I'm so glad to see your thoughts on this episode. I really wish the ODWP didn't change hosts, as y'all were the best. I loved the episode, and i think every once in a while, Doctor Who earns the right to be crude and this silly. I loved it. The scene where the babies asked if they were wrong and admitted they had never been hugged made me well up.
Wasn’t he the latest grumpy phase of The Dr? Even people IRL change their mind on what’s silly, more so a fictional character that has different personalities and has a “younger” era
I just didn’t vibe with the talking babies and weird moving lips 😅 I think it would’ve worked better if they had been telepathic or something. The voice acting was obviously hard to match to the “acting” of the babies. On the other side the Doctor and Ruby’s relationship building was cute. I think it reached a great stable point until The Devil’s Chord though, and probably because the actor who played Maestro was incredible and really brought up some great energy.
Before even watching the video all I see is "this was odd" . This in the same show that hat babies made of fat. DOCTOR WHO is best when it's Odd. I loved everything about both of these episodes and I can't wait for the future of their show to continue.
I loved your review! Pretty much what I thought myself, and I understand your PoV for the points my opinion was different. And yes, the bogeyman realization was an incredible scene! I was just confused for a while because I'm not a native speaker so I didn't knew what "bogey" was. Yes to the Doctor and companion dynamic being pretty platonic, I love it! I think the very first episodes on each season tends to be more or less in the same formula, we can't have the full adrenaline right in the beginning but it also has to be a good taste of DW. It's far better intro than "Rose", for exemple, that one almost made me drop the series right at the beginning (fortunately I gave it a second chance because I fell in love with the Doctor as a character). I'm excited for your Devil's Chord review, I just just watched it earlier and it was phenomenal! It's a pleasure to find a review that isn't over negative as so many said "Whovians" tend to be nowadays.
Yeah glad to hear your thoughts mate. I wasn’t a fan to be honest, felt very kid focused as you said yourself. I didn’t find it endearing and the babies didn’t work for me. It felt a bit boomerish (not in a mean way), like they kind of thought lol random XD would be enough to get everyone chuckling. That said I loved the performance from Ncuti and Millie. My honest thought was if i wasn’t a lifelong fan, i would have turned it off by 30 minutes. Too much exposition dump, and not at all serious (and it shouldn’t always be serious but when it all feels silly there’s nothing to hold me in). As you said yourself, devils chord was a lot better. Look forward to more reviews, and would love some retrospectives on older series!
But I loved when The Doctor sort of enjoyed scaring the children and shouting “bogeyman!” made me laugh. I grew up with a lot of cousins/older siblings and they would revel in scaring me with the Daleks. It was like a full circle moment 😂
What a heap of shrill, nauseating ill conceived crap. Apart from the utter ridiculousness of this entire load of bollocks, I think the entire episode is summed up by The Doctor's "solution" to the problem at the end. Having established that the space station is a stationary object, incapable of travelling anywhere and would therefore mean that it had no form of propulsion, navigation, etc, he essentially uses the contents of a pile of soiled nappies to initiate a methane gas explosion (I kid you not) to thrust the ship into space, with no guidance and navigation system and -crucially- no brakes. As woefully ill conceived as all that preceded it, this ending, however, is a fitting metaphor for what Doctor Who has become of late - let fly with a pile of shite and hope for the best. The only reason I'll be watching Episode 2 is the it features The Beatles. I pray my TV doesn't have a hole in the screen by the end.
I’ve seen a theory floating about that Ruby might have some kind of reality bending/manifestation power and that’s why the butterfly effect suddenly became a thing. Thoughts?
I'm so glad to see your thoughts on this episode. I really wish the ODWP didn't change hosts, as y'all were the best. I loved the episode, and i think every once in a while, Doctor Who earns the right to be crude and this silly. I loved it. The scene where the babies asked if they were wrong and admitted they had never been hugged made me well up.
Didn't the Twelfth Doctor comment on the silliness of prefixing everything with "Space..."?
Wasn’t he the latest grumpy phase of The Dr? Even people IRL change their mind on what’s silly, more so a fictional character that has different personalities and has a “younger” era
I’m here for the long form quality content😍🙌🏽🙌🏽 Loved this review baby!!
I just didn’t vibe with the talking babies and weird moving lips 😅 I think it would’ve worked better if they had been telepathic or something. The voice acting was obviously hard to match to the “acting” of the babies.
On the other side the Doctor and Ruby’s relationship building was cute. I think it reached a great stable point until The Devil’s Chord though, and probably because the actor who played Maestro was incredible and really brought up some great energy.
Before even watching the video all I see is "this was odd" . This in the same show that hat babies made of fat. DOCTOR WHO is best when it's Odd. I loved everything about both of these episodes and I can't wait for the future of their show to continue.
THANKS for this!!!! Good point on The Doctor speaking baby!!!
I loved your review! Pretty much what I thought myself, and I understand your PoV for the points my opinion was different. And yes, the bogeyman realization was an incredible scene! I was just confused for a while because I'm not a native speaker so I didn't knew what "bogey" was.
Yes to the Doctor and companion dynamic being pretty platonic, I love it!
I think the very first episodes on each season tends to be more or less in the same formula, we can't have the full adrenaline right in the beginning but it also has to be a good taste of DW. It's far better intro than "Rose", for exemple, that one almost made me drop the series right at the beginning (fortunately I gave it a second chance because I fell in love with the Doctor as a character).
I'm excited for your Devil's Chord review, I just just watched it earlier and it was phenomenal!
It's a pleasure to find a review that isn't over negative as so many said "Whovians" tend to be nowadays.
Yeah glad to hear your thoughts mate. I wasn’t a fan to be honest, felt very kid focused as you said yourself. I didn’t find it endearing and the babies didn’t work for me. It felt a bit boomerish (not in a mean way), like they kind of thought lol random XD would be enough to get everyone chuckling. That said I loved the performance from Ncuti and Millie. My honest thought was if i wasn’t a lifelong fan, i would have turned it off by 30 minutes. Too much exposition dump, and not at all serious (and it shouldn’t always be serious but when it all feels silly there’s nothing to hold me in). As you said yourself, devils chord was a lot better. Look forward to more reviews, and would love some retrospectives on older series!
I really liked the first two episodes of the new season and I am so excited for the rest of the series!
Agreed. Space babies! Felt a bit much.
Ok, so I have a theory of why it was snowing…but that leads to the next episode so when you release that maybe I’ll say it
But I loved when The Doctor sort of enjoyed scaring the children and shouting “bogeyman!” made me laugh. I grew up with a lot of cousins/older siblings and they would revel in scaring me with the Daleks. It was like a full circle moment 😂
What a heap of shrill, nauseating ill conceived crap.
Apart from the utter ridiculousness of this entire load of bollocks, I think the entire episode is summed up by The Doctor's "solution" to the problem at the end.
Having established that the space station is a stationary object, incapable of travelling anywhere and would therefore mean that it had no form of propulsion, navigation, etc, he essentially uses the contents of a pile of soiled nappies to initiate a methane gas explosion (I kid you not) to thrust the ship into space, with no guidance and navigation system and -crucially- no brakes.
As woefully ill conceived as all that preceded it, this ending, however, is a fitting metaphor for what Doctor Who has become of late - let fly with a pile of shite and hope for the best.
The only reason I'll be watching Episode 2 is the it features The Beatles. I pray my TV doesn't have a hole in the screen by the end.
Yeah more nurse who crap.
I’ve seen a theory floating about that Ruby might have some kind of reality bending/manifestation power and that’s why the butterfly effect suddenly became a thing. Thoughts?