@davidvedvick @JenLucPiquant
Maybe my ears are getting old, but the background music was also far too loud. I usually had to use closed captioning--either because I couldn't hear the dialogue, or because I couldn't understand all the thick accents, or both. (I'm an American who prides myself on being able to understand & mimic accents, but frequently #JodieWhitaker & some of her companions tended to have very thick ones. Closed captioning didn't always understand them, either.)
@JenLucPiquant I wanted to like her season.... I really wanted to.
It was just such shite writing..... And if it's not on the page, no amout of great acting, great directing, great intentions, can save it.
Is she no longer The Doctor?
@JenLucPiquant Or Colin Baker's or Sylvester McCoy's.
I don't think there's ever been a bad Doctor. Just good Doctors who've sometimes been let down by the material.
(For all that I enjoyed RTD's run and I'm delighted to have him back, there was some real dreck on his watch, too. "Aliens of London", "Fear Her", "Idiot's Lantern", and "Gridlock" all come to mind, and his finales tended to start out strong but fall apart by the end.)