RE: Timu's Doctor Who and Torchwood Reviews (spoilers!)
04-07-2020, 03:02 AM
dr 13 s2 e8
dr 13 s2 e9
dr13 s2 ep10 (season finale)....... I haven't actually watched it yet! I'm going to watch it with my sister when I have a chance but that chance has not come yet. Oh well. In the meantime I guess I'll just watch Torchwood all by myself in the middle of the night.
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in this episode, Doctor, Jas, Ryan and Gramps go and visit like
uh
lord byron
Coward02/18/2020
earth again!
Timu02/18/2020
and mary shellye
uhh
wikipedia: "In 1816, [Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelly] famously spent a summer with Lord Byron, John William Polidori and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, Switzerland, where Shelley conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein."
so uh
there's the cast and setting for this episode
okay
okay
so i had no idea who any of these folks are because i'm a history/literature anti-nerd, which means i know absolutely nothing about it
instead i spent all my nerd points in stuff like pokemon and shit
and now that i'm done with the episode and i'm looking at wikipedia and i'm finally going
"ohhhhhhhhhh they were married and shelly is their last name, no wonder i was so confused that there were two different characters both named shelly"
alright so they're hanging out at this house on a dark and stormy night, telling ghost stories and doctor & friends come visit and they're like hey and lord byron is like sure i'm hospitable come on in
but weird stuff starts happening!!!
a vase levitates off the ground and yeets itself into a wall!
a skeleton hand crawls around and tries to strangle you!
Robust Laser02/18/2020
Vases aren't supposed to do that I think
Normal skeleton behavior tho
Timu02/18/2020
you go down the stairs, turn around the corner and..... you're at the top of the same stairwell?
a guy is sleep walking and walks through a wall like a spooky ghost
a creepy little girl is there, then a flash of lightning... and dissappeared!!!!!
a maid does the same thing!
Coward02/18/2020
teleporting maids seems like great service tho
Timu02/18/2020
they just stand there with a blank look in the corner of your eye and then.... thunder crack gone!
yeah she gave some food to gramps and gramps was like thanks! and then looked away and then they dissappeared and he looked back and was like, oh, you left in a hurry, didn't even say anything, well thanks though,
uh what other weird stuff
Coward02/18/2020
see, impeccable service from the magic maids
Timu02/18/2020
leave a room and end up walking right back into the same room somehow
Coward02/18/2020
probably magical girls doing a day job in the 1800's
Timu02/18/2020
oh the baby in the crib dissappears and gets replaced by a skull and the skeleton's other hand (the one that wasn't crawling around doing the strangle strangles)
(but apparently the real, not spooky maid, picked up the baby and hid)
(and the skull and hand climbed into the crib and pulled the blankets over itself so that it can be a spooky scare later when you pull back the blankets to see the baby but it's actually a spooky skull and hand)
Coward02/18/2020
what a joker, that spoop
Timu02/18/2020
uhhh okay so they realize that it's all an illusion. something in the house is trying to hide itself so it is putting up perception filters on people's heads to see the same room they just left even though they are in a different room, or see walls where there are actually doors. (this is how sleepwalking guy could walk through walls, cause he's asleep so the illusion doesn't apply to him)
and the thing trying to hide itself is a Goopy Space Parasite that has infiltrated Shelly's husband, Shelly, who was missing this entire time
apparently this goopy space parasite is so good at hiding itself that it not only puts up illusions to make people lost, it also puts up illusions so that its host can't be noticed by people
so the guy with the parasite has been wandering around the whole time, pissed that everyone is ignoring him, throwing vases around and stuff
but... what is that parasite hiding from?
maybe it's that spooky ghost that's floating out on the lake?
spooky ghost teleports into the house and reveal its true form........
