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Ncuti Gatwa Doctor Who and spin offs

Third episode - It was good, I was happy it didn't just copy 'Midnight' exactly. The ending felt like a bit of a cheat though? The episode establishes that the monster jumps to the person who killed its previous host and the Doctor and the other characters act like this is a binding rule so the viewer believes it. We get the visual indicator that it jumped to Belinda, so why did it end up on the other girl and not the one who "killed" Belinda? I know the explanation from nerds will be "the monster doesn't have to follow the rules" but the episode acts like it does until then. Or maybe it didn't jump to the young girl at all and that was just paranoia at the end who knows.
 
Why would the Doctor believe the entity died with Shaya? I's non-corporeal, it'll just wait around for the next host. In fact, why didn't it jump to the Doctor when Shaya jumped?? It would have been more believable to me that the Doctor would lure the entity to jump on him because he had some magic timey-wimey way to deal with it.

This was a good ep, but like many Trek eps where the universal translator suddenly has impossible abilities just to get the plot moving forward, this ep required more logical concessions than usual, almost every step of the way.
 
The well was five miles deep, he should have had a lot of time to get out. Unless she banged her head on the side on the way down.
 
Ruby just can't catch a break. The bad guy came off very Andrew Tate.

Decent episode for a doctor lite episode.

Finally for real the doctor doesn't cry in this episode.
 
I thought it was pretty bad, probably the worst since RTD returned (okay, maybe better than Space Babies.) Why do we even need a Doctor-lite episode when there's only 8 episodes a season?

Everything after Conrad turned evil was incredibly rushed and over the top. I could barely follow the montage (why was he on the fucking One Show? That's not the kind of person they have on The One Show! Why did I have to look at Jonathan Ross) and I don't think the episode made his motivations clear at all. Did he genuinely believe that UNIT has been faking all the alien encounters? Or was he lying for clicks and money? It seems he genuinely belives it's all fake, as his ultimate goal is to get UNIT to admit so. But then he also saw the TARDIS appear and disappear and surely knew that was real? How did Ruby not know he was a crazy conspiracy guy when he apparenlty already a following before they were dating? Did he do a fake a reasonable podcast for a year just to fool her?

And like UNIT really did point guns at people who were just wearing costumes and Kate did nearly murder Conrad, asshole or not, on camera. So they don't really come out of this looking good?

And was this all a secret pilot for that UNIT spin-off with the silly name that I don't care about?

I don't think it was that great an episode for Ruby either as she was just there for most of it, even though it was good to see Millie Gibson again.

Mrs Flood is literally just Susan Twist again now and I'm skeptical if the pay off will make sense.
 
Also don't make a big deal out of Donna working for unit if you never actually show her working for unit.

Even Rose want there, surely they have Rose money?

Like you said, why pretend it's all fake then ask the doctor if he's met Belinda yet?
 
As has been said, there were too many gaps in logic and believability. Also, we are confronted by real-life Conrads constantly these days; they're not fictional villains, they're actual humans who have evil hearts and have gained power -- why would I want to see them portrayed half-assedly on a fantasy show? I was more jarred/triggered by the MAGA-boys' streaming fake-out than by the monster threat. The X-Files was the proper vessel for these stories, but not DW.

And as whisky mentioned, how does Conrad know about Belinda before the Doctor does? Where the hell did that come from? Is he a conspiracy theorist or is he something more? (At this point, I don't want to know.)

THIS WAS A WASTE OF AN EPISODEH.

CaptainWacky said:
Mrs Flood is literally just Susan Twist again now and I'm skeptical if the pay off will make sense.
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Same.
 
Belinda was with the Doctor when he met Conrad as a boy in 2007. When he met the Doctor at the end it was before the Doctor had met him, from the Doctor's point of view.
 
And how was the Doctor able to transport 2025 imprisoned Conrad to the TARDIS in whatever year when 2025 Earth is still unavailable to him and/or possibly destroyed?
 
Why do this episode now?? If the whole reason for it was to introduce Conrad as a new minion to the Big Bad Neighbor Lady To Come, I'm even more convinced that the climax to all this will be a wet fart.
 
They usually are.

They will assemble a gang of the most powerful enemies the doctor has faced, blow up the earth, threaten the entire multiverse, then somehow be defeated because Belinda misses her parents
 
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