I thought when this series started that Yaz being a policewoman might bring a unique dynamic to the drama; where her training would lead her and the doctor to clash over the appropriate thing to do in certain circumstances, but instead she just acts like a little schoolgirl, shuffling along looking at the floor, rarely speaking. Completely wasted character.
You'd think that Chibnall would ensure to have a believable policewoman during his Dr Who run, mostly after winning emmy awards for "Life on Mars" a procedural police series 😂 I am starting to think that guy stole the laurels of a ghost writer, back then.
As a Dyspraxic I'd thought Ryan would be great representation and would actually be a believable person with Dyspraxia, have more personality than his DCD (like being a vlogger, an older teen etc) actually have more DCD traits and show the good and bad in them rather than only randomly overcoming the bad stuff. BUT INSTEAD, he managed to one shot several weaponised robots while running over sandy terrain, something only highly trained people could probably pull off, has the same personality as a piece of cardboard and overall a poor representation of what having Dyspraxia really is like. I mean it's basically the only representation we get but Christ I actually wanted a character...
@@tomo4977 Ultimately, having a Dyspraxic character doesn't matter if it doesn't play significant part on the plot (for instance, the Dyspraxia of the character leads to terrible consequences, and he sets out to fix the damage and grows stronger out of it after dealing with self guilt). Under Chinballs tenure, It's only there for virtue signalling, inclusiveness, pity party drama or eventually to be a convenient handicap to hinder the OP main character when the script requires it (if the writer even genuinely give a shit about this trait, ofc). I agree that Dyspraxia is something that should be more talked about, but it just DOESN'T make for a practical character trait in a science fiction show. It's just too difficult to weave in a realistic Dyspraxic character while handling believable plot progression, in a 45 minutes episode. Just like the absent father trope used on the new year special doesn't matter, as it's a melodramatic diversion to what people really want, deep inside (exciting, exotic, escapist adventures about a traveling alien around techno babble knowledge and intricate world building). We don't want a splash of the shitty reality in our face, we want pulp goodness.
+Ziusurdra honestly if you're good enough I think you can weave any possible idea of a character you'd want into any genre of show. I can think of several shows that take traits usually used for, well the points you mentioned and the show uses them really well. Because they have better writers, that want to use them well and believably, that want it to add to the character arc. I think it's entirely possible if used very lightly and slowly, especially since Dyspraxia is a spectrum. You can explain the character can do practical things better from doing art or dancing or other fine motor skills from a young age, which took time to learn but eventually as an adult, improved their fine motor skills to a more adapting level. It may pop up with every new thing you do, but it's not disabling for everyone, if you understand it you can write it to not be a hindrance, to make it useful in fact (Dyspraxics are often determined, creative, they think out the box, are usually very empathetic, highly sensitive, could be very talanted at certain specific skills, obsessive, intelligent, loyal etc). It's not always a disability per say, it gives me a lot of positive qualities that may one day become... "talents", for others it's much more disabling, but you don't have to write it like that, and Doctor Who often focuses a lot of the points I gave, I think Dyspraxia would work well IF it was wrote properly. but yes the IF, because the writers are actually using it for the points you mentioned above. They don't care about making Dyspraxia look something that's positive, they don't care about making it believable, which is why they get stuck when they want the character to do something that their one dimensional Dyspraxia would hinder them, and then quietly pretend it doesn't exist for a couple minutes. And then of course, Dsypraxia shouldn't be the only trait Ryan has, it would be a lot more entertaining for it to just subtly be in the background for what Ryan is, which is what it's like generally, and for them to also focus on his class, livelihood, age. He loves the internet and gaming for example, he has a youtube channel, he vlogs, what happened to that?! It would be a wonderful part of his character and show Dyspraxia giving him unusual hobbies, creativity, passion, drives to do that. But nope... just Pity party Dyspraxia and he can't climb ladders.... Overall Doctor Who isn't so much actiony as it could be, they're not constantly working on those fine motor skills by climbing to extreme places or following tons of secret plan directions to the level of super spies every episode. Often the tricky work is what the Doctor is doing anyway. A Dyspraxic person written in a way to be more believably Practical and to be on the lower end of the spectrum, at least with fine- motor skills, can work perfectly fine in Doctor Who. Be of benefit even, they can get along with the Doctor's values and morels, think of other ways to save the day, have an interesting, eccentric personality the Doctor could find humorous and delightful, they could be knowledgeable about the most random things yet it comes up and really helps at the time. And even if they struggle to climb that ladder, or they need to write down the commands on their hand, they can be reliable, quick- thinking, funny, kind, witty, determined, passionate, and loyal. That's all really the companions need to be. It's not really a problem with Dyspraixa in adventure shows in itself, it's more-so just the writing as a whole, with everyone. We don't know if it wouldn't work if nobody's actually tried.
