Doctor Who Flux FLOPS

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Doctor Who’s Series 13 opener was a FLOP. Any hopes of a Russell T Davies bump dashed. The ratings in the UK are an all time low for a premiere episode and the U.S. ratings are just as bad. Making matters worse, it wasn’t the worst episode of The Chibnall and First Female Doctor Played by Jodie Whittaker era. Turns out The Halloween Apocalypse couldn’t survive The Timeless Children’s Doctor Who Apocalypse.

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don’t be ridiculous franklin i’ve read

the files the doctor is a man i’ve had

an upgrade

hi shut up just shut up shut up shut up

shut it up pop up

erotic.com after all the franchises that

have been vandalized deconstructed and

completely destroyed by the

entertainment industry doctor who

remains the worst case the absolute best

or worst example of everything woke

turns to [ __ ] or get woke go broke

choose whatever you like so why am i

reviewing the premiere of series 13 or

doctor who flux and the first episode

was called the halloween apocalypse well

we’ve already had the doctor who

apocalypse and this entire season and

all of my reviews will be nothing more

than an autopsy yes as i reported here

russell t davies the great showrunner

who brought doctor who back who created

some of the best television i’ve ever

seen is returning and if there was

anything that could excite doctor who

fans yours truly included it would be

bad wolf and russell t davies coming

back unfortunately i think this might be

too late as we did get the ratings for

the first season after this announcement

of russell t davies and they were the

lowest season premier ratings in the

history of new who and the news doesn’t

get any better because we did get the

ratings in for america a country that’s

counted in the past but it’s much more

important now considering that the bbc

has lost control of the show and relies

more on the international licensing but

let’s go ahead and hear the spin from

the bbc explaining the figures for

flux’s first episode the bbc’s lyzo

cannot pronounce your last name confirm

that although the 4.43 million figure is

down on the 4.88 million figure who

tuned in to spyfall or more importantly

the people who didn’t tune in this by

fall it marks an uptick compared to most

of end quotes season 12’s remaining

episodes wow they are reaching as flux

and yes that’s what the series is called

because they don’t want to call it

series 13 but we know what the flux

you’re doing is a six episode arc rather

than a standalone story there’s every

chance those numbers could rise he added

and there’s every chance they could fall

off a cliff so how bad were the ratings

here in the states how about abysmal 339

000 whole people watch doctor who on

halloween and even worse that key

demographic you know the number that

actually matters it was a

.08 meaning that is .08 percent of the

18 to 49 demographic in the united

states 112 000 people out of that 339

000 people are the ones who actually

count for advertisers the average amount

of people who watch a critical drinker

video in the first 20 minutes overall i

thought doctor who flux sucked but it

wasn’t the worst doctor who episode in

the chibnall first female doctor played

by jodie whittaker era and there really

isn’t much to break down because all

they did was introduce characters of

course the episode starts out with an

arbitrary countdown clock because that’s

what chibnall does to create false

tension jazz and the first female doctor

played by jodi whitaker are in a little

trouble but when they get out of that

trouble they land in the tardis on a bed

a double bed in the console room and you

can hear the shippers squee

unfortunately i think that’s all you’re

gonna get but this was a historic moment

this is what chris chibnall set out to

do this was a penis-less tardis so you

know when a 10 year old is telling you a

story or a full-grown adult on twitter

they go and then and then and then

that’s exactly what this episode was and

then we’re introduced to joseph

williamson a philanthropist historical

figure known for digging random holes

and in this episode he’s digging random

holes and then we meet the new companion

dan who apparently is kind of a loser

and gives tours at the liverpool museum

even though he doesn’t work there and

then we meet diane who actually works at

the museum his date for that evening and

then two non-binary security guards

release our villain who i had to look up

on imdb and then we meet carvinista a

dog man who abducts dan and then we meet

john and anna in the arctic circle and

then we meet claire who knows the doctor

but the doctor doesn’t know her and then

a weeping angel appears and abducts

claire and then we meet vinder on

outpost rose and then a couple of

classic santarans show up and then we

find out our mysterious villain whose

name i had to look up on imdb has known

the doctor all along but the doctor

doesn’t know him and then our mysterious

villain whose name i had to look up in

imdb attacks john and anna in the arctic

circle and then john dies because he’s a

disposable white guy and then we find

out anna is actually the sister of the

unknown villain whose name i had to look

up on imdb and then she turns out to be

an unknown villain whose name i had to

look up on imdb and then we find out the

flux is a storm destroying the entire

fabric of time and space and then the

worst news comes of all we find out this

has something to do with the division

which of course is baked into the

timeless children storyline you know the

thing that killed doctor who i know

