Slightly uncertain how I feel about the latest Who. After watching it I saw some comparisons to Black Mirror, which I’ll take other people’s word for cos I’ve never watched Black Mirror, but this sort of “how social media/AI will fuck us up” plot appears to be the sort of thing that show does from what I’ve gathered about it… anyway, that’s only partly what it’s about; there’s Tractator-like creatures eating people out in the streets of Finetime, but ultimately the people of Finetime prove to be the real monsters. This is another relatively Doctor and Ruby-light episode, so Callie Cooke winds up carrying most of the episode, and in the end she proves to be kind of perfect casting, in that she somehow looks exactly like the sort of character she’s playing, especially in the climactic scene where she refuses to be saved by the Doctor cos he’s, you not, not from around there. He’s not like the rest of them. Hardly the first time the show has handled racial issues, but with the current Doctor being who he is it had more bite to it this time. Still, as with last week, I felt it could’ve done with a couple more minutes runtime; I felt like things were being left unsaid that should’ve been, and this week you couldn’t just ascribe it to supernatural wibbly woo like you could last week. It was good but something in the execution was a bit off-putting and I’m not sure what; this is one I think I’m going to need more viewings to fully get.
