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Originally Posted by Oliver_W

There was a fair amount of showing not telling going on.

Why did they give Ryan extended scenes where he was meant to show emotion? Watching that poor bloke floundering around trying to act was just embarrassing...

It was awesome to see Captain Jack again, though he seemed to just randomly disappear!

The trailer thing got me all excited, I thought John Bishop was gonna be the next Doc That'd be awesome in a weird way, but I'm sure he'll be good as "the new Bradley" character.

It's the opposite way around really, Chibnall relies too much on obvious signposting and exposition. Showing, not telling would be an improvement.

A lot of his writing really feels like he writes a first draft and then signs off on it. A first draft lacks detail, characters can be more like outlines of what they should be rather than embodying things like that and you put details and layers to the writing in subsequent drafts. It's just.... very childish, lazy writing.

Yeah, Toisin Cole is a woeful actor, not like anyone would be able to do much with the material he was given but he always sounded like he was reading from an autocue.