there were some holding out hope that

the flux would fix the timeless children

and while that still could happen i

highly doubt it if the timeless children

was the last jedi of doctor who then the

flux is the rise of skywalker of doctor

who this episode was nothing but a giant

mystery box at chibnall trying to do his

best stephen moffat imitation what’s

mystery box storytelling simply put it’s

more of an emphasis on the mystery than

the actual resolution with either an

unreliable narrator or underdeveloped

characters put in random situations

which leads to a lot of online theories

and speculation generally resolved with

a contrived deus ex machina some writers

can pull it off most can’t with the

return of russell t davies combined with

what i’ve seen from flux the bbc has

gone right up to but just short of

admitting failure the timeless children

is a deal breaker and most of the fandom

isn’t coming back unless that is

completely retconned and even if it is

retconned you’re not going to get

everyone back this is the portion of the

video where we go to the people and

rotten tomatoes and with the audience

score the story remains the same doctor

who series 11 is at 20 doctor who series

12 is at 16 and doctor who series 13 the

flux is at 32

from one hour ago richard a half star

more terrible acting and storytelling

from a corpse of a franchise once the

winner of so many awards now struggling

with viewing figures hopefully rtd will

save the show matt j one star plot was

convoluted with pacing all over the

place things felt rushed particularly

with character introductions and

introducing the viewer to plot points

there was bad dialogue with characters

delivering cheesy hammy lines and not

really doing what is being shown john

bishop’s character provided a good comic

relief and was one of the few good

points of the show interactions

involving his character felt fresh and

was genuinely enjoyable i would say john

bishop’s performance was capable at best

but comparing it to the rest of chibnoku

that’s award winning todd b half star

from four hours ago this was a complete

disjointed mess the writing was bad the

acting was worse not to mention after

the timeless child the entire series

makes no sense the doctor is not a time

lord that is technically true because

the time lords appropriated their power

from the little portal baby barry s one

and a half stars better than bad but

still not good that will be my

assessment i would love to hope that the

series improves at least the committee

for inclusion and diversity that has

dominated previous seasons are quieter

chibnall the writers and the committee

have done so much damage it seems almost

impossible to recover from these wounds

david r from 14 hours ago half star

sorry not enjoying doctor who anymore

and wish it was otherwise we all do juan

p half star from 23 hours ago i can’t

wait for chimnel to be flushed or fluxed

or effed and for russell t davies to

again save the franchise peter c with a

very thoughtful two and a half stars to

be fair it wasn’t all that bad but i

think chibnall has lost his way a bit i

would argue he never had a way when he

took over as showrunner he had his own

ideas about in what direction he wanted

to take the show i totally disagree with

it and so did a lot of others and there

were a lot of others but they were his

ideas and he had a good crack at it

obviously aware of the criticism he

seemed to throw everything against the

wall to see what sticks so now we have a

fan servicing wannabe epic i would say a

wannabe fan servicing epic another

universe ending story with as many

classic monsters as he can stuff in also

to me chibnall seems to have a stilted

writing style if that’s what you want to

call it the dialogue is unnatural

speaking of unnatural i just can’t get

past jodie’s actions and weird

expressions on her face i’ve tried

hopefully things will pick up in episode

2. to be fair there are only 40 audience

reviews but i’m guessing the number

isn’t going to go up as the audience

review numbers go up the one thing that

won’t be going up is the ratings for the

rest of doctor who series 13 but i did

want to point out one thing you just

heard some thoughtful and sometimes

passionate reviews does that sound like

a bunch of alt-right istaphobes to you

or does it sound like doctor who fans

and after watching the show that they

helped build to what it is for decades

being completely deconstructed and

destroyed by ideologues you can’t blame

them for being upset and then add to

that the fans being vilified for voicing

their opinions and that explains why the

ratings won’t go up and russell t davies

has a monumental and almost impossible

task on his hands hypothetically if

russell t davies was to retcon the

timeless children he wouldn’t be just

retconning a creative decision he’d be

retconning an ideological decision one

that would be considered heresy to the

cult but if they do turn things around i

will be very happy to admit i am wrong

yes there was a lot to talk about in

this episode that very few people

watched rose was mentioned the santarans

returned the weeping angels returned and

they introduced 10 000 characters

unfortunately every bit of those were

more interesting than the first female

doctor played by jody whitaker who we

will lovingly call dr karen and until

that problem is fixed nothing is fixed

my good friend yellow flash has pointed

out in the past that the attitude of the

general beloved franchise nowadays is

are you good enough to be our fans when

the truth of the matter is they don’t

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