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  • Опубликовано: 29 окт 2024

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  • @SallyLovejoy
    @SallyLovejoy 4 месяца назад +34

    My take on the slugs. Firstly, the dots hated the rich kids so much, they wanted them to have a terrifying death. Secondly, they got rid of the bodies swiftly. Finally, I've been watching the Doctor since 1963, sometimes the only explanation needed is - it's because it's Doctor Who!
    Also, I feel embarrassed that I didn't see that ending coming. I wrongly assumed Lindy "othered" the Doctor because he wasn't part of her social group or class! I didn't realise I was "Colour Blind" and I apologise.

    • @Scrummy64
      @Scrummy64 4 месяца назад +8

      I don't think you should be apologising because as a whole, that's the correct way to be - seeing other people as simply _people_ regardless of race, gender etc.
      After all, the penny only dropped for the Doctor and Ruby at the same time as it did for the rest of us, and the Doctor himself was the victim.
      I think the episode just illustrated what a catch-22 the whole situation is. The ideal society would be an equal and harmonious one, but then harmony makes it easier for evil to slip through the cracks. Kindness is always a virtue... until kindness becomes naivety, and naivety is an enabler

    • @calebleland8390
      @calebleland8390 4 месяца назад +6

      ​@@Scrummy64 Well said. I, too, was completely color blind, and didn't pick up on the blatant racism until the end. And it's so obvious, but yeah, like OP, I missed it because I just took it as spoiled rich kids being horrible.

    • @beejamjam
      @beejamjam 4 месяца назад +5

      I didn't see it either! I'm glad it's starting a conversation in the fandom, and showing why "I don't see race" can sometimes be okay but isn't always the best approach in a society where we have to recognise the injustices in the first place to be able to root them out.

    • @badfairy9554
      @badfairy9554 4 месяца назад +2

      It hit me when Lindy's friend said Voo Doo. Still shocked. It was a good show.

    • @MrRjhyt
      @MrRjhyt 4 месяца назад

      Yup, yup, just invent your own head canon, to fit.

  • @djpookie2000
    @djpookie2000 4 месяца назад +32

    I've enjoyed every story this season. The show has never looked better. I wish there were more episodes a season. Mindhunter is a great show.

    • @bennettnez4711
      @bennettnez4711 4 месяца назад

      Ok is Mindhunter why everybody is so excited for Jonathan Groff? I'm enjoying every episode as well, but I won't lie I do not fully understand the Rogue hype yet, and I could not care any less about Groff. The way people talked about it made me think he was another Neil Patrick Harris level get, then I looked him up and he was in freaking Glee and Frozen. So is it all Mindhunter?

  • @bennettnez4711
    @bennettnez4711 4 месяца назад +19

    Watching crispy talk about Ricky September is just like looking at the Spidermen pointing at each other meme

  • @guy3854
    @guy3854 4 месяца назад +39

    imagine being cast for doctor who but your role is professor piss

    • @bennettnez4711
      @bennettnez4711 4 месяца назад +2

      Please. It's *Doctor piss. 😂😂

    • @brewster_4
      @brewster_4 4 месяца назад +4

      Can't wait for big finish to make a multi box set Finetime series where Dr. Pee meets Jackie Tyler, the Master, and the cast of Class, and fights in the Time War.

  • @roros9422
    @roros9422 4 месяца назад +6

    i feel like the point of the slugs is to show how stupid and oblivious these ppl are that they are all dying to a thing that is fairly easy to get away from if they actually cared

  • @PapaLuge
    @PapaLuge 4 месяца назад +5

    felt like an episode straight out of 2008 but modernised for 2024, a feeling i havent felt since WBY, i've enjoyed this series alot but this epsiode has felt the most like that vibe out of the 5 so far, even from the cold open feeling straight out the RTD era 🙂

  • @colerains
    @colerains 4 месяца назад +3

    Personally I like the solo reviews. Your podcast is great for the group opinions, but it's nice to have a reflection that's just your own thoughts

  • @mrikegeeksout4345
    @mrikegeeksout4345 4 месяца назад +3

    I was really scared when we started with space babies but so far every episode since has been better and taken a unique idea on

  • @MorbidGod391
    @MorbidGod391 4 месяца назад +7

    14:10 maybe the Dot find irony in using their influence over these humans, and literally walking them to their deaths?

