Episode Discussion: The Story & the Engine

Television Doctor Who (2023-)
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This thread contains open SPOILERS for the episode The Story & the Engine. Please only discuss this episode here, use the other threads for discussions about future episodes.

Prequel: What I Did On My Holidays By Omo Esosa

The fifth episode this season is called: The Story & the Engine

Written by Inua Ellams
Directed by Makalla McPherson

This’ll be posted the day before the episode, so you can speculate and such before it comes out here.

Just for fun, add your rating here (after you’ve watched it):

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Excited for this one other than the fact I’m gonna have to have my eyes shut for the bloody spider bits!

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I’m trying not to keep my hopes too high bc I don’t want to be disappointed but this looks EXACTLY like my kind of thing! Really looking forward to tomorrow :star_struck:

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Really really excited for this one!!

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I really like the vibes of this!!!

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I’ll admit, I completely forgot this was coming out tomorrow.

This has actually been happening each Friday for the past few weeks lol

For some reason I’m not excited for new Doctor Who as I feel I should be.

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I have a busy day tomorrow, so I don’t know when I’ll be able to watch it. I hope as soon as possible!

But it looks great! This is one of the episodes I have been eagerly waiting for.

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I don’t want to have really really high hopes and get disappointed, but I’m very excited for this episode, from what we’ve seen it looks exactly my thing

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@sircarolyn Your reminder that the episode is tomorrow NOT today!

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*fifth episode, fake fan Tian smh

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I know next to nothing about this one so it’s going to be interesting no matter what

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Unless we’re including Joy to the World in the season count

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Very excited. I must admit, I have no Idea what to expect? Tone? Could be anything. Story? No Idea. And that’s what probably excites me the most. I made no Secret that outside of one Episode, this season hasn’t impressed as much with its Stories, sadly. While I enjoy 15 & Berlinda quite a lot, and I am yet to be ‘wowed’ by one of their Episodes, I hope it’s this one. Not familiar at all with Ellams Writing Work, but I am very excited about this one.
I will say my Hopes for this one has been scaled down, still I have a good Feeling about this one, and I really hope I am not wrong! Bring it on!!

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:saluting_face: I was only a teeny bit confused today! Helped that my friend is back home and they went to work today haha

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After the disappointment of last week but the pretty solid run before that, I am cautiously optimistic. Hopefully I’ll actually get to review this on the day rather than almost a full week later.

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Yeah I was counting JttW. That is definitely what happened!

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This is the episode I’ve been most excited about all season

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I am just enjoying this season so very much.

I cannot see how the little prologue short story fits with the giant space spider from the next time clip at the end of last week’s episode. And that almost intrigues me most of all about tomorrow’s episode :grin:

I’m starting to get ideas about where the finale might be heading, but I am hoping Mrs Flood gets just a bit more than a “Susan Twist moment” this week.

Hype train! Toot tooooot! :tada:

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Just read that free lil prologue thing for the episode.

Some nice artwork and the story was alright. But I thought the kid was 10 or 11ish, not 13. And I’ve never known a kid go “can’t do that, I’m just a child!” They either get defensive about being a child, or they just kinda stand there and go “uhhh what?”

I know everyone writes differently no matter their age but can’t help but feel that the adult who wrote it also severely underestimated how well a 13 year old can write.

Then again, it’s a free lil thing (yay!), and probably not worth it for a professional writer to pad it out a bit considering pay and everything.

Still, a nice treat and intro for tomorrow.

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This is it. Don’t let me down Inua Ellams. Restore my faith in Doctor Who.

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