"Young Adult"
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Doctor Who story that went unmade after show's cancellation will finally see light of day
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I was enjoying this one quite a bit early on, but it turns into a bit of a slog as it goes.
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I'm a big advocate of the restoration of Gallifrey, but...yeesh. Less is more.
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A lot of the energy is sucked out of the story by the layering of pointless mysteries. Does it matter if Omega's identity is revealed much, much sooner? Not really. Ditto for "who's the traitor on the High Council?" But I suppose they have a runtime to fill.
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It's amusing to watch Colin Baker run around trying to hasten the Doctor's regeneration. Conflict of interest!
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Omega has a TARDIS now? Okay...
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Omega (that's OH-meguh) has a rather more subdued personality this time around, which is kind of a shame. A little eccentricity might have spiced things up a bit.
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The Ergon, described as one of Omega's less successful attempts at psychosynthesis, looks kind of familiar...
I assume she's referring to the day of filming Ford did for that episode.
Right...?
Resurrecting Gallifrey?
Hell yes!
With Conrad as a mold for Rassilon?
Uh....
The indefinite article, you might say.
What makes this Rani and the Fifteenth Doctor’s dynamic different to the past?
Without giving too much away for the finale, this is a Doctor and a Rani of a different time. The annihilation of the Time Lords has affected both these characters in different ways – some of which you can see in my episode. The way the Doctor is affected by the attack on the Arena comes from a place of trauma; and I think that’s something we should expect of the Rani as well.
Rule 1: The Doctor (Who showrunner) lies.
Sure, load 'em up.
I was really just thinking about the mad scientist angle, and how that bit actually works pretty well.
This probably isn't a very original idea, but...could the Rani be Tecteun?
shakes fist
EHLERRRRRRRRS
Archie Panjabi has oozed attitude in what little we’ve seen of her in the part so far
We haven't talked about this enough. She's positively magnetic.
The Rani is famously a scientist, and now she’s a scientist walking into a world where a Pantheon of Gods has been awoken, which is magic in the air. She simply finds it fascinating. To her, it’s a different form of science, she’s not there to reject it. She’s a true scientist with a very open mind. True scientists have open imaginations. Saying, “yes we can go to the moon,” “yes we can travel in time,” “yes, there’s anti-gravity.”
The problem with her experiments and her ideas is that she doesn’t care how many lives she loses along the way. We’ll see her running experiments on a massive scale. The very first scene of the two-part finale will really take people by surprise as to what she’s up to. And from then on, it never stops. It’s a huge extravaganza.
I was glad to read this.
Oh, interesting - I didn't realize that was the translation. I guess that ties in to "The Church on Ruby Road" and how luck and coincidences can affect reality, in this case leading to Desidirum. A bit of a deep cut that I barely remembered.
That's sort of my issue with episodes of this nature in general - we know it's not real, it will (probably) be undone by the end of the season, so a lot of it is just there to be weird.
Me neither, though I was not as high on "Rogue" as many people were last year. Hopefully it's leading to a more significant return soon, and doesn't fizzle out like the Captain Jack cameo during the Chibnall run, though I'm sure that one imploded for very different reasons.
I really did enjoy the ways in which Conrad's shitty worldview infested this world. I'm sure the Rani was all too happy to let that happen, fostering doubts in those whose lives were less than ideal.
Agreed - this is one of those episodes that throws some really compelling ideas out there, without really slowing down to examine them.
The line about Ruby walking past their encampment every day and ignoring it was...not subtle (and that's a good thing - I'm over subtlety).
Another classic thing that I'm aware of, but will have to do some homework on.
On the whole, I'm with you. It was a decent episode, I was entertained, but by its nature it's mostly an exercise in table-setting for the big finale.