#s15e01

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15.01 Back and to the Future

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DOCTOR WHO | 15.01

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[cloudberrylane]

series 15:

series 14:

- JOHN: I brought in, um... - GREG: Oh, here we go. - JOHN: A sailor's hat. - GREG: Yep. - JOHN: Picture it, yeah. - GREG: I am picturing it. - JOHN: You're driving, you're driving along…You see a car beside ya…You look over at the driver, he's wearing that. Everyone's honking. Everyone loves him. You're thinking, you know, is he, is he late for his boat?  Kids banging on the window going, yeah.

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Doctor Who

Doctor Who (2025) - Series 15 Episode 1 "The Robot Revolution"

Doctor Who (2025) - Series 15 Episode 2 "Lux"

Doctor Who (2025) - Series 15 Episode 5 "The Story and the Engine"

Doctor Who (2025) - Series 15 Episode 7 "Wish World"

Doctor Who (2025) - Series 15 Episode 8 "The Reality War"

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Is anyone else troubled by the conclusion of 'The Robot Revolution', because I can't see past the idea that Belinda decided to blow herself up.

It was established earlier in the episode that there are two Star Certificates, or rather the same one from the same point in time, meaning if the two copies were to touch it would cause an explosion. This isn't implied, it's explicitly stated. "If you get the same atoms in the same space twice, the Laws of Time say no. Kaboom!"

In the final showdown the Doctor has one certificate and Al has the other. The Doctor hands the certificate he is holding to Belinda (via polish polish), who then walks up to AL and makes the two certificates touch.

From Belinda's point of view, she's just been handed a bomb by a person she barely knows or trusts and decides to use it. Or alternatively, she is influenced into sacrificing herself by blowing herself up.

Of course she survives because the Doctor rushes in and saves her, but she didn't know that would happen, did she?

This is where I feel like I am reading the scene wrong. Surely the conflict of the story was not solved via suicide bombing?!

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s15e01 -- "Back and to the Future"