Episode Discussion: Lux

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Does seem like a strange omission. Maybe it was in one of the spots you can’t see, since there were definitely shelves you couldn’t get a good look at.

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The News Come Out!: Russell The Davies Does Hate Chris Chibnall And Thinks His Era is WOKE !!!

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After reading other comments here I think I need to rewatch the episode and to evaluate it based on what it was and not what I expected it to be. I think there’s also a couple of things I either missed or forgot by the time I came to write my response. Clearly Mr Pye is spelt like that and not like ā€œJonathan Pieā€; I thought it was a tribute! Anyway, I think this is ripe for a rewatch so I can see what other people have spotted in it.

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Has anyone else still got Mr Ring-a-Ding’s song stuck in their head?!

Maybe Maestro should have conquered the world by having a really annoyingly catchy jingle get stuck in everyone’s head until they went mad.

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In Alfred Bester’s ā€œThe Demolished Manā€, people used catchy jingles to block espers from reading their minds!

Eight, sir; seven, sir;
Six, sir; five, sir;
Four, sir; Three, sir;
Two, sir; one!
Tenser, said the Tensor.
Tenser, said the Tensor.
Tension, apprehension,
And dissension have begun.

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Jo Grant also does something like that to stop the Master from hypnotizing her!

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Might be where Doctor Who got the idea from. The Demolished Man actually won the first Hugo award, predating Doctor Who by 10 years.

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I was right!!

They missed the very obvious Slitheen and Ood though

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This will haunt so many children’s nightmares, I love it​:joy::joy:

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My dad watched this episode with me and we both agreed it was so good; but it reignited his passion for Doctor Who.

He went back to Season One (he left off after The Devil’s Chord), and he right enjoyed Boom and 73 Yards, when otherwise dismissing them for being bad without watching.

We all told him that Boom was something he’d love (he adores anything Moffat), and it’s lovely not being the only adult in the family who genuinely likes the show still :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes:

This is as opposed to my mum who, when I brought up how good Lux was and how I was really impressed by it- went on a rant about how she stopped watching after David Tennant ā€œtransed his kidsā€, and covered her ears and went ā€œblah blah blahā€ if I responded to what she said with anything other than transphobic support. I politely told her not to bring up politics in the first place if she can’t handle discussing these things maturely, and that the episode was great, and didn’t feature David Tennant or a trans person.

…the cherry on the top though was that I clarified ā€œapart from the Doctor, who can change genderā€, to which mam responded,

ā€œWell, that’s a bit different.ā€

:melting_face:

(Apologies for this becoming a bit of a vent, but I keep watching edits of Lux too, just a great ep).

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Why? The pre-broadcast figures haven’t exactly been the greatest either. The simple fact seems to be that, for whatever reasons, it isn’t drawing in the numbers on Day 1 anymore, regardless of when and how it drops. The +7s should be more interesting.

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Would that have been too similar to ā€œThe Giggle is everywhere and in every screen we’ve ever looked atā€?

I like it though. Maestro had a lot more potential, IMO!

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https://www.doctorwho.tv/stories/lux

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Ian!

https://twitter.com/IanLevine/status/1913560788511424732

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I thought he didn’t like animations? :sweat_smile:

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What has he said now?

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Oh he actually said that he liked Lux.

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AI reconstruction of Lux coming soon from Ian.

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He still has to have some negativity (ā€œtoo little too lateā€).

Also he mentioned Blink :joy::joy::joy:

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