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Originally Posted by Ashley.

Yeah, I agree. It's a shame because his writing in past episodes was never this wooden or bland. I think he's just trying to shove every cliché he can into the series and it's slowly morphing into a parody show. Also I'm pretty sure we've had the obligatory "get off this planet, or you'll have me to deal with" scene in every episode so far. It's boring.

Yeah, that's my problem.

Someone on DS described it like Chibnall had 4 different Doctor scenes for Jodie and was repeating them for her in every episode in a different order.

The woman is not being served by the writing as she's being forced to perform the same things every week.

Simple is fine. But not this simple. I think people are confused, RTD's episodes weren't simple they just weren't as convoluted as Moffat's where he liked to play with the structure of the episode which would be confusing. Even if he had just a regular plot in a self contained episode, the writing would rise it up to give it depth or humour or pathos or just plain old entertainment. This is just bland. Chibnall's dialogue especially is so flat.