Reviewing The Walking Doctor: A Tale Of Two Season Openers by markrhunter

reviews · @markrhunter · Oct 9 '18

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Reviewing The Walking Doctor: A Tale Of Two Season Openers

Sunday was the season 9 opener for The Walking Dead, and the--what--season 48?--opener for Doctor Who, the British SF series originally designed for children that went into development the year I was born. It was also my only night off that week, so even though my wife doesn't like watching more than an hour and a half or so of TV a night, we managed to catch both of them close to the hour of their premiers.

They'd make for a great crossover, since the Doctor often seems to spend most of his time running from things that want to eat him, anyway.

Many think The Walking Dead has stumbled the last few seasons, and despite the fun presence of Jeffrey Dean Morgan as Negan, the show's best villain yet, they're not wrong. (Your opinion may vary--The Governor was pretty cool, in a bad way.) It's hard to keep a show fresh for going on ten years, even killing off several major characters every year.

But this time around The Walking Dead does seem to have invigorated itself with season 9, which flashes forward several months from the climactic battle with Negan's Saviors at the end of S8. Negan is imprisoned, the Saviors part of a wider attempt at a community, Maggie's years-long pregnancy is past, and one of the show's most annoying bad guys is no longer hanging around by the end of the episode. There's a new show runner, and we go in with the announcement that Andrew Lincoln's Rick is exiting the show, apparently at the mid-season break.

The perfect time for A New Beginning, which happens to be the title of the episode. It mostly concerns a mission into Washington, D.C., and its aftermath, and we get both hope for the future and hints of conflicts to come.

Lots of people watch The Walking Dead for the zombies, and there are plenty stumbling around. I watch the show for the characters, and in that it remains strong. Whether it can continue to be strong without the strong center of Rick I don't know, but ... so far, so good.
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Meanwhile, back in England, a mysterious woman who can't remember her own name falls out of the sky--literally. For the uninitiated, The Doctor (His/her name is not "Doctor Who") is a time and space traveling alien who can cheat death by regenerating into a new body. The thirteenth Doctor is also the first female one, played by Jodie Whittaker as caring, a little frenetic, and slightly daft, about the average for the more recent Doctors.

Instead of getting the time she needs to adjust to her new self, the Doctor is thrown into a mystery involving a mysterious alien device--a lot of alien tech ends up in England--followed by a nasty alien warrior. The Doctor follows his--um, her--usual pattern by collecting together some new companions and throwing them in the deep end.

There's been a lot of discussion about this version of the Doctor, some of it pretty nasty. I'm not a fan of gender swapping established characters, but in this case we already know the Doctor can swap bodies, and being an alien there's no reason why he can't regenerate into a she. My normal new Doctor fears evaporated by the end of the episode: Whittaker does a good job, and as she adjusts to the role might become great at it.

Unfortunately, my concerns about the rest of the show remain. The writers seem determined to avoid any connection to the former Doctor Who universe, having ditched last season's companions and announced there would be no appearance this season by the more popular villains. We didn't even get the iconic opening credits, and the theme music only faded in for a moment when the Doctor first appears. The Doctor's ship, the TARDIS, didn't even show up in the episode.

That seems like a terrible idea, to introduce a brand new doctor and not keep anything to anchor long time fans. What, Bill and/or Nardole couldn't have stuck around for another season? To make matters worse, the new companions seem a bit uninteresting in comparison, and the episode as a whole had little of the comedic flash that often gave relief to darker storylines."It's darker" isn't necessarily a compliment.

In short, the new Doctor is fine; but the new season needs some work.

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@beatminister · Oct 9 '18 (edited)

The Zombie concept never appealed much to me, but now after so many years it seems even more rediculous. What do the Zombie look like by now? Puddles of goo, or walking skeletons like in Sindbad's Journeys? Well, who cares, as long as it sells...

Its different with Dr Who, although also that became a little worn in recent years. I dont know what it is - the drop in imaginative story writing, or that we (the viewers) are expecting much more from SF than we used to do in the 70s. And not all Doctors managed to keep the standard of the first few, as well. 
The high number of alien visitors in Britain in the Dr Who series is somewhat surprising indeed.  I think in reality the number of reports is much lower than in the US. May be aliens have a tea allergy, or the dont like rainy weather, who knows.

