What is the other show?
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Black Mirror maybe?
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The Rookie
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1.5m for Lucky Day 
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Oh no #RIPDOCTORWHO!!! Itâs all over!! What will we doâŚ
If only overnights didnât matter 
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Also, it was apparently quite a low night overall for the BBC:
Overall, it was BBC Oneâs third most-watched programme of the day, behind The Hit List Celebrity Special and Casualty. It was a low night all-round for BBC One which failed to break 2m all night.
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The snooker was on at the same time, which mightâve pulled people away
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Also as weâve seen from the +7âs and will see from the +28âs, most people in the modern age watch on catch up. Especially now itâs available early!
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I like that the finale will be dropping live basically
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Yeah this is a risk of dropping it in spring when weather is good
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I think people will watch when they want as many have pointed out in the modern age of streaming and catch up everything is down. Not making it event TV wonât help the immediate overnights but overnights do not matter
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Canât decide whether this was a 9/10 or 10/10 for me!
Literally adored it. For a Doctor Lite episode it was so so so enjoyable. Maybe Iâm biased because I love Ruby, UNIT and modern day earth-bound stories, but STILL this episode really set up so much for the finale, especially with Conrad and Mrs Flood 
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@Speechless, @Cal, @RandomJoke, @amazingamphy and others have articulated my issues with the episode well, especially with how it falls apart under any scrutiny. While the message is good and relevant, it just wasnât executed very well and was hard to engage with even while watching it the first time with my critical brain off.
TBH I found watching the Australian federal election coverage more engaging lol
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One thing I really liked was an exploration of what conspiracy theorists would be like in the Doctor Who universe. In ours, they believe aliens exist and weâre being lied to. In a world where aliens demonstrably exist, they think they donât and weâre being lied to.
The implications being that itâs a need to be lied to, or more insidiously just the need to spread misinformation to get rid of a sense of pathetic powerlessness and feel more important. Thatâs why Conrad was so infuriating for me. Rejecting the evidence of his own eyes.
Seeing the Doctor and Ruby in 2024, theyâre not doing that for an audience, clearly. Yet he chooses to commit to a lie. It was more involved a story than first glance might imply and why itâs my second favourite of the season so far (The Well still being top).
I also didnât mind Kate in this. Both she and the Doctor show their teeth to Conrad and, as someone who is increasingly becoming unfortunately convinced that the tolerance of intolerant beliefs is getting us nowhere but somewhere worse and worse, l think sometimes the heroes need to. Itâs interesting in the conversations it brings up, but do I personally think Kate went too far? No.
Do I personally think the Doctor went too far? No.
Proven by the fact that neither worked and Conrad finishes the episode the piece of shit he had been up to that point.
Rising above the enemy only works with the comfort of them being outnumbered. That doesnât look like the case any more and, as much as itâd be nice not to have to, fighting on their level is regrettably necessary sometimes, especially when the truth gets weaponised to the point where people just bluntly dismiss it.
The imagery of UNIT pointing their guns at the livestreamers is of course uncomfortable but in-story thatâs used as a weapon by a savvy villain against them. I think it possibly uses that imagery ever so slightly irresponsibly given real world parallels but does work in-universe for me. But it does muddy the waters with how the story presents everything.
Itâs therefore still a 7/10 for me after first watching and having slept on it. But Iâm thinking a lot about this episode still and it may creep up on a rewatch, who knows?
Also, Shirley rules.
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I love how 15 just snaps his fingers and he teleports him away from the TARDIS.so cool.
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âthe thlot pickensâ
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The thlot pickens?
Huh?
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I didnât read the caption apparently 
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Something which also struck me was how this mirrors Love & Monsters a little. Up until the switch, I was actually a bit âoh, this is just retreading Love & Monstersâ - kid who met the Doctor and grows up wanting to find them. Sees the Doctor and companion facing off against a monster thatâs all teeth and roars. Has a like-minded group of friends. He, up to that point was very Elton.
So the rug pull that he was the baddie and actually the antithesis of Elton was great as it subverted where I thought the story was going.
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