  • @B-MC
    @B-MC 4 месяца назад +8

    I've been thoroughly confused the last two episodes because ... 73 Yards I cautiously enjoyed watching but hated in hindsight. Dot and Bubble I hated watching but cautiously appreciate in hindsight. So... they're actually both in the same league to me. Some really good stuff in them, both better than Space Babies, but both frustrate me for different reasons. 73 Yards was more entertaining, Dot And Bubble had more subtext. I have major reservations for both but they also both bring some really interesting conceptual stuff (parallel for when an ideal companion has to fend for themselves, parralel for when antithesis companion has to fend for themselves) Both were interesting for their experimental nature and both suffer from a lack of Doctor/Ruby foundations before we got them. Both feel half-baked to me despite some powerful gut-punches.

    • @bennettnez4711
      @bennettnez4711 4 месяца назад +2

      Ncuti and Millie absence aside, the lack of context or information in some of the episodes has been bothering me too. Not just 73 Yards, although that's an easy one to point out. I assume RTD is doing the one trick he has up his sleeve for a season arc where he puts hints in every episode. Bad Wolf, Harold Saxon, now it's Susan Twist. This time it just really feels like he is over doing it. I'm at the point where I'm banking on a reveal so significant that it fills in 15-20% every single previous episode of the season, and I don't like that anywhere near as much as spotting a Bad Wolf

  • @paulhammond6978
    @paulhammond6978 4 месяца назад +4

    At the end, I was confused about where the slugs came from, and what they were doing.
    With Ricky September, I felt like he was like the stand-in Doctor for this episode - especially when he was the guy holding Lindy's hand and running! but I did also get an "is this too good to be true? Should we be trusting this guy, or is he somehow involved in the bad stuff that is happening here?"

    • @calebleland8390
      @calebleland8390 4 месяца назад

      Yeah, I had the thought that, somehow, Ricky was involved. But then Liddy gets him offed and I hope she gets eaten by something really nasty in the wild.

  • @davidmellor3074
    @davidmellor3074 4 месяца назад +4

    The Doctor introduces himself with "My name is Doctor Who." We don't normally hear that?

    • @pjmisley
      @pjmisley 4 месяца назад

      Yeah wtf??

  • @MorbidGod391
    @MorbidGod391 4 месяца назад +4

    13:50 🚨 spoiler point 🚨:
    Is Dot the bad guy? Maybe the Dot was trying to rid the universe of their racism, and was tired of their self centered behavior?

    • @bennettnez4711
      @bennettnez4711 4 месяца назад +4

      No matter how racist or tasteless somebody is, that alone doesn't justify murder. So, yeah, murder makes you the bad guy, even if you murdered an undesirable. Genocide of an entire planet (even if they are rich, disgusting racists) is also evil. The Doctor can be your barometer for that. He knew that these people were shitty, he still tried to save them. He has seen real evil and knows the difference between that and people being severely stupid or ignorant to the point of racism.

  • @andyfournier5343
    @andyfournier5343 4 месяца назад +1

    Surely the slugs were tractators from 1984's 'Frontios'?

  • @ChrisKeziahHyde
    @ChrisKeziahHyde 4 месяца назад

    This is probably the episode I've enjoyed the most (so far).
    I liked the social commentary on social media and racism, it was perfectly balanced and nuanced.
    For a Doctor-lite episode it actually worked better for me than 73 yards handled it. I think it works better if you know that the doctor is there but they just can't interact in the same way (like Blink).
    Honestly the twist at the end was great and although I didn't initially expect it but had suspicions leading up to the twist.
    Ncuti was again phenomenal proving how good he is at playing the Doctor. Handled the scene brilliantly despite it being his first.
    Gave me Inside No. 9 vibes more than Black Mirror (Inside No. 9 is a better version of Black Mirror)

  • @SebTheNoob314
    @SebTheNoob314 4 месяца назад +2

    Also great stream! Super happy I got to watch live

  • @brassle
    @brassle 4 месяца назад

    ya a 7.5 sounds like a good rating, when the season started the episodes are getting alittle better, the doctor light episodes seem to be the best breaking out of the funk that doctor who has been in, maybe hope it will find its place again.

  • @Blue_Grass_Girl
    @Blue_Grass_Girl 4 месяца назад +2

    His name was Ricky September

  • @cyanscholar5498
    @cyanscholar5498 4 месяца назад

    ”sounds like voodoo” I didn't even catch the meaning on my first time through omg. I'm honestly so glad they had this episode

  • @pjmisley
    @pjmisley 4 месяца назад +2

    I really think the mystery and nostalgia of dr who has been completely lost. And the same writers that i used to love are to blame. All they care about is social awareness, new age commentary. I remember watching episodes of tennant, smith, even Capaldi and feeling at the end like "wow that was powerful yet fun and whimsical." Amazing moments that defined the character and made you think "now THAT is what Dr. Who is all about."
    No more.

