{"id":36850,"date":"2022-10-30T00:57:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-29T23:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/?p=36850"},"modified":"2022-10-29T12:59:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-29T11:59:31","slug":"i-havent-a-clue-whats-going-on-two-casual-viewers-review-the-power-of-the-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedoctorwhocompanion.com\/2022\/10\/30\/i-havent-a-clue-whats-going-on-two-casual-viewers-review-the-power-of-the-doctor\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI Haven\u2019t a Clue What\u2019s Going On\u201d: Two Casual Viewers Review The Power of the Doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I watched The Power of the Doctor<\/em> with two people who like Doctor Who<\/em>, who have often watched it and enjoyed it but who are not fans. Both are women: Claire has watched much of the original series, catching up with it on VHS and DVD and watching The TV Movie <\/em>on its first broadcast; Helen is a woman in her early 20s, who has seen most of the revival since 2005, liked The Sarah Jane Adventures<\/em>, but has hardly seen any of the classic series. Both parted company with Doctor Who <\/em>around the time of The Tsuranga Conundrum <\/em>and haven\u2019t been back since.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We know what the fans think of the Jodie Whittaker era: what do two occasional viewers like Claire and Helen think? What follows, dear reader, is an account of their reaction to the strange tale of the final battle of the Thirteenth Doctor\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Be warned: strong opinions follow and you might not agree with it all. But that’s being human, isn’t it? We can’t always agree on everything…<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I record some of Helen and Claire\u2019s reactions to the episode as it unfolds:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Cybermen turn up. Claire: \u201cWhy have the Cybermen got doilies on their heads?\u201d Helen: \u201cWhy have they got ice cream wafers on their heads? Look at the fancy face patterns: do they go to an engraving parlour to get themselves decorated?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Master, alias Rasputin, starts his squirming machinations. Helen: \u201cI like the new Master. He\u2019s like Missy: very unstable.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire is confused by Vinder, who crashes his spaceship on the planet. \u201cWho\u2019s this? I\u2019m sure we know him from somewhere. Wasn\u2019t he in Jodie\u2019s first episode?\u201d (He wasn’t, dear reader. Vinder appeared in Flux<\/em>.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Dalek offers the Doctor the power to end the Dalek race. Claire: \u201cWe\u2019ve had this before, haven\u2019t we? End the whole Dalek race. Wasn\u2019t it in an old Pertwee or Baker episode?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fam move into the volcano. Claire: \u201cWhy isn\u2019t Yaz hot when she\u2019s next to the lava?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen: \u201cI hate the new TARDIS interior.\u201d Claire: \u201cIt looks like cheap Christmas decorations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire: \u201cWhy aren\u2019t they hot when they\u2019re inside the volcano? This is really starting to bug me.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Doctor and the Master confront each other on the metal planet. \u201cI don\u2019t get it. What\u2019s happening?\u201d asks Helen. The Doctor links the two TARDISes together. Helen uses a bad word which we can’t repeat here. Then she uses some more bad words. \u201cI have no bloody idea what\u2019s going on.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ashad the Cyberman turns up. Helen doesn\u2019t know his backstory because she hasn\u2019t seen his episode and asks, \u201cWhy is that guy a zombie? I thought the Cybermen shredded your flesh when they put you in the metal suit. So why has he got a face?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire is unhappy about the cyber-conversion scenes. \u201cToo nasty. Too much torture.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen and Claire are confused about why the Daleks are drilling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jo Martin appears. \u201cWho\u2019s that? What, she\u2019s the Doctor?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWho\u2019s the child? Is she the Doctor as well?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhy is the Master Rasputin?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The action moves to Vinder\u2019s ship. \u201cWhere are we now?\u201d asks Claire. In Vinder\u2019s ship, I say. \u201cOh,\u201d says Claire. Helen says, \u201cI haven\u2019t followed any of this.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Jodie\u2019s forced regeneration starts. Someone (not me) comments, \u201cRegenerate into someone who can act next time.\u201d Snorts of derision from Helen and Claire when Jodie mentions her ‘extended fam’. \u201cIt\u2019s funny when the Master says it but it\u2019s ridiculous that we\u2019re meant to take it seriously when she says it.\u201d Helen starts laughing when Yaz weeps at the Doctor\u2019s impending regeneration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

