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 Fifteen is definitely a horny Doctor. And Rogue himself being sent off to some unknown dimension leaves a big dangling thing to be returned to... maybe soon, maybe far off, maybe never. Speaking of which, the Doctor was against killing the shapeshifters, and sending them off to some dimension with nobody to harm was deemed the humane solution... but sending them off to some random unknown place could be the closest thing to an execution anyway, yah? Unless their machinery specifically knew how to choose a dimension and planet with some nice fruit trees around or whatever, they could just get dumped some lonely place and dehydrate in a few days.
+The term "cosplay" is thrown around liberally in this episode, but might it be more precise to say the aliens were LARPers?
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+(First watched 2024-06-14) First parts of multi-parters have an unfair advantage in that they're not expected to stick the landing, so my impressions could be very different after next week... but this was very entertaining. Finally the threads of the season coming together, with weird sci-fi machinery and oddball characters. That's what I'm looking for.
+So all the Susan stuff making the Doctor think about his granddaughter was entirely a red herring? After nearly 60 years, too bad if that's as close to a return to the character as we get.
+They never get around to saying what actually is the technology that S Triad was supposed to be giving out to the world. I assume it was something of a bigger scale than, say, a new browser.
+Something I had been wondering about is whether in their off-screen adventures during this season there would have been more Susan Twist appearances. They answered that one pretty conclusively.
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+(First watched 2024-12-26) Some neat and very Moffat-y parts, but also some parts that... just didn't make much sense. So OK, mega weapons corporation Villengard needs to take advantage of time travel to let their custom sun cook for tens of millions of years. And the most accessible way to do that is the time hotel. OK. But why all the subterfuge with psychically taking over a bunch of middlemen who get killed off? Just send your agent to drop it off in one hotel room in dinosaur times, and another to pick it up nearer modern times. No external parties needed, nobody need be the wiser.
+That said, assuming the problem exists as it does... some of the solutions like needing to pull an item in one time frame with a rope using the power of a train from another time frame... yeah, that's Moffat stuff.
+Saw it coming from a mile away, but could've done without making a Doctor Who canon adventure part of the Jesus birth mythos.
+The stuff with the Doctor in a hotel for a year... it felt like Moffat didn't have enough material for his main plot and was like "Can I write a second shorter special and shove it in the middle somewhere?" Pleasant enough on its own, but didn't really do much for the rest of the episode, and it's not the first time we've seen the Doctor stay in one place for a long time, whether by his choice or not.
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