It's a Cyberman!!
the classic doctor who villain, who is a human whose been mostly replaced with metal and lost all their emotions and stuff
but this one isn't quite finished. he's got a big hole in his mask so you can see his partially converted human face underneath, and it looks really cool
and he's staying stuff like, where is my baby parasite?
that baby parasite is a cyberman's supercomputer robot AI thingy, it contains all of cyberman history, scientific blueprints etc, all condensed into a little liquid mercury blob that can climb into people and make them all invisible and stuff
Shelly's husband, shelly: uuu gahh this thing is inside of me, and i can see everything related to cyberman history and technology ahhh
cyberman: it's unclear how baby parasite got into 1800 in the first place or why it's hiding from us, but i'm taking it back to the cyberfuture so that the cybermen can rise back to cyberpower. give me the baby parasite or i'll kill people!
shelly's wife, shelly: i'm appealing to your emotions! i know you still have some? what's your name?
cyberman: you're right.... i haven't gotten my emotion inhibitor chip in yet... i used to be human,, and my name is Asshat, and i'm actually a huge dick with no problem killing you anyway
(okay his name is actually like, assat but if you say it in a silly accent it becomes asshat so i'm going with that)
doctor: okay fine here i'll do the science, give you your baby back, no get out of here and go back to the cyberfuture to wreak your cyberhavoc you cyberprick
doctor's friends: but captain jack from four episodes again said in a cryptic, season-long story arc sort of way, to "don't give the cyberman what it wants"
doctor: eh, but i have to or else the cyberman will kill everyone. can't win them all
cyberman: haha, thanks for the cyberparasite, cyberlosers! cybersee ya cyberlater!
with the day saved, and only two servants murdered, the doctor and her crew get in their tardis to head to the future, chasing that cyberman so that it can't finish doing it's dastardly cyberdeeds!
....
as they were getting in the tardis:
gramps: alright so, i get that the parasite was putting up perception filters to make us get lost in the house and not see the parasite's host trying to talk to us, but why did the parasite animate the skeleton hands and make that creepy maid ghost and creepy girl ghost?
doctor: i have no idea! oh well!
then they get in the tardis and leave
Overall Rating:
Timu02/18/2020
deaths: butler and maid
births: There was a new baby, but it was just a Skull & Hand in a trenchcoat blanket
overall death rate: three cause that baby counts as a reverse birth because skeletons are undead
overall rating: cyberten out of cyberten
yup that skeleton spookster
Coward02/18/2020
It was just for fun
space cyber parasite loves some spoops
cybermen are known for two things: murder and prop-based jokes
SHADOW BANKER02/18/2020
Cyberman is gr8
SHADOW BANKER02/19/2020
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Hey @Timu is this you?
Timu02/19/2020
Cyber parasite is just baby
It ran away from home to become a haunted house maker, following its dreams
It didnt want to grow up to be cyber tyrant like its overcyberbearing cyberparents cyberwant it to cyber
Also cyber angel benten!!! Whoa! I cant belive the Ben 10 universe is canon in yugioh AND doctor who!
I cant wait for the episode where yugioh challenges the doctor to a duel and plays "Bent N, Alien Fours" in attack mode
Its about a letter N that is bent out of shape, like its italicised, N and a bunch of number 4s from space
uh
lord byron
Coward02/18/2020
earth again!
Timu02/18/2020
and mary shellye
uhh
wikipedia: "In 1816, [Mary Shelley and her husband Percy Bysshe Shelly] famously spent a summer with Lord Byron, John William Polidori and Claire Clairmont near Geneva, Switzerland, where Shelley conceived the idea for her novel Frankenstein."
so uh
there's the cast and setting for this episode
okay
okay
so i had no idea who any of these folks are because i'm a history/literature anti-nerd, which means i know absolutely nothing about it
instead i spent all my nerd points in stuff like pokemon and shit
and now that i'm done with the episode and i'm looking at wikipedia and i'm finally going
"ohhhhhhhhhh they were married and shelly is their last name, no wonder i was so confused that there were two different characters both named shelly"
alright so they're hanging out at this house on a dark and stormy night, telling ghost stories and doctor & friends come visit and they're like hey and lord byron is like sure i'm hospitable come on in
but weird stuff starts happening!!!
a vase levitates off the ground and yeets itself into a wall!
a skeleton hand crawls around and tries to strangle you!
