Very cool social commentary, I think better than the Orville episode with the Up and Downvote society.
Though, at the end, I did hate everybody and wanted them to be eaten.
I do question having two “doctor lite” episodes back to back.
Imteresting music choices too… Didn’t we just have the Flying Purple People Eater? Now we have Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini…
Edit My bad, Flying Purple People Eater was in X-Men '97, which I also just watched. Easy mistake to make!
If next episode is Everybody’s Heard About the Bird…
I definitely wasn’t expecting this one to be an intense episode about racism from the trailers, and I really didn’t think they’d tackle it in such a head-on way in general.
Also I liked that they used a futuristic society for it and suggested that these problems persist is the future instead of just doing it in a historical episode which would have been the obvious choice IMO.
I’m just wondering how a whole planet got eaten by slugs. Or why slugs were needed at all.
Well, they wouldn’t put their phones down…
But yeah, it seems to me the slug thing was not needed since they revealed it was the Dot killing everyone anyway.
All it had to do was walk someone into an open elevator shaft or off the top of a building or into traffic.
Shit, GPS is doing that NOW:
and has been for a while now…
Maybe the dots had grown to hate the inhabitants of Finetown so much that they just enjoyed watching them get eaten by slugs. I mean sure they could just headbutt them to death…but which is funnier?
After the end of the episode I can totally understand that point of view.
I could totally see that… plus the slugs dispose of the bodies, keeping the city neat and clean.
I am also very confused about the slug part because the dot is supposedly killing in alphabetical order. Yet the dot was going to have her walk into a slug in the elevator a while before her name was up.
Apparently this entity cares so much about the alphabet it stopped targeting her to go after the september guy so what gives?
Someone theorized the slugs may hold you and kill you off when its your time but the list the dr uses to realize its in alphabetical time isn’t time of death, its time of disappearance. These slugs do capture on video so If people cant have been alive inside a slug without anyone or themselves noticing.
With the exception on Boom, every episode this season seems to have a huge pacing problem. To me every single one seems to drag with very little happening, until suddenly there is a massive climax that invariably is unsatisfying and makes no sense, before the episode abruptly ends. How is this the same show that gave us complex stories like Midnight or Heaven Sent in the same amount of time?
Quick rundown:
- Space Babies: Everyone is scared of the monster, until suddenly the monster was made by a computer error and needs to be saved
- The Devils Chord: Jinx Monsoon is stealing all the music, until suddenly they have a ridiculous music battle, which the Doctor somehow loses, but the beatles return to play a note and the day is saved
- 73 Yards: A great horror concept of Ruby being followed by a mysterious entity, that turns out to be herself as an old women making herself lonely for her entire life??
- Dot and Bubble: Turns out the Dot hates humanity and is killing them off, but instead of instantly braining them all, as it is clearly capable of, it creates giant slugs to eat them? And the people don’t want to be saved?
I genuinely think a lot of the themes and concepts in this series are very good, but the scripts need to be tightened up, instead of juggling so many metaphors and societal commentaries in each episode.
I actually liked this one more than I thought I would from the trailer, but once again the resolution just leaves me confused and unsatisfied.
Decent episode, not amazing but certainly not bad. As you say having 2 Doctor lite episodes back to back is a weird choice, hopefully we’ll see more of him in the last few episodes.
And hey, the outside scenes were filmed at my old university campus, too bad I wasn’t there when they were filming
You know, I’ve been wondering why everyone is talking about all these new Doctor Who episodes and yet I couldn’t find it in any of my lists. Today I did a search for just “Doctor Who” without the year (2005) or season number (14)… and WTF is “Doctor Who 2023”??? This is still the 2005 series, and still season 14, so why is it now being listed under 2023 season 01 which isn’t even when the current season began? None of this makes any sense.
Picked up by Disney+.
They ran a series of specials between 11/25 and 12/9 2023, ending with the new regeneration.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_Who_specials_(2023)
Then they re-numbered the current season as “Season 1” starting with “The Church on Ruby Road”, which was the 2023 Christmas episode.
