Doctor Who The Robot Revolution notes
17 years ago
Ah, pretentious mansplaining boyfriend. I wish he wasn’t quite so obviously douchey
I never know how anyone can ever tell which star they’re
getting a certificate for
His insistence on using the title miss is a bit obvious as
setup
Man, Alan is such a tool
17 years later
TARDIS arrives at hospital.
Very Smith and Jones
Belinda: Who bit
you? Was it a dog? Was it a man?
… Was it your wife?
***There’s a Doctor looking for you – Did he mean THE
Doctor, or was that a cute line
Turning off all the power to a hospital would kill lots of
people. Not just an oopsie
Belinda’s roommates don’t even really know her name
With Alan ancient history, why has she kept the certificate?
The robots remind me of Smile
They shouldn’t have killed the cat. Should have killed the roommate
Robot: The cat is irrelevant
Belinda: It wasn’t my cat.
Robot: The cat is still irrelevant
The fact that they understand that it’s ‘her’ star and
recognize her as its ruler is pretty amusing
Mrs. Flood.
Belinda: Do you know Lucy at Number Seven?
Mrs. Flood: Yes.
Belinda: Tell her her
cat’s gone to live on a farm. Apparently,
I’m the queen of outer space if you could tell the police.
Mrs. Flood: You ain’t seen me.
So does Belinda live two doors down from Ruby’s building, or
has Mrs. Flood moved?
The Doctor just missed getting to Belinda before she was abducted.
Love his kilt
Her telling them to go get Alan turns out to be
significant. Why does he owe her 50 quid
Hello Time going all shattered
Robot: Entering orbit of Missbelindachandra One
I love how 50s and 60s all the spaceship design.
Missbeliondachandrakind
I’m enjoying how they’re using her name
Sasha
55
The robots have taken over and there are rebels that are
fighting back. Got it.
Cute little polishing robot
Nice having the Doctor subtly standing in the line
So Belinda has been brought to be their queen, but doesn’t
really have any power because the robots have taken over
A forced wedding.
This is so flash Gordon
Belinda: Who am I
marrying? A spark plug?
The AI generator is controlling the robots
The AI generator looks very creepy
Oh, just like Superman III – That freaked me out
Belinda: Why is everything on this planet so stupid??
So how did the Doctor become the historian
The every ninth word thing is just the right amount of
subtle and a very clever conceit
I love Belinda counting words on her fingers to do the trick
So all the humans are rebels then?
Very Doctor moment declaring the start of the rebellion
Certainly a lot of cannon fodder on hand. Ooo, who’s the muscly one?
The Doctor has promised Sasha that he’ll take her as a companion. That pretty much guarantees she’s about to
die
Manny ( the muscly one) is pretty hostile to Belinda.
Unfair.
I like that they’re acknowledging that Sasha was as close to
The Doctor as Ruby was. Although I’m
sure people are complaining about him crying again.
Belinda: I’m sorry about
your friend
The Doctor: Sasha
Belinda: Sasha
55. She was nice to me.
The Doctor: She was
lovely. She’s dead.
Simolin.
I love that Belinda sees where people need help and just gets
down to changing IVs and whatnot.
Her new shift on Monday so that the Doctor can recognize
Mundy Flynn. I didn’t expect them to highlight
it quite so much
Belinda has the sense to check about the anatomy of the
local lifeforms shoulder before relocating it.
That’s sensible
I was just wondering if the x-ray blankets caused a lot of
cancer when the Doctor mentioned they were radiation free.
It’s nice to have the two hearts explanation visualized
Interesting discussion about the Missbelindachandrakinds’
internal organs
Belinda: Is that better or worse than humans?
The Doctor: If you start deciding which body is best, you’re
going down a very dangerous path.
It’s a nice detail that a nurse would immediately want to
hear what the pulse of two hearts sounds like
The Doctor was told about Belinda by someone, but has to be
coy about it because the timelines are hosed up. Who?
So it was a he that told The Doctor and implied that Belinda
would be important. Pleas not another ‘specialest
girl’ plotline
The certificate of Belinda owning the star exists twice over
in this moment, so at some point it gets sent back in time.
Belinda: Timey-Wimey?
Am I six?
For Belinda it’s been two hours since she was abducted but
for the Doctor it’s been 6 months
Schwupped
So when The Doctor landed the resistance took him in after
the robots stole the TARDIS
They need to give Manny more character or less.
So at some point the cert goes back in time 5000 years. The Doctor kind of says the robots did it,
but when and how would that work?
Love all the 60s pulp sci-fi imagery
Is Manny supposed to be super strong? They’re implying all sorts of stuff about him
that never pays off
I guess his contempt is what makes Belinda turn the robot on
to summon the other robots, but they really didn’t need Manny to make that
happen. Just seeing the devastation,
along with a few dialogue echoes about them coming for her would have been much
cleaner and left more screen time for other things
So now we get the info that The Doctor really wants to get to
the memory bank to see why the robots stopped being super cuddly and friendly
ten years earlier. Thayt’s a bit of a
goalpost shift that should have been introduced earlier or revealed more
organically
If the robots had killed any of the rebels, it really would
have been Belinda’s fault this time
The gritty rebel plot really doesn’t mesh with the cheesy
pulp sci-fi stuff
The AI eyes are really upsetting
The polish robot, reminding us that it exists so we remember
it later
Belinda thinks that if she sacrifices herself the robots
will stop the war
And here’s the payoff for the are you married comment
earlier
OK, that cyborg effect is REALLY good.
Not AI, but Al. That’s
kind of fun
Margate/Stargate
Belinda told them to go get Alan, and because of the time
shatter he got there 10 years before they left
Alan thought the whole thing was basically a first person
shooter game and fucked up all of their society
Man, Alan really switched gears to murder very quickly
Alan was a controlling dickhead
Alan’s takeover of the planet is an extended metaphor for
toxic relationship nice guys
I don’t buy that Alan is using the 9 words to confess that
he’s really in pain. They kind of half wave at it and then forget it. Should have been cut
I wish they hadn’t hammered home the planet of the incels
thing. It totally underscores that the
him communicating that he’s really in pain using the 9 words thing doesn’t work
Belinda has seen Mawdryn Undead, thankfully
And now Belinda and Alan are being tossed around in their
own life cycle while The Doctor watches.
Not sure how that works
And the world is saved by sweeping up jizz. I didn’t expect that to ever be a Doctor Who
plot point
So, whoever it was that told the Doctor that Belinda was
important is the big mystery of the year
Oh, now the robots are all nice again. That’s convenient
I wish they didn’t look quite so much like the Smile robots
Yeah, we really didn’t need to pretend that the individual rebels
were going to be important to the story
So how the robots get ahold of the cert is the big mystery
of the system
*** You lot. Forgive. Rebuild.
Maybe change the name of the solar system.
24th of May, 2025. I’m guessing that’s the day the finale airs
We’re acknowledging Mundy Flynn
Does Mundy being identical matter, or is it just a
coincidence meeting a descendant?
Belinda has totally legit reasons to not want to trust The
Doctor. And good on her for calling him
out on scanning her DNA without asking
They’re really trying to do a Moffat style mystery box intro
The Doctor closed the time fracture? When did he do that? That seems like kind of a big deal to not
even bother addressing what caused it in the first place
I like that they’re going back to the ‘trying to get the
companion home’ format
What’s with all the world monuments in space??
Comments
Post a Comment