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Notes on - Doctor Who: The Star Beast

 

The Star Beast notes

David Tennants hair is very tall.

I don’t love the ‘Once upon a time’ opening narrative.  Still, I suppose they had to catch people up somehow

***I think the story hasn’t ended yet.

I preferred the Chibnall era theme song

We’ve been in this alley many times before.

Yay Rachel Talalay!

Why is he just wandering around smiling at people?

Of course he immediately runs into Donna.  There’d better be an explanation for these coincidences

Fun illustration of how Donna misses everything

Donna:  A word of advice.  You can wear a suit that tight up to the age of thirty five.  And no further.

Shaun Temple has aged.

The Doctor:  Grand Master of the Knowledge.

Shaun: That says Grand Mistress.

The Doctor: Oh, catch up!

Callback to Nerys

Yeah, the whole lottery thing was a big question

166 million.  Wow.

Should UNIT be kidnapping journalists on air?

I suppose they would use Hazmat protocols.

Shirley: What I’m saying is, that ship didn’t crash.  It parked.

Deadnaming isn’t cool.  I like that they didn’t explain it

How did Donna lose her job?

Donna:  I would burn down the world for you. Darling.

I like that Rose has a shed

Sylvia’s struggle to get supporting Rose ‘right’ is very accurate and endearing.

Lots of talk about Wilf.  I want to see him.

Fudge brinmgs news of a second spaceship pod

The Meep is awfully cute

Meep hurt its paw

Love the big grasshoppers

Ooo, 3d pen effect.  That’s new.  Thanks, Disney money

I kind of love Shirley Anne Bingham, advisor #56.  I wonder if it was a conscious decision on the shows part to include positive representation of someone using a wheelchair to counter their concerns about Davros.

They’re leaning very heavily into the question about why his old face is back

This version of DTs Doctor is more comfortable expressing love.

Shirley’s really taking all of this very casually

Shirley:  I’ve got this.  Off you pop.

The Doctor:  Waited your whole life?

Shirley:  You wish.

Alien energy is taking over the UNIT soldiers

Meep trying to make friends with the toys is kind of cute

Oh, Rose is trying to make money for Donna and Shaun.  That’s sweet

Meep:  You sound lonely.

Rose: No.  Just different.

That poke in the eye looks like it hurt

Shouldn’t some of this be causing Donna at least some discomfort?

Sylvia’s insistence that just none of this is happening is amusing.

Were the UNIT troops raiding Donna’s place?

Shaun totally just rolls with whatever’s going on.

Ah, UNIT was heading to the Meep’s pod which is just near Donna’s place.

It’s true, everywhere they go The Doctor randomly shows up

Aww.  Touching moment for Wilf memories

Kate Stewart is looking after Wilf.  That’s wonderful

Wrarth warriors.  Meep harvesting for fur.  Or so the Meeps claim

And we’re meant to assume these soldiers are after the Meep and the Wrarth are also attacking

Cool new sonic effects!  I love the 3D pen thing

How is this not killing Donna?

The Wrarth Warriors can fly

Resonating concrete.  That’s an old reference

Cock loft!

They definitely have a bigger budget for this fight scene

Big hint – The UNIT soldiers are being instructed to protect the house with the Meep inside.

He’s noting that the Wrarths aren’t killing the UNIT soldiers

The Doctor is definitely piecing things together now.

Why does he have a barristers wig?

This all should REALLY trigger Donna

The Doctor is pointing out that the Wrarth’s aren’t doing any damage

‘The sun went mad’ is beautiful

Solar Psychedelia

Aww, The Doctor got those Wrarth warriors killed

They were really nice

Nice undercutting of the Doctor’s usual method of talking his way out.

Donna:  Because.  There are places out there where people are in danger.  And in pain. And fear. And I could help.

This should be totally triggering Donna’s brain to melt down

So the Meep landed in a steelworks to fix its ship

Shirley to the rescue!

Donna remembered the Doctor’s name.

Nice way to force the Doctor to get Donna involved via the room divider

The dagger drive effect is cool

The Doctor:  You and I can stop this ship, together.  But it will kill you.

Donna: OK.

The list of words to undo the brain wip os interesting.

Binary.

Russell is absolutely loading us with delightful technobabble

There’s no logical reason for the holes to fill back up

Logically, Donna should be dying now

And now Rose gets some technobabble too.

So is Rose non-binary?  That seems to be the case

Just wait till I tell the boss? 

So Donna and Rose could just let the power go and that’s that for the metacrisis?  Could Donna have let it go at the time?

Donna: No.  Because summat will go wrong.  And you’ll end up on Mars with Chaucer and a robot shark. And that’s actually happened, hasn’t it.

This set is absolutely huge.

And they’re still circling the question of why the Doctor’s face is back.

One cup of coffee caused all that damage??

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