'Doctor Who' Season 2 (Spoiler Free) Review 'The Robot Revolution'

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Grab your Sonic screwdriver,
load up the TARDIS because the

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Doctor is in.
Hello companions, I'm Derek.

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That's Noah, and thank you for
taking this journey with us into

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the unknown of Doctor Who Season
2 Episode 1 spoiler free.

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But it's not really season 2,
but it's the 15th Doctor.

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Don't stop.
No, we're not getting into it.

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It's Timey.
Why me?

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There's too many titles and too
many numbers at this point.

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Very excited to talk about
Season 2.

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We did Season 1, which if you
want to know all of our

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thoughts, just go back and we
did every single episode leading

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up to the finale.
We did not cover this special

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but if you want our thoughts it
was fine on that.

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Happy.
Holidays, we need to get Derek's

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full reaction to the the
special, the Christmas special

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on Patreon or something.
We will be doubling up our

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coverages of TV episodes we're
doing The Last of Us and Doctor

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Who.
What's really funny is that

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they're both season twos of
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the Last of Us has taken this
long to come out and it's met up

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with Doctor Who.
So thank you, HBO and Disney for

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doubling up the.
Happy April everyone.

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So double the episodes for the
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line.
So make sure you're following

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Subscribe.

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Absolutely.
So let us officially take a

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spoiler free bite of Doctor Who
Season 2 Episode 1 The Robot

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Revolution written by Russell T
Davies and directed by Peter

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Horre You.
Know what's funny is Peter Horre

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directed the Bill