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@markrhunter · Oct 10 '18

$0.02

A researcher character covers that early in the series, when someone asks him why the zombies aren't dying. They are, he says ... just very, very slowly, basically kept alive by the virus they host. The show runners take great care to show the zombies deteriorating as time goes by, following that idea. 

But, just as with Doctor Who or any fun SF show, you can only enjoy it if you have a certain willingness to suspend disbelief. Almost every TV show depends on something that, at the heart of it, is ridiculous. People getting knocked out and hopping right up again with no long-term problems, jumping cars over things, amazingly coincidental meetings, nonexistent investigative technology, whatever.  It boils down to whether you're entertained, and with great characters and stories onTWD, I am.

Of course, just as unlikely is that all the aliens who come to Earth will end up in England! But it's a British show, so -- there you go. It's had its ups and downs since we started watching with the 2005 reboot, but overall it's still better than a lot of other stuff on TV--which isn't saying much, considering all the reality TV crap that's out there.

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@beatminister · Oct 10 '18

Well, there is a lack of plausibility on all ends of the Zombie model. Another is for example: what do they "run" on? There are almost no normal people left to eat, and being such dumbasses as they are it will be near impossible for them to catch even a animal. So all they have left is eating each other - but that will reduce their number drastically as well.
And they do have to eat something. If they move around, they need energy for that. And to regenerate body cells, else they just decay over time, and certainly dont last for years.
But I guess its all this miraculous virus that sorts all this out. Somehow.

No, its not the question if its believable with Dr Who. It just seems they are beating a dead horse after so many episodes. At the beginning, it was all new and exciting (even if it was a little silly at times), but in the later years, the story plots became very predictable and the behaviour of the characters - the Dr and his assistant as well as the villains - got a fixed pattern. I admit I didn't watch all of the newer episodes, since I felt it was being always the same at the end. And, as I said, I didn't find all of the later Doctors "cool" like the early ones.
But there has to be a distinction made anyway, between the "first" Dr Who, the b&w seasons from the 60s, and the "modern" seasons that came later after a pause. Between them, the whole SF genre had changed its look completly, also in movies. The special effects of the 60s looked just silly to the young audience, and the aliens were not so "alien" anymore, after Star Trek and all that.

But I guess its a problem all the new SF shows and movies are facing: to show something really new and different, but without being too far out that the audience cannot comprehend it. Not a easy task.

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@markrhunter · Oct 11 '18

Thanks!

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@delishtreats · Oct 10 '18

I've heard so much about the walking dead BUT I never watched one episode :) I was always afraid that it would be too scary.. But 10 years? Wow! I thought they just started to show it on TV a couple of years ago :)

Thank you for review. I'm sure it will help people who like this series :)

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@markrhunter · Oct 11 '18

Well, it can be just a bit on the scary side!

Almost ten years--it's the beginning of the ninth season for the show, the eighth season for its companion show Talking Dead, and I believe the fourth season for its spinoff, Fear The Walking Dead. I've heard their ratings are down, but they're still among the highest rated shows on cable.

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@stef1 · Oct 10 '18

That was interesting review, I watch “Walking Dead” I believe just the first season, but did not really like it so stopped and actually did not that they will keep going so far, seems like people like it and even some of my colleagues have bought the DVD’s with the seasons. 
As to “Doctor Who” because my hubby and son both fans of it, I watched majority and liked more older versions. Last two seasons somehow I do not really like and when I heard that now Dr. will be a woman that is it, I lost an interest, I do not think it is good to change characters completely. It is like “James Bond” a female agent. I can appreciate that the stories may be really good made and I hope there will be new fans since this season. Thank you for your review.

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@markrhunter · Oct 11 '18

If there's ever a show that's not for everyone, it's "Walking Dead"! It's not ordinarily my kind of show, but my wife talked me into watching and I got hooked on the characters.

Ordinarily I'd agree with you on such major changes to a character. But it appears I've become a "Whovian", willing to give it a shot no matter what, and so far--so good. I don't think they handled the opening for the thirteenth Doctor well, though, and I hope they don't lose too many viewers over it.

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@steemflow · Oct 10 '18

Ahh...i am not a tv buff and also these series are not telecast in India. Anyhow i never belived in Zombies. But i do belive in ghost as i met twice .....

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@markrhunter · Oct 11 '18

I don't believe in zombies, either ... if I did, I probably wouldn't be watching the show!

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