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Joy to the World
Jan. 8th, 2025 05:55 pmIt seems customary in my Internet bubble to preface reviews of Christmas Specials with a general disclaimer apologising for the genre as a whole. I quite like them, though there was a point where I wearied of Victorian Christmas planet.
Joy to the World is an odd one within the genre. The first not to be written by the current show-runner, slightly off-kilter pacing, sudden biblical references... No Victorian Christmas planet though - so that's a plus!
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There are at least three Christmas specials I would rate below this and at least three I think are easily better than this. So middling?
Joy to the World is an odd one within the genre. The first not to be written by the current show-runner, slightly off-kilter pacing, sudden biblical references... No Victorian Christmas planet though - so that's a plus!
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There are at least three Christmas specials I would rate below this and at least three I think are easily better than this. So middling?
The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death
Jul. 17th, 2024 07:11 pmOK, so The Legend of Ruby Sunday/Empire of Death didn't make a lickspittle of sense, but I'm not sure why anyone thought it would. Well, I suppose, we had vaguely hoped that RTD might have learned a bit of restraint and matched it with a stronger sense of plot coherency but, honestly, nothing about the season up to this point had suggested "restraint".
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Anyway, it was fun. It would have been nice if it could have been a bit tighter and had more of a logical thread through it, but I wasn't really expecting it to so I wasn't really disappointed.
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Anyway, it was fun. It would have been nice if it could have been a bit tighter and had more of a logical thread through it, but I wasn't really expecting it to so I wasn't really disappointed.
I enjoyed this well enough, but I'm not sure I was quite the right audience.
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All in all, I thought this was mostly a very standard Doctor Who episode. It was well done and I'd probably put it in the top half of the episodes this season, but I wasn't as blown away by it as a lot of fans seem to have been.
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All in all, I thought this was mostly a very standard Doctor Who episode. It was well done and I'd probably put it in the top half of the episodes this season, but I wasn't as blown away by it as a lot of fans seem to have been.
Dot and Bubble
Jul. 3rd, 2024 07:27 pm73 Yards and Dot and Bubble are very much a pair - high concept, Doctor-lite. I liked this one much the best of the two and it may be my favourite episode of the season, managing to maintain an overall internal consistency that I'm not sure any of the other stories achieved.
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Every so often, RTD, lets the mask slip and reveals, I think, that he fundamentally thinks the human race is awful and that we don't deserve the Doctor. Dot and Bubble was one of those moments and it was pretty stunning.
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Every so often, RTD, lets the mask slip and reveals, I think, that he fundamentally thinks the human race is awful and that we don't deserve the Doctor. Dot and Bubble was one of those moments and it was pretty stunning.
The world seems to be divided into those who loved 73 yards, including its refusal to explain itself and those who were very annoyed by its refusal to explain itself. I fall into the latter camp.
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Anyway, amazing episode in lots of ways. Lots to chew over. I'm just irrationally annoyed by it.
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Anyway, amazing episode in lots of ways. Lots to chew over. I'm just irrationally annoyed by it.
Yes, I'm behind.
Whatever you think of Boom and, broadly speaking, the Internet seems to be positive, there was a subtle sigh of relief when Doctor Who returned to something a bit more normal-for-Doctor-Who - though the fact that a high-concept episode like this felt like a return to normality says something about the two episodes that preceded it.
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It was a very solid episode. At the time many people were confidently talking of it as the highlight of the season, but given what has come since, I think it will in retrospect look like something of a filler episode. High-concept Doctor Who but not as high-concept as any of the stuff that surrounds it.
Whatever you think of Boom and, broadly speaking, the Internet seems to be positive, there was a subtle sigh of relief when Doctor Who returned to something a bit more normal-for-Doctor-Who - though the fact that a high-concept episode like this felt like a return to normality says something about the two episodes that preceded it.
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It was a very solid episode. At the time many people were confidently talking of it as the highlight of the season, but given what has come since, I think it will in retrospect look like something of a filler episode. High-concept Doctor Who but not as high-concept as any of the stuff that surrounds it.
The Devil's Chord
May. 22nd, 2024 07:07 pmI enjoyed this hugely, but as with Space Babies, I've no idea what the general public will have made of it.
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Honestly, when it comes to Doctor Who, I'm usually all about the plot, but sometimes something is just its own thing with its own logic and somehow still manages to be Doctor Who and The Devil's Chord (for me) was one of those things.
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Honestly, when it comes to Doctor Who, I'm usually all about the plot, but sometimes something is just its own thing with its own logic and somehow still manages to be Doctor Who and The Devil's Chord (for me) was one of those things.
Space Babies
May. 20th, 2024 07:09 pmA surprisingly low key start to the new Doctor Who season - and surprisingly silly as well.
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Nothing about this episode was average, but in the grand sweep of Doctor Who stories I'd probably rate it somewhere in the middle. However, given I was anticipating being a bit `meh!' about RTD2, I'm happy to be thinking "fun, but silly".
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Nothing about this episode was average, but in the grand sweep of Doctor Who stories I'd probably rate it somewhere in the middle. However, given I was anticipating being a bit `meh!' about RTD2, I'm happy to be thinking "fun, but silly".
