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Doctor Who 15x01/2x01 Full Reaction! (Patreon)

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Thomas Corp

Well, this is much earlier than I was expecting. Hopefully, that’s an early sign that the BBC will play nice this season. That’s a lovely necklace by the way, it looks nice, Jess. Quite the opener for the season, like you said. Solid introduction to Martha 2.0, or, er, uh, Belinda, sorry. Though I haven’t seen trailers, I knew that Varada Sethu would be a primary companion. This was known to me for more than a year. Pleasing to see that you avoided that knowledge as your reaction to seeing her was great. I’m told that she got cast as Mundy in Boom before being cast as Belinda. We also address that Mundy is a descendant of Belinda, so the question of how we have the same actress playing two separate characters, that’s answered right out the gate. Maybe there is more to it, but I leave that for Davies to sort out. Knowing how you love Martha, it did figure that you’d gravitate toward Belinda. You and she are simpatico on just wanting to go home and not have the grand adventures. She is a nurse, so she has the training to be one very cool customer under fire, and you observe as well that the training kicks in, allowing for a great dynamic to be had with the Doctor. Hell of a jolt when she gets wrapped up in the plot. Still recovering from the robots cruelly murdering the cat. You had the reaction that I expected, and it was nicer than my reaction as I just yelled, “What the FUCK, Davies!?” upon seeing that one, and the villainous robots were subsequently threatened with graphic and Freudian threats that would make Malcolm Tucker proud. You also had a MUCH more subdued reaction to learning what they wanted to do to Belinda, lovely how you agreed that it would be a no for you as it was for Belinda. Registering what the robots wanted to do to her, made me yell, “Oh, no! No, no! No, no, no! We’re not fucking doing this! We’re not FUCKING doing this Superman III shit!! Uh-uh! Forget it.” She was going to have a nice-looking throne that looked like one that Ian McDiarmid would appreciate, so that would have been a tiny positive. The Doctor does the work in helping Belinda, though sadly it costs us Sasha 55. She seemed nice, and Ncuti sold well the heartbreak, so yeah, it does surprisingly break one’s heart a little bit. I suspect that the Doctor and Sasha 55 had a few chair nights. They are all broken up about Sasha 55, albeit not as distraught as the Rebel Alliance was about Wade. The one guy especially being upset. Loved how you had much the same thought as I there. The guy being jaded, bitter, and super fucking pissed, it makes sense his yelling at Belinda, and even then, you and I were asking him to back off and stop being Mr. Animosity as you called him. He does soften some at the end, and he and the others have the long road of recovery ahead. Bringing us to the Alan of it all. They did the nice misdirection with AI, and you expect some more overtly Black Mirror shit. Then they hit you with it. It was not AI, it was Al. (Or maybe the robots think it’s A1 as they listened to the current lacklustrious secretary of education in America? Jesus, my mom is LIVID about that one.) Rather adored your reactions of “...What?” when it happened. It’s funny too how we both clocked something about the guy. He even had that line saying about how girls aren’t that good at math, which made me instinctively go, “The fuck? What the hell, buddy!?” It’s like Dot and Bubble all over again. Surprised you missed the line, but you caught the other foreshadowing of the guy being a creep, namely how yes, of kisses in television that we’ve seen over the years, that was one of them, so it balances out. Yeah, when Alan is going about trying to profess eternal love, and make the sales pitch that he did, you want to look him in the eye and, and say, “How about NOOOOOO? Ya crazy incel bastard!” It looked amazing when the diplomas touched causing everything to schwup, I believe was the word used. Loved your reaction to that, and I loved it when Polish Polish just scooped up the Alan mess. Never underestimate the power of the Polish Polish, love that you lived for Polish Polish. When Alan got cleaned up, I borrowed a page from you book when Al met his fate by saying, “Oh, my goodness gracious, I’m so upset.” Rather refreshing how Belinda calls the Doctor out on shit. Alas, we have to wait until the twenty-fourth of May to get her back to the twenty-fourth of May, 2025; I believe you are correct on that date being the season finale. I hear the date, say, “That’s the day after what would have been my great-aunt’s one hundredth birthday.” You had the memorable reaction to that ending. And before that, we got one little scene with Mrs. Flood, complete with a delightful response from you upon seeing her again. Who at this point is either the Rani, some new villain that we’re building up, or just Davies is fucking with us. I’ll laugh if it is the third option, and I live for how you’re ok with the third option being the route taken, if, in fact, that is the route we take with Mrs. Flood. Answering the one question you asked: Deep Breath. For the same reason you would undoubtedly have The Eleventh Hour. It’s the introduction to my Doctor. I adored seeing the remarkable chemistry that Peter and Jenna had near instantaneously. And how before the episode ended, Twelve was my Doctor; the exact moment when it solidified was after he gave the Ship of Theseus speech, caught his reflection, and just looked off to the side, lost in thought about that before returning his attention to the Half-Face Man. Still cannot fully articulate what is it about that moment that just permanently cemented Twelve as my Doctor, but that’s when it happened, and I’m never looking back. Made it very delightful that upon discovering your channel, going through his journey all over again, and how you came to have Twelve as the close second behind your Honey. Still cannot get used to how strange it feels to be going through Doctor Who with you in real time now, but the experience remains wonderful, Jess, just as this reaction was wonderful, thank you so much.

