The long wait meant Jodie Whittaker’s debut as the iconic Time Lord (Lady?) Then the Stenza Warrior plummeted to the ground in a manner you’d expect a giant Terminator balanced at the top of crane to. The most disappointing thing about Whittaker’s Doctor was not that she was irritating, more what she wasn’t. A miss: The most disappointing thing about Whittaker’s Doctor was not that she was irritating, more what she wasn’tWith her Northern accent and short blonde hair, The Doctor by contrast looked more like Leanne Battersby, not remotely strange enough to be an extra-terrestrial. Chibnall had stripped Whittaker’s Doctor of her male predecessors’ egotism, vanity, and philosophical ramblings and replaced them with a depiction of women/femininity that was desperately dull and so last century.

Source: Daily Mail October 07, 2018 18:50 UTC