Re: Doctor Who: Joy to the World

On 26/12/2024 15:40, Hornplayer9599 wrote:

On 12/26/2024 09:04, Blueshirt wrote:

Festive fun with the 15th Doctor...and plenty of schmaltz.
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"Joy to the World" is probably one of the 15th Doctor's
strongest stories (so far) in terms of the actual story, with
Ncuti's performance being just right for this heart-warming
festive episode.

 Yes this was, on the whole, a solid story.  That being said, I'm not

Solid in like leaking like a sieve as if it were written by a 4 year old child that thinks a sieve being made of solid materials can hold water.

expecting the best Who stories to take place during the Christmas episodes...but this was a good one.
 

The least you can expect is for them to adhere to the basic laws of physics including conservation of energy, gravitation, nuclear physics, and not deliberately create unresolvable paradoxes and just brush them of because the writer is a total retard that thinks the entre audience is stupid.

 

I liked the Time Hotel concept, where its visitors can open
doors to time portals (instead of rooms) and all of human
history is now available as mini-breaks for tourists. The
timey-wimey technobabble was par for the course too, but it
didn't overshadow the story.

 At this point we probably sub-consciously expect the timey-wimey stuff to be there and we just mentally tone it down to keep it out of the way.
I did like the Time Hotel.
 

The entre premise of a Time Hotel undermines the entire plot since if you have enough energy to permit time travel why do you need to make a new star? Why doesn't Villenguard have time travel technology of its own? You'd think the biggest arms company in the galaxy would have developed it first and used it to start wars to sell more weapons. And what is the point of building a weapon that can destroy entire solar system when doing that will wipe out the nations of planets you are selling weapons to? Steven Moffat is an absolute degenerate woke moron who has no understanding of what he is writing about.

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A lot of the pre-episode hype featured Nicola Coughlan as Joy

The fat woman was a moron.

but for me Anita was the better companion substitute. The scenes
with the Doctor and Anita were the real heart of this episode.

 There was good chemistry between the Doctor and Anita...I was surprised
that the Doctor didn't invite her to be the new companion in the TARDIS

Then he'd be a bigger pervert than he is already. How old is he again? 2000? 3000? How old was she? How can a relationship with such an age gap be appropriate? Does he see her like a human would see a pet hamster?
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Sure, that possibility is still on the table for the season proper, and I think that it would be a truly missed opportunity if they don't have him swing back to the hotel and bring her onboard.

You mean swing back to being straight. Why does he need to spend the whole entire year when it's a completely different hotel in a completely different country he needs to travel to in order to access the time portal? Why doesn't he travel to London as ask David Tennant to borrow his TARDIS instead? He's nothing more than a degenerate tease, as well as a slut, a slag, and a whore.

 As for Joy, it seemed that, for the most part, she was there "just to be there" until she started talking to the briefcase at the end (for lack of a better description).  Other than that, there wasn't a whole lot for her to do...even as filler material.
 

She was there to give morbidly obese people representation. Now I realize that calling her fat is an insult to fat people.

 

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Some people might not have liked the ending, some people might
not have even noticed the sub-text, or cared... but for a
Christmas Day episode something like that was to be expected,
especially once we knew the story was about a star. (Plus, the
"no wonder there was no room at the inn" line fore-shadowed
this.)
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Overall I'd rate "Joy to the World" 7/10.

 Yeah, 7/10 is a good call.  Some of the *minor* things I would also mention is that they got the year wrong at the end (0001)...and...like

You think it should have been 6 or 4 BC instead?
Why only 4 digits? Are they insinuating that the world ends before they year 9999? Or are they just trying to avoid AD to be racist to Christians? Why didn't the retards just use the Roman year instead? The 754th of the foundation of Rome?

in last year's special, it looks like Gutwa drank about 50 cups of coffee before he went in front of the camera and was completely wired on caffeine.  Yes, part of that is the pacing of a one episode story (which

You mean the pervert can't act in a serious manner. His entire range is limited to slut, slag, tease, and whore.

I've never been a fan of, preferring multi-episodic stories, but they aren't going to change that anytime soon, so...).  But just get the Doctor to slow down just a bit, and things won't feel so rushed, and there can be more time for character development.

They don't want to develop characters, or science, or reason, or logical and rational thinking. They want to sexually indoctrinate and groom children by causing to act and behave based on inappropriate and irrational feelings and emotions which they are not permitted to resist. Look at how the morbidly obese women could not resist committing suicide and what it represents as a metaphor.
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