shocks can be fun. I just think that reliance on shock factor over good storytelling makes for poorer stories (not saying that specifically about this series of DW, in fact the stuff I have seen has dampened my enjoyment but hasn’t made me think the stories suck)
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I’ve gone into this elsewhere so I’m probably repeating myself but I agree that if a story is relying on shock twists and doesn’t work very well without them then that’s an issue. But that’s not really what I’m complaining about. It’s the fact that stories have a structure - good stories and bad stories - and by knowing the beats of that structure ahead of time are going to colour your experience. Now, obviously, we all know the basic framework of any story, especially a Doctor Who one, but I’m talking about the more intricate details of an individual story. I was actually annoyed about (spoiler for Story and Engine so look away) the fact the barbershop was on the back of the spider was quite obvious in the next time trailer as that part where the Doctor blows the bloody doors off would have been even more impactful had I not known. It was still a brilliant scene but I was anticipating it and by anticipating it, I was not letting the story be told in the way is should be. But then that was at the hands of the show itself and making next time trailers must be so hard - balancing the whetting of the audience’s appetite with not revealing too much).
So it’s not about whether those spoilers spoil how good the story is but rather they spoil how the story works.
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For sure and I agree with that completely. The anticipation might not make the story worse as such, but it does change the experience and dampen the enjoyment.
That’s why next year I’m blocking the leaks chat straightaway!
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Not sure if we will even allow another leaks thread, I only made this one cos I was already spoiled and wanted to talk about that (and silo off conversations so people could avoid it).
Next year[1] I want to ideally avoid them all!
if there is a season next year… ↩︎
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I liked having the leaks chat this year because it meant I could mute it immediately…
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There won’t be a need for a leaks thread in 2026 
/hj
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That’s right! We’ll need one for 2027 though 
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I am 100% in the anti-spoiler camp. If I could, I’d place any person who actively, gleefully, and maliciously spoils things for others into an internet posting time-out - one month for the first offense, a year for the second, and a permanent posting ban for the third.
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What I will say is ~ it seems strange to me that social media sites (such as Twitter) haven’t incorporated spoiler tags for people to use. Even if it were just a blurred effect like this forum has. I dunno how you’d make it 100% fool-proof but there surely must be ways in 2025. Most forum-like sites have spoiler tags, so why doesn’t Twitter? Dumb.
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Because Twitter is evil
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that’s why the only social media I use is tumblr. while you can’t blur things, you can blog tags, and in general people are pretty good about tagging spoilers consistently (or well. I only follow people who do that) so I don’t see spoilers for new episodes at all
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