Re: Doctor Who S2/S15 - Ep. 6: The Interstellar Song Contest

On 26.05.25, Blueshirt  <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

Not much to say beyond: I like it!

The villain reminds me of a villain from the Highlander TV series, 
Byron. Very similar face, or expressions/manners.

Susan, nice!

Finally some genius Doctor fiddling with stuff!

The Rani? But she would recognize the blue box!

I haven't watched many Eurovision Song Contests live in recent
years, but we did always find the scoring the most entertaining
part when we did... so for "The Interstellar Song Contest" to
miss out that part of the merriment was unforgivable!

What happens during the scoring?

I hope it's not some dreadful dragged out boring procedure. If yes, then 
that's good to leave out!

[Susan]

Wow! Carole Ann Forde is back, at 84 years of age. Having her
character call Ncuti's Doctor "Grandfather" was a bit weird though.
At least William Hartnell looked the part!

Nah, not weird at all. :)

I'm not sure about the two Rani's thing, or Mrs Flood now
becoming an underling either.

Yeah, that was weird. I'd expect her to smack the younger looking one 
and tell her to take her place.

I was also hoping that bi-generation was just a once-off in the
show too... but RTD likes to hammer down on his ideas so we've now
seen bi-generation twice in a few years, after never hearing of it
for sixty years! No doubt it will rear its head(s) once again in
the future now that it has become a 'thing'. For me it was silly
fun once, but a stupid gimmick twice.

I don't mind it. Maybe if it had kept the 11th Doctor around in the 
background, I'd reject the whole idea, but it keeps 10/14 around 
forever, yay!

Also, maybe they can finally come up with an explanation where the lady 
Doctor's Master came from - some bi-generation ages ago. (I recall 
asking where he came from here some time ago, I don't remember a 
satisfactory explanation.)

There's only two episodes left of the season now, so now that
the unsurprising surprises have been revealed, what is RTD going
to throw at us in those two episodes?

Going to watch the next one right away! Hah, maybe it's a good thing 
that I didn't feel like watching this one last week.

One thing is for sure, with RTD's subtle use of the word "mavity" in
this episode, 'that' is definitely going to play a part!

I think you should have typed "subtle". ;P

No rating?

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Mickmane