The Pilot has two meanings for this episode. It describes the story - a part of an alien ship looks for a pilot - and it describes a ridiculous, blatant attempt to reboot the series in the image of diversity.
The episode has two main problems. Both stem from the reboot aspect.
1. It's too focused on Bill. Doctor Who wouldn't be around anymore if it had been a show about Bill or, primarily, about any companion. Doctor Who is about the Doctor. The portions of this episode that focused on Bill, most of it, dragged. The portions that focused on the Doctor, not enough of it, had the action, intelligence, and overall spirit that has kept Doctor Who on the air for so long.
2. There's no antagonist. That goes back to the focus on Bill. This is a poorly drawn love story between (GAY SHE'S GAY HURRAH SHE'S GAY) Bill and some girl Bill barely spoke to the few times Bill met her. So strong is this bond they formed by hardly talking or even meeting that after the girl is assimilated into the ship/liquid, she keeps a promise she made to Bill to not leave.
Yes, that's really the episode. It's all about diversity Bill - hurrah she's gay, and she's not white, and she's somewhat poor, and she's somewhat awkward looking, and did we mention hurrah she's gay? This is the age of reboots. It's an age where unimaginative leftists re-write myths in a progressive image. It's easy to see why the Bill season didn't work, but it gets worse. The Doctor becomes a woman after season 10.
It's a sign of poor story and poor writing when an arch nemesis is brought in as cannon fodder for the new, unbeatable foe. In this episode, the Daleks play that fodder role. The writers couldn't even figure out a way the liquid alien beat the Dalek, so that happened off screen. But the liquid alien dispatched a Dalek before menacing Bill and crew.
Doctor Who is winding down the road to ruin, and that road is built on progressive ideals.
The episode has two main problems. Both stem from the reboot aspect.
1. It's too focused on Bill. Doctor Who wouldn't be around anymore if it had been a show about Bill or, primarily, about any companion. Doctor Who is about the Doctor. The portions of this episode that focused on Bill, most of it, dragged. The portions that focused on the Doctor, not enough of it, had the action, intelligence, and overall spirit that has kept Doctor Who on the air for so long.
2. There's no antagonist. That goes back to the focus on Bill. This is a poorly drawn love story between (GAY SHE'S GAY HURRAH SHE'S GAY) Bill and some girl Bill barely spoke to the few times Bill met her. So strong is this bond they formed by hardly talking or even meeting that after the girl is assimilated into the ship/liquid, she keeps a promise she made to Bill to not leave.
Yes, that's really the episode. It's all about diversity Bill - hurrah she's gay, and she's not white, and she's somewhat poor, and she's somewhat awkward looking, and did we mention hurrah she's gay? This is the age of reboots. It's an age where unimaginative leftists re-write myths in a progressive image. It's easy to see why the Bill season didn't work, but it gets worse. The Doctor becomes a woman after season 10.
It's a sign of poor story and poor writing when an arch nemesis is brought in as cannon fodder for the new, unbeatable foe. In this episode, the Daleks play that fodder role. The writers couldn't even figure out a way the liquid alien beat the Dalek, so that happened off screen. But the liquid alien dispatched a Dalek before menacing Bill and crew.
Doctor Who is winding down the road to ruin, and that road is built on progressive ideals.