Review: Doctor Who The Interstellar Song Contest falls flat and is missing depth

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When they heard that Doctor Who should have an episode in this season, in which Eurovision was broadcast on the same day as Eurovision, they were probably either on tension or in the depths of fear, depending on how they feel about the annual song competition. As it happens, I like Eurovision very much, but even I felt that the overwhelming worship of the event was a little bit of this episode.

Do you definitely let Graham Norton make a funny little cameo as an AI hologram, that is fun, but you also throw us Rylan too? Not only a figure that is played by Rylan, at least, but the actual Rylan, who has been frozen and revived annually to organize this song competition. This is deeply stupid and raises so many questions that I never want to have the answers. Wouldn’t you just have thrown a little extraterrestrial make -up and turned it into a different character? I like it when this show breaks the rules to have a little fun, but found it and then smashed my border.

The episode also didn’t help me much to convince me from there, as it is so difficult to have a self -evident and “effective” moment that it falls on the way. What does not help is that this rushed action is about a ridiculously over-claimed science fiction trope world-spacum racism and does not do anything unique.

The things that started at a hectic pace was a good idea, it just didn’t have to do the entire episode. We have a few minutes to bathe in the mood, and then hell loosens almost immediately, which is the right way to start things. We do not have to see the subtleties of how these two people hacked and infiltrated a massive space station. I like that we have just understood the action when hundreds of thousands of people are sucked into space at once and ejected into space. The silent picture of the body that spread in space was very worrying and I loved it.

The problem is that the episode appears again too quickly to let the effects of IT immerse yourself, especially since it is quickly exposed to a heavy patient to keep it alive for now. I don’t get me wrong, it would have been too dark to have been so massacred, but at least hold us up in a tension.

Speaking of, the episode jumps up and down to reveal its own turn too early. As soon as the Helia is even mentioned in Cora’s presence, it begins to act before leaving, which makes it incredibly clear that she is secretly one of them. In fact, I would go one step further and say that the way in which it acts, I tell you everything you need to know about your character motivations for the rest of the episode what would be a really good piece if it is not explained ten minutes later and how this great revelation is treated.

Perhaps you noticed that I got so far into the evaluation without mentioning our main villains, and that is because you hardly play a role. Kid is a member of a oppressed breed that was driven to terrorism from the acts of the company, which destroyed its home planet and slandered its breed. I do not say that this is not a good basis for the motivations of a character, but it is one that has been used before hundreds of mälmen, and this episode does not give us a turn or a unique angle in which the doctor, which is normally really good.

Randnote, but I can’t get over what the Helia look almost identical to the Clemar of Metapher: Refantazio. I know that this episode was almost definitely shot before this game came out, but everything I could think about whenever they were on the screen.

The lack of depth is partly thanks to the breath of how little time everything breathes. Although this hectic pace was a good way to start the episode, it shouldn’t have continued. The villain, which was disposed of in the episode at almost 15 minutes, was a bad call, as this means that all scenes are pressed for time, and as a result, the doctor’s arch also falls flat in this episode.

The doctor, who never grabs and gives up his principles, is not justified by the narrative. The kid’s plan to kill three trillion people is terrible and worthy towards the anger of the doctor, but because everything is so rushed, we do not have the feeling that cold -hearted cruelty in the doctor rises throughout the episode, which makes his violent outbreak when he feels completely intact.

It is a shame because Ncuti does a great performance in this scene – the nonchalance with which he destroys the Delta wave and unfolds on the children’s plan, since it gradually cares about in unbridled malice, it is fantastic – but the history did not feel as effective for the moment as it should feel so impressive. The doctor who gets Susan visions in his head is really strange. After the entire last season used it as a red Herring for the final, I don’t know if this is looking for something or just a strange thing that was inserted into this episode, but I think we have to wait and see on it.

Cora’s last song should have been such a better moment than it was, but because everything was so strongly condensed that it gives this moment the time required, it does not connect as it tried. I understand that Eurovision has always promoted the topic of union through music, and it was a good choice to consider this in this episode, but according to the lack of history that was preceded by it, it falls flat. It didn’t have to be so forgiving either. I mean, come, silence from a person who claps what builds up with massive ovation? I know Doctor, who takes his kitschy side from time to time, but that really drives it.

However, the last minutes in which we deal with the seasonal arch are fantastic. The use of the Graham Norton Hologram to tell us that the earth was transformed in Ash on May 24th.

In these last two seasons of Doctor, who made the funny side of the show brilliant, I am so disappointed that this was a DUD because it probably had the greatest potential of the lot to be a pleasantly crazy journey. Instead, it tried too much to be silly and contrast with a dark and serious action that did not get the space it took to breathe to be appealing.