Am I a bad person for wishing the cast of Doctor Who had turned this week’s episode into a Bollywood musical?
I got bored around the time the spoiler died, mostly because I honestly don’t give a flying fuck about the partition of India and Pakistan, and the writer clearly thinks I should, having the Doctor play Woke-ipedia with the number of displaced and dead, etc. As the fishwrap I linked to last week puts it, this fits in with “Doctor Who’s new direction under new showrunner Chris Chibnall to increase diversity”.
Silly me, I thought your job was to increase entertainment. Y’know, for ratings, merchandise sales, loyal fan-base even…
Anyway, I just finished watching it after pausing on Sunday, and it was: preach, preach, preach, power-walking villains, preach, preach, extreme close-up, power-walking “heroes”, moral lesson, awwwww.
And how many people are playing collect-the-dead on Earth now, anyway? Do these retired demonic assassins compete with Missy and Testimony? Do they take turns?
Next week? Amazon Prime… In Spaaaace! They’re the villains, of course.
Best thing about this week’s episode? Young Umbreen was stunning.
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I only saw a few minutes of the episode near the end, and haven't gotten around to watching it on demand yet. Did anyone (other than Yaz, who'd actually have reason to know about it) gush about having a Partition t-shirt and/or how they studied it extensively in school?
Thankfully, no.
It was dull.
Steven Moffat would have just gone ahead and had Yaz's grandfather killed. Come to think of it, Steven Moffat would have had Yaz's grandmother run out to protect her husband and get shot in his place. Undo the previous five episodes and start the season again, only now everything is completely messed up.
And the villains would have been Weeping Angels, with yet another retcon of their powers!
-j
Probably true, unfortunately.