I had not made that connection - there are definitely a lot of parallels. good catch. Compared with this current episode, I think the peril on the ship was a bit better set up, and there were more characters in that episode that I genuinely cared about.
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Alright, I have some feelings on this one.
First, I'm not a fan of when TV shows and movies use hones to have characters talk to each other. Texting is just awful (if I wanted to read, I'd read a book) and video chats often seem incredibly limiting and boring to me. Having a whole episode of that... ew.
The characters themselves, they're obviously meant to embody the worst of vapid superficial influencer types. But my god, but the end I was 100% on side with the rogue AI here. Finish them all off and spare me having to listen to them speak. Pity about that Ricky guy, he died an unexpectedly brutal death.
It felt a bit black mirrory, with the way it was shot, with the makeup and costumes, with the way the actors were just overly smiley and oblivious. But even with the theme of over-reliance on tech, I found the "I can't walk without the bubble" bit a bit of a stretch.
Morals: Don't walk staring at your phone, you'll walk right into traffic and die. Also felt a bit of environmentalism at the end - "I'm an expert, I can help, listen to me", and of course everyone thought they knew best so now they're all going to die.
We're no closer to figuring out the mysterious woman, and I'm struggling to find what the connection could be.
Best part of the episode: The 2 factor authentication from hell. Loved that.
I really don't know what to make of this episode. It was very creepy, and had time travel, but I don't really know what it means. Is there a moral here? Is it literally just "don't mess with sacred monuments you find on a walk in the countryside"?
And yes, as said above, if it was Ruby all along (somehow?) what made people scared?
Still, not a bad episode, but somehow a bit unsatisfying.
What option do I need to use to get support for Heptapod B?
I could not get into the baby episode. The talking babies just put me off. Might have been scarier than the actual monster.
But the devil's cord was better. Great concept. Good mix of fun and serious and a nice follow up to the toy maker. I didn't feel it really made the most use of the beatles though, the maestro could have been in any time period with any musician. I was pleasantly surprised by the twist at the end.
RTD likes his recurring threads, so I guess the pantheon is going to anchor this series. So far we've had masters (gods?) of toys and music. What next - the different parts of what makes being human? Love? Food? And how does Ruby fit into it.
So far ncuti and millie are fitting in well. A bit different, bringing their own flair, but still capturing the right feel.
100% online games in the past were perfectly playable even after developers / publishers ended support. Online only games dying is a relatively recent invention. This petition is asking for consumer protection to return to the norm where a purchaser of an online game always has the choice of being able to play it in some fashion.
A game developer could do this by releasing a server application. They could even do this at the barest minimum by releasing documentation describing how the server ought to work, to allow for reverse engineering.
The Stop Killing Games campaign as a whole isn't asking for perpetual server access, just to ensure that games stay in some sort of playable state.
England really needs to get right to roam legislation like Scotland. It would make it more difficult for companies to make claims like this and make it clear that everyone has a responsibility to keep nature clean as its a shared resource
I was using it, but because it periodically did load fine I assumed I was just having network trouble. Thanks for fixing!
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Begs the question - can the shed skin still change shape?
I'm not a bidgerton fan, I prefer my period dramas to be of the star trek variety. But this was still a good episode, I was getting echoes of "family of blood".
Rogue is interesting, we're given basically no back story but I was convinced they were going to tie the character somehow to Jack Harkness. I'm glad they actually followed through on the kiss and didn't just leave it teased, that would have been very 2005.
The marriage proposal scene got me thinking - the doctor is already married to river song. We know that she has had interactions with doctors other than 11, so the marriage seems to go beyond regens. How does marriage even work. Is that polygamy? Parallel monogamy?
I like the inclusion of nerd terminology like cosplay and dnd - Get the kids watching radicalised early :)
Ruby was good in this - clearly a competent companion that can think on her feet. I was kind of hoping we'd make more progress on the twist by now, I guess we're keeping all of that for the very end.
Lesson to take away - always build a backdoor into your deadlock seals.