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Agatha All Along + Tarot cards
Bastille was right. How am I gonna be an optimist about this. Also right about eh eho eho.
A weird fever dream where you are accused of being Gotham's notorious vigilante and are arrested. Your trial comes and the judge asks you what you have to say for yourself and all you can say it is yet another desperate assertion that you are not Batman. Then several men sitting in the front row of the gallery stand up one by one and claim "I am Batman". You turn around to face all of them and it's every actor that has ever played Batman. The courtroom erupts into utter chaos.
Love the energy of the new doctor who episodes, love Ncuti Gatwa's charisma and the show's willingness to take risks. That being said I'm a bit sad we don't seem to be getting the old character focus of the og RTD seasons. I really like Millie Gibson's performance but on a script level Ruby Sunday doesn't feel like a real person to me. What drives her, what are her flaws, what's her socioeconomic background and how does that inform her behaviour, what are the unlikable parts of her, what does she want most? What's her relationship to her mother like beyond aspirationally and non-specifically positive? How does she dress when she's just sitting around at home? What might she butt heads with the doctor about???
Space Babies! Weird episode, but it had a charm. I had already prepared myself for the fact that RTD's era was notoriously camp and weird, and that I would for the first time be experiencing new episodes by him as an adult rather than as a 9-13 year-old, so it's not news to me that there would be some campy nonsense with a deeper message, and that this might be more jarring than I'm used to. The deeper themes were really thrown out (refugees, anti-abortion hypocrisy, genocide, capitalism) without being dwelt on, but that's not necessarily a problem.
The babies themselves were... a little unnerving? The mouth movements were quite uncanny, along with their voices and the general "I love you, Ruby!" of it all. I've just now made the connection that the latter puts me in mind of adverts for baby dolls.
The gunky snot monster felt very early 2000s British children's TV. If you weren't there for that, just know there was so much slime; think Slitheen exploding. I am very glad it got rescued. Nice message with the Doctor not usually running from things just because they look scary and, even though this is a creature specifically manufactured to be scary, it still deserves a shot at life.
It feels like a strange story to start with because I suspect it'll have mixed reviews. I would think you'd want a slightly more solid episode to draw people in with. Anyway, there was still a lot of thought put into making this a proper jumping off point with all its Doctor Who 101 stuff. Funny for a long-time viewer hearing it all rattled off in record time, but important to establish for new people, and I do think it's important for the show to remain accessible to people who haven't been obsessing over it for twenty years or more.
As a jumping off point, it very specifically reminded me of The End of the World. There's the big observation deck on a space station where the new companion, in her second episode and first off-world adventure, gets her phone updated so she can call her mum, in particular. The parallels to Rose are interesting, especially with the lecture the Doctor gives Ruby about how they can't travel back to meet her missing parent(s).
Speaking of that, there's some intrigue there with the snow appearing and the memory changing. I didn't like the Doctor doing a DNA scan of Ruby without her knowledge. It feels very 11th Doctor, especially when he literally scanned Amy and withheld medical information, but also the way he treated all his female companions as mystery boxes to solve without telling them. I guess we'll see what that's all about at a later point.
I'm still not completely sold on Millie Gibson, but Ncuti Gatwa is wonderful, and I do really appreciate their chemistry.
Small things:
Jocelyn was a good character, and the Nan-E filter made me laugh several times.
That place name before the Doctor turned the translation circuits off was absolutely not in English. Slightly weird way to phrase that line if it's going to be called Pacifico del Rio.
This is a very early point in the series for Ruby to get a TARDIS key! We're really speedrunning the usual steps here.
It's truly a shame that we never got to see 11, Amy and Rory interact with Jack Harkness, because we all know Amy would 100% flirt with Jack (much to the annoyance of both Rory, and The Doctor), and Jack would kindly smile at Amy, ignore her and end up flirting with Rory.
"I thought that was non-diagetic!" is now my VERY FAVORITE leaning-on-the-fourth-wall line ever.
First episode over. Now never use that baby talking cgi ever again
kind of struck me in episode one the doctor says 'why did i run? i never run away' or something. then in episode two he also runs away and ruby says 'but doctor you never hide'. ruby, he just ran away 2 out of 3 times of all your adventures you've been on - it felt like she only said that because its something 'companion of doctor' would say. anyway idk it just felt a little like careless writing to me
difficult thing about the one who waits is that figuring out is impossible because EVERYONE in this show waits . amy & rory? waited. susan? waited. jack? waited. THE MASTER?? waited. running theory that tye one who waits is just gonna be like a melted together monster of everyone in the show
Susan mention? Susan mention? SUSAN MENTION?!?!??
Remember:
There's always a Twist at the end.
eleven and the ponds are like. they're his parents. he's their dad. they grew up together. he's their third. they reshaped his understanding of love. he's married to their daughter. it's fine don't worry about it.
hey guys iāve seen no one else say it. but can we talk about the scene in space babies with ruby at the huge wall window, looking out at space, commenting on humans surviving, as the doctor watches from behind. how she goes āmy mum is long goneā and the doctor says āgive me your phoneā and he sonics it and she calls her and itās a silly little interaction. yeah? and then can we talk about how thatās Literally Exactly What Happened in The End of the World with ninerose. the parallels⦠gifmakers GET IN HERE NOW.
Random fact:
Bats sometimes adopt isolated or abandoned babies from their colony.
Bruce is a Bat. Gotham is his colony.
You see where Iām going with this, right?
My desperate need for a season that just fill in the last 5 years after young justice season 1. Cause why would you do a time skip like that to me. I was attached!