Timu's Doctor Who and Torchwood Reviews (spoilers!)

dr13 s3 ep4
part 4 of 6 of the Flux Series

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Spoilerpreviously on doctor who, a weeping angel climbed out of Yaz's phone and took control the tardis controls, bringing them to Cursed Village in 1967
doctor detects a funky signal and wanders off to go check it out on her own

meanwhile the townsfolk are searching through the night for a missing girl, so yaz and dan (it's dan!) help out
then a weeping angel gets them and sends them back in time to 1901

in 1901 they find the missing girl, who does nothing
also in the town they find other people who the angels have taken back in time, and we also learn that people can't survive being sent back in time twice- the second time they are touched by an angel, a visual effects artist turns them into stone and crumbles them

https://youtu.be/BJ6Fc1nNKc4

we also learn that the entire village is now just on a floating island just out in space
(both 1901 and 1967 village is like this)
if you walk out the village you'll find a cliff face that just leads out to beautiful starry emptiness of space
a nice view
but probably not a good sign for the village

however also on a different edge of the village, instead of it leading out to space, it leads to 1967
a nice edge barrier where you can see through 66 years into the future, and speak and look through to the other side
...thankfully dan is smart, and tests out throwing a rock through.  the rock gets obliterated.  so no crossing, only chatting.

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meanwhile
the doctor has traced the signal to a guy's basement where Claire, "random lady who met the doctor in the past: attacked by weeping angel in episode one, and hasn't been seen since"
Claire didn't actually meet the doctor in the past- all she did was have visions of the future where she would meet the doctor
then the weeping angels zapped her to 1967
the basement belongs to Dr Jericho who is studying claire's ability to see visions of the future
don't worry, jericho isn't one of those evil scientists who kidnaps people and does experiments, he's a guy who is like 'wow you saw the future that's so cool ,wanna be friends??"
apparently claire's visions are due to a Weeping Angel who has taken up residence in claire's mind

the doctor goes into claire's mind to tell the angel 'hey stop turning claire into stone and stuff'
the angel says: "so I used to work for The Division, the mysterious organization who erased your memories of your pre-1st-doctor-lives.  however i quit, so the other angels who still work for Division, have come to beat me up.  i gave claire visions and took control of the tardis as a complicated plot to bring you here in order to distract the other angels so i can escape'

Then the other angels start breaking into the house!! oh no!
Those other angels isolated this village on a space island in order to better attack Rogue Angel.

after a fun and lengthy escape sequence, in which angels come climbing out of tvs and printers and the walls
finally they escape out into the graveyard
that's where that time barrier is!
Oh yeah and Dr Jericho gets zapped to 1901
on the 1901 side, Yaz Dan Jericho and missing girl are there
and on 1967, the doctor, Claire and like a hundred weeping angels.  and missing girl but 66 years older, is also there too.

The weeping angels: we have captured you and rogue angel! haha!
then the doctor turns into an angel, leaving yaz dan and jericho in 1901

ohno


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Timu — Yesterday at 11:04 PM

Uhhh what else happens in this episode...
Tamogotchi Lady has found some other survivors of the Dust Wave.  Thanos Sister is there putting people into a Third Guy, claiming that it is safe passage to a place safe from the Dust Wave.  However only tamogotchi lady recognizes this lie, and so she escapes, and manages to save one person.

Oh yeah and there were chickens



Overall Rating:
Villain: Weeping Angel
Death Rate: random priest sent back in time and never seen again, missing girl's parents, both 1901 and 1967 populations of the village sent back in time/killed/both
Birth Rate: some angels birthing out of printers and tvs, does that count?  the doctor turns into an angel
Overall death rate: idk like two villages worth of people
Overall Rating: Dan/10
Moral of the story:  Tell the other people when you're about to blink so that you can periodically rest your eyes and still watch the angels.  doesn't work as well if there's too many angels to be looked at by any single person at once.  However, the angels like to just turn off people's flashlights and stuff... so such a technique wouldn't actually have been that useful in this particular episode.

dr13 s3 ep5
part 5 of 6 of the Flux Series

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Spoilernext episode!

turns out the weeping angel transformation is completely meaningless, it's just a gimmick that weeping angels like to do to people to fuck with them and also leave scary cliffhangers.  also that's how weeping angel teleporters work.  everyone else just teleports, poof, poof, teleport, but the weeping angels turn you into an angel and then poof poof.  shrug.

