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<blockquote data-quote="Willie Oleson" data-source="post: 395957" data-attributes="member: 8">I think I meant to say &quot;excited about watching Classic Who in general&quot; rather than the excitement of a particular story.If I understand correctly, the programme was originally meant to be some kind of semi-educational entertainment rather than a flashy science fiction series.Perhaps it was inevitable that the oldest of the revival Doctors took some of that classic premise, as we see Peter Capaldi teaching us the values of tolerance and being kind. It doesn&#039;t take an heroic personality to be kind to people who, based on first impressions, may or may not deserve it, but it&#039;s not without effort either.In our increasingly busy and individualistic way of life it&#039;s just much easier to be annoyed.Bill Potts is the first revival Companion who has zero ties with the Doctor, and also the least convincing as someone who wants&nbsp;&nbsp; to join this strange man on his various time and space journeys. She&#039;s thrilled to see all the alternative worlds but at the same time she accepts it with an almost childlike ease.And perhaps in that regard series 10 has been the most retro-Who so far.I don&#039;t mind boring as long as it doesn&#039;t look boring. The episode &quot;The Pyramid At The End Of The World&quot; is an extremely convoluted plot to take over earth - simulating the whole&nbsp; of human history to see what the weakest point of the human species is, it&#039;s absolutely bonkers.But the only serious sin of this episode is that all the characters look very bored.Actually I have watched the first story on one of those youtube copycats, Mimeo or Daily Votion, and I remember there was something interesting about the tribe, or maybe the way it was filmed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Willie Oleson, post: 395957, member: 8"] I think I meant to say "excited about watching Classic Who in general" rather than the excitement of a particular story. If I understand correctly, the programme was originally meant to be some kind of semi-educational entertainment rather than a flashy science fiction series. Perhaps it was inevitable that the oldest of the revival Doctors took some of that classic premise, as we see Peter Capaldi teaching us the values of tolerance and being kind. It doesn't take an heroic personality to be kind to people who, based on first impressions, may or may not deserve it, but it's not without effort either. In our increasingly busy and individualistic way of life it's just much easier to be annoyed. Bill Potts is the first revival Companion who has zero ties with the Doctor, and also the least convincing as someone who [I]wants[/I] to join this strange man on his various time and space journeys. She's thrilled to see all the alternative worlds but at the same time she accepts it with an almost childlike ease. And perhaps in that regard series 10 has been the most retro-Who so far. I don't mind boring as long as it doesn't look boring. The episode "The Pyramid At The End Of The World" is an extremely convoluted plot to take over earth - simulating the [I]whole[/I] of human history to see what the weakest point of the human species is, it's absolutely bonkers. But the only serious sin of this episode is that all the characters look very bored. Actually I have watched the first story on one of those youtube copycats, Mimeo or Daily Votion, and I remember there was something interesting about the tribe, or maybe the way it was filmed. [/QUOTE]

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