@@tomo4977 The way you put it is really inspiring. Yeah, it should definitely be a thing. Certainly not with goal to point out the character as a token, but to add an extra layer to characterization. Honestly, I wouldn't have any clue about how to write acceptably a Dyspraxic person, unless I have one to talk to as a consultant in my storyboard. But yeah, curiosity shall always be the main characteristic of a writer. Something the crew of series 11 so lacks, as they're so self amazed and morally entitled.
Ginge Giant I mean yeah, but he isn’t as great as people say, but due to the absolute garbage that is the rest of this season, he sticks out as the only passable character.
Yes, he was. Which was why he was willing to be more open with him and try to get him to stay at the end. I thought the show was being fairly blatant about it, honestly. (In counter this week's view: Personally, I really enjoyed this episode. And I didn't see the Doctor being charged with being a witch as obvious as much as inevitable.)
There is spurious historical accusations that he may have been gay, but nothing during his life ever proved that. The accusations made largely after his death, and by enemies. But this is the man who codified the King James bible, the standard for Christians even to this day, so naturally the right-on writers at the BBC want to make it official that he liked to play hide the submarine with young men like Ryan.
Le Sigh we literally have love letters between james and different men. He was most definitely gay and people knew about it at the time but simply didn't mention it in case they pissed off the king. When he was just a boy, james' nobles even held a coup of sorts against his first makeshift boyfriend, kidnapping him and exiling him to France
The entire series has seen Whittaker's acting being overpowered by others in each episode, to the point that she seems like a side character in her own show. There just isn't a single spark of the presence of any past Doctor in her performance. Couple that with how dull and underdeveloped the plots are, and how they just roll along until a point where a simple action resolves the problem of the week, and you have a really bad show.
@@samuelbarber4154 And I think that Chibnall is not the only problem and that Jodie cannot fit into the role. It happens, you know. There are roles you are good at and there are roles you suck at. And Jodie sucks being the Doctor. And do you know what? It's Chibnall's fault, too! Jodie has never been a fan of the show, and when she decided to watch the previous series to understand the character, do you know what Chibnall said? He said that she shouldn't. And she didn't. Of course Jodie doesn't even know what character is she playing. What a fucking idiot have we got instead of a showrunner.
I watched the pilot of NuWho with Eccleston, while it aired. It's what ignited my love for Dr Who. Before, I didn't even know it existed because the classic series was never aired in my country. The 9th doctor is my fav not only because he is the first, but because his run was amazing! Greatest gateway to the whoniverse for me.
I watch only reviews - I don't have time to waste on the show anymore... but still I care about it :/ Maybe in future this Doctor Who will be reborn and will shine again
Loooool I knew it!! Looking at the quality I was like I wonder if this was Tracy beaker, after all what other British show was overly saturated with problematic kids in the early 2000s era 😂
I like how you're giving genuine criticism in your reviews and pointing out relevant points. Unlike certain other channels who "review" Doctor Who and basically just say "TOO PC IT SUCKS EW". *cough* bowlestrek *cough*
@@aperson6505 Fuck I hate the NPC meme. Like the easiest way to make me not take your argument seriously is to just insult the other side by calling them something stupid. The fact that it's tied to gaming is just the icing on the cake because it just makes the other side look right about that whole gamergate debacle a few years back. And this is coming from someone who supported gamergate for what it was really about; ethics and transparency in journalism.
I enjoyed King James, especially when Ryan was talking to him in private, getting him to talk and trust in someone, it was almost like genuine character development for a second. Oh wait they were just setting up that fake rumor that king James was gay and found Ryan attractive. Wouldn't want real character development...
