Notes on - Doctor Who: Dot and Bubble

 

Dot and Bubble notes

Sleeping blonde.  Automated wake up system

Was she just holding the dot while she slept.  Love the visual of the bubble.  I can totally see this as the future of Insta plus facetime

They establish that Jimbo is missing right away

Mabel and Neve are also missing

She can’t even stand up without being told to by the dot

This feels like the sims

Ricky September is some kind of influencer who posts

Itsy Bitsy teeny weenie yellow polka dot bikini.  Fun

The Doctor hacks in

And just a glimpse of a silly slimy monster

The city is literally in a bubble

Finetime

Again, very sims

Lindy

Just being coached to walk around dead bodies.  Creepy

Hoochy Pie:  You are influencing me hard, girl!

Why does she have a bugle

So they can’t hear the screams inside the bubble

Substack processing

Alan has a normal name

Gothic Paul is the only one noticing the missings

Ruby knows to compliment Lindy’s top and then she’ll be more helpful

I love all the crazy names

Lindy is so condescending.  And complains about working two hours a day

Lindy’s kind of a bitch

She hasn’t even noticed that the other five coworkers aren’t even there

Ruby:  You could always lower your bubble.

Lindy:  Lower it?  You mean, turn it off?

It barely occurs to Lindy to ask where her coworkers are

*** It’s what we do.  We work and then we play

The guy next to her is literally being eaten and she both hasn’t noticed and really wants to go back to ignoring it

The slug things are a little silly

Bubble Doctor:  I’m sorry, but your need to urinate has skyrocketed

They’re establishing well that Ricky September is a big time comfort watch influencer

She can’t even imagine shutting the bubble down

The bubble can’t see the monsters and would walk her right into them

You’re kind of rooting for Lindy at this stage

Good lord, she can’t even walk on her own without the bubble

Lindy:  I don’t know how to walk without the arrows.

Ruby: You don’t know how to walk?

Lindy: Without the arrows.

The Doctor:  You don’t know how to walk without the arrows?

Lindy: That’s what I just said!

Surprising that the bubble will help her leave during her work hours

She literally can barely stop herself from following the arrows directly into the monster’s mouth and definitely can’t make herself run away

Why are the monsters letting her get away

Calling the police goes to voicemail just like Gridlock

Lindy is so petulant

Why can’t they hear the screaming?

This had to be a really easy filming schedule for Millie and Ncuti

So the mystery is why are some of them being selected to be eaten and others aren’t?

Why can’t the dots see those things?

The Wild Woods.  They’re the no go zone

The Doctor is stuck outside the city

No stinky old folk

They’re rich kids 18-27

Ruby:  It’s like Love Island: The Planet

Penny Pepper-Bean

Now The Doctor and Ruby can both recognize Susan Twist

Ruby: Hold on, I’ve seen her before

The Doctor:  Yeah, she’s like—She’s the face of the ambulance on Kastarion 3

Ruby: No, no, no. I’ve seen her somewhere else.

It’s shocking to Lindy that they’re in the same room

He unblocked with the sonic

Half of her close friends are offline

Gothic Paul has been trying to point this out all day’

Lindy: This is the weird thing. Some of us get eaten and some of us don’t.

Gothic Paul:  I’m sorry, some of us get what?

There’s a river running underneath the town that they can use to escape through its conduits

The Doctor is really spitballing throwing out possible reasons

They recharge while they work

Plaza 55.  Is that a Chibnall reference?

She’s getting better at walking without the bubble but still runs into the light pole multiple times

I don’t hate the slug designs

She has to be told what to do, so Ricky September is simulating that

Lindy:  Lindy Pepper-Bean

Ricky September: Oh, you’re one of my followers

Lindy:  Oh, how do you know that?

Ricky September:  Well, everybody is.

They’re kind of half slug and half venus flutrap

She’s never had a hug?

How did Ricky know where the conduit was?

He’s a little too perfect to be true

Ricky unplugs and reads.  That’s crazy

Lindy:  I thought this was the worst day of my life, but maybe it’s the best.

Ricky: … There’s still thousands of people getting eaten alive…

Lindy:  Yeah, but…

Ricky things their mums and dads will come to save them

The homeworld has been completely killed by the same slug things

The Doctor and Ruby are super excited to see Lindy is still alive.  Also, a little fanboy-ish over Ricky

Cute Heartstopper reference

The Doctor is just realizing that the things have a list of people to kill

Her friends were eaten in alphabetical order.  Which means the things have a list of people

Suzie Pentacost.  Alas

Lindy is next to be eaten

Ricky is still being really heroic and caring

This should be the big romantic bonding moment for Lindy and Ricky

The Dot has achieved sentience.  Their social media is alive and hates them.  I can totalluy see that happening

Ricky is risking his life to protect Lindy

He’s even doing the ‘save yourself, don’t wait for him

And the bitch sells him out in a heartbeat to save herself

The dot through the head was brutal

And here’s Mille and Ncuti in person!

Others have found the shelter

She has no remorse about getting Ricky killed

And now she’s lying about it

This usually would be where the guest character becomes friends with the Doctor

I’d feel bad about Lindy learning that her Mummy is dead, but fuck her.

The Doctor is straight up offering to take them somewhere safe

And Lindy is too much of a snob to let him save them.  They’re all terrible.

The Doctor:  I will do anything, if you just allow me to save your lives.

Rich asshole:  Turn away ladies.  Before you’re contaminated.

They just s pent all that time working to save them only for the privileged dipshits to insist on sailing off to certain death