Yeah, the copyright says 2014, but this stinks of 1950s attitudes. "Women, amirite guys?!"
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Good thing they have loads of number one Star Trek fans in the building, whatever that means.
Is she implying that they're looking for other options than what Secret Hideout has to offer?
Well, true. LDS played it well, though. Seeing how this is the second time that the SNW writers rip off old Joss Whedon episodes from the early aughts, I'm less forgiving.
Ah yes, I remember that Angel episode. That was a creative idea, 22 years ago.
I think Mark Gatiss is unduly criticised in some fan forums. He does fine little standalone scripts that stand out not for excellence, but for their atmosphere, attention to detail, and a good bit of quirk.
He's an old school fan, and here he clearly wanted to make a Classic Who-style historical. Ironically, the Coronation element is overshadowed by the Wire plot, the advent of television (which RTD swiped in "The Giggle"), and the terrible family dynamics.
[Edit: Duh, you're right. Moffatt also used the transmission thing to defeat the Silence in season 6]
Personal gripe, I preferred faceless Rose. They could have left her like that for a few episodes for all I care.
I will say this for the episode, the Wire is a memorable adversary for the Doctor. To this day, my family will imitate her "Hu-u-ungry-y!" part regularly. Mostly just before dinner.
Am I right in believing you're currently living your best life? 🖖🙂
In his case, photons.
Neelix? This is the proposed Legacy show, next next generation.
Make that Alexander/Naomi Wildman/Jack Crusher...
Well, Seven would still be the captain, and it would probably be wise to have the main story not be about her, but how she leads the crew through it. I would even say, an adult Alexander who has lived a life on his own — could be interesting if done right. Which is a big if.
But with the junior LaForge and the secret Picard heir already on the crew... It all starts to reek of those franchises where generation after generation of one or two bloodlines are magically hurtled to power. Not at all what I think of with Star Trek. But I suppose that should be expected from a show called "legacy".
And I've already said my part on Terry Matalas' ideas for a geopolitical metaphor...
The Klingons were always stand-ins for the Russians
In 1967, perhaps. The movie versions sort of took a step back from 1:1 interpretations. If anything, the Romulans are a better simile to the (Cold war/Soviet) Russians from a Western standpoint.
Echoing today, there was an unstable element in the Empire
Really, you look at contemporary Russia, and you think dissidents are the most obvious issue? Not oligarchy, state disinformation and war mongering?
TL;DR — don't let Matalas anywhere near your favourite franchise.
You and me both. I tried to lure my SO into a series rewatch before watching the new season, and she was like, "... but we can skip the lame episodes, right?"
Putting it like that, there really isn't more than (generously) four watchable episodes per season. The writing on this show is as goofy as Voyager, and as aimless as Enterprise.
Big caveat up front, I have no illusion that this was ever planned out, or that it's ever going to be made. I just connected some dots from Eccleston's season to our current mess. I do think that if the BBC had Pete McTighe make a 15 minute special along these lines and put it on Youtube, the fans could rest easier and the next production team might start on a blank slate.
To summarise, the last couple of seasons had a convoluted arc concerning a companion's parent issues. She was saved as a baby through time travel intervention, but not without a lot of temporal disturbance in the process. In fact, babies have been a throughline in both Ncuti Gatwa's seasons, a pattern that culminates in the Doctor rupturing the Time Vortex in order to save one child's existence. For just a probable moment there, that child is his own. Succeeding in his mission, the Doctor is then replaced by somebody looking suspiciously like Rose Tyler.
- Church.
- Baby.
- Rose.
- Temporal paradox.
- On what could be considered the Doctor's Father's Day.
Bring on the Time Reapers to sterilise the wound in time! That's why the Doctor regenerated into this face, à la 12 looking like Caecilius from "The fires of Pompeii". She needs to channel Rose as a catalyst to heal the reset 15 did to save Poppy. Besides, where Pete sacrificed himself to sort the timestream out, this time around the Reapers are attacking the Doctor and their police box. And the Doctor's current face has a very special relation to the TARDIS' living heart.
To be fair, the rest of the story doesn't really matter, this is only meant to resolve the Billie Piper twist of "The reality war". It doesn't fix fan quibbles over the Timeless Child or the Doctor being half human on their mother's side for a hot minute in 1996. Pretty much everything other than that latest regeneration cliffhanger can be ignored or picked up upon by future writers. So end this minisode on a regeneration without showing what happens next, or just leave it open ended.
Now, would I love for Susan to pop up for no other reason than to ease her "grandfather" into the credits crawl, and a future season where neither actress are seen again? Maybe an exchange to echo the Seventh's exit monologue to Ace at the end of "Survival"? Absolutely, but this could well be a one hander between Piper, some 2005 archive footage, and the janky old low-poly CGI monsters from back then.
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So unreasonable!
Come to think of it, the joke might have worked if it was Kirk (not you) instead of Spock. It would totally track with his personality, and probably also with his and Dr Marcus' breakup...