  • @unclegumbald989
    @unclegumbald989 4 месяца назад +1

    Cool cameo by you as Crispy September! 🤘

  • @ozdocwho5177
    @ozdocwho5177 4 месяца назад

    When the Doctor came to the tealisation that they were dying in alphabetical order, he says that the creature's had to have been created. Then he realises that the Dot is behind it, so the inference is that the Dot created the creatures.

  • @craigcampbell1347
    @craigcampbell1347 4 месяца назад +1

    Looking back at all the worlds the Doctor has had adventures on, which ones do you think were segregated just based on the viewing?

    • @cernik9
      @cernik9 4 месяца назад +1

      The one with ood brain? 🤔
      Edit: maybe no😂

    • @craigcampbell1347
      @craigcampbell1347 4 месяца назад +1

      Like, would Sontar be racist? They are a genderless clone species. Actually, there are a lot of “anti-diversity” villains in Doctor Who. Daleks, Cyberman, Sontarans, etc

    • @bennettnez4711
      @bennettnez4711 4 месяца назад +3

      Earth is #1 with a bullet

    • @craigcampbell1347
      @craigcampbell1347 4 месяца назад +1

      I think Human Nature is my favorite, “addressing the elephant in the room” episode.

    • @cernik9
      @cernik9 4 месяца назад

      @@bennettnez4711 new new new new new .... Earth? 🤔

  • @leeci33
    @leeci33 4 месяца назад +3

    Ugh! I overslept and just missed seeing this live!

  • @MrRjhyt
    @MrRjhyt 4 месяца назад

    I assumed the slugs lived in the forest they were warned about. As for the dots being able to kill their audience, yeah, that's a plot hole, though I can imagine a degree of deniability, or some other head canon can fill that in, maybe some cut scene explained.

  • @kevin10001
    @kevin10001 4 месяца назад +1

    Even though the racism read is valid about the ending of the episode my read was more classism than racism cause since it was established that since they are rich kids they were given there own bubble to live in where they could essentially do what they want with the agreement that they do an assigned task for 2 hours then they could have the other 22 hours of the day to do what they wanted and while living in there collective bubble they live in there smaller personal bubbles that makes them oblivious to the world around them so much that they it is possible that the home world could have been using them as food for the slug like creatures caused they are on constantly in there bubbles and wouldn’t notice the creatures being around eating them and the survivors not going with the doctor said that they knew better cause they are rich and are better than then him cause they perceive him t9 be poor but it’s not really explained how the regeneration seemly has money when the doctor especially in the modern era doesn’t seem to have money like having to sonic the atm to get money for Donna in the runaway bride

    • @quindecim7507
      @quindecim7507 4 месяца назад

      It can be both, you know. Racism and classism are not mutually exclusive concepts.

  • @JasonDWitte
    @JasonDWitte 4 месяца назад

    I don’t think Ricky is the Doctor in disguise, but he’s very Doctor coded

  • @ingvillchristensen5108
    @ingvillchristensen5108 4 месяца назад +1

    I think that Dot an bubble was a good episode.
    😊😊

  • @markfernkopf5133
    @markfernkopf5133 4 месяца назад

    I would absolutely love to catch one of these live , but you streamed at 5am this morning and 4am two weeks ago. Noone is awake at that hour! So very unamerican of you lol 😛

  • @dangerman5617
    @dangerman5617 4 месяца назад

    Bowlestrek (Blowstreak) = Lindy Pepper-Bean.

  • @MrRjhyt
    @MrRjhyt 4 месяца назад

    Dr. Pee was intriguing, I'm guessing that was meant to be an AI creation, rather than an actual friend. Andother comment on how superficial their friendships were.

  • @ianwoodall4523
    @ianwoodall4523 4 месяца назад

    Its been spiky. hated everything up to Boom. Then loved 73 yards. Dot and bubble good but not great.

  • @austinhale5699
    @austinhale5699 4 месяца назад

    This episode was an ok episode. I feel like the first half was very slow and boring since it was nothing but just talking in a bubble. Once ricky joined it turned the episode around. Ricky to me symbolized people who are willing to change and lindy symbolizing people who are just to stuck in their ways. You could even tell she was conflicted a bit in the end but her stubborness and her friends made her give back into her bad behavior and lead her to death. Its a 7/10 for me.

