A week ago Saturday saw the conclusion of the eighth season of “Doctor Who.” Even though this is a week late, I wanted to take some time to think not only about the season finale, but the overall arc.
We’re now up to episode 8 in this latest run of “Doctor Who.” In this episode entitled “Mummy on the Orient Express” the Doctor and Clara agree to go on one more final adventure as they board a spaceship train to the stars.
“Kill the Moon” is the latest episode of “Doctor Who” which just aired the other night. Seven episodes down and I’m not seeing much of an improvement in terms of story quality. It had its entertaining moments (mostly thanks to Capaldi), but the stories and creative elements seem to still be lacking. In my opinion, the show appears to be running on empty and needs a bit of a jump start again.
Another week came and went for that everlasting Timelord known only as ‘The Doctor.’ This weeks episode of “Doctor Who” had the Doctor facing off with that legendary thief of the forest himself – Robin Hood! Oh yeah, and his merry men.
It’s still to early in Capaldi’s run to truly judge the new direction of the show. But so far, I really like it. I’m taking to him quicker than I did Matt Smith (who eventually really grew on me). But as much as I like the show thus far, we haven’t really gotten a good grasp on who this new Doctor is or who he is becoming. It may be intentional or it may be that Capaldi and Moffat was still searching for the new Doctor’s voice at this point.