Who Gives A Flux
Just watched yesterday's Doctor Who.
So that's several story threads coming together now, I guess, and at least some actual explanations for what's going on and why, even if a lot still remains pretty mysterious. I feel like I should have more to say about all of that than I actually do.
Things I do have to say:
Yaz, Dan and Jericho's globe-trotting Dan Brown-esque adventures seem like they could have made for an entire six-part series all by themselves. I'd watch! Especially as that format would spare us all the as-you-know-Bob dialog we get here. Mostly, though, I'm delighted Jericho is still around and getting to participate in all of this. I love him.
I still do not love the whole Timeless Child thing. I have also decided I do not love the Division. It really is just too much. Oh, Time Lords have been manipulating the whole universe through all of of time, with every species in their employ, and now they're destroying the whole entire universe just to get at the Doctor. Yeah, somehow, all I can think of is my D&D-playing days, when we used to do these dungeon-crawling adventures, and constantly it was "And this cave is a thousand feet long and a hundred feet high, and the next cave is two thousand feet long and two hundred feet high, and..." And I just kept thinking, OMG, why. Guys, just increasing the scale does not automatically make anything more interesting. It really doesn't. In this case, it probably makes it less interesting, as there's not exactly any suspense about whether they're going to destroy the entire universe for good. Seriously, give me the Celestial Intervention Agency over the Division any day. A society with an official non-interventionist policy quietly, hypocritically interfering when they regard it as in their interests to do so is genuinely more interesting to me than this Secret All-Pervading Evil Universe-Destroying Puppetmaster stuff.
I do note that the possibility is explicitly raised that the Doctor didn't actually come through that mulitversal wormhole thingy as a kid, but was instead just hanging around near it for some reason, which does invite all kinds of wacky speculation. Honestly, the "Bel and Vinder are the Doctor's real parents" theory is looking... not impossible. I don't even know what to do with that thought. It just makes my brain kind of seize up. Possibly because I genuinely don't want to ever actually know who the Doctor's parents are.
By the way, is it just me, or was that not actually the most satisfying resolution to last episode's cliffhanger?
I did enjoy seeing the UNIT stuff, if just for the massive nostalgia hit, even if at the same time I was maybe feeling just a teensy bit impatient at getting yet another new character and seemingly unconnected storyline. Well, mostly seemingly unconnected, I guess. I am sure we've heard the "Grand Serpent" referred to before, although I can't actually recall where and when. Did one of the Ravagers say something about him? [ETA: Oh, wait, he was the evil guy Vinder was bodygaurding! Which explains why the camera totally seemed to expect me to recognize his face. Well, joke's on you, camera! I'm terrible with faces! So. OK. OK. I.... still don't know how that fits into anything whatsoever.]
Also enjoyable: the fact that, unlike any of the previous episodes of this thing, I was actually able to clearly hear all the dialog. Either my ears have mysteriously de-waxed themselves since last week, or they've actually fixed the stupid sound mixing, finally. Either way, it was a relief.
And, yeah, I think that's all I've got. Mostly, right now I'm feeling a bit nervous about next week. I think I'd lay about 50/50 odds on Chibnall pulling out some new Super Epic Retconny Revelation that's not going to work for me, but we'll see.
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So that's several story threads coming together now, I guess, and at least some actual explanations for what's going on and why, even if a lot still remains pretty mysterious. I feel like I should have more to say about all of that than I actually do.
Things I do have to say:
Yaz, Dan and Jericho's globe-trotting Dan Brown-esque adventures seem like they could have made for an entire six-part series all by themselves. I'd watch! Especially as that format would spare us all the as-you-know-Bob dialog we get here. Mostly, though, I'm delighted Jericho is still around and getting to participate in all of this. I love him.
I still do not love the whole Timeless Child thing. I have also decided I do not love the Division. It really is just too much. Oh, Time Lords have been manipulating the whole universe through all of of time, with every species in their employ, and now they're destroying the whole entire universe just to get at the Doctor. Yeah, somehow, all I can think of is my D&D-playing days, when we used to do these dungeon-crawling adventures, and constantly it was "And this cave is a thousand feet long and a hundred feet high, and the next cave is two thousand feet long and two hundred feet high, and..." And I just kept thinking, OMG, why. Guys, just increasing the scale does not automatically make anything more interesting. It really doesn't. In this case, it probably makes it less interesting, as there's not exactly any suspense about whether they're going to destroy the entire universe for good. Seriously, give me the Celestial Intervention Agency over the Division any day. A society with an official non-interventionist policy quietly, hypocritically interfering when they regard it as in their interests to do so is genuinely more interesting to me than this Secret All-Pervading Evil Universe-Destroying Puppetmaster stuff.
I do note that the possibility is explicitly raised that the Doctor didn't actually come through that mulitversal wormhole thingy as a kid, but was instead just hanging around near it for some reason, which does invite all kinds of wacky speculation. Honestly, the "Bel and Vinder are the Doctor's real parents" theory is looking... not impossible. I don't even know what to do with that thought. It just makes my brain kind of seize up. Possibly because I genuinely don't want to ever actually know who the Doctor's parents are.
By the way, is it just me, or was that not actually the most satisfying resolution to last episode's cliffhanger?
I did enjoy seeing the UNIT stuff, if just for the massive nostalgia hit, even if at the same time I was maybe feeling just a teensy bit impatient at getting yet another new character and seemingly unconnected storyline. Well, mostly seemingly unconnected, I guess. I am sure we've heard the "Grand Serpent" referred to before, although I can't actually recall where and when. Did one of the Ravagers say something about him? [ETA: Oh, wait, he was the evil guy Vinder was bodygaurding! Which explains why the camera totally seemed to expect me to recognize his face. Well, joke's on you, camera! I'm terrible with faces! So. OK. OK. I.... still don't know how that fits into anything whatsoever.]
Also enjoyable: the fact that, unlike any of the previous episodes of this thing, I was actually able to clearly hear all the dialog. Either my ears have mysteriously de-waxed themselves since last week, or they've actually fixed the stupid sound mixing, finally. Either way, it was a relief.
And, yeah, I think that's all I've got. Mostly, right now I'm feeling a bit nervous about next week. I think I'd lay about 50/50 odds on Chibnall pulling out some new Super Epic Retconny Revelation that's not going to work for me, but we'll see.
This entry was originally posted at https://astrogirl.dreamwidth.org/1017387.html. Comment here or there, whichever you like.