  • @dalilam3994
    @dalilam3994 4 месяца назад +2

    I genuinely did not expect to see so many comments of people liking the episode. I was shocked to see a better reception to this than Space Babies 😬
    I liked the ending and the micro aggressions throughout. I also liked Callie Cooke’s performance and many of the themes the episode was going for but (to me) they deserved much better execution than they got. I was just so bored throughout, that I don’t even want to watch it a second time, it already felt 3h long the first time and the visual effects, the costumes, the dialogue just felt cheap to me (like a first draft, not like a finished product) it was just not fun to watch. While it was thought provoking it just had so much wasted potential it was genuinely hard to watch.
    But please feel very free to disagree! I’m just genuinely baffled so many people enjoyed it so much. I am jealous of those who did, because I really wanted to and thought I would enjoy this episode.

  • @TheTechOrc
    @TheTechOrc 4 месяца назад +2

    12-13 episode seasons please! :)

  • @me-li8kd
    @me-li8kd 4 месяца назад

    What I don't get is why the Doctor who is an alien thinks the aliens who are killing other aliens are doing so based on the alphabetical order in English. That doesn't make much sense.

    • @WastedPo
      @WastedPo 4 месяца назад

      It's also silly that the Doctor speaks English and is always played by a human being. Very unrealistic.

  • @hipstersephiroth3722
    @hipstersephiroth3722 4 месяца назад

    Thank you being so kind all mighty loving God help me and these people to become more like u

  • @FloorDoughnut
    @FloorDoughnut 4 месяца назад +1

    personally i stand with comrade dot and the anti colonialist slugs

  • @moonlightdragondc
    @moonlightdragondc 4 месяца назад

    I think the episode was fine, there are a few minor things that i could normally mostly ignore, for example why the dots used the slugs if they could just kill them alone, but my main problem is that it doesn't feel like a doctor who episode to me which just sours the whole experience for me. I dont know why that is exactly or why that bothers me so much, wish i could just enjoy the episode but i don't.
    On top of that the twist doesn't feel like a twist to me, they are horrible people that are also racist, they were already horrible. Personaly I think Voyage of the dammed was better with the rich investor being the one to survive
    Sorry for the rambling I'm writing this while im sick
    Long story short I'd give it an about an 5/10
    If you liked it that's great! I just didn't.

  • @badfairy9554
    @badfairy9554 4 месяца назад

    Is Susan Twist now mad at The Doctor?

  • @subbtopp
    @subbtopp 4 месяца назад +2

    Loved this ep give 8. Love ncuti and millie

  • @ianwoodall4523
    @ianwoodall4523 4 месяца назад

    However overall Who is back. RTD HASN'T lost it

  • @ANGEL_BOB_YT
    @ANGEL_BOB_YT 4 месяца назад

    It reminds me of VR Apple to be precise

  • @mrikegeeksout4345
    @mrikegeeksout4345 4 месяца назад

    I’m very torn between 7 or 8 for this episode

  • @360sickness
    @360sickness 4 месяца назад

    Don't stop watching game of thrones, yes the last season is complete dogwater but the rest of it is a masterpiece on levels with breaking bad.

  • @martynnotman3467
    @martynnotman3467 4 месяца назад

    Ive loved every episide except the Babies one

  • @JesusGarcia-ii6it
    @JesusGarcia-ii6it 4 месяца назад

    Slugs where garbage disposal.

  • @fc8240
    @fc8240 4 месяца назад

    73 yards better than dot and bubble... but liked episode.

    • @fc8240
      @fc8240 4 месяца назад

      Ranking: Boom, Devil's cord. 73 yards, Church on Ruby Road, Dot and Bubble, space babies...
      Luv the silence...

  • @ANGEL_BOB_YT
    @ANGEL_BOB_YT 4 месяца назад

    Do they know she has a wig on will we all have them in the future they still haven't found a cure for intentional hair loss

    • @rhodriwilliams2599
      @rhodriwilliams2599 4 месяца назад +1

      I think that was more to show everyone was so fake

  • @MrRjhyt
    @MrRjhyt 4 месяца назад

    A challenging introduction for Ncuti! I thought the twist for the final scene was The Doctor saw Lindi's betrayal of Ricky. He was certainly aware of their bigotry and disappointed in their lack of humanity. As their true bigotry was revealed his pain that they couldn't overcome their bigotry to even save their lives was beautifully portrayed.

