Well, someone’s clearly put the wrong attachments on that one. Who puts a drill and a saw on a cleaning robot?
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Same guy who put a plunger on a war-torn travel machine?
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All were going to see is people like you post the same thing for another 7-8 years after you claiming the same stuff over and over
Edit: misread, I apologize but your right people will be like that
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I watched this last night with my wife, who got back into the series around the 60th and she’s a Ncuti fan. She said that the episode didn’t really grab her.
I quite enjoyed it, although neither of us was in a great place to really appreciate it last night. We were both pretty exhausted. I’d give it a solid 7/10. The plot was serviceable and intriguing. I lost track of quite how many bootstraps it contained, but it wasn’t as elaborate as some of the Moffatt Timey Wimey ones. I liked Belinda, and I really enjoyed her telling the Doctor off, as he expected her to be OK with getting a DNA scan and being whisked off on an adventure. His presumption was a smaller echo of Alan’s and was a nice way of questioning the show’s treatment of women over the years.
I’m glad that the plot challenged incel culture a little, although it felt a bit heavy handed and incidental. I felt that there must be a way for Doctor Who to really explore why some men pick up these views and how to challenge them as they arise, rather than just making a nod to the fact that such entitlement seems to exist.
The episode looked amazing and had some stunning visuals. I did find myself wondering how it could be realised on an old show budget and I reckon it could have been done in a 70s studio based multi camera environment with minimal changes to the script. I know it’s important for it to look good to be competitive, but it wouldn’t make any difference to me, if things looked a little cheaper. But that’s a fan view, and perhaps a bit of wishful thinking in that I feel it doesn’t need the bells and whistles that are so costly and coould easily be made to please a smaller audience on a low budget. But that’s not how TV is made these days.
Anyway, I’m looking forward to Belinda and the Doctor having seven more adventures together and I hope that one day that we might have some more of them after that.
Edit: I loved the “polish polish” bot!
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I thought it was great. Solid 8/10 and much better than Space Babies.
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(Why are folks so enamoured by the polish polish bot? It doesn’t have a particularly cute design, and the repeated “polish polish” isn’t particularly funny[1]. I don’t get it this time…)
though much better than “gadget gadget” which was a bit ridiculous and slightly annoying… ↩︎
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Different strokes for different folks. I didn’t mind Gadget, I found Handles and Scoot quite fun, but I don’t get the adoration for K9 
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I just think it’s cute 
I think different people probably have different feelings on what is or isn’t cute
And I do think the polish polish bit is fun so it’s probably just different tastes
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I’ll catch up with the show again once a few episodes have dropped. I don’t plan on reviewing any more.
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Both of you are quite right of course 
I just would like to be a part of that shared love 
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You, sir, have no taste! This must be a Danish thing
We love cute, innocent robots! Like BB-8 from SW!
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That’s because BB-8 is cute
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I finally watched the episode. I rather liked it, I’d rate it a 7.5/10.
It was fun, I really liked Belinda (though I agree with most people about the dangerous decision to let the robots know where they were) and I like that she calls the Doctor out on some of his more toxic behaviours (testing her DNA without her consent, treating her as a mystery to be solved…) These aren’t knew things for him and it’s nice having someone point it out to him, especially in an episode about consent.
My main issue is with the pacing. We were introduced to a whole planet that seems to have an intersting history but we don’t see any of it, we are interesting to a lot of character the Doctor seems to know well and love but Sasha dies shortly after, Manny sounds childish and Belinda doesn’t really get to know any of them.
And the whole thing with Alan is solved with a cool visual effect and that’s it. And we’re told he’s in pain from the machine but I couldn’t understand if it was meant to make us feel sympathetic or that he wants to be put out of his misery or what…
I don’t mind only 8 episodes per season but I think that 10 more minutes in this episode might have helped deepen things a bit.
And the Doctor pulling the lever 178 times annoyed me. Clearly there’s something wrong, you have a sentient ship, at least talk to her instead of just pressing the same buttons again and again and again…
But it got me intrigued for the rest of the season so yay!
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Well, in an old school version, it would probably have been 4 25 minute episodes, first off, with a cliffhanger at the end of each episode, which would have changed things a bit.
I’m imagining the first episode would’ve been the first 6-7 minutes of this one expanded, with the cliffhanger being Belinda being kidnapped.
For the planet, probably decorate up some old office building for interiors, which would mean we’d have more rooms then this one. Obviously we actually get Pex this time. Polish Bot gets Chumbley treatment, and the robots are robots of death robots.
Second episode can be from the arrival up to Sasha 55 dying as the cliffhanger. Third one ends with the Alan reveal, I think, though part of me wants to make it 5-6 parts and add more between the escape from the throne area and return. There ought to be at least an episode of running back and forth in corridors…
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And the worst bit is that I’d have looooved that even if it looked tacky and a bit shit 
I think I love 80s Who too much haha
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He’s just a smol, innocent bean in a cruel, heartless world. While all those around him are dying, he’s just there being an inspiration to us all 
(I just think he’s cute)
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Scoot really grabbed me when he was waving his stupid little floor buffers around, little stupid creature i lov he
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Believe me, I would too.
And on second thought, rather then an office building, use an old hospital, because then you could use the same hospital as in the first episode, just majorly redecorated.
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This reminds me - if you’re eagle eyed enough, you’ll spot that the house Belinda lives in looks very similar to Donna’s house from the 60th.
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