Doctor Who Social Club
A community for discussing all things Doctor Who.
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Upcoming Episodes
| Date | Episode | Title |
|---|---|---|
| 05-03 | 2x04 | "Lucky Day" |
| 05-10 | 2x05 | "The Story & the Engine" |
| 05-17 | 2x06 | "The Interstellar Song Contest" |
| 05-24 | 2x07 | "Wish World" |
| 05-31 | 2x08 | "The Reality War" |
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I thoroughly enjoyed this, a promising start to the season. Did the main story feel a little rushed? Yes, but that got us the setup for the rest of the season arc, #getBelindahome — and a bit of TARDIS chat over the console. I've missed that, and I hope we see more of it.
I'm a little irked by the flashy visuals that must have taken a good chunk out of the budget. Missbelindachandra One looked so shiny and superfluously detailed that you'd think it was rendered for a cinema screen. And the colour grading, particularly in the rebel bunker, looked ironically like the gold tinted, oversaturated colour schemes of "AI" generated imagery.
[Edit: To be clear, I find it odd that the current priority is to make each episode look like an overproduced blockbuster movie, when the same budget could feasibly go into more episodes. But that's my pet peeve.]
Is that going to spoil a perfectly fine DW episode for me? Nooope.
One thing I forgot to mention: is it just me, or was there a very confusing edit in the middle of the scene in which the rebel base was under attack. They were taking fire, shit was going crazy, and then...it was dead calm while we saw Belinda reactivating the floor polisher. Which I guess was a flashback?
I honestly didn't catch any discontinuity there. I'll try and spot it when I rewatch the episode.
Watching it back, I think I was bumped by the fact that Belinda decides to turn herself in while the area is being shelled, and they then cut immediately to her going to the polishbot, but the attack is over by then.
Yeah, there's not much conveying "whew, that's it for now" apart from the change of background soundscape. A small oopsie, you're right.