Oh god is Poppy going to talk next episode?
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This very much depends on how next week plays out, but Iâm not holding out much hope. RTD loves his weird Doctor Who technobabble nonsense.
Minor note, but does every villain these days have to be camp and have a dance number? 
I think this needs a rewatch.
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Rogueâs âtables donât do thatâ was giving Jackâs âbeware the lone Cybermanâ for me⌠thatâs not a good thing 
And if he could send the Doctor a message why not tell him his location??
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I liked seeing Rogue again (and it was nicely built to, with the earlier stuff about how itâs wrong for the Doctor as a man to like other men, then suddenly doubts creep in and Rogue pops up, etc) but it was a bit strange to see him in a VFX Hell Dimension, probably never to be seen again now, and very convenient he could send just one message.
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It might be one of the most ânothingâ episodes of Doctor Who ever, so much going on and so overstuffed but I canât recall a single thing. The God of Wishes was an afterthought when that couldâve been an interesting villain in its own right, and it builds up to an obvious cliffhanger where the Doctor learns the world isnât real then the world collapses.
Conceptually an interesting episode but itâs less than the sum of its parts
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Is he in gay super hell 
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Maybe heâs taken a visit to the Inferno Club.
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Other than a couple of examples of the usual needless excess that makes me cringe (sorry, we never need big TO BE CONTINUEDS) that was a solid episode.
It eased into its setting and built in such a better way than last yearâs first part. It felt like it had more confidence as a result. People are prone to say itâs only part one of two and so you canât judge an unfinished story (I was told off for not liking Legend of Ruby Sunday on those grounds) but thatâs never held water for me. Itâs an episode of broadcast television, even a part one needs to be good set up. I didnât think Legend was at all, whereas this I think did a strong job.
Yeah, it helped that there was no embarrassing Sue Tech/Sutekh parallel, Omega is just a big bad (clearly explained as an early Time Lord who was lost) the Rani is looking for, which leaves part two in a strong position to pick this up.
Conradâs prejudices influencing the world was a great way of offering a crack in it as well as highlighting still what an arsehole he is.
My expectations were low, Iâm aware, but nevertheless I enjoyed that much more than I expected to.
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I spent a lot of the episode just a little bewildered. Which isnât necessarily bad. Lots of questions raised, but it was pure build-up with no action and, as much as RTD tries to acknowledge and explain it, exposition. âI need to tell you the whole planâ â sure thing, okay, now youâre letting the audience peek behind the curtain at how this is pure dialoguey nonsense.
Nice visuals though. Bit Marvelly.
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Initial thoughts are that the episode is a complete mess, and not even a rushed (Slightly fun in the chaos) mess like Wedding of River Song. Itâs far too boring and drawn out for that. The idea of the wish world itself is interesting enough with the concept of doubt being used to fuel the âgatewayâ, but otherwise the episode is just incredibly half-baked.
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RTD loves his sci-fi nonsense apocalypse stories, thatâs for sure.
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How many times has London been destroyed in RTD2? 3 now? I was like âoh yeah thatâs getting undone yawnâ
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Shades of The Star Beast when London started cracking open⌠and then when the day is saved, London just magically uncracks and reverses and everything is fine
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Its like how a single Dalek is always far more of a threat in the narrative than a billion. The greater the destruction or menace, the less the actual stakes are because you know nothing will stay permanent.
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I do wonder if nobody, at any point, saw the script and said, âhey Russell â donât you think thereâs a bit much going on here? Two Ranis, bigeneration, Poppy, Rogue, the god of wishes, the end of the world again, and you wanna throw Omega in there too?â 
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Especially since the only real things revealed in this episode were Omega and the God of Wishes. The rest was just spent getting the characters back to where they were when they last had their memories. Now we only have one episode to wrap everything up.
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That was my overriding thought. I sort of understand why the episode went the direction it did, to move all the pieces on the chessboard, but it felt like passing time until midnight / May 24th. And the Doctor is only the Doctor for 2 minutes at the end.
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