Maybe the doctor will regenerate into Graham in the New year special, like how the eleventh doctor took the face of that guy from the fires of Pompeii. 😰
Series 11 Writers: So who remembers the Tennant episode, The Shakespeare Code,where the Doctor and Martha meet Shakespeare and surprisingly there were witches that used word-based science to cast actual magic to take over the world and at the end they won over the witches by yelling Expelliarmus, plus that scene with Queen Elizabeth showing up demanding the Doctor's head. Ya that could have been so much better if the magic wasn't even real, the "Witches" were made of mud, and Satan was the true monster. Oh and make this all happen because 13 wanted to see Queen Elizabeth's Coronation. Also screw the part with Expelliarmus. Every knows Harry Potter references are shit. Chibnall : *Stands up clapping as its the most perfect thing he's ever heard* Yes, only one change. Fill it with innuendo about Filling people and phallic monsters. Everyone knows women in that era need to me more oppressed and more degraded than the Doctor. In fact make the Doctor get captured as a "Witch" even though there was that reference River made during "The Pandorica Opens" about the Doctor being the Wizard in the story that sealed the most evil thing in the universe. Ya those stories were shit this is all 100% original. Our ideas rules. Best episode ever. Only truly good Doctor Who writer in the room: *holds script about a truly original story about the Tardis going to see the begins of the Universe only to find a broken down Tardis with only its life support functions active ready to reintroduce an Old Who Time Lord or TIme Lady while also playing off old episode remarks, slowly banging their head into a desk or wall due to the amount of brain cells they have just lost.*
@@lyyaam4873 Mortality literally means death. From the Latin for death, mortem (as in 'post mortem'). So high infant mortality means a lot of babies dying. And yes, the OP is right - it should have been high infant mortality in this video, not low.
And witch hunts wasn’t about sexism either, a man practising “dark art” can also be prosecuted. In fact, a lot of the oppression women experience at the time, civilian men also experience. They should have leaned into the horror of mob mentality.
Grandsome because more women take up intellectual jobs like herbalist than men did. Men were basically slaves at the time. Of course the people who made nationally important decisions were men. But at the civilian level, women make most of the important decisions like finance.
Grandsome Also kings are not good representations of overall societal trend. They sometimes can hold very progressive opinions directly opposing the society at the time. Like in 1912, the newly founded Republic of China completely banned homosexuality.
I think you have to be pretty silly to say that it was never about sexism. Sure, the concept of witches was not a sexist one- men or women could be witches, and it was never ‘only’ about sexism (for one thing people seem to forget that the people persecuting witches did actually believe that there were witches and Satan was growing in power and the end of the world was nigh) but there were definitely sexist people in influential positions who assumed that they would be women. I mean look at malleus maleficarum which basically became the witch hunting handbook (which is why you’ve probably heard of it). The author, Heinrich Kramer was a woman hating nutcase who was scared of female sexuality and thought the lustfullness of women would make them more likely to be witches or heretics. And his book had the benefit of the printing press and became a massive bestseller, topped only by the bible.
@Mark Kelly I don't really blame the actor for this since a look at some of Whittaker's other performances she is capable of a greater emotional range. Seems more like a writing thing. I had so much hope after Moffat left.
A Person I came here to say exactly that. Whittaker has great range as an actor - why isn't she using that to play the Doctor? She does nail the Doctor's sense of humour, but even 10 and 11 could be intimidating when they needed to be. Whereas 13 can't even utter a threat without sticking "please" on the end. That is pathetic. You may think I'm a misogynist for pointing it out, but I honestly don't think Whittaker is to blame for this. I blame the writers and directors, or whoever it was who told her to play the Doctor like an inexperienced babysitter!
@@JontyLevine Agreed. This isn't a matter of 'a woman just can't hit the emotions needed for the Doctor' thing, Whittaker seems like a capable actress, but the writing isn't doing her favours.
Remember when the Doctor and friends would change clothes for a different time period? I even recall once that they thought they arrived in the 1970s (or 80s) but it was more like the 1770s instead and the Queen of the time was just outside the Tardis to see the companion dressed.. well not dressed enough.. it was funny. I'm just saying, if they don't want to make new costumes for the Doctor and friends, at least get a funny reaction out of it at least.. I don't know why but this bothered me the most.
Yeah me too, I assume its because they dont want to have the same conversations every time they go back in history. This is why I prefer the episodes set in space
The first 5 minutes of this episode made me realise that this episode wasn’t going to be good. The only saving grace you could say was King James 1st who made it that more entertains to watch. But with his presence, it demeaned the doctor as she lost all control of the situation and her constant whining throughout the episode just weakens the character of this doctor.