Robust Laser02/18/2020
Vases aren't supposed to do that I think
Normal skeleton behavior tho
Timu02/18/2020
you go down the stairs, turn around the corner and..... you're at the top of the same stairwell?
a guy is sleep walking and walks through a wall like a spooky ghost
a creepy little girl is there, then a flash of lightning... and dissappeared!!!!!
a maid does the same thing!
Coward02/18/2020
teleporting maids seems like great service tho
Timu02/18/2020
they just stand there with a blank look in the corner of your eye and then.... thunder crack gone!
yeah she gave some food to gramps and gramps was like thanks! and then looked away and then they dissappeared and he looked back and was like, oh, you left in a hurry, didn't even say anything, well thanks though,
uh what other weird stuff
Coward02/18/2020
see, impeccable service from the magic maids
Timu02/18/2020
leave a room and end up walking right back into the same room somehow
Coward02/18/2020
probably magical girls doing a day job in the 1800's
Timu02/18/2020
oh the baby in the crib dissappears and gets replaced by a skull and the skeleton's other hand (the one that wasn't crawling around doing the strangle strangles)
(but apparently the real, not spooky maid, picked up the baby and hid)
(and the skull and hand climbed into the crib and pulled the blankets over itself so that it can be a spooky scare later when you pull back the blankets to see the baby but it's actually a spooky skull and hand)
Coward02/18/2020
what a joker, that spoop
Timu02/18/2020
uhhh okay so they realize that it's all an illusion. something in the house is trying to hide itself so it is putting up perception filters on people's heads to see the same room they just left even though they are in a different room, or see walls where there are actually doors. (this is how sleepwalking guy could walk through walls, cause he's asleep so the illusion doesn't apply to him)
and the thing trying to hide itself is a Goopy Space Parasite that has infiltrated Shelly's husband, Shelly, who was missing this entire time
apparently this goopy space parasite is so good at hiding itself that it not only puts up illusions to make people lost, it also puts up illusions so that its host can't be noticed by people
so the guy with the parasite has been wandering around the whole time, pissed that everyone is ignoring him, throwing vases around and stuff
but... what is that parasite hiding from?
maybe it's that spooky ghost that's floating out on the lake?
spooky ghost teleports into the house and reveal its true form........
It's a Cyberman!!
the classic doctor who villain, who is a human whose been mostly replaced with metal and lost all their emotions and stuff
but this one isn't quite finished. he's got a big hole in his mask so you can see his partially converted human face underneath, and it looks really cool
and he's staying stuff like, where is my baby parasite?
that baby parasite is a cyberman's supercomputer robot AI thingy, it contains all of cyberman history, scientific blueprints etc, all condensed into a little liquid mercury blob that can climb into people and make them all invisible and stuff
Shelly's husband, shelly: uuu gahh this thing is inside of me, and i can see everything related to cyberman history and technology ahhh
cyberman: it's unclear how baby parasite got into 1800 in the first place or why it's hiding from us, but i'm taking it back to the cyberfuture so that the cybermen can rise back to cyberpower. give me the baby parasite or i'll kill people!
shelly's wife, shelly: i'm appealing to your emotions! i know you still have some? what's your name?
cyberman: you're right.... i haven't gotten my emotion inhibitor chip in yet... i used to be human,, and my name is Asshat, and i'm actually a huge dick with no problem killing you anyway
(okay his name is actually like, assat but if you say it in a silly accent it becomes asshat so i'm going with that)
doctor: okay fine here i'll do the science, give you your baby back, no get out of here and go back to the cyberfuture to wreak your cyberhavoc you cyberprick
doctor's friends: but captain jack from four episodes again said in a cryptic, season-long story arc sort of way, to "don't give the cyberman what it wants"
doctor: eh, but i have to or else the cyberman will kill everyone. can't win them all
cyberman: haha, thanks for the cyberparasite, cyberlosers! cybersee ya cyberlater!
with the day saved, and only two servants murdered, the doctor and her crew get in their tardis to head to the future, chasing that cyberman so that it can't finish doing it's dastardly cyberdeeds!
