A video essayist troon VerilyBitchie put out a video on how bad the Eurovision episode of Doctor Who was, because - like fucking everything else apparently - it's pro-Israel:
Unironically? This actually means something: If the main fucking audience of the show in the BBC's eyes has turned against it, if the attempts at wokeness have backfired because of a single issue that audience disagrees with, then I could see the BBC massively pivoting and firing Juno Dawson and ReTarD. It's RTDover, It's Whover, etc.
also WhoCulture huffs copium
And in other news I was rewatching the slitheen two parter and i have some thoughts:
i find it underrated in a lot of aspects because the character drama is interesting, the setting is cool and the slitheen have fleshed out personalities and an angle with potential for more storylines. they can disguise as people, they can hunt, but they're also mobsters. i think their plan is pretty good all in all
and then it hwe its bad aspects like the costumes bobbing up and down instead of being well puppeteered, incoherent satire and the choice to put in forced juvenille comedy, but those can be taken in a so bad it's good way like twin dilemma can be. so these bump it up too
but then my major problem is it completely falls apart in the back half of part two, because the doctor's solution makes no sense. so the slitheen are going to start ww3 in order to irradiate the planet, so the doctor gets mickey to hack into unit and fire a missile at 10 downing street. a weaker missile but still a missile. alright, how would this not also cause a second war? there was an attack that killed the acting prime minister, as far as everyone knows, right after they were given access to nuclear codes to kill those aliens. wouldnt someone think aliens hacked into this submarine to fire at downing street?
like to some extent there's an excuse, UNIT sort of overrides authority and can get away with this to an extent and the slitheen cant just become the prime minister because he's too thin therefore their access was restricted and thus they dont have the ability to get into UNIT or become someone powerful enough to use UNIT. so UNIT could've used the Nukes and then the Slitheen cant, so their scheme still has to happen. I just dont get how this is the solution to the episode, because wouldn't the general public think that just like how aliens got into Downing Street and killed all the alien experts they now managed to get the prime minister? Wouldn't there be a general panic that could cause another world government to start firing nukes into space or cause the UK or UN to strike another country? Why does everyone believe Harriet when she says everything was okay? Like her testimony, plus some eyewitnesses would definitely win people over but I mean in the immediate moment why does everyone stop panicking so quickly?
Maybe if that were part of the Doctor's plan, like get the Slitheen to disarm humanity and then blow them up, but the Doctor comes to this absurd conclusion very quickly and we're expected not to see all the inevitable conclusions of the fallout. it feels like an ending that could have worked with a couple more drafts, but it feels like RTD's first ever second parter deus ex machina
I also watched Partners in Crime and that's just a way tighter script. Like there's ways to write these plot points in a way that you don't have to explain it in order to have it make sense. Take the gold chain in that episode: Donna uses hers to activate that woman early. Now at first you think "well do they all do that?" and it turns out that there's something that gets done when someone buys it specifically that makes it tune to their biology, and "raw" ones which haven't been purchased are used to activate it since the employees wouldn't want to get their hand on something that could kill them. So Donna's wasn't keyed to her, it was keyed to whoever was near her just like how Foster can do it from a distance presumably via some kind of technology. I'm an easy lay, I can recognize when I'm overthinking, sometimes a plothole isn't a plothole if you pay attention or can be waved away if the greater whole makes sense, but that really bothered me when watching because it legitimately took all narrative weight from the climax via sheer confusion
