The eaters of light
so like, watching series 10, i’m surprised we only got to: hey the TARDIS translates for me, in episode 10, but
Twelve SERIOUSLY talks down to people - it’s very nasty sometimes -
I just want Thirteen to do the same? we had a LITTLE bit of that when she got very annoyed in It Takes You Away - and that episode rocketed up my list
Coming from Twelve it’s genuinely kind of shit what he does - kinda unwarranted and infantilising (even though they’re only trying to point out that these are kids)
but i definitely want Thirteen to do this more. please. also mostly BECAUSE she’s a woman, now
anyway i think this episode is kinda uh shitty. and i thought that when i started it and then quit it. it’s still fun. i like the costuming. i like the concept a bit.
but it’s all kinda uh awkward, though the characters are instantly sympathetic
but i do love the theme of ‘running isn’t cowardice, it’s being afraid, and fear isn’t wrong, it can save you, it doesn’t need to make you cruel, in fact, it can help you not be cruel, because it binds you together’
great theme
twelve is like the epitome of tough love. breaks you down and up again...bit like a commander huh....the oldest in the room. some nice echoes there
can i just say - great diversity in the eppie, love that historical accuracy
‘he basically always ends up being boss of the locals - usually by annoying them’ lol yeah more of that
love that Kar got to call em romans out as terrible imperialists. love how the episode keeps expounding on that
love that theme. 'once everybody understands each other, everybody in the universe just sounds like children’
‘it feeds on light’ but it also kills people...for some reason? turns your bones to mush. for some reason? (edit: because ‘it takes the ‘light’ the chemical effect that light has on human bodies, out of you lol)
do love that idea of a pict fighting for 70 years in time dilation. uh but questions: the doctor was inside for 2 seconds, which translated to 2 days. in other words. 1 year is 365 days is then 365 seconds, which is 6 minutes thereabouts. which means that the pict would have to fight it 60 minutes to allow the next generation to send in somebody else. but we’ve seen these creatures swallow a human in less than a minute. and the pict wouldn’t be able to kill it? do they just close the cairn and let the creature starve? but theres time dilation and then why even send somebody in? and if they both die where are the bodies? why did the Doctor not get eaten when the portal opened due to dawn light? Why didn’t they close up the cairn to the portal after that first one escaped? another one almost came through! why was there light in the light-eater dimension? anyway moving on
can i just say the special effects of this creature are as bad as series 2 lol
ok some questions are answered...the pict is supposed to shine concentrated light on it to hold it and then kill it? ok but now they sent it back into the void, arguably the picts could have also done that? so it EATS light, but then it also cannot stand the light? what? i need to read the wiki on this. ok so i just missed a lot of information because im not a native speaker and no subs alright alright. and the people actually go INTO the portal to fight it...because then it can’t go through. alright...
so reconstructing....a pict goes in just as the dawn hits the wall, because they’ve opened the cairn to let one of em out to let up the pressure. then this pict drives the beast back with help from the sunlight with one of the light poisoners, immediately. and jumps in after within the portal, to keep it from coming back - to fight it and they fight it in its own domain for a whole hour....why? you could just keep sending it back with your fuckin light poisoner, and open the cairn a couple of times an age - and send it back immediately, and keep sending it back until the sun goes down? this makes zero sense.
i do love these brave kids though. and how they fade - exceptional drama
and that solved it we done. lol? isn’t it a problem that the cairn fell down?? didn’t the portal need to let off steam? (how the hell are they suddenly fighting ‘forever’ with music? i thought their lifespans were too short??)
but damn that is cool though with the crows and Kar. Kar was a great character honestly.
but lets be real Missy and Twelve? ELECTRIC