The Interstellar Song Contest notes
Nice opening space station establishing shot
Cat woman host
I’m not familiar with Rylan
Harmony Arena. I expected a return of Harmony Shoal
2925
I love how phony their kisses were
The TARDIS materializing in a pod/booth. I don’t think we’ve
seen that before
This is the last Vindicator reading they need to get Belinda
home
Belinda: Oh, we’re so staying
The Doctor: We’re staying
That’s pretty accurate for what the booth looks like during
live telesivion
Cool that the director is of short stature and it never
matters
I like Wynn’s horns
This is transmitted across thew entire westen spiral arm.
That’s impressive
Poppy Honey as the sponsor – fake honey
Mrs. Flood is there with Barbara’s hairdo
Of course the Doctor was there in 74
I love Belinda’s childhood memory of watching the Eurovision
in jammies as a special night. So sweet
Belinda is surprised that they’re in a space station inside
a bubble
Final vindicator reading done
Oh, Mrs. Flood has been counting on these vindicator
readings and that’s the last one she needs
Nice acknowledgement that the Doctor and Belinda stole
someone seats before segueing to seeing the people whose seats they are
I don’t love the robot attendents. Rehash of the heavenly
host from Voyage of the damned
Fun gay couples
Rylan loses his earpiece. That’s a big deal in live television
Cora from Trion!!
Nice way to segue to introducing Cora through necessity because
Rylan is trying to compensate for not having earpiece contact
Nice reuse of the same set for each stadium hall slightly
redressed
Wynn with the horns was in on it
Hellions.
Nice conceit that they’re broadcasting the dress rehearsal
and Rylan’s absence is the only tell
Alpha Centauri and Zygon new habitat?
Liz Lizardene from the planet Lizoko
I like the acts
*** This is the greatest song contest in the universe, so as
you would say – let’s raise the roof
It’s sweet how genuinely into the song competition Belinda
is. Also a very slick way to handle the Doctor being outside the luxury doom
and therefore separated from Belinda who is inside it
Did Mrs. Flood really not know this was coming?
Man, the effects and visuals of the dome blowing and the
people being sucked out are amazing
It really feels like the Doctor just died
So gorgeous – all the bodies floating out
Rylan: Not again.
Verada is amazing
Kid: I’m only doing the things you expect of me.
Mavity shell. They’re leaning heavily into Mavity still.
That’ll be important
Delta Wave. That’s a deep cut callback
Cora and her manager
Dugga Doo!
Belinda’s main concern is that her parents will wait for her
forever
Belinda: I don’t even know where I am.
Cora: You’re on the Harmony Station.
Belinda: Where’s that?
Cora: Sector Diamond Five.
Belinda: But where’s
that?
Cora: West of Vangossiter.
Belinda: But where’s that? Where the hell am I??
Cora is very kind to a stranger having a panic attack
Small detail questions are the correct way to help someone
having a panic attack focus
Belinda thinks the Doctor is wonderful and never told him
The software is re-writing itself.
Wynn saved ‘that girl from Trion’
Hellia
It’s helpful that the gay couple is a computer tech and a
nurse. Very useful.
Did Mrs. Flood get sucked off?
I’m worrying that this is going to be yet another Doctor Lite
Susan: Grandfather. Go back!
Susan!!!
Susan wants the Doctor to find her! It’s about time
It’s nicely done how they set uo the confetti cannon earlier
so that the Doctor can use it here
Gary and Mike
Using the confetti cannon to fly through space is a lot of
fun
Really nice how the sets are all just slightly redressed.
And Mike’s medical experience is used well, mostly for a pulp fiction gag
The Doctor: Did I just fly through space on a confetti
cannon?
Mike: Yeah.
The Doctor: Camp.
The Doctor triplicated the mavity field, which is technobabble
for the Doctor made it so no one expelled into space has died
The Doctor doesn’t know that Belinda wasn’t ejected into
space. Of course he wouldn’t
What is the upload being broadcast in song 14
Wynn and Kid have a personal beef with Cora from Trion
Hell poppies
The company slandered the hellions and made everyone believe
they’d ruined their planet themselves. I like that they’re not explcitily
spelling that out
Bit of Delta Wave made everyone deaf
Three trillion people are watching the show. They’ll all die
if the delta wave is triggered
There are so many openly racist beliefs about the hellions.
Again, they never explicitly call it out, but it’s there in a nicely subtle way
Len: Weird lot. They say they practice cannibalism and
witchcraft. They’ve got these horns. People say they give them psychic powers.
Cora: Yeah, people say that a lot. About species they don’t
understand.
Gary and Mike are proud of each other
Gary got his tickets from working on the hologram museum
Graham Norton
Graham: I’m Graham Norton. Long since dead. Aw, sad face.
It’s nice that the Doctor still doesn’t know that Belinda
isn’t dead
And seeing Susan again!
Really nice organic way for Belinda to find out that the Doctor
is still alive
This is Ncuti’s Doctor getting properly mad
Belinda is seeing part of the Doctor that scares her and she
doesn’t love.
Kid is very smug
There’s no need for the droneguards to be in this at all
Cora: She’s called Wynn. He’s called Kid.
Belinda: As in.. baby goat?
Cora: As in, his mother was shot before anyone asked her his
name.
The reveal that Cora was a Hellion is visible from a mile
off, but still works.
Len is being a total dick
Hellios was a nice planet, then got bought by a company who destroyed
it to make honey substitute. Not even actual Honey. Honey flavoring.
If her horns were cut off by force, who did it and why?
Len is being a bigot
Belinda: Trust me. If he’s angry, this whole world is going to
shake.
And it’s song 14. That’s an unusual countdown convention. I
like it.
Fuck you len. You try being a persecuted minority.
The Doctor calling out Kid for just being an asshole looking
for an excuse to kill is a great moment
I love how totally unconcerned the Doctor is about Kid while
he destroys him
I’m in favor of the Doctor torturing Kid at this point.
OK, when Susan says to stop, you should stop
The Doctor keeps going torturing him even after Susan says
to stop. Until Belinda walks in and sees him doing it
This should cause a HUGE rift between Belinda and the Doctor
Wynn is a fanatic
The justice monolith?
Kid has ni idea how much danger he’s in from the Doctor’s
rage
100,000 people out there freezing in space. How to save
them?
Floating into space really isn’t the same as being put in
cryogenics.
I love the dueling ‘I’d do anything for you’s from Gary and
Mike. Fun joke
Rylan must be very tall
I wonder what the significance of this song is?
Cora is going to sing a song about Hellia. It’s a good
choice to have it be in a language we don’t understand so that it can resonate
with the viewer however it does to them
It’s a great directorial choice to show how Hellia was
destroyed in flashbacks during the song
I like that Belinda is open with him about how his behavior
made her feel
I hope we get more Susan next episode
Graham Norton gets to explain that the Earth still was
destroyed on May 24th, 2025. Bring on the two part finale
But Mrs. Flood wanted the Vindicator readings
Cloister bell
Oh, there’s Mrs. Flood. Still with Barbara’s hair
She’s a time lady
I wish she’d just regenerated instead of bigenerated
Archie is The Rani
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