Ryan

Okay Russell T. Davies, you lost a lot of goodwill with me after the clusterfuck of last season's ending and its implications about your process as a writer these days, and that boring-ass Christmas special didn't help much. So you're going to have to do something really appealing to me to get me feeling at all optimistic about this season. And the premiere is all about mocking the hell out of both generative AI and incels. ... ... Son of a bitch, you did it. Now, objectively there are some big issues in this script, mostly how it has to do so much setup that we barely get to know the supporting cast, but this is one of those times where I had such a blast through the whole thing that I don't care about it at all. And it helps a lot that RTD closes the apparent big mystery of the companion right out of the gate, clearly realizing he lost a lot of audience faith in that area. Though it's kind of adorable how he still seems to think anyone cares what the deal is with Mrs. Flood, now that we've seen just how much he sees a satisfying payoff to this kind of thing as a friendly suggestion at best. Ncuti gets another great moment to himself, basically an Artax scene where we've barely seen any of the Doctor's connection to the person who just died so it's entirely on his performance to sell how big this is for him, and he actually pulls it off. And I adored Belinda with a Ba calling out some of his protagonist-centered morality, which is rather easier to swallow than what the First Doctor was put through since it's RTD riffing on his own material back when he first started rather than something written half a century ago. I don't think we've quite ever had a companion relationship like this before, and I'm very eager to see more of it.

Ryan
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I find the real magic of that scene is Dr. Evil slowly rolling the chair over before he says the line, like it's just that important he scream in the guy's face how that's not going to happen. Sadly it's usually cut out whenever clips of the scene are used.

Thomas Corp
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Coming up to a year later, still don’t have the greatest problem with the last season finale. Helping is I already knew going into it that Sutekh’s (presumed) death wasn’t going to be nearly anywhere close to being worthy for a villain of his stature, and Jess noted much the same, and you make peace with it. Or like the Ruby denouement, I didn’t hate that itself. There is the problem of the narrative cheats that don’t mesh, and the sign pointing IS still a thing you say, “...Well, THAT’S just purposefully misleading.” Likewise, much though I loved the last Christmas special, fair enough that you didn’t care for it. This premiere having the brutal attitude toward incels and AI, (complete with absurdly hysterical timing of it being in the news of someone getting the name AI wrong,) yeah, Davies did pretty, pretty good here. Supporting cast could have used more time to shine, yes. Does seem like the Belinda mystery is tied off; the bud is nipped quick to avoid a repeat of the Ruby mystery. I’m not ruling out the possibility that we have more to come, mystery-wise. Immediate purposes, however, yeah, it seems we got a good tourniquet on the mystery. The Mrs. Flood business, as I said, at this point, I think Davies is just fucking with us on that one. I’ll cackle long and hard if that’s the case. Ncuti did have a good Artax moment. It has my attention how Belinda is calling the Doctor out on his actions and behavior, and it sets the stage for what looks to be a great dynamic. Jess certainly seemed to like said dynamic. Hopefully, that means we got a good time ahead of us.