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|epname = The Well | |epname = The Well | ||
|epdate = 2025-04-26 | |epdate = 2025-04-26 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2025-04-28 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = What is going on? It seems like this series was made pretty much back-to-back with the previous one. No major behind-the-scenes shakeups as far as I know. So why is this series so much stronger than the last? | ||
Not an episode type we haven't seen before, just executed tightly. Mysterious deaths, mysterious survivor, rescue team doesn't know what to believe.}} | |||
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|epnum = 1504 | |epnum = 1504 | ||
|epname = Lucky Day | |epname = Lucky Day | ||
|epdate = 2025-05-03 | |epdate = 2025-05-03 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2025-05-04 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = To start it felt like... a Doctor-lite episode that was somehow leftover from last year. But then the twist kicked things up. Conrad's initial success was pretty stupid. "We made a hoax, therefore this is proof that UNIT is a hoax." But disinformation about everything being deep government conspiracies and wastes of tax dollars feels very relevant today. | ||
I think ''that'' sound effect was used when Conrad entered and left the building with the Shreek early on, but I"m not positive.}} | |||
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|epnum = 1505 | |epnum = 1505 | ||
|epname = The Story & the Engine | |epname = The Story & the Engine | ||
|epdate = 2025-05-10 | |epdate = 2025-05-10 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2025-05-10 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = So the Doctor meets and remembers someone from his time as the Fugitive Doctor? Since when can he remember any of that? This seems like kind of a big detail that's going very unexplored.}} | ||
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|epnum = 1506 | |epnum = 1506 | ||
|epname = The Interstellar Song Contest | |epname = The Interstellar Song Contest | ||
|epdate = 2025-05-17 | |epdate = 2025-05-17 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2025-05-18 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = For what started out seeming like another silly future take on British pop culture, this one had a lot of surprises. Like, it's still a future with dead Earth, and this seeming continuation of Earth culture was basically the result of archaeology. | ||
Oooor how after teasing us with the possibility of her last season, bam, there's Susan! At least in the Doctor's head so far. | |||
And Mrs. Flood is the Rani... another one of those middle-years things I know is supposed to be a Big Deal but I don't really know about. Also, she also bi-generated. Is there a reason that's become a common thing?}} | |||
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|epnum = 1507 | |epnum = 1507 | ||
|epname = Wish World | |epname = Wish World | ||
|epdate = 2025-05-24 | |epdate = 2025-05-24 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2025-05-24 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = Well, I guess we were overdue for one of these. A season-ending story that opens up on a screwed up world that everybody thinks is (mostly) normal, with little to clue us in on how things got to here from the previous episode. | ||
So uhh the seventh son of the seventh son of the seventh son is some kind of wish god? That doesn't seem like an incredible rarity. Or at least, seems like something somebody with the power of time travel could manipulate and cause more of. | |||
So using the power of the baby, Conrad is making the world a pleasant and nice-weather place, as long as he remembers to wish about it, which is... a strain. And the Rani's plan is for this to fail, because screwing up a world so much rips a hole right through the hell of everything to a place where the creator of the Time Lords is? Well, whatever.}} | |||
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|epname = The Reality War | |epname = The Reality War | ||
|epdate = 2025-05-31 | |epdate = 2025-05-31 | ||
|firstwatched = | |firstwatched = 2025-05-31 | ||
|thoughts = }} | |thoughts = Well, that was all a bit nuts. Some stuff overly simple as with last year's finale, but more... nuts... to make up for it? Like the solution to Omega escaping from the underworld... shoot him a bit and push him back in. | ||
The Doctor really must trust Ruby if he takes her word about Poppy to be the necessary honest truth worth giving one of his lives over. | |||
Surprised to see Jodie pop up, but it worked. Also enjoyed the little David Tennant joke about how it was nice it was her and not the other guy that was always showing up. | |||
Given the way Ncuti was announced like two years before he showed up, it's kind of refreshing to see a regeneration happen without a big bunch of foreknowledge. There were rumors, but... wow, really, Billie Piper? Though the way the end credits specified Ncuti Gatwa and Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor then just said Introducing Billie Piper, well, that leaves some wiggle room in a show like this, but how much? And it seems like the show won't be back for at least a couple years, so how long until we see this followed up?}} | |||
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