Ryujin
Legend
Indeed. In fact it brings back memories of my favourite episode of TOS, "The Omega Glory", in which Kirk caps it off with a speech about the US Constitution. You can't be more on-the-nose than that.
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Necropolitan
Hero
They could have just had Conrad release the Shreek because he claims it's fake and that's how he got his arm bitten off, but apparently it was necessary to further paint Kate Stewart as unfit for her position.
It happened to an antagonist so the audience is supposed to ignore the fact that the head of UNIT flagrantly abused her power and nearly murdered someone.
Also she's dating a much-younger subordinate, uses child soldiers, and goes off gut instinct for hiring people rather than doing even basic background checks, but murder is worse than that.
The current fan theory is Mrs. Flood is causing The Doctor's adventures to turn back on themselves and that's why this season's got so many callbacks, references, etc.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
I also heard it, just after the speculation that Gatwa was leaving at end of this run. Mrs Flood might be linked to incarnations of that ththe Doctor preceding William Hartnell and Susan
Hussar
Legend
Heh. Well, thank you for that. At least my brains haven't entirely fallen out of my ears.
For those who are looking at this episode and reacting strongly, that's largely the point. There are no "good guys" and "bad guys". They were looking to stir up people talking about the show and went straight for the jugular here. People are going to be talking about this for a long time.
But, just in case people forgot, the last "Earth Protection Agency" was Torchwood. No, not the Jack Harkness one, the one before that. Y'know, the one that had the PM of England murder thousands of aliens who were running away? The one who let the Battle of Canary Wharf happen? That Torchwood?
UNIT also gave us the Oster Hagen Key (sp). It's not like UNIT hasn't shown itself to be very ruthless from time to time.
Necropolitan
Hero
That's bad.
People should be talking about Doctor Who because it's a good show, not because the showrunners are deliberately starting controversies.
The focus on driving social media engagement has been a net negative for the show with the resulting focus on mystery boxes and doing things purely for shock value.
I'm leaning toward Flood = Rain = Rani. But that's pretty much exclusively based on the name and the fact that she seems aware of Time Lord stuff (particularly the TARDIS).
But... I'm not as familiar with pre-9th Doctor lore, but my impression is that the Rani was very much a cold calculating scientist type – as in, "I'm going to run this experiment and see what happens, and while I don't want the people of this planet to die, I don't particularly care if they do." And that's not the vibe I'm getting from Mrs. Flood. And RTD's been doing a lot of stuff with names and anagrams, but I'm thinking this might be a red herring, similar to how S. Triad = TARDIS was last season. So I don't know.
Tonguez
A suffusion of yellow
Yep thats a good encapsulation of the Rani, and while Id love to see her back, not getting Rani vibes from Mrs Flood (except for her sinister turn in the Christmas special)
trappedslider
Legend
Didn't the 9th Doctor also leave someone with an implant from the future knowing what would/might happen to him?
Necropolitan
Hero
And according to the comics doing so ruined that former companion's life, resulting in him teaming up with The Master for revenge.
Ah yes, the famously non-political Doctor Who.
Who never rants at people telling them all the ways in which they are wrong.
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