Was the implication that Benni turned into a Dreg too or were they just using his voice somehow? I missed the scene when he disappeared.
I don't remember the Doctor going up to people and touching their head to read their minds, since I've been watching in 2005. However it looks like he did in 2x04:
10 uses it in the End of Time 'listening' for the Master- Eleven uses it to help Amy remember Prisoner Zero in Eleventh Hour, and again to leave a message for Amy in Big Bang, and again in Doctors Wife when he's 'listening' for Timelords. He also transfers memories to Craig via a headbutt in the Lodger. There is also the implication that the sonic and the TARDIS have telepathic interfaces. I'm sure there have been instances with Classic Doctors, but I'm not well versed enough.
It was quite a weird situation. I was sure they were going for "the Dregs are all guests who were transformed" but nope. He was abducted by horrifying Dregs and begged for death, but in a weird calm way that included a marriage proposal.Was the implication that Benni turned into a Dreg too or were they just using his voice somehow? I missed the scene when he disappeared.
It was quite a weird situation. I was sure they were going for "the Dregs are all guests who were transformed" but nope. He was abducted by horrifying Dregs and begged for death, but in a weird calm way that included a marriage proposal.
And then later, Lydia from Breaking Bad is all like, I shot him, and maybe she shot him because she wants to hide the fact that he was ACTUALLY A DREG NOW OMG. But no, she just shot him because he couldn't bear to live, but he was quite calm about it.What a weird scene. Like that totally felt like a RTD/Moffat-era "calm conversation with a character who's already dead" scene but I guess they decided to just play it ghoulishly straight instead.
This episode had loads of ADR in and around those scenes, and a suspiciously short running time. I suspect a lot of that had to do with whatever they originally intended to do with Benni, but I'd only be speculating. Perhaps they had a half Benni half Dreg make up effect but it was too gruesome for prime time?What a weird scene. Like that totally felt like a RTD/Moffat-era "calm conversation with a character who's already dead" scene but I guess they decided to just play it ghoulishly straight instead.
OMG, I was going nuts trying to place where I knew her from lolAnd then later, Lydia from Breaking Bad is all like, I shot him, and maybe she shot him because she wants to hide the fact that he was ACTUALLY A DREG NOW OMG. But no, she just shot him because he couldn't bear to live, but he was quite calm about it.
And they didn't mess with any other guests, just poor Benni.
And then later, Lydia from Breaking Bad is all like, I shot him, and maybe she shot him because she wants to hide the fact that he was ACTUALLY A DREG NOW OMG. But no, she just shot him because he couldn't bear to live, but he was quite calm about it.
And they didn't mess with any other guests, just poor Benni.
This episode was like when 'upmarket' restaurants do deconstructed versions of basic meals, that essentially amount to over-complicated and incredibly strange versions of something that was never all that bad in the first place.
By which I mean this is a base under siege episode, which Doctor Who has done a thousand times before, but so unnecessarily complicated and with increasingly baffling moments - Why do you take eleven people, including a child and an elderly woman, out to find an old man on a planet literally full of killer aliens? Why was there like two security people if you knew said killer aliens were everywhere and able to get in? Why were the aliens sinister enough to goad people with an old man's dying proposal one minute, and then stupid enough to let themselves be trapped in a cage the next? Why would someone decide to blow up a whole resort, potentially killing dozens of people, just because their mum was busy at work?
Genuinely inexplicable episode.
I came to pose about how incredibly mediocre Orphan 55 was but now i'm posting about one of the GOAT seasons (even though I only watched it a few months back, i love it.).The cover art of Doctor Who The Collection Season 14 has leaked! Talons on the cover.
This was so bad I had to actively look up writing and directing credits to see who was to blame. Surprisingly the only other episode the writer did was one of the somewhat better ones last season, same with the director.
I kinda liked this episode. It probably works best to turn off the brain a bit though, because as several of you mentioned nothing really makes sense and people act a bit dumb.
The biggest thing that bothers me is there are all these monsters but what do they live on? What is their food source? They obviously have big teeth for munching things. I dunno why but stuff like that bugs me, lol.
Did anyone else hope that the monsters turned out to be killer trees instead of humans?
I thought they could only teleport in and out, although I'm sure with a broken barrier the Doctor could have found some way to get the TARDIS in for a quick rescue. Although it would have to be super quick because the mother and daughter were about to be overrun... unless the Doctor was willing to cross her and her companions own time stream.
I think the blatant climate change politics makes it difficult to interpret that. I suspect older viewers have tanked an already weak score.
OMG, I was going nuts trying to place where I knew her from lol
For future reference, see this site:That's where I know her from! Thank you, that was bugging me all the way through.
You want to know the biggest laugh of this? This clip where he asks the writers if they've gone to far (or not far enough) is actually included on the Classic Season 23 boxset last year! It's so amazing in hindsight that the very guy that is so critical of the writers (who did their absolute best considering the show was about to be canned again and constantly being mishandled by the BBC), some 35 years ago, does the exact same thing. Sure the guy has aged a lot in the meantime and has changed, but it's still so interesting to see.The amazing thing is that this is so rich from somebody who as a young man in the 80s went on a TV panel show to talk about why the show had lost its way, hahaha. Especially because in many ways he is presiding over an era that feels a lot like that lost mid 80s Who...
Unfortunately Orphan 55 did reminds me a bit of the worse excesses of 80s who like green hair and a character that look like Barf from spaceballs. Bit of Paradise Towers, and deja vu with the costumes of The Happiness Patrol. It feels like history repeats itself and Doctor Who maybe getting that reputation again. Don't forget the talking frog last season which looked very cheap, whether it was meant to be ironic or not .I feel like Chibnall after the hit of Broadchurch was chosen to make the show contemporary and relevant again but we saw he wasn't the right man for the job, when he was announced.You want to know the biggest laugh of this? This clip where he asks the writers if they've gone to far (or not far enough) is actually included on the Classic Season 23 boxset last year! It's so amazing in hindsight that the very guy that is so critical of the writers (who did their absolute best considering the show was about to be canned again and constantly being mishandled by the BBC), some 35 years ago, does the exact same thing. Sure the guy has aged a lot in the meantime and has changed, but it's still so interesting to see.
Funnily enough, I agree with Chibnall. I don't think there's much use for the showrunner specifically to read reviews. It'll just make their lives more miserable than it already is.
Funnily enough, I agree with Chibnall. I don't think there's much use for the showrunner specifically to read reviews. It'll just make their lives more miserable than it already is.
Though, someone on the production and writing teams should. The show should be made with an awareness of what its viewers think about it. Otherwise we'd still be stuck with the M&M Daleks.
It reminded me of Classic Who (especially the 80s) in the same way some Gatiss episodes do.The episode wasn't that bad. Reminded me of classic who in a way.