RE: Timu's Doctor Who and Torchwood Reviews (spoilers!)
12-26-2023, 11:25 PM
dr15 s1 e0. the 2023 christmas special, and the solo debut of doctor 15
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Overall Rating:
Main Villain: Goblins!
These mean little christmas gremlins have the power to travel through time to events as long as such events are considered particularly unlucky/lucky/coincidental enough. at least that's how i'm choosing to interpret the technobabble explanation. Their time travel vehicle is a wooden pirate ship, held together with ropes and the power of luck. fortunately, if you know how to speak rope, you can make open secret passages and trapdoors in the ship.
Anyway, they use this time travel power to sneak around fucking with people. They do things like:
tearing holes in bags so that you spill your groceries
pulling power cords taut so people trip on them and knock over lamps
loosing bolts so that things fall on people's heads,
stealing babies so that they can eat the babies, and also the timeline changes because that baby didn't grow up
Their presence in causing accidents also helps create the 'bad luck' needed for their presense in the first place! scary! they growl and they hiss and they cackle and they sound exactly like how you'd expect a stereotypical grinch kobold creature gnome gremlin goblin to sound
except for that one goblin who can sing exactly like a human pop singer sings. it's great
Deaths:
one goblin king! impaled by the spire of the church when the doctor uses his power gloves to pull the goblin pirate ship down from the sky
Births:
like 2 kids are abandoned as babies and go into foster care
Birth Rate:
wow a doctor who episode where there are more 'births' than 'deaths.' incredible!
actually, after the goblin king died, the whole goblin ship just kinda faded out of existence. i should probably count that as death.
So the birth rate is like negative 50 goblins
so close doctor who! you'll get it next year!
Moral of the story: try to be more aware of your surroundings, watch your step, and don't set up objects in your house such that they can fall over to the slightest oopsywhoopsy, and also make sure that the items you do have in your home aren't murder-sharp christmas tree stars so that IF they do fall, at least it won't be a lethal accident!
Overall Rating: 8/10
there was nothing about this episode that was bad but nothing that particularly stood out to me specifically. I am easy to please. I didn't quite get the logic of how the goblin powers worked but I think that was maybe part of the point because the Doctor was also just learning on the fly about how they worked. and the setting with the goblins and the pirate ship and the eating babies felt a little too much like peter pan's labyrinth. not that that's a bad thing but i guess i just didn't vibe with it. I did think the goblin song scene was funny though.
Joke Rating: 15/10 because this is the first episode with the 15th doctor in his own series
Main Villain: Goblins!
These mean little christmas gremlins have the power to travel through time to events as long as such events are considered particularly unlucky/lucky/coincidental enough. at least that's how i'm choosing to interpret the technobabble explanation. Their time travel vehicle is a wooden pirate ship, held together with ropes and the power of luck. fortunately, if you know how to speak rope, you can make open secret passages and trapdoors in the ship.
Anyway, they use this time travel power to sneak around fucking with people. They do things like:
tearing holes in bags so that you spill your groceries
pulling power cords taut so people trip on them and knock over lamps
loosing bolts so that things fall on people's heads,
stealing babies so that they can eat the babies, and also the timeline changes because that baby didn't grow up
Their presence in causing accidents also helps create the 'bad luck' needed for their presense in the first place! scary! they growl and they hiss and they cackle and they sound exactly like how you'd expect a stereotypical grinch kobold creature gnome gremlin goblin to sound
except for that one goblin who can sing exactly like a human pop singer sings. it's great
Deaths:
one goblin king! impaled by the spire of the church when the doctor uses his power gloves to pull the goblin pirate ship down from the sky
Births:
like 2 kids are abandoned as babies and go into foster care
Birth Rate:
wow a doctor who episode where there are more 'births' than 'deaths.' incredible!
actually, after the goblin king died, the whole goblin ship just kinda faded out of existence. i should probably count that as death.
So the birth rate is like negative 50 goblins
so close doctor who! you'll get it next year!
Moral of the story: try to be more aware of your surroundings, watch your step, and don't set up objects in your house such that they can fall over to the slightest oopsywhoopsy, and also make sure that the items you do have in your home aren't murder-sharp christmas tree stars so that IF they do fall, at least it won't be a lethal accident!
Overall Rating: 8/10
there was nothing about this episode that was bad but nothing that particularly stood out to me specifically. I am easy to please. I didn't quite get the logic of how the goblin powers worked but I think that was maybe part of the point because the Doctor was also just learning on the fly about how they worked. and the setting with the goblins and the pirate ship and the eating babies felt a little too much like peter pan's labyrinth. not that that's a bad thing but i guess i just didn't vibe with it. I did think the goblin song scene was funny though.
Joke Rating: 15/10 because this is the first episode with the 15th doctor in his own series
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