I honestly wished the Doctor didn't have any companions this season. Have her travel on her own, meet new people, this way we can have more time spent on her and learn more about this version of the Doctor. Be honest did we really need the others for anything? Have her travel by herself so by the end, she can really appreciate having someone to travel with. Of topic, but did anyone else think that the Morax king looked like that grandmother from Spongebob who hated chocolate?
They just added way too many new characters and flipped the entire show in a new direction, never ended up caring about any of them because none of them really get any development and they all feel like the same character with no real unique personality of their own. Dr. who used to be pretty good about introducing new characters one at a time while having old cast members stick around to essentially introduce the new ones while the audience is still warming up to them. The doctor ends up regenerating? Well here's a companion we've had for well over a season learning to deal with the change and like the audience they go through the adjustment period alongside with the viewer. The doctor 'ditches' his old companion and finds a new one? That's okay because we still have the doctor we know and love while we get to learn about the new companion, we always have a familiar face essentially introducing us to the new cast but they just suddenly flipped everything with "here's a new doctor and not one but several new companions, who needs a familiar face anyway?" Just didn't really feel like doctor who to me and the whole structure of the show essentially changed like classic vs new who, felt like an entirely different show really...
If you get near to a lake you will know that the spoken word can be heard very clearly from a long distance, which is why if you are sailing you do not make rude comments about other sailors.
Remember that time when rose saved her own father? And by changing the past they accidently tore the universe a new asshole and eldritch abominations started emerging from the warp? Remember that time the Doctor saved that woman on mars and accidently set humanity back 100s of years? Remember the fact that if you change the past in anyway significant horrible things will happen no matter how well intended your actions are? Its nice to know this Doctor Who wipes her ass with the fabric of the universe just to satisfy her ego?
You may still like something bad although I can't honestly trust someone like you. I don't know what poor knowledge and experience of life you must have to enjoy whatever this shallow imitation of writing is.
Tbf I liked it. Allan Cummings had just enough of a Scottish accent and they suggested his homosexuality which was a nice nod. This review is a bit harsh. But it's for entertainment purposes so you've done a good job.
Fair. But even though James wrote the book of witch hunting, he never witch hunted. So the portrayal of him as someone who killed a lot of "witches in his day." Drove me nuts. Catholics yes he did kill. Witches? Eh not so much.
Steven McGuinness yes the child actors were bad but out of 10 seasons even Christopher’s season one episode with bad child acting is really fucking good
i mean, for the time period I'm very surprised Ryan wasn't treated worse by the King, and not just not treated worse, but OFFERED A GOOD JOB!? like what!?
Yes Ryan should've been treated worse,same goes for Yaz and the doctor wearing pants in those times. No, Ryan was offered that job as an excuse for the King to sleep with him.
I know that people criticize the RTD eras directing but I'd be lyimg if I said there weren't some excellent shot compositions in his era. Episodes like Rose (which has some pretty neat editing here and there) The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances, The Parting of the Ways (especially the whole Bad Wolf sequence) Doomsday and also Gridlock, there are some really awesome and gorgeous shots in Gridlock I highly recommend a re-watch of that episode. Also Midnights cinematography and blocking is close to, if not utterly perfect. That said I do think the cinematography of this season is pretty brilliant, I think the problem is that you rarely hear a character off screen, lkke the scene where Ryan finds the axe, it really should've stayed with the doctor in that one room and you only hear ryan call her. This season is just so filled to the brim with close ups and constant cutting it really doesn't work. You could litrally just have one wide shot that just tracks towards the characters as they talk. The scripts also damage it, with the cutting of the close ups it's not just the problem with the close ups its a problem with the writing making near enough every character chime in on a situation and the infamous telling not showing also infects the writing quite a bit.
@@josephgallagher3126 Sure, but the cinematic look doesn't fit Doctor Who. The BBC has always had great directors even in season 1. Season 6 had the best direction imo, not cinematic but HD and best directed episodes
James 1 was telling Ryan all about his backstory because he had a crush on him. James 1 was most definitely gay (despite strictening the rules around "sodomy") which was why he was portrayed as super camp, and asks ryan to come to london with him
I thought it was blatantly obvious and I am still genuinely confused that a critic could miss this after watching it twice *he got big gay energy Ryan stand back*
Harry Dewhurst I dont know... It is surprising how much gentle homosexual flirting can be rationalised away in r not doing sonething heavily coded as gay with a knowing wink to the audience.
