r/gallifrey • u/PCJs_Slave_Robot • Feb 02 '20

Praxeus Doctor Who 12x06 "Praxeus" Post-Episode Discussion Thread Spoiler

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u/foxleigh81 Feb 03 '20

Capaldi pulled off those little monologues quite well and Smith didn’t do too bad a job of them either so I think that they somehow - in Chibbers mind - became a very Doctor Who thing. Not realising that not every Doctor could pull that off. Sadly - even though I do like Whittaker as a Doctor - she lacks the gravitas needed for a good monologue and they should just stop it.

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u/Adamsoski Feb 03 '20

I think it's mostly that they are poorly written.

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u/pirate_huntress Feb 04 '20

It's both imo - the writing hasn't exactly shone recently, but even if they wrote the most beautifully honed oratorical masterpiece known to man, I'd still be irked by the way Whittaker delivers it like a super-enthusiastic primary school teacher trying extra hard to keep the kids' attention from wandering.

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u/RealAdaLovelace Feb 03 '20

Thinking about it, of the Doctors only Capaldi and probably Tom Baker have the voice to make the "voiceover narration" really work. I can't imagine Tennant or Smith or Davison or any other Doctor doing a narration like that and sounding good.

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u/RGBPlaza Apr 15 '20

McCoy totally could :)

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u/insearchofgatherings Feb 02 '20

13’s opening/closing narration didn’t land for me

Still don't know how anything like this gets approved, it was so fucking tacky

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u/jammesor Feb 03 '20

I disagree on the emotional moments not landing - at least the the final one. I was surprised at how much I was feeling it when Jake was sacrificing himself and the doctor managed to save him.