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Oh, interesting - I didn't realize that was the translation. I guess that ties in to "The Church on Ruby Road" and how luck and coincidences can affect reality, in this case leading to Desidirum. A bit of a deep cut that I barely remembered.
That's sort of my issue with episodes of this nature in general - we know it's not real, it will (probably) be undone by the end of the season, so a lot of it is just there to be weird.
Me neither, though I was not as high on "Rogue" as many people were last year. Hopefully it's leading to a more significant return soon, and doesn't fizzle out like the Captain Jack cameo during the Chibnall run, though I'm sure that one imploded for very different reasons.
I really did enjoy the ways in which Conrad's shitty worldview infested this world. I'm sure the Rani was all too happy to let that happen, fostering doubts in those whose lives were less than ideal.
Agreed - this is one of those episodes that throws some really compelling ideas out there, without really slowing down to examine them.
The line about Ruby walking past their encampment every day and ignoring it was...not subtle (and that's a good thing - I'm over subtlety).
Another classic thing that I'm aware of, but will have to do some homework on.
On the whole, I'm with you. It was a decent episode, I was entertained, but by its nature it's mostly an exercise in table-setting for the big finale.
Catching up on Omega is as easy as Rani homework was. His broadcast appearances are pretty scarce.
It's "The three Doctors" and "Arc of infinity" — and again the second one really does feel like homework — plus "Remembrance of the Daleks" for additional credit, even though it's only the Hand of Omega that appears there.
But you sort of owe yourself any chance to watch Sylvester McCoy dropping clues to the Cartmel plan, so do take "Remembrance" if you can!
Let's see, "Arc of Infinity" and "Remembrance of the Daleks" are both four-parters - I should be able to manage that.
Yeah, and "The three Doctors" is 100 minutes as part of Tales of the TARDIS. Should be possible in a week or so 👍