Biggest issue i have had this season the doctor and the companions openly discuss the future and wear modern clothes without anyone freaking out or questioning it (aside from maybe a single joke or character calling small attention)
This Christmas I’m going to be watching all the Christmas specials. It’ll be better to watch something nice on Christmas Day rather than something shitty on New Year’s Day.
@Mark Kelly Couldn't agree more, I thought when this series started that Yaz being a policewoman might bring a unique dynamic where she and the doctor would clash over the appropriate thing to do in certain circumstances, but instead she just acts like a little schoolgirl, shuffling along looking at the floor, completely wasted character.
I hated how they interfered this week. Witch trials were normal for the time, so why interfere? They were a fundamental part of history and their better, modern day, principles should not get in the way. Yes, i know, turns out things needed interferring in the end but they weren't to know. So annoying
When King James just dismissed the Doctor I thought her reaction was pretty reasonable. They showed restraint in only highlighting it once in the season that yeah there *are* historical periods where the Doctor will be given less respect than previously now that (s)he's a woman. This is the first time she's encountered it, and she's annoyed about it. That doesn't belittle how much other people in the period are suffering. If she *hadn't* said something about it it would've felt unnatural. A brief grumble then back to it was exactly the right balance, IMO.
5:30 To be fair, I think the Doctor has a different view on the world. She has the freedom to go to any time she chooses and she doesn´t exactly stay around long enough for the poor conditions of the time to affect her. She just wants to get the job done and for the first time in her life, she´s not a white man and therefore has to deal with this type of prejudice.
It's basically a time traveling alien named the doctor who regenerates when he gets badly injured...and he finds woman to join him or her in this new season for an adventure
The reason the Doctor tried to save the woman from drowning was because it was more spontaneous than in Rosa, back there she had the whole episode to consider what to do about Rosa on the bus. But in witchfinders it was very sudden, Thirteen is also the most empathetic doctor we've gotten in New Who so it makes sense to me that she couldn't watch a woman drown without trying to stop it.
I actually like how they break up the group. In past Who episodes I've seen, they had to come up with an excuse like Sarah Jane getting hurt or kidnapped, Rose's elevator getting hijacked, and many other examples. Those can be good plot elements but if everytime the Doctor and a companion need to be separated they write it happening out of bad circumstances. When Clara started taking risks, they portrayed it as a bad thing. If the Doctors friends are supposed to be 1 in a million, proactive and brave why can't they ever do anything on their own? No babysitter, no "I'm not going far!" I also like how if Yaz goes on her own, she's not going to be in the background messing around waiting for a line- she's going to help unravel another aspect of the story.
The acting in this show is beyond woeful now. Graham is genuinely the only person I care even a little bit about now. The stories are beyond nonsensical now, either making no sense or punching you in the face with pc nonsense- whether it’s true to history or not. As a history student, I could only sit and roll my eyes at this episode in disbelief. Every baddie is little more than a humanoid who wants to kill everyone other than the Pting... and I really don’t want to get into that. This show should die now, because it’s actually a joke how dumb, convoluted and lacking any identity it is.
Doctor Who use to be "must see tv" for me. Now, I can't be bothered. With how disinterested I was with the last two seasons/series, I was excited to see the show get a fresh start. But it has squandered that opportunity. Now, I just watch these reviews to get the basics of the story.
The scene when The Doctor says "if I was still a man I wouldn't have to explain myself all the time!" was that meant to be funny and remind me of all the occasions The Doctor had to explain himself when he was a man or was it meant to be taken seriously and make me remember all the times he had to explain himself when he was a man?
Do you plan at all doing some 'Did it Suck?' for classic stories? It's quite a task but I'd be very interested to see your opinions on a story maybe once a month as Classic Who is so often highly regarded compared to the new series. Keep up the good work 👍
The Doctor has frequently been hypocritical about the principle of not interfering with history. It's a running gag with the character that (s)he says one thing and does another in this regard. (Capaldi does a teasing version of it in "Thin Ice" for example).
I'm surprised that in Series 11, Chibnall is like: "No the characters don't need period dress" Then in Legend of the Sea Devils: "The characters need period dress!"
@TatzRules Yay "British by force" You mean a Scottish king took over England and no-one presented it as a foreign power taking over like they did when valid claiment to the Scottish throne, Edward the first did?
