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SPOILER ALERT: This weekly blog is for those who are watching the new Doctor Who series. Do not read before if you have not seen episode two, The Ghost Monument.
"I'm really good in a difficult situation. At least I've always been, I'm sure I still are. "
What a difference a single week can make. With the team's first trip to space, Doctor Who feels like the latter again. opening titles, a breathtaking new Tardis, sofa-like scares and, more importantly, operation.
The doctor also feels like the doctor again. With her unsteady regeneration routine on the sidelines, Jodie Whittaker has almost completely grown into the role. She holds most of the character's characteristic traits with plumb: disdain for firearms, the pleasure of thinking about herself to solve a problem and the ability to quickly become ruthless – her dementia from the thorny Epzo was quite remarkable. She is a delight.
The cinematic air of this new series was not an episode either. The ghost monument must be one of the most beautiful episodes we've seen, extraterrestrial views of Planet Desolation in beautiful places in South Africa. It's true that studio-based nighttime footage can not help but squeeze in comparison, but if they do not just scold the budget at the beginning of the show, things are going well.
The new Tardis is also a marvel. Its imposing coral and towering hexagons, its dark light and large expanse make it a much more intimidating place than previous iterations. Chibnall stubbornly resists anyone who says "but it's bigger inside!" However, this enchanting sequence at the beginning of the team is an almost perfect end to a tense, tense and satisfying adventure. This is much more like that.
"We have been dropped into space, spaceships have crashed all around us, we are now stuck on a planet that everyone else seems to be running away from."
Ghost Terrain was a relatively simple pursuit on the most brutal assault course in the world, a kind of Hunger Games to meet the Running Man. The gang is easily squeezed out of its own death float by two beaten spaceships, confused with the "bonuses" of the respective pilots, the Angstrom and Epzo quagmire competitors. The last two competitors of the last Five Galaxies have survived thousands of spectators in a Krypton Factor scrambled in space and are now on the verge of conquering enormous wealth. For nebulous reasons, the mythical Ghost monument that represents the finish line is actually the Tardis. Thus, reprimanded by the master of holographic games (Art Malik), our reluctant team of six is sent through a sequence of spooky and scary scenery through a "cruel planet", including killer water, Sniperbots mercenaries, strangling bed sheets (I thought) and acetylene fields.
Susan Lynch and Sean Dooley form a lasting inviting group of characters with stories and disarming motivations. Angstrom alternately, at once magnificently warm and totally tragic; Epzo, one of the most intentionally unpleasant companions that Doctor Who has seen. Frankly, he's a jerk and the reasons are obvious.
Taken as a whole, the whole thing is a good old word game, albeit with a few messages slightly out of beam while the day is saved by a cigar.
Life on board of tardis
The team's Tardis team has been curious this season. There has been no inspiring scene of characters fleeing unsatisfactory lives in search of adventures in space and time. Graham, Yaz and Ryan were kidnapped by accident, and even when we arrive at this breathtaking arrival in the Tardis, the plan is still to bring them home. This is surely all to come.
Fortunately, Grace's death was not quickly displaced; Ryan closes his grief while Graham's attempts to bond with his step-son have mixed results. Ryan's dyspraxia was also not forgotten in his fight to climb the ladder. An impulsive young man, agreeing, his Sniperbots approach, annoying for the trigger, falls flat, though his call cry of Call of Duty is priceless.
For all this character work, Yaz feels like a spare part, but I hope that will change. But as the Doctor seemed to lose hope towards the end, his new friends really began to regroup.
Fear postman
The linear accumulation of scaring and dangers one by one has been effective in keeping everything going. The Sniperbots were as effective as the Stormtroopers could reasonably be expected to make the impact, and the psychological chills of the Doctor's fears of being militarized by weapons really touched me. But I have to say that the sequence where Epzo is half-choked by what these things were was the most troubling moment of Doctor Who I've seen for quite some time.
Mysteries, questions and continuity
The deadly events on the planet Desolation turn out to be the work of the Stenza. Who, if you remember, was the race of trophy hunter T'zim-Sha, or Tim Shaw, last week. With two mentions a week, was it a subtle nod or the seeding of a Big Bad for the series? Chibnall said that there would be no transit line this year, but as we all know, the producers of Doctor Who are not bothered by the quirk.
Further in the vortex
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The dancing lights of the new titles and the Delia Derbyshire-isms of the new themed melody are a return to the starting point. For my part, I loved them.
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While the Tardis and his translation matrix were lost, Chibnall explained without difficulty how everyone could understand each other's foreign languages: the Medipods had translators in their necks.
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The Tardis now has a biscuit dispenser. And why not?
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Graham's insistence on calling Dr. "Doctor" already annoys me.
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Fortunately, things get a little funnier too. The doctor borrowed the sunglasses from "Audrey Hepburn or Pythagoras"
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Susan Lynch, Angstrom, is unrecognizable from her other notable role right now – Anna in Killing Eve.
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Was I the only person to laugh and start humming independent tunes on the We Are Scientists line? I think I was probably.
Next week!
Team Tardis is clearly coming home. Their first trip took them in 1955 to the US civil rights struggle and a meeting with a certain Rosa Parks.
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