Message from the Doctor, released during the COVID-19 lockdown, is a really lovely short.

Jodie Whittaker is excellent as ever, and this message is beautiful.

I’m genuinely struggling to describe why I like this, so just watch it for yourself, and you’ll see.

loved this little minisode

So this is kind of it for me. This is the bright, shining example of what could have been with the 13th Doctor. Sure, Chibnall was apparently involved here, but this feels closest to what I had originally expected in terms of Jodie Whittaker as the Doctor, and what I feel they consistently feel short of in the televised series. Sure, she isn't perfect and maybe will never be the best doctor, but this little clip always to me represented how warm, quirky, and hopeful Jodie could have been as the Doctor. I've called her miscast before but I am increasingly convinced it is much more that production let her down on all fronts more than anything else, because this Doctor, well, this is my Doctor.

It also came at a touching time where it meant a lot to people when things were looking pretty grim. It certainly meant something to me, at the brink of uncertainty around working in healthcare during the middle of a pandemic. I think most can recognize how great this little production was for that reason, everyone each sharing in a pretty scary event that affected us all. Hope and comfort is good, and it is a little alarming to see some people objected to that pretty aggressively.