....
as they were getting in the tardis:
gramps: alright so, i get that the parasite was putting up perception filters to make us get lost in the house and not see the parasite's host trying to talk to us, but why did the parasite animate the skeleton hands and make that creepy maid ghost and creepy girl ghost?
doctor: i have no idea! oh well!
then they get in the tardis and leave
Overall Rating:
Timu02/18/2020
deaths: butler and maid
births: There was a new baby, but it was just a Skull & Hand in a trenchcoat blanket
overall death rate: three cause that baby counts as a reverse birth because skeletons are undead
overall rating: cyberten out of cyberten
yup that skeleton spookster
Coward02/18/2020
It was just for fun
space cyber parasite loves some spoops
cybermen are known for two things: murder and prop-based jokes
SHADOW BANKER02/18/2020
Cyberman is gr8
SHADOW BANKER02/19/2020
Hey @Timu is this you?
Timu02/19/2020
Cyber parasite is just baby
It ran away from home to become a haunted house maker, following its dreams
It didnt want to grow up to be cyber tyrant like its overcyberbearing cyberparents cyberwant it to cyber
Also cyber angel benten!!! Whoa! I cant belive the Ben 10 universe is canon in yugioh AND doctor who!
I cant wait for the episode where yugioh challenges the doctor to a duel and plays "Bent N, Alien Fours" in attack mode
Its about a letter N that is bent out of shape, like its italicised, N and a bunch of number 4s from space
dr 13 s2 e9
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Previously on yugioh:
Captain Jack: don't give the lone cyberman what he wants! that's my cryptic message i give, now i must go byeeeeee
Lone Cyberman: give me what i want or i will kill everyone
Doctor: you win this time
lone cyberman, whose name is Asshat, haha now that i have the Cyberparasite i will go to the future and use it to restore the cyberrace!!!
doctor & friends: we pursue!
now it's the year 50 billion or whatever, they're on some random planet, the war is just about over, all the cyberspaceships have been blown up, all that's left is like, a small cybersquadron. on the other side of the battle, the humans, are also just very few survivors scattered around the galaxy. and here we have.... pessimistic guy, optimistic girl, older woman who is in charge, smart kid, and other survivors who die immediately so they don't matter
they're hiding in a little village on some random planet, but the cybersquadron is coming to finish them off, but the doctor has landed the tardis five miles away so that it can effectively be of no use at all
Coward02/25/2020
Oh boy timu review on lunch break. Nice
Timu02/25/2020
cybersquadron: surprise attack! we brought floating cyberheads with laser eyes to kill you all!
doctor: dang, there's not enough time to get back to the invincible, all powerful tardis, so, everyone run!!!!
in the squabble, 4 out of like 7 of the refugee humans survive, and all of doctor's friends survive. however they get separated!!!
Doctor, ryan and smart kid hijack one of the cybercars and flees!!
meanwhile, jas, gramps, pessimist, optimist, and leader escape in their crappy refugeecar
it crashes into some cyberdebris from a recent cyberbattle and explodes, luckily they manage to get into a nearby cyberMostlyStill-IntactCyberAircraftCarrier
it's filled with a couple hundred thousand cybermen all sleeping. it's unclear if these are just empty shells or have actual converted humans inside or what but they're not active
Jas, Gramps, Pessimist, Optimist, Leader (or jgpol) are turn on the cyberengine, planning to go to the fabled Hope Boundary, on the edge of the galaxy, which has a portal that will lead to where no cybermen can follow! all the war survivors have heard of it, pessimist thinks it's just a legend, optimist thinks we should at least hope it exists, i'm sure there's like a real world parallel but i'm dumbass shut-in so idk what
unfortunately, asshat has arrived!
he flicks the cyberlightswitch, and all the cybermen wake up out of the cyberpods!
oh no!!!!!
meanwhile, Doctor Ryan and Smart Kid (or drsk) are on their stolen cybercar. smart kid has also heard the legend of the Hope Boundary, so thats where they go, because their cybercar is strong and good
there they find a guy who lives next to the hope boundary, instead of leaving like an instruction manual behind, he has nobly elected to remain behind to guide the way for those that follow, cause the way to open the portal is not obvious because it is invisible
unless you know exactly where it is
in which in turns visible and reveals that on the other side is Gallifrey, the doctor's home planet, which used to be thriving with other time lords, then got destroyed, then got brought back, but is now destroyed again
and then the Master hops in through the portal and says "surprise it's me!!!! jazz hands
cliffhanger!!!
