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TBF it's probably a rights issue but even so it's kinda crazy 😭
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Seems about right for the BBC 😭😭
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If it is, it could've spawned from the definitely improv kiss in Dinos on a Spaceship between Matt and Arthur?
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To be honest, I don't have one. But it's brought up frequently on DW Reddit pages, Tumblr, basically any fandom space, and a lot of people seem to know about it. Maybe it's just a fandom myth that's slowly been planted over time?
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Yeah. When you do a metaphor which is so close to reality and your viewpoint for most of the episode is "These people have been persecuted and need help"... Seeing the main 'good guy' torture Kid without trying to reason w him and/or disrupt the system that created him? It feels tone deaf and lazy.
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Whilst I agree with your other points, I'm pretty sure the Jenny kiss was actually improv from Matt
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I'm still thinking that all of this will have a mind robber twist to it at the end of S3...
This thinking mainly comes from me not wanting to hear Mavity for the rest of the show's future LMAO
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It's an interesting theory but I think half of the fanbase (including me) would actually flip tables if there was another bigeneration 😭
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The EBU are the broadcasting company who host Eurovision. Morrocanoil are their biggest sponsor for the contest
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It's literally a direct metaphor for Moroccanoil (an Israeli company) funding the EBU so that they turn a blind eye towards the genocide Israel are causing. If you can't see that then idk what to say 😭
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Exactly this. There was an attempt to make a meaningful episode but it fails the moment that they go for the approach they use
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RTD and Moffat can and have written stories technically as 'bad' as Chibnall... But Chibnall has/had a lower overall peak in quality. Flux was imo his peak, and that doesn't even scratch most of RTD and Moff's series
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In an episode meant to support the people of Palestine, they framed their part of the metaphor as irredeemably evil to the point where it 'broke' the doctor
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It feels like something RTD wanted to have tacked on for the sake of the finale but the writer had already finished the story. It'll probably (hopefully) come into play next week and that'll make it at least worthwhile in the long run... But it doesn't change the fact that...
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Then they make Belinda completely okay with it. One line of "omg you scared me" and she forgave the doctor? That's not the Belinda they introduced- especially considering she knew about the Hellions and their world being destroyed.
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The Doctor never tells Kid that he's wrong, he never tries to empathise, he just goes straight to torturing and that's not in his character imo. Especially considering the rest of the episode tries to build empathy with the Hellions.
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I take a lot of issues with the implications of the episode tbh. It came from a place of support but can easily read as a pro-Israel episode. If you kick a dog and then it bites back, do you blame the dog? If all you've shown kids is a world of hate, they will hate back
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Exactly this. But if they wanted to do that story, they shouldn't have made the metaphor so close to Israel/Palestine and ESC because it unintentionally comes across as pro-Israel and anti-Palestine (which the ep clearly wasn't meant to be)
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It would've been easy to fit in for sure. But honestly? Even then, it still would've been the doctor punishing a genocide survivor for lashing out which... Still doesn't sit right with me entirely
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YESSSS THANK YOU!!!
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Yeah for sure. It just felt like a lazy way to make 15 darker in time with the finale... which does make me wonder if it was in the original script or if RTD asked for it to be added for season arc purposes
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Maybe. Perhaps it's sitting wrong with me because in the metaphor of the storyline, the dude is the ISC's version of a person from Gaza with the corporation being Moroccanoil/Israel... So to see the Doctor torture someone who was persecuted (even if they were doing evil) feels wrong
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Exactly this omg
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Hopefully. It's gonna become so old so quick otherwise
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And how is that different to every other catastrophe he's ever faced? It's not the first time he's faced the prospect of losing a companion and it's not the first time he's watched thousands of people die
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That darker side of 15 has been just below the surface for a few different episodes and I've been waiting to see it surface... But this wasn't the moment. There was no big build to make him crack, it happened in a second and was explained with one line. Would've made more sense in the finale imo
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Okay, it shows his rage levels... But what about this event specifically sets off that rage? What makes it different to any other time he's faced mass death? What triggered him specifically to see Gallifrey in the crowds of a song contest? There's no depth. And it still doesn't explain Belinda
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The other thing I hated was Mrs Flood/the Rani bigenerating 💀
The 14/15 bigeneration was okay imo because it was a one off... But using it again cheapens it and doesn't make it as 'rare' as it was proclaimed to be. Honestly so disappointed
#DoctorWho
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I was looking forward to seeing where their act went coz a few moments were promising but they were just completely out of tune with their singing. Otherwise I wouldn't have minded so much.
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OKAY THE SPOILER WORKED. LET'S GOOK
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I think it's because cinemas are trying to diversify to bring in larger audiences too. The recent increase in stage performances/concerts being recorded to be shown at the cinema shows how they're not just relying on movies to bring in the money. The Eurovision final is being shown at cinemas too
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I mean every finale showing last year by me was p much sold out except for a few single seats. I loved going, the atmosphere was really enjoyable. Defo gonna do it again this time too