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"See, I'm just not struck yet, which is surprising considering I was one of the few people I know who had actually expected to really like this.\n\nA few things just feel really off about this show, and I don't think they're going away any time soon. It's bad enough to fridge a female character who's only been presented in relation to a significant male character anyway, but to do that AFTER having highlighted feminist criticism (the Bechdel test).... well, it seems even worse.\n\nI see the appeal in laying all the trauma on one character (even if it's a bit cruel), so you can keep the rest of the characters more or less untarnished and use the one exception to have a proper, unremitting look at the effects of PTSD, but it's just been done very clumsily so far - the prosthetic leg works wonders on its own; did they really need to fridge the girlfriend?\n\nAnd then Ness makes the gay character an alien, which he should have known better than to do. I get that it's a metaphor for isolation - I think most people get that - but it doesn't excuse the fact that he's continuing one of Doctor Who's worst traditions, of refusing to have a completely ordinary guy who just so happens to be gay, without being a gimmick or tragic or a fucking alien.\n\nI liked the critique they had going of the Doctor, though - how his cheap and easily solution to \"fix\" Ram failed to treat him as a human being or address his trauma. And I liked the stuff they did with April a lot - her distinction between \"nice\" and \"kind\", her little assessment of innocence in female characters, and yes, even her Instagram outburst.\n\nTrue, this was a stronger start than Torchwood or The Sarah Jane Adventures had. But where those two shows had a character from Doctor Who in the lead role... this one doesn't. And it's not doing much to justify why it should be a Doctor Who spin-off instead of your run-of-the-mill sci-fi teen drama. With little bits clearly inspired by the show (Quill being a Missy-type character, Charlie being a Doctor-type character, the 'love' twist of the second villain, the shadow monsters) it feels more like a show trying to be LIKE Doctor Who than a show actually trying to add anything to Doctor Who."
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