Doctor Who fans series 11 has just started airing and that means these weekly reviews are back but unlike The Doctor i'm now not a woman so after all the hype and all the build up was it worth it well find it in my review of episode one of series eleven "The Woman Who Fell To Earth".
The plot to this weeks episode is there is something terrifying the people of Sheffield and it's up to a newly regenerated Doctor and some friends to find out what's going on and put a stop to it. Story wise the plot is most likely the weakest aspect of the episode for me personally it's not a bad story at all but at the same time I feel like this is a story that would have been better suited in the Steven Moffat era.
Of course this is the debut episode for all of the main cast and so I won't pass judgement on any of them until at least episode 4 but if this episode is anything to go by then we have some truly great performances to look forward to. The guest cast for this episode is made up of Sharon D. Clarke as Grace , Samuel Oatley as Tim Shaw and Johnny Dixon as Karl and I have to say that I really did enjoy Sharon I thought she was really funny and she had me laughing out loud a few times the rest of the guest cast were solid as well.
Not only is this the debut episode for new show runner Chris Chibnall as well as stars Bradley Walsh , Tosin Cole , Mandip Gill and of course the full series debut for Jodie Whittaker but it's also the first time in the shows revived era that the show will now air on Sundays and since there is a time change that will also effect when these reviews can go out so don't expect to see them the day of the actual episode but I will do my best to get them out by no later then Monday or Tuesday.
Much has been made about the doctor now being a female and with that there has also been alot of hate aimed not only at the show but also the people supporting the decision to cast a female doctor well I hope that all of those haters are now eating some sweet sweet humble pie because a female doctor is just the breath of fresh air that the show needed heck they even make a joke about it very early on in the episode.
Speaking of The Doctor being a woman i'm glad that the show didn't take to much time talking about it like I said they only brought it up once or twice in the whole episode which even then it's used as a joke and that's about the only way the show really could have talked about that subject since if they went to far either way then they would have risked loosing there audience.
When they first released the images of Jodie in the costume I wasn't the biggest fan but after seeing it in the show itself I have to admit that the costume does suit her and I really like the long overcoat she has on but tho with that said I wish that they had given her something that screamed Doctor Who to wear since to me this costume screams Woodstock to me.
I was going to post a picture of what the monster looked like but I thought that might be two much of a spoiler but I will say that this monster looks like nothing we have seen before in the shows recent history and that to me adds to the creep factor not to mention what he does to his victims which for some reason reminded me alot of Leatherface from the Texas Chainsaw Massacre so if your a horror fan then you'll be be golden.
I have no idea who's doing the CGI so I have no clue if The Mill was brought back or if they looked else where but either way the CGI used in this episode I thought was really good and there are times where you can't tell if they did it for real or if it was done in a computer and that's how the best effects should always be.
For the first time since 2005 we don't have a score by Murray Gold this time doing the music is Segun Akinola and while we don't get to hear his take on the classic theme his music I thought was pretty decent but it's no where near the quality that we were used to listening to but hopefully as the series does progress we'll hear better music.
Overall this was a really solid start not only to the new series but to the new era and for the new doctor it made the series fun again and that's what Doctor Who should always have a degree of and if you like the Thirteenth Doctor then starting in November there's a Thirteenth Doctor comic book coming out and if you guys want me to review the first story arc of that book then let me know and this episode scores an 8.5 out of 10 from me.