More snorts of derision at the mention of Ryan. Helen is unimpressed at Yaz\u2019s farewell to the Doctor. \u201cWas that the big romantic climax, then? At least Rose got a snog.\u201d The Doctor and Yaz eat ice creams and sit on top of the TARDIS. \u201cHow did they get up there, please?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cheers as Jodie regenerates into David Tennant.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As the dust clears after the episode, I ask Helen and Claire for their considered reactions to what they\u2019ve seen. Both praise Sacha Dhawan as the Master.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen: \u201cHe\u2019s very like John Simm, when he did his insane thing as the Master. But the way the paintings all changed into the Master\u2019s face was too like the episode where all the human beings got the Master\u2019s face, when the Master was played by John Simm. The dance to \u2018Ra, Ra Rasputin\u2019 was excellent but it was too like the scene where John Simm played, \u2018I Can\u2019t Decide’ by Scissor Sisters to David Tennant\u2019s Doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire also thought that Dhawan was excellent. \u201cHe actually unbalances the story because he\u2019s so good, he outshines Jodie Whittaker\u2019s Doctor. When they are on screen together, you look at him. And why make him Rasputin at all? It\u2019s only so that he can dance to the Boney M track \u2013 which he does very well and it\u2019s very funny. And so they can show the Winter Palace, which looks very pretty. That seems to be the whole raison d\u2019etre for those scenes.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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What about the return of the old Doctors? Helen likes Sylvester commenting on Paul\u2019s refusal to wear a robe: \u201cThere\u2019s always one.\u201d Claire says the other Doctors are so good, \u201cit just shows Jodie up when they cut back to her. It\u2019s like getting a cartoon character after the real thing.\u201d Both Helen and Claire enjoy the nostalgia of seeing old Doctors but wonder how much it will mean to people who are only familiar with the post-2005 revival. Helen: \u201cI just wondered who this episode is made for. Is it for the fans of the old shows? Because I can\u2019t make head or tail of it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both liked the Companions Anonymous scenes and asked who they all were. Helen: \u201cBut the scene is too short and should have been developed. In fact, you could do a whole spin off about Companions Anonymous!\u201d Helen recognised Jo from The Sarah Jane Adventures<\/em>, but not Ian Chesterton from An Unearthly Child<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And overall, what did they think?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire: \u201cI didn\u2019t like it. It was confusing and bitty and I couldn\u2019t follow the plot. There were too many settings \u2013 UNIT, the metal planet, the volcanos. And why were the Daleks drilling? I didn\u2019t understand that. The Daleks were just presented as another threat but it wasn\u2019t tied into the main plot. What was the main plot anyway? Who was the child? Why didn\u2019t the Doctor rescue the child? The Doctor ignored a child floating in the air, in chains! In previous stories, the Doctor would have thought that rescuing the child was the most important thing in the universe \u2013 but Jodie just left her. What about the missing seismologists? Weren\u2019t they important? Why didn\u2019t the Doctor rescue them? She seemed happy to let them go\u2026 The Csarina\u2019s child was mentioned and then dropped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWhat were the Daleks doing? Why were they in it at all? As for the good Dalek, we\u2019ve had humanised Daleks before, with Christopher Eccleston\u2026<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThere was too much flibbertigibbet technobabble, especially at the beginning. And the episode started with a climax, the massacre on the train, and then there\u2019s no way you can escalate it from that point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cJodie Whittaker is a lightweight; when the other Doctors appeared, we had a welcome rest from her, but she was shown up by Davison and McCoy and the other Doctors, and the Master. The nostalgia stuff was nice but not connected to the story. And I hated the TARDIS set \u2013 it looked really cheap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was just too busy, too bitty, flitting from one scenario to another. It was exhausting to watch. Previous stories would have spent longer, say, in UNIT HQ, establishing it as a real place. The locations were not fully imagined or explained or realised.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helen: \u201cIt started on a train, then suddenly we\u2019re in a palace and you wonder what the hell\u2019s going on. All these changes of locations, with big captions \u2013 it\u2019s like a James Bond movie. As for the plot, it was just ideas soup. I just kept tuning out because I had no idea what was going on. It was nice to have the old Doctors and companions back but it just seemed there were enough ideas here for a dozen different stories and none of them was developed. It was a bit like David Tennant\u2019s final episodes, where you had the Sarah Jane Adventures\/Torchwood <\/em>crossover, but that worked: The Power of the Doctor<\/em> and Tennant\u2019s final episode were both big send off episodes, but the Tennant one worked because it had a comprehensible story.