  • @calebleland8390
    @calebleland8390 4 месяца назад

    I commented on Jesse Gender's review that I was kinda lukewarm on this episode, and thought it might be a 5/10 at best. But the last 10-15 minutes was brilliant. Somehow, I wasn't catching the blatant racism from Liddy (in my defense, I had just gotten home from work when I watched it), but after reading other people's comments, I went back to the episode and realized what Russell was doing, and it's completely amazing. I still think I like Boom best this season, but this would be my third favorite after that and 73 Yards. Also, I'm weird, but I enjoyed Space Babies. Not a fantastic episode, but I had fun watching it.

    • @MrRjhyt
      @MrRjhyt 4 месяца назад +1

      I have a nightmare head canon for 73 yards, where Ruby's time repeats and repeats, like Groundhog Day, or Heaven Sent. Except we only see her final evolution once she's worked things out, what to do, and so forth. I know there's no evidence for it. But a few cut scenes might exist, or an early draft.

    • @calebleland8390
      @calebleland8390 4 месяца назад +1

      @@MrRjhyt that story certainly could have been a two parter. Lots of possibilities for such a scenario.

  • @ThatGuyCalledSteeve
    @ThatGuyCalledSteeve 4 месяца назад

    For me this episode was a 7/10, the beginning was pretty silly and at times cringy but in a good doctor who way that had me laughing and the ending is already one of the best doctor performances ever. My main issue with this episode is that it tries to tackle too much at once (social media, class, segregation/racism) so by the time you get to the ending as much as I loved it, it starts to feel like a bit too much. Still an enjoyable episode though

  • @Paul_Ernst
    @Paul_Ernst 4 месяца назад

    i dont buy the whole "Ncuti wasnt available so they had to work around it". There is NO reason why they had to start shooting over a year in advance of screening dates. They could have just waited a month and then shot the whole season in plenty of time.

  • @yester30
    @yester30 4 месяца назад

    Go slugs!

  • @connorhuested
    @connorhuested 4 месяца назад

    My ranking of the season so far
    6. The Church on Ruby Road (3/5)
    5. Space Babies (3/5)
    4. The Devils Chord (3.5/5)
    3. 43 Yards (4/5)
    2. Dot and Bubble (4.5/5)
    1. Boom! (5/5)
    All the episodes are incredibly enjoyable, very much enjoying the ride.

    • @bennettnez4711
      @bennettnez4711 4 месяца назад

      Space Babies isn't last? Respect on having an opinion wow!

  • @CeceSaysHi_950
    @CeceSaysHi_950 4 месяца назад

    You look like Ricky September

  • @Chris-jg3km
    @Chris-jg3km 4 месяца назад

    was a 5/10 became a 6/10 because of the ending

  • @concerned_citizen1857
    @concerned_citizen1857 4 месяца назад

    Whoa I'm early

    • @SebTheNoob314
      @SebTheNoob314 4 месяца назад

      I was earlier 🤫🧏‍♂️

  • @charlesharris6697
    @charlesharris6697 4 месяца назад +2

    This new season is full of color full of life but with that being said the doctor it's not the doctor he seems more like a coward on this season and the doctor is not a coward his companion has done more...

    • @rhodriwilliams2599
      @rhodriwilliams2599 4 месяца назад +1

      What makes you say he's a coward?

    • @charlesharris6697
      @charlesharris6697 4 месяца назад +1

      He's literally run from some of the bad guys he's hardly in any of the episodes really and you got to remember the doctor is the doctor no matter what body he's in and to me he just saying acting like the doctor at all..

    • @rhodriwilliams2599
      @rhodriwilliams2599 4 месяца назад

      @@charlesharris6697 running from bad guys is a classic trope of Doctor Who. We've had a couple doctor light episodes which are some of the best like Blink, Turn Left, etc. But also we had Boom where he's the sole focus. I'm not saying your opinion is wrong just can't really see where you're coming from. And with the Coward thing I'll take you back to Eccleston "what are you? coward or killer?" "Coward. Any day."

  • @HSzL4rB
    @HSzL4rB 4 месяца назад

    Icl this whole season has been a stinker apart from Boom imo

  • @MorbidGod391
    @MorbidGod391 4 месяца назад

    34:28 the flux was consistent. It was consistently trash. It only had one good episode, so it strayed from being trash a little bit.
    But mostly trash.