DOCTOR WHO – WISH WORLD (spoilers)
DOCTOR WHO – WISH WORLD
“What the hell is happening here?”
“C’mon, give me a break.”
“Is any of this making sense? No?”
Here we go. The Rani not only kidnaps a baby but turns the
woman who just had a baby into flowers, and six boys into ducks and the father
into an owl. Okay, cool effects, no not really. BUT the Rani never really
killed just to kill. Like the Master, the Modern Show has the Rani all wrong.
It makes her all evil instead of just amoral, a mistake TIME AND THE RANI made,
too.
She can just blow. I mean she blows here but she can blow
like a magical witch. The show is now a total fantasy.
What follows is stomach turning. A waste of time. In what is
obviously something wrong, the Doctor is John Smith married to his wife Belinda
and they have a daughter, a little baby. The wheel chair lady is poor. Kate is
a nasty boss of John Smith in a desk job while Conrad reads a story to people
from a TV, Mel is a lonely old woman who is happy in that, and giant bone
monsters hover over the city and a tower of bone. Ruby knows he is the Doctor
and thus expresses “doubt” in this sort of NEW BRAVE NEW WORLD, 1984,
brainwashed fantasy wish world. It’s nothing we haven’t seen before and frankly
it’s boring and reeks of another cheat.
The Doctor is giving Ibrahim dating advice (as if he’d
know), the Doctor calls him a beautiful man which he claims is a slip. Every
time (well, not every time as this is RTDisney WHO so just some of the time)
someone slips, a yellow coffee cup breaks, sometimes with a plate. Again,
another incomprehensible bit of illusionary nonsense is up for grabs and trust
in RTD to not explain it correctly in future. The Doc wonders who “she is” and
doubts but no breaking cup.
The Rani flies in on a hover bike or something.
Mrs. Flood works for the Rani. The baby boy is in with
Conrad who seems unable to figure out what’s happening to the world or how he’s
being used or brainwashed. RTD seems to hate babies now, too. The baby is
played for horror. Mrs. Flood thinks the baby is terrifying and the baby seems
to be sustaining the whole world. Of course, Mrs. Flood is supposed to be an
incarnation of the Rani, too so this makes little sense, too.
May 24, the world is supposed to end. The Rani has the
Doctor’s vindicator that he was using to pin point how to get to Earth 2025 to
get Belinda home, which he could not.
Shirley is the wheel chair lady and she and Ruby are
doubting and coming out of the trance brainwashing of the wish world. Shirley
introduces Ruby (they see a bone creature not making an impact, which of course
has a double meaning for me, none of this makes an impact, it’s just bidding
it’s time for a cliffhanger wow moment that won’t be a wow moment). Ruby’s own
mum turned her in (nothing new there, her adoptive mum is awful and always has
been as in 73 YARDS, that other POS).
That guy is supposed to be blind? Wot?
So…someone not disabled can’t see the disabled? What 2?
Rogue appears on the TV and tries to warn the Doctor, who is
watching TV and Rogue briefly blames the Doctor for him sliding into a hell
dimension which is sliding into the pit. What 3? Didn’t Rogue make the choice
to do that to himself to save the Doctor and the world and Ruby?
Belinda reports her husband, the Doctor, for having doubts.
Flood takes away Belinda for having doubts, too, having her
mother Amma watch her baby that she had with John Smith.
And with the world about to be destroyed in nine minutes,
Ruby and two of the wheelchair bound ladies (Shirley is one of them) plot to
block Conrad from the transmissions and for Ruby to get into the Ivory Or Bone
Tower to confront Conrad and look him in the eyes so she can remember the
Doctor (but she already has!). While this is happening, the Rani DANCES with
the Doctor, she having danced with him at the siege of Persephone or at least
she says so.
“People said we were lovers.” Sure,
lady. “Were we?” I guess he wasn’t that
good at it. He gay, gurl!
Always was.
She says she only wanted life. Every villain he ever faced,
she says, only wanted death. Not sure that’s true but whatever. She reveals
herself to him as the Rani. This is so boring.
I’ll give it this: Archie Panjabi is a good actress and was
so in THE GOOD WIFE. She really almost saves this episode by being so good as
an evil villain who doesn’t think she is but sort of knows she is. Pity about
this being a stretched out plot that could have been told in about five to
seven minutes.
Rani wants the doubt so she can destroy the wish world so
that can free…Omega. Oh, here we go again. Cue obligatory flashbacks of the
Doctor’s other faces including, after Jodie’s face, the FUG Doctor (so she is
after Jodie after all). The Doc remembers! YAY! A WOW moment!!!!???
No, not really. There’s nothing here. NO emotion, no
nothing, nothing. This is just there. It’s not even so bad it’s good. It’s just
existing. It makes me feel nothing. It IS nothing. It’s just pretty pictures
and it does look good.
Wait. The baby was born a god thanks to the Doctor awoke the
Pantheon and the most powerful one of all, the child, was born. He is
Desidirium, god of wishes which made Conrad wish this world into existence and
the god of wishes would not have infinite power (or breast milk would be all
they’d have). What? She boosted his power (what?) with the vindicator.
Does this make ANY sense? Is she keeping the baby in check?
That could make sense. She amplified the wishes of the god which allowed Conrad
to create this world.
Once reality is broken by the Doc’s doubt, she can see the
Underverse where Omega is. The Rani tells him all her plans but doesn’t trust
him for a moment. She needed to do that
for his doubt to amplify and rip open the structure of reality itself. So when
a Time Lord doubts, that’s what happens? What if any stray Time Lord like
Andred doubted he really wanted a female for a wife? REALITY BROKEN!
Haha.
It’s the 1966 BATMAN movie: The Riddler (Conrad), Catwoman
(The Rani), Penquin (Mrs. Flood), and Joker (Omega). They’re turning people
into sand or takin water out of them.
Poppy is real? Instead of the sting music happening as the
Doctor falls (and everyone else seems to be destroyed as well), we get the blam
bam bam, thank you mam thumping.
Gosh, I don’t know what to make of that. I guess it will
hinge on part two being any good. In other words, the show is fucked.
Another illusionary story that is boring, flat, cliché, and
signaled.
Wait till next week when this shit ends. Rumor now has it
that RTD has planned out two more seasons of this shit. If so, we’re unlucky.
Rumor also has it that the show will end and rest until 2027 when RTD will
bring this shit to us, somehow. Rumor also has it that this is the final end,
which is the one I hope for so that the DW franchise and what went before will
stop being ruined.
So a show that under RTD’s Disney and Moffat’s BOOM, that
once inspired people NOT to have faith, now inspires people to not have doubt?
In what? That the disabled will be the ones to not doubt? In what? Reality and
not the fake wishes of a married couple?
I’m come to the conclusion that DW means nothing, is
nothing, and is totally incongruous to anything DW of the past (even the recent
Moffat past, though there is where the rot started).
I sincerely hope it loses more viewers this and next week
and is rapidly disavowed by Disney (who have disavowed superior shows like
MIGHTY DUCKS: GAME CHANGERS, BIG SHOT, TURNER AND HOOCH, and DOOGIE), cancelled
and NEVER revived for the rest of eternity. This is a shambles of a once great
show, a once great character and a once great premise. Put US out of our misery
that you inflicted on us since 2009.
I also tend to remember that is vaguely familiar: I think
Grace and Doctor 8 once woke up in bed in a Marvel Magazine comic book story, a
plot by the Toymaker.
Like a bad cosplay, this moves pieces around a chessboard in
a routine. It’s dull, flat, boring and nothing. 0/10.
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