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt was good to see older women action heroes and I liked Ace and Tegan. I didn\u2019t know who they were because I haven\u2019t seen those episodes. I did recognise Jo from The Sarah Jane Adventures <\/em>and I had more of a sense of who she was, like [I did when] Sarah Jane when she returned in School Reunion<\/em>. This was trying to do the same thing, bringing back an old companion, but it didn\u2019t do it so well. Tegan had more to do than Ace, which was a shame: the scene with her and the Davison Doctor was good. To be honest, I thought that there was no differentiation between Tegan and Ace. They might as well have been the same character and they might as well just have brought back one of them. I did like Ace\u2019s jacket, though. I assume that Ace and Tegan were talking to their own Doctors? Those scenes were sweet. It was good when they told Yaz, \u201cWe were you,\u201d but it wasn\u2019t developed. It was [a similar scene that was developed] in School Reunion<\/em>, when Sarah Jane and Rose talked about their time with the Doctor. Yaz wasn\u2019t given a role in the meeting with Ace and Tegan and you thought, well, how is she feeling? Does she feel insecure? Nothing was developed enough and I felt sad for the actors.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire: \u201cJodie is a lightweight Doctor. I don\u2019t believe in her. She has no variety of facial expressions, she always looks the same, she doesn\u2019t give you the sense that the Doctor is old, or sad, or aghast, or terrified: she\u2019s just boring to watch. All the other Doctors had so much more range: Tennant had rage and a haunted look; the Doctor has always had world weariness, and rage, and an understanding of evil, and a horror of it. Jodie just hasn\u2019t got the range. She just does the technobabble. The other Doctors didn\u2019t always get on with everyone: they could be awkward and cussed. Jodie just gets on with everyone: the Doctor\u2019s range, the horror at evil \u2013 it\u2019s all gone. Whittaker just plays at being the Doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen: \u201cI\u2019m willing to forgive a lot because I\u2019m on the side of gender blind casting but Jodie just isn\u2019t any good as the Doctor and we shouldn\u2019t pretend she is out of fear of giving succour to those who say you shouldn\u2019t cast a woman as the Doctor. A better writer or director would have got a better performance out of Jodie Whittaker.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire: \u201cI liked Jo Martin in Back to Life<\/em> but I had no sense of what she was like as the Doctor from this episode.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Helen asks Claire if she can explain the story in two sentences.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire: \u201cWell, the Master had a plot and I couldn\u2019t understand it. What is forced regeneration anyway? Is that a thing? Has it been in the series before? This was 90 minutes long, the same length as the Paul McGann TV Movie<\/em>. Now that had a good story, with developed characters. With this, I was thinking: slow down. What\u2019s the point of the plot here? What\u2019s the centre? What\u2019s most important? Don\u2019t just put all your ideas down in one episode! It was like watching a mind map of lots of ideas, crammed into 90 minutes. You don\u2019t have to use all your ideas! Helen, what do you think the plot was?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen: \u201cNo idea. Nothing was clearly developed. They should\u2019ve lost the Daleks, the earthquakes, the Russia scenes \u2013 then maybe you have a story. Strip it down. The plot at the centre was the face off between the Doctor and the Master. You could have based the story on that. And you didn\u2019t need the Cybermen either. I didn\u2019t get why the volcano went to metal. What was the metal planet about? Why were the two planets shooting at each other? What was the mushroom planet? Was that inside the volcano? Just too many ideas, not developed. Jodie Whittaker is not as good an actor as Sacha Dhawan and doesn\u2019t put everything she\u2019s got into the part, while he does, and looks exhausted and gives everything to his performance as the Master. She just skims the surface.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marks out of 10? Final remarks?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Claire: \u201cThree out of 10. If you drop into an episode of Doctor Who<\/em>, as I did tonight, out of the blue, you should be able to identify the Doctor as the same character as ever and the show should have the same heart. I didn\u2019t get that sense at all. Jodie doesn\u2019t come across as the Doctor, she just doesn\u2019t have the range. Not like Matt Smith, who was my favourite Doctor of the revived series: his old, old eyes, that he was not of this world, that he had seen horrors. Jodie doesn\u2019t convey any of this. You have to be able to drop into an episode and say, that\u2019s the Doctor, that\u2019s the same character. The monsters are the same, the Daleks and the Cybermen, but that\u2019s not enough. Sacha Dhawan stole the show. This episode wasn\u2019t as bad as The Tsuranga Conundrum<\/em>, which was when I ceased to be a regular viewer, but only because Chibnall threw everything he had into it.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Helen: \u201cOne out of 10. No, three. I liked the companion support group: that was sweet, that was a really good idea. But David Tennant is back! For the first time in years, I am excited about the next episode of Doctor Who<\/em>.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, there we have it: a very small selection of casual viewers catch up on Doctor Who<\/em>. At least Helen’s excited for the future, right?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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