Review: ‘Doctor Who,’ led by Ncuti Gatwa and Millie Gibson, ushers into a bright new era
LA TimesAfter a transitional trilogy of specials that saw the return of popular Tenth Doctor David Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor and introduced his successor Ncuti Gatwa, followed by a Christmas special that brought companion Ruby Sunday on board, “Doctor Who” embarks Friday on its official new full season, the first on Disney+. Being a “Doctor Who” fan resistant to change is, to be sure, a contradiction in terms, given that 14 actors have canonically played the time-and-space traveler since 1963; I’ve liked them all, retrospectively or contemporaneously, whatever their shape, form, accent, costume or headgear, and am always happy to see the show back — and different. I thought Chris Chibnall‘s stint as showrunner might have better served Whittaker, to put it more mildly than many others have, and though Davies’ immediate successor, Steven Moffat, created some of the series’ best concepts and characters, the “Am I a good man?” existential breast-beating assigned to Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi I found tiresome. There is a bit of expository dialogue for the Disney-subscribing newcomers, who have not followed or even found the series at any of its previous stateside berths, including what TARDIS — the name of the Doctor’s police-box-shaped, bigger-on-the-inside time-space machine — stands for.. For initiates, there’s a callback to the very beginning, as the Doctor points across London to show Ruby where he once lived, in Shoreditch, with his granddaughter Susan.
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