Doctor Who: Lucky Day
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beccaelizabethThat was a strong episode.
Sort of felt high contrast bold bright colors about it, not a subtle story, but covered some strong emotional and political territory.
Not quite sure how the politics side lands. Like, yes, the kind of online conspiracy theory making that says threats aren't real and it's all crisis actors, that needs a swipe taken at it. But are we in favor of trusting large secret sort of military organisations? I mean, UNIT *are* liars, in universe, the amount of cover ups they do, and the hidden technology, the security guard who only remembers its his first day at his job, Toshiko in Fragments in that cell, things are happening in the Whoniverse that need dragged into the light. Just this set of randoms from the internet get it wrong.
That and Kate's actions mean the story doesn't land simples.
But it does move the Whoniverse status quo along significantly. Compare this to Torchwood and the degree of secrecy involved just shifted a lot. Everyone knows there are aliens?
But now the conspiracy thinking is it's a cover up for draining public money and spying on us?
They are spying on everyone. The amount of information they could pull up on Conrad, he has a point about them watching everyone.
It's just he's such a slime it's easy to just side with UNIT.
But Kate did say the Doctor would stop her.
And it was pretty obvious she wasn't doing logic for what's best for the world, she was reacting to calling her dad names.
Strong story, leaves things complicated.
There's times in the middle of the story when I bought that they were actually arguing that the Doctor wasn't replaceable and trying to copy him just gets people dead. So that was an interesting layer.
And the costumes were pretty believeable as Doctor Who, but like, not this season?
It is interesting to talk about belief in an era when everything we see can be faked. Evidence gets more complicated than that, but just videos? There are people getting scammed by live chats with deep fake actors, at the same time as there's actually ways to pay for video from actors. Seeing is not believing any more. So when do you believe?
This podcast guy and his video friends, they're slimes when you know what Ruby has been through, and he's very clearly the bad guy of the piece, but sometimes making it the bad guys who say a thing lets the story skate right past a valid point.
At what point do you believe UNIT, and why, given all the secrets?
I like that Ruby is still clearly dealing with Stuff, wondering how to stop being on alert all the time. Again, strong story, good follow up, everyone who had something that intense happen to them has to figure that out.
Her 'boyfriend' being the kind of slime that hears PTSD and deliberately triggers it? That's absolutely depressingly believeable.
I like that taking a swipe at the disabled lady for collecting benefits is such a bare shorthand for what a creep that guy is.
It do feel like RTD has stuff to shout about real loud, but it fits together into strong story.
I also like how simple it was that the Doctor heard the name Belinda Chandra. Just being a bit out of sequence.
This story felt a bit Torchwood without being as dark as Torchwood. Like the only difference if it was Torchwood would be a sex scene and everything being grubbier and less shiny. Because it was all just people being people, plus some biting.
Interesting.
I am liking this season and look forwards to more.
Sort of felt high contrast bold bright colors about it, not a subtle story, but covered some strong emotional and political territory.
Not quite sure how the politics side lands. Like, yes, the kind of online conspiracy theory making that says threats aren't real and it's all crisis actors, that needs a swipe taken at it. But are we in favor of trusting large secret sort of military organisations? I mean, UNIT *are* liars, in universe, the amount of cover ups they do, and the hidden technology, the security guard who only remembers its his first day at his job, Toshiko in Fragments in that cell, things are happening in the Whoniverse that need dragged into the light. Just this set of randoms from the internet get it wrong.
That and Kate's actions mean the story doesn't land simples.
But it does move the Whoniverse status quo along significantly. Compare this to Torchwood and the degree of secrecy involved just shifted a lot. Everyone knows there are aliens?
But now the conspiracy thinking is it's a cover up for draining public money and spying on us?
They are spying on everyone. The amount of information they could pull up on Conrad, he has a point about them watching everyone.
It's just he's such a slime it's easy to just side with UNIT.
But Kate did say the Doctor would stop her.
And it was pretty obvious she wasn't doing logic for what's best for the world, she was reacting to calling her dad names.
Strong story, leaves things complicated.
There's times in the middle of the story when I bought that they were actually arguing that the Doctor wasn't replaceable and trying to copy him just gets people dead. So that was an interesting layer.
And the costumes were pretty believeable as Doctor Who, but like, not this season?
It is interesting to talk about belief in an era when everything we see can be faked. Evidence gets more complicated than that, but just videos? There are people getting scammed by live chats with deep fake actors, at the same time as there's actually ways to pay for video from actors. Seeing is not believing any more. So when do you believe?
This podcast guy and his video friends, they're slimes when you know what Ruby has been through, and he's very clearly the bad guy of the piece, but sometimes making it the bad guys who say a thing lets the story skate right past a valid point.
At what point do you believe UNIT, and why, given all the secrets?
I like that Ruby is still clearly dealing with Stuff, wondering how to stop being on alert all the time. Again, strong story, good follow up, everyone who had something that intense happen to them has to figure that out.
Her 'boyfriend' being the kind of slime that hears PTSD and deliberately triggers it? That's absolutely depressingly believeable.
I like that taking a swipe at the disabled lady for collecting benefits is such a bare shorthand for what a creep that guy is.
It do feel like RTD has stuff to shout about real loud, but it fits together into strong story.
I also like how simple it was that the Doctor heard the name Belinda Chandra. Just being a bit out of sequence.
This story felt a bit Torchwood without being as dark as Torchwood. Like the only difference if it was Torchwood would be a sex scene and everything being grubbier and less shiny. Because it was all just people being people, plus some biting.
Interesting.
I am liking this season and look forwards to more.