What makes this Rani and the Fifteenth Doctor’s dynamic different to the past?
Without giving too much away for the finale, this is a Doctor and a Rani of a different time. The annihilation of the Time Lords has affected both these characters in different ways – some of which you can see in my episode. The way the Doctor is affected by the attack on the Arena comes from a place of trauma; and I think that’s something we should expect of the Rani as well.
Rule 1: The Doctor (Who showrunner) lies.
Sure, load 'em up.
I was really just thinking about the mad scientist angle, and how that bit actually works pretty well.
This probably isn't a very original idea, but...could the Rani be Tecteun?
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Archie Panjabi has oozed attitude in what little we’ve seen of her in the part so far
We haven't talked about this enough. She's positively magnetic.
The Rani is famously a scientist, and now she’s a scientist walking into a world where a Pantheon of Gods has been awoken, which is magic in the air. She simply finds it fascinating. To her, it’s a different form of science, she’s not there to reject it. She’s a true scientist with a very open mind. True scientists have open imaginations. Saying, “yes we can go to the moon,” “yes we can travel in time,” “yes, there’s anti-gravity.”
The problem with her experiments and her ideas is that she doesn’t care how many lives she loses along the way. We’ll see her running experiments on a massive scale. The very first scene of the two-part finale will really take people by surprise as to what she’s up to. And from then on, it never stops. It’s a huge extravaganza.
I was glad to read this.
Honestly, I hope not. Even though the stuff with Ruby's mother didn't land super well, I liked the ideas behind it.
I feel like this is probably RTD pulling a George Lucas and making sure that like poetry, it rhymes.
Well it's a good thing it's the greatest piece of television ever produced, then!
I've never heard of these - wot in tarnation...?
A decent chunk of his argument is simply to push back against this...loudly.
Finally, it is time to start calling out a lot of provincial grievance for the rank bullshit it often is.
The indefinite article, you might say.