It's been SOP for season finales going back to at least Army of Ghosts/Doomsday to have the season's penultimate episode have everything going to heck and then the Doctor fixes it in the actual finale.Even the schedule is a spoiler! Clearly, The Doctor is able to delay the end of the Earth for a week.
Spoilers Doctor Who s15 (or 2) [[spoilers!]]
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I put Mrs Flood into an anagram generator and got these that seemed at least somewhat interesting:
Old forms
Sold from
Sold form
Lord of Ms (or maybe Lord Mofs?)
None of the anagrams included "Dr" so I tried it with Ms Floo and adding Dr myself, and the only halfway interesting one was Fool Ms Dr.
Yup. Also see: Star Wars, D&D, the upcoming Superman movie, James Bond, or any other genre property. It's all the same deluge of obnoxious rage-bait YouTube videos and Facebook articles.
Fandom is irretrievably broken.
Belen
Legend
It's not fandom. It is social media and algorithms used to manipulate. The fandom is fine outside of a general inability to disagree or debate in a healthy way and that, again, comes from weaponized social media and algorithms.
Necropolitan
Hero
What's the point of The Pantheon as villains now that Sutekh's dead?
He was their leader, planned to eliminate all life throughout all of time and space, and had the power to kill anything, every other member of the Pantheon's a lesser threat compared to that. Lux could just as easily have been a powerful alien being, why make him a god?
Also what's with this rule that Pantheon members have to say how they can be beaten? When did The Doctor learn it? Sutekh, The Mara, The Gods of Ragnorak, etc. didn't have any rules that I can see, so why act like it's something that applies to all of them?
I really want to like the new Doctor Who, but the insistence on ever-escalating threats (as mentioned previous seasons would have room to breath between world/universe-ending threats), mystery boxes and never-resolved dangling plot threads, and gloating over how 'Clever' they are sucks the fun out of them.
He was their leader, planned to eliminate all life throughout all of time and space, and had the power to kill anything, every other member of the Pantheon's a lesser threat compared to that. Lux could just as easily have been a powerful alien being, why make him a god?
Also what's with this rule that Pantheon members have to say how they can be beaten? When did The Doctor learn it? Sutekh, The Mara, The Gods of Ragnorak, etc. didn't have any rules that I can see, so why act like it's something that applies to all of them?
I really want to like the new Doctor Who, but the insistence on ever-escalating threats (as mentioned previous seasons would have room to breath between world/universe-ending threats), mystery boxes and never-resolved dangling plot threads, and gloating over how 'Clever' they are sucks the fun out of them.
I’m not sure Lux was ever a threat. I mean, when you’re the god of light but are defeated by sunlight, you’re pretty easy to defeat.
And what was his plan? To put everybody on film? It seems he was a threat to those 15 people in the cinema, but hardly a world threatening plot.
And what was his plan? To put everybody on film? It seems he was a threat to those 15 people in the cinema, but hardly a world threatening plot.
Necropolitan
Hero
Lux wanted to set off all the nukes so he could absorb the light from them.
And yeah, his plan was apparently:
1. Trap people in film reels.
2. ???
3. Somehow set off all the nukes.
If The Doctor hadn't showed up and somehow had all that regeneration energy still inside him Lux would have still been stuck in the theater.
RTD even had the fan characters point it out in the meta scene.
As long as the nukes don’t blow the roof off the cinema and show him the sun… it’s a silly plan! Is he unaware of the sun?
Necropolitan
Hero
That's the thing, it only makes sense if Lux somehow knew The Doctor would show up so he could drain his regeneration energy and create a body immune to the sun so he could then go and launch all the nukes without needing to worry about sunlight.
And yet Lux only found out about The Doctor's regeneration energy AFTER The Doctor showed up and used it to heal his burns.
The problem is Moffat and RTD have made The 15th Doctor's episodes be all about Rules, but they're terrible at consistency and ensuring the plots actually make sense. All too often characters do things because they need to do them for the plot to happen as opposed to them making sense in-universe and nothing seems to actually stick.
I know I keep saying it, but there needs to be consistency. The Doctor went from weeping over killing Sutekh (who had killed everyone in all of time and space in cold blood) last season finale to laughing, joking, and dancing over Al's death during this season's first episode.
Sure Al was awful, but I don't think anyone is going to argue he's more awful than omni-genocide.
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Elodan
Adventurer
I really appreciated that The Doctor didn't cry this episode.
Belinda has been great so far. It's refreshing to have a companion who challenges The Doctor. We haven't had that since Donna.
I'm hoping the Mrs Flood is Romana or some other Time Lord. I'd like to have them come back. I miss their pompousness. The last of the Time Lords has been played out. Let's do some more mad person in a box.
Belinda has been great so far. It's refreshing to have a companion who challenges The Doctor. We haven't had that since Donna.
I'm hoping the Mrs Flood is Romana or some other Time Lord. I'd like to have them come back. I miss their pompousness. The last of the Time Lords has been played out. Let's do some more mad person in a box.
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