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beccaelizabeth) wrote2025-05-17 04:37 pm
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Doctor Who: The Interstellar Song Contest
My first thought was
oh, Doctor Who has tieflings now
and then my second thought was
hmmm, people with horns can refer to antisemitic caricatures
so my third thought is
that is going to add a layer of complication to the interpretation then.
The Eurovision but in space setup did do the thing of showing a lot of silly and then landing on politics and protest. I liked that. Taking it seriously amid the camp and confetti canons.
And the Hellions were at least a bit complicated, not all same same like the goblins.
I feel like the main intended referent for them was the Doctor? He explicitly said he was triggered by the attempted mass murder in this one, he mentioned the genocide of the Time Lords again, called himself the Last of the Time Lords. And here are some other survivors of genocide, and they act in a variety of ways in response to that. The anger and hurting people was in the Doctor too. So I think that was the intended layer, the unfolding of how that affects him.
In the same episode they reintroduced not one but two other Gallifreyans.
Well, three, now bigeneration is a thing, but that means the Doctor and the Doctor are like, joint Last?
I liked seeing Susan again but the lighting and close ups really emphasise how much she has changed. Still the same lifetime but a long one. I hope we get to see her properly too.
... the Doctor's promise on the TV stands at 'I will come back', its only in audios he has already, so any TV would do deciding on if to refer to audios.
I liked the crowds at the song contest, the variety of lives, the fancy pattern skin and the cat lady and all. I liked that they mentioned Trion. It remains convenient that so much of the universe looks Time Lord.
The nurse with his scanner being all 'two hearts, show off' and then figuring out how to help was a good bit. They keep mentioning the two hearts bit. I don't know if it's a coincidence of lore or if there's going to be payoff, possibly to do with the big reveal at the end.
I'm not sure I liked the bigeneration or even regeneration, it seems like the payoff is going to a younger actress? Unless there's going to be two time lords to fight on the good guys side, then it has potential.
I realise I am under a spoiler cut but I keep on being vague about the Big Reveals and then realising there is no degree of vague that is vague enough, so, Watch The Episode First, there is surprises.
The main plot with the terrorist attack on the song contest and the survivors running around trying to out their skills together to Save the Day was a bit disaster movie but mostly Doctor Who corridors? I like it when the Doctor pulls everyone's skills together and isn't just the all knowing. And he needed saving a reasonable amount. And they made clear he was in just as much danger as everyone else out there, if not more, they got revived but his biology would have complicated that.
I felt they played fair enough with setting up useable elements before they used them, cryo revival seems like a big joke to start with but then tada. Also the 'not again' bit is dire warnings by the end.
I liked the confetti canon bit but I have to imagine the physics wasn't quite what it seemed out there. I listened to an audio with a bit where Evelyn was lost in space by unclipping a safety line and being all of an inch too far away to clip back on, making swimmy motions just added spin there. But the canon itself should work fine so I'll just figure it worked from how everything was moving at once.
Opening the airlock doors for him should have swooshed him away again a bit but again there's ways that could work so okays.
... criticising the physics on Doctor Who is very pointless I just got distracted turning parts around in my head.
ANYway, I liked that couple and them working out their relationship issues through disaster management, and the Doctor saying he met that guy at Brighton Pride, and the one guy being all 'I'd do anything' to him, and then his partner being like, okays, me too, throuple it is. In the fun subtext version anyways.
I kept noticing how many moments there were no white people on screen. This is a very big improvement. I remember when a black kid I met was very young I was going through my DVDs wondering what he should watch and I realised I'd have to be all 'This one is great! Everyone who looks like you dies, but aside from that, this one is great!' (I did not say that, I just studied cultural studies and realised I had been not noticing many things.) Well now there's Doctor Who with many people who look like many people, and that is great.
Also there was a short person playing a character that did not have to be short. That doesn't happen half way often enough. Was good here.
Oh drat, I just checked the internet for something and found a review that was in essence complaining 'this 47 minute children's show went fast and was obvious'. I mean, yes? You bold print things for family viewing.
I liked how I could see what they were going to do with the museum but it was still a surprise to them to hear the hologram explain this was all gathered up from the ashes. Proper dire cliffhanger stuff.
And now I'm distracted enough I'll stop writing this because I forgot if I was going anywhere in particular.
I liked the episode. I watch TV with the sound pretty much off and the subtitles on so there's a whole layer to this one I mostly wasn't getting, but Noise is Difficult, so.
