(15-05-2022, 10:47 PM)Joe Wrote: I mean, it’s just the anniversary edition, right? Neither wildly imaginative nor deadly dull. I’d be more interested if they weren’t appearing.
But we have all this sort of stuff happening in the centenary special as well, under the 'existing' (in terms of air time) production team.
Massive navel gazing in two consecutive episodes is not really what the show needs at the moment, in my view. Spoken as a fan as well.
The current era of the show has lost huge numbers of viewers and is generally perceived as a flop. Opening up the next era with "look how wonderful we used to be, but aren't any more" isn't the best way forward, in my view.
It'd be similar to having the opening episode of the revival in 2005 starting off by having classic doctors and characters appearing. They didn't even try any of that until the second series. You need to win the audience back first.