Coward02/25/2020
Ok but was the parasite for
Timu02/25/2020
also throughout this episode we have intermittent flashbacks to what LOOKS like a small 1950s village in the uk.
a guy is riding his old timey bicycle, finds a baby left in at the side of the road, adopts the baby.
baby grows up and becomes a policemen. when baby is like 25yr cop, he is fighting the crimes and gets shot and falls off a cliff. Police chief finds him, completely fine, just having a little nap.
next flashback is like 80yr cop, he's all old and retiring from the police force, when on his way home, his not-old dad and not-old policechief are there, they strap him to a chair and say 'okay here we go again, the implication is that we've done this several times but the process erases your memory
so this seemingly unrelated sidestory is going on. it's wild mass guessing fan theories time!!!
so many questions
who is baby? how did baby get left on road? why is baby survive bullet and fall damage? why is dad and policechief the same age as when baby was baby? what are they doing to baby with science chair? and most perplexing of all
what the FUCK is a bicycle (https://youtu.be/rvLoLMH0AY8)
******02/25/2020
velocipede for normies
Coward02/25/2020
Ten Speed, the demon bicycle
Timu02/25/2020
and then there's the standard cliffhangers of the characters we actually know, asshat woke up all the cybermen and are about to kill jgpol, The Master has shown up at portal to surprise drsk
Coward02/25/2020
I feel like there are like a hundred unaddressed threads of plot
Timu02/25/2020
and i have no idea what the cyberparasite does
i mean, i think it was explained in the episode like
the cyberparasite allows you to turn on all the dead cybermen or something
******02/25/2020
it does cyber
Timu02/25/2020
but i missed that part because my hearing is bad and no subtitles
Timu02/25/2020
Overall Rating:
death rate: apparently both humans and cybermen are just handfuls of survivors, but within this episode itself, like, i dunno, three or four humans?
birth rate: mystery baby... twice?
Overall death rate: my personal theory is that mystery baby has some sort of healing power, and that police chief and baby's dad are siphoning it to retain their youth. so with that into account, the overall death rate is -42069
Moral of the story: Park your getaway vehicle closer to where you're gonna be doing stuff
Overall Rating: overarching season arc part 6/10
******02/25/2020
mystery baby is a time lord?
it regenerates, they suck in the life juice and stop it.
Timu02/25/2020
could be!
is mystery
Captain Jack: don't give the lone cyberman what he wants! that's my cryptic message i give, now i must go byeeeeee
Lone Cyberman: give me what i want or i will kill everyone
Doctor: you win this time
lone cyberman, whose name is Asshat, haha now that i have the Cyberparasite i will go to the future and use it to restore the cyberrace!!!
doctor & friends: we pursue!
now it's the year 50 billion or whatever, they're on some random planet, the war is just about over, all the cyberspaceships have been blown up, all that's left is like, a small cybersquadron. on the other side of the battle, the humans, are also just very few survivors scattered around the galaxy. and here we have.... pessimistic guy, optimistic girl, older woman who is in charge, smart kid, and other survivors who die immediately so they don't matter
they're hiding in a little village on some random planet, but the cybersquadron is coming to finish them off, but the doctor has landed the tardis five miles away so that it can effectively be of no use at all
Coward02/25/2020
Oh boy timu review on lunch break. Nice
Timu02/25/2020
cybersquadron: surprise attack! we brought floating cyberheads with laser eyes to kill you all!
doctor: dang, there's not enough time to get back to the invincible, all powerful tardis, so, everyone run!!!!
in the squabble, 4 out of like 7 of the refugee humans survive, and all of doctor's friends survive. however they get separated!!!
