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Notes on- Doctor Who: Boom

 

Boom notes

Returning to base for an upgrade one injured

The com is a nice narrative convention

They’re in the middle of a minefield

Kastarians

Mundy

They’re afraid of an ambulance

Moffat is back on Christian soldiers

Mundy:  As God as my witness. On my soul eternal.  I’ll let you see my tattoo

Posh Graham

Canto

Nice sense of dread about the ambulance

What happened to Wilson?

Very atmospheric

Carson fell down a small hill

And stepped on a land mine.  Interesting effect

Creepy nurse face on ambyulance

John Francis Vater

Because it would take four weeks for his eyes to heal it just killed him

Villengard Corporation

***Thoughts and Prayers

Of course the Doctor goes charging in

What was Ruby doing?

So the gimmick is an episode where the Doctor can’t move

I didn’t know the history of the Skye Boat Song

Ruby:   I didn’t ask what you were singing, I asked why.

The Doctor:  I’m getting my zen on

The Doctor: Ah, give it time.  Everywhere’s a beach eventually

Ruby: Why does a landmine have lights on it?

The Doctor: Capitalism

Have we heard of Villengard before?

Gymkhanna?

All the droids are very intimidating

The Doctor:  Their hoovering up all the smoke so that no one can choke to death before they are safely shot

I like the way Ruby makes him tell her without sounding petulant

The body was turned into a cylinder

This Doctor really likes new words

I love the way these two enjoy each other

The Doctor babbles when he’s nervous

The tube thing really does look gross

The lights are a really good countdown

The moon and the president’s wife again

‘Cause of death – Blind’

John Vater:  I was humanely terminated on the discovery of the fatal condition, blindness

Ruby: Blindness isn’t fatal

The Doctor: You literally just said that to a dead blind guy

The Villengard algorithm

How did Splice get there

This is going to be awkward

‘gathered up’

I really hate the ‘god loved her so much he killed her early’ bullshit we tell kids

Splice damn near killed everybody just be being a kid

People keep screwing up the Doctor’s attempts to stay calm

Mundy instantly knows that Vater is dead

The Doctor: Great name, Mundy Flynn.  You should marry Ruby.  Then you’d be Mundy Sunday.  Go on, get married. I’d laugh every day.

Mundy is being deliberately obtuse about Canto liking her

They’ve never seen their enemy and assume they’re in the mud or fog

Your own DNA becomes the explosive

We just upped the stakes quite a bit.  If the Doctor goes, the whole planet blows up.  I like that

The ambulance face is very Silence in the Library

Vater:  Hello, Daughter Splice.  Can I help you with any persistent regrets?

Combat is detected.  Very clever, Ruby!

Also very reckless

And Mundy wants her to shoot her.  That’s cool of her

And of course Canto misunderstands and shoots her.  That’s well structured

Next of Kin… building up the who is Ruby Sunday mystery some more

Which brings back the snow

The snow stops falling, just like Twice Upon a Time

The ambulance isn’t programmed to help non-believers.  Of course not

The solution is to surrender

Ambulance:  Patient death imminent.  Thoughts and prayers

It’s a war against nobody.  There’s nobody else here.  The algorithm is maintaining a casualty rate

The Doctor:  Faith.  The magic word that keeps you never having to think for yourself.

The bomb countdown and the ruby dying countdown align

The ambulance just straight up murdered Canto in the middle of their lovely moment

And now there are lots of ambulances

Vater overrode the ambulance software at the last moment!

X’s for kiss 😊

The celebrating goes on a little too long.  Splice’s dad DID just die…

Sunrise is indeed very pretty

The Doctor: Lots of the universe left to see, and quite frankly your life span sucks.

Susan Twist is the ambulance this time

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