I think it did good with setting and characters.
oh, Doctor Who has tieflings now
and then my second thought was
hmmm, people with horns can refer to antisemitic caricatures
so my third thought is
that is going to add a layer of complication to the interpretation then.
The Eurovision but in space setup did do the thing of showing a lot of silly and then landing on politics and protest. I liked that. Taking it seriously amid the camp and confetti canons.
And the Hellions were at least a bit complicated, not all same same like the goblins.
I feel like the main intended referent for them was the Doctor? He explicitly said he was triggered by the attempted mass murder in this one, he mentioned the genocide of the Time Lords again, called himself the Last of the Time Lords. And here are some other survivors of genocide, and they act in a variety of ways in response to that. The anger and hurting people was in the Doctor too. So I think that was the intended layer, the unfolding of how that affects him.
In the same episode they reintroduced not one but two other Gallifreyans.
Well, three, now bigeneration is a thing, but that means the Doctor and the Doctor are like, joint Last?
I liked seeing Susan again but the lighting and close ups really emphasise how much she has changed. Still the same lifetime but a long one. I hope we get to see her properly too.
... the Doctor's promise on the TV stands at 'I will come back', its only in audios he has already, so any TV would do deciding on if to refer to audios.
I liked the crowds at the song contest, the variety of lives, the fancy pattern skin and the cat lady and all. I liked that they mentioned Trion. It remains convenient that so much of the universe looks Time Lord.
The nurse with his scanner being all 'two hearts, show off' and then figuring out how to help was a good bit. They keep mentioning the two hearts bit. I don't know if it's a coincidence of lore or if there's going to be payoff, possibly to do with the big reveal at the end.
I'm not sure I liked the bigeneration or even regeneration, it seems like the payoff is going to a younger actress? Unless there's going to be two time lords to fight on the good guys side, then it has potential.
I realise I am under a spoiler cut but I keep on being vague about the Big Reveals and then realising there is no degree of vague that is vague enough, so, Watch The Episode First, there is surprises.
The main plot with the terrorist attack on the song contest and the survivors running around trying to out their skills together to Save the Day was a bit disaster movie but mostly Doctor Who corridors? I like it when the Doctor pulls everyone's skills together and isn't just the all knowing. And he needed saving a reasonable amount. And they made clear he was in just as much danger as everyone else out there, if not more, they got revived but his biology would have complicated that.
I felt they played fair enough with setting up useable elements before they used them, cryo revival seems like a big joke to start with but then tada. Also the 'not again' bit is dire warnings by the end.
I liked the confetti canon bit but I have to imagine the physics wasn't quite what it seemed out there. I listened to an audio with a bit where Evelyn was lost in space by unclipping a safety line and being all of an inch too far away to clip back on, making swimmy motions just added spin there. But the canon itself should work fine so I'll just figure it worked from how everything was moving at once.
Opening the airlock doors for him should have swooshed him away again a bit but again there's ways that could work so okays.
... criticising the physics on Doctor Who is very pointless I just got distracted turning parts around in my head.
ANYway, I liked that couple and them working out their relationship issues through disaster management, and the Doctor saying he met that guy at Brighton Pride, and the one guy being all 'I'd do anything' to him, and then his partner being like, okays, me too, throuple it is. In the fun subtext version anyways.
I kept noticing how many moments there were no white people on screen. This is a very big improvement. I remember when a black kid I met was very young I was going through my DVDs wondering what he should watch and I realised I'd have to be all 'This one is great! Everyone who looks like you dies, but aside from that, this one is great!' (I did not say that, I just studied cultural studies and realised I had been not noticing many things.) Well now there's Doctor Who with many people who look like many people, and that is great.
Also there was a short person playing a character that did not have to be short. That doesn't happen half way often enough. Was good here.
Oh drat, I just checked the internet for something and found a review that was in essence complaining 'this 47 minute children's show went fast and was obvious'. I mean, yes? You bold print things for family viewing.
I liked how I could see what they were going to do with the museum but it was still a surprise to them to hear the hologram explain this was all gathered up from the ashes. Proper dire cliffhanger stuff.
And now I'm distracted enough I'll stop writing this because I forgot if I was going anywhere in particular.
I liked the episode. I watch TV with the sound pretty much off and the subtitles on so there's a whole layer to this one I mostly wasn't getting, but Noise is Difficult, so.
I think it did good with setting and characters.