I don’t understand why they released info on the new year special by telling us everyone survives meaning there is now 0 tension that can be created in the finale
She is not chopping down that tree correctly. 8:40 I'm sorry, but even women in that time period would know proper techniques on how to cut down a tree, you know, in case their husband died and they had to show their sons? Or because wood is literally life or death to these people. No one would ever be able to chop down a tree that large it is easily four feet in diameter and she is cutting at the very base that looks like it's six feet. Not even the world champion lumberjacks could cut down that tree vertically
Hmm. A northern doctor. When have we seen this before. A female companion with her friend (Who happens to be black) And an older person It’s just a shit version of Eccleston’s run isn’t it
I still prefer my made up episode about the Sea Devils intercepting the allegedly drown witches to turn them into slaves, helping to carry out their plan of world conquest.
Sam Burton-King No self respecting Scot would call themselves British, and only the English really think of themselves as Britons anymore, so while the phrasing's a little odd I'd say it's a passable remark.
@@DrBagPhD I mean, disregarding the thousands of Scots who still refer to themselves as British, that's not really the point. It's sort of the equivalent of someone saying a Texan actor was asked to put on an American accent, when the accent was from New York. It's essentially redundant. Cumming was asked to put on an English accent; saying British doesnt make much sense. It's especially weird coming from an English youtuber though, considering the English and the Americans are both notorious for saying English when they mean British, and this one one of the few scenarios where it would have been correct to do so
No getting away from the fact that Scots are British though, whether you choose to use that moniker or not. The issue with the comment is not a question of nationality but of accent, Scots have a Scottish accent, English have an English accent, not a British accent - such a ridiculous term, it really grinds my gears 😖
@@hotdog1214 Precisely. I think there are very few situations where the term "British accent" makes much sense, although generally speaking people tend to say England or English in place of Britain or British in all the worst places too!
@@killian7519 there's more of a general tendency in England to forget or disregard the other nations though, so people get really annoyed when that persists
This was plain awful. Poorly acted, utterly stupid story,historical accuracy poor. If dr who wasn't such a well-known and well-loved series and it had had to start with this, the show would have been cancelled.
Hilariously terrible is the best way to describe this series. If you want a good laugh check the comments on the doctor who RU-vid channel to find a bunch of "whovians" desperately trying to convince each other the episodes are good.
“We shouldn’t interfere with the fundamentals of history” the Doctor was very frequently fine with interfering with history as a part of his travels because the point was he was doing it anyways and nothing had happened. Just as you can be scared of the butterfly effect when time traveling you can also have comfort in knowing that what you’re doing isn’t changing anything because it already happened. The only exceptions to this are consciously changing fixed points in time (Rose’s dad, waters of mars, etc.).
Well the first part of what you say is actually something that happens in all doctor whos which is the doctor can tell if the time line has been messed with, all time lords can, they look at something and it's in their vision as to what time should look like.
Sound actually travels extremely well across water. I was once at my family cottage and heard some speech about a hundread meters away on the other shore.
Ok so ignoring every other glaring issue this series, the script has to be the worst thing about DW atm. Honestly, if they just ditched 2 of the companions and stuck with, well, preferably Graham, and took some basic lessons in Storytelling and dialogue, it would be at least passable to watch. It is so frustrating when they tell us 'OH THE BBC IS THE HIGHEST STANDARD, IF YOU GET TO WORK FOR THEM YOU'VE DONE IT', because things like this make it so apparent that in fact their programming is a joke. (Also Northern Accent Gang rise up))
I actually couldn't finish watching it. I even watched that train wreck "Kill the Moon" in one go, but not this one. I'm still planning to finish it, but not looking forward to doing so.
I like your reviews but I disagree with this one. It was a pretty good Doctor Who episode. Most of the little nitpicky problems you found are characteristic of the series anyway: the doctor saying "don't interfere" and then interfering, the villains being odd and inconsistent, oscillating from creepy to hilarious... All been there since the 60s and throughout the nuWho series. It was a lovely episode, this incarnation of The Doctor is really cool, with equal measures of quirkiness and warmth, and the companions are all fine too. *Obviously* the first female doctor was going to be tried as a witch - it is the most predictable plotline for this season but it doesn't mean they shouldn't have gone there just because it was an obvious choice.
THANK YOU for pointing out that the problems people have with this series are not unique AT ALL to this season. People's nitpickyness has been bothering me for a while.
Kim Jong Un don’t even bother man. Doctor who is now the perfect example of a generic ‘monster of the week’ type show, not even one of the better ones. This episode represents that perfectly