Doctor, ryan and smart kid hijack one of the cybercars and flees!!
meanwhile, jas, gramps, pessimist, optimist, and leader escape in their crappy refugeecar
it crashes into some cyberdebris from a recent cyberbattle and explodes, luckily they manage to get into a nearby cyberMostlyStill-IntactCyberAircraftCarrier
it's filled with a couple hundred thousand cybermen all sleeping. it's unclear if these are just empty shells or have actual converted humans inside or what but they're not active
Jas, Gramps, Pessimist, Optimist, Leader (or jgpol) are turn on the cyberengine, planning to go to the fabled Hope Boundary, on the edge of the galaxy, which has a portal that will lead to where no cybermen can follow! all the war survivors have heard of it, pessimist thinks it's just a legend, optimist thinks we should at least hope it exists, i'm sure there's like a real world parallel but i'm dumbass shut-in so idk what
unfortunately, asshat has arrived!
he flicks the cyberlightswitch, and all the cybermen wake up out of the cyberpods!
oh no!!!!!
meanwhile, Doctor Ryan and Smart Kid (or drsk) are on their stolen cybercar. smart kid has also heard the legend of the Hope Boundary, so thats where they go, because their cybercar is strong and good
there they find a guy who lives next to the hope boundary, instead of leaving like an instruction manual behind, he has nobly elected to remain behind to guide the way for those that follow, cause the way to open the portal is not obvious because it is invisible
unless you know exactly where it is
in which in turns visible and reveals that on the other side is Gallifrey, the doctor's home planet, which used to be thriving with other time lords, then got destroyed, then got brought back, but is now destroyed again
and then the Master hops in through the portal and says "surprise it's me!!!! jazz hands
cliffhanger!!!
Coward02/25/2020
Ok but was the parasite for
Timu02/25/2020
also throughout this episode we have intermittent flashbacks to what LOOKS like a small 1950s village in the uk.
a guy is riding his old timey bicycle, finds a baby left in at the side of the road, adopts the baby.
baby grows up and becomes a policemen. when baby is like 25yr cop, he is fighting the crimes and gets shot and falls off a cliff. Police chief finds him, completely fine, just having a little nap.
next flashback is like 80yr cop, he's all old and retiring from the police force, when on his way home, his not-old dad and not-old policechief are there, they strap him to a chair and say 'okay here we go again, the implication is that we've done this several times but the process erases your memory
so this seemingly unrelated sidestory is going on. it's wild mass guessing fan theories time!!!
so many questions
who is baby? how did baby get left on road? why is baby survive bullet and fall damage? why is dad and policechief the same age as when baby was baby? what are they doing to baby with science chair? and most perplexing of all
what the FUCK is a bicycle (https://youtu.be/rvLoLMH0AY8)
******02/25/2020
velocipede for normies
Coward02/25/2020
Ten Speed, the demon bicycle
Timu02/25/2020
and then there's the standard cliffhangers of the characters we actually know, asshat woke up all the cybermen and are about to kill jgpol, The Master has shown up at portal to surprise drsk
Coward02/25/2020
I feel like there are like a hundred unaddressed threads of plot
Timu02/25/2020
and i have no idea what the cyberparasite does
i mean, i think it was explained in the episode like
the cyberparasite allows you to turn on all the dead cybermen or something
******02/25/2020
it does cyber
Timu02/25/2020
but i missed that part because my hearing is bad and no subtitles
Timu02/25/2020
Overall Rating:
death rate: apparently both humans and cybermen are just handfuls of survivors, but within this episode itself, like, i dunno, three or four humans?
birth rate: mystery baby... twice?
Overall death rate: my personal theory is that mystery baby has some sort of healing power, and that police chief and baby's dad are siphoning it to retain their youth. so with that into account, the overall death rate is -42069
Moral of the story: Park your getaway vehicle closer to where you're gonna be doing stuff
Overall Rating: overarching season arc part 6/10
******02/25/2020
mystery baby is a time lord?
it regenerates, they suck in the life juice and stop it.
Timu02/25/2020
could be!
is mystery
dr13 s2 ep10 (season finale)....... I haven't actually watched it yet! I'm going to watch it with my sister when I have a chance but that chance has not come yet. Oh well. In the meantime I guess I'll just watch Torchwood all by myself in the middle of the night.
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