The doctor has been taken to the Division Headquarters!  It's cryptic lady from two episodes ago, Cryptic Old Lady in the time storm.  Turns out she's the boss of The Division and also The Doctor's (adopted) mom!!!

If you haven't gone back to the post with part 1 of this series, now's the time cause I put a Glossary there.
In the Division Headquarters we get some exposition that really would have been nice to learn at the start of all this.  (so I put it into that Glossary).  However I understand the need to be all cryptic in your writing cause you gotta tease the audience. ... but i still think my way is better~

Yeah so we learn all about how Cryptic Old Lady founded the Division and released Thanos from prison in order to destroy the universe.  Stuff that I put into that Glossary.  I put fun pictures into that Glossary.  look at the pictures I made~

so yeah, Division operates across the multiverse.
Doctor Who doesn't delve into parallel-universes that often.  Alternate dimensions are rarely ever visited and it's usually out of the question unless some sort of freak accident happens to the Tardis. 
And here the Division's nice hologram computer is showing like a fuckton of universes and Cryptic Old Lady is like this "yeah the entire show so far has taken place in this one right here.  i don't like it anymore so i'm trying to get the Dust Wave to delete it."

anyway so basically, Thanos works for Time, not Cryptic Old Lady.  Cryptic Old Lady just freed thanos since both of them happen to have the same goal: destroy the universe
However, Thanos has been dusting all the people in Third Guy, draining their souls and stuff in order to gain enough power to teleport to The Division Headquarters outside of the universe... and then thanos dusts Cryptic Old lady!!!

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meanwhile: in 1904, Yaz, Dan (it's dan!) and Jericho have just been wandering around for three years looking for stuff to do

they get a few cans of wet paint and draw on the great wall of china "we're in 1904 save us" and dog guy in 2021 is looking at old satellite footage of 1904 and is like 'i can't time travel, smh.'  sorry no help from dog guy for you.

then they go to the tunnels that Rich Guy in 1820 has been digging.  since it's 1904 now, rich guy is long gone and the tunnels are abandoned. 
but rich guy is still wandering around down there.
somehow the tunnel has doorways that lead to random places in time and space, which is how he keeps showing up in random places in previous episodes in order to say cryptic stuff.
idk how the tunnels are able to do this.

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meanwhile: Space Senator from the flashbacks in episode 3 is on earth!  he is pretending to be a human and is literally eating his way up the chain of command of the british military
he becomes a founding and controlling member of UNIT, the united nations intelligence task force who has been dealing with alien stuff.  they have shown up in lots and lots of episodes through the entire doctor who show history.
in 2021, Space Senator uses has basically become the boss of UNIT, and is now about to reveal his long master plan... which is to help the sontarans attack the planet again!!

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also, Tamogotchi Lady has ended up in the Dog Shield because she has been running around on a stolen Dog Ship this whole time, and Dog Man wanted it back.  so she's at earth now.  and Vinder was been put into a Third Guy by thanos and has met up with Dan's girlfriend.

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Overall Rating:
Villain: Space Senator.  this nasty politician has the power to turn your organs into a baby snake, who will eat its way out of you, and then be eaten by the senator.  I don't believe this kills the babies, i think they just live in him now.  I wonder how many of these baby snakes live inside of him.  is he made out of baby snakes :O ???  Is he like a thousand baby snakes in a trenchcoat?!?!
Death Rate: two UNIT officers, at least a hundred people eaten by thanos for energy, cryptic old lady.
Birth Rate: two baby snakes.
Overall death rate: like a hundred + 1
Overall Rating: Dan/10
Moral of the story:

So.
You just met this random dude.  The guy approaches you at a party or something.
You start making small talk.  Just some casual stuff.  Talking about hobbies like hunting and being british.
then the stranger says, "oh by the way, i am an expert in alien stuff'
'wow!!!!" you exclaim!  "what a coincidence, the united nations just asked me to form an anti-alien military branch.  It's top secret!"
and then, he said 'oh wow yeah that is totally definitely a coincidence, i absolutely definitely had no prior knowledge of this.  definitely.'

  then you said  "this is so lucky, would you like to be a co-founder of it with me?"
The moral of the story is that in this situation, you should recognize that this stranger is extremely suspicious and definitely knew ahead of time and that hiring him is exactly what he wants.  So.  don't do that. that's the moral.

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Hanging Plot Threads:
Chickens: missing. where are they.  are they still in cursed village.  why didn't dan bring the chickens to the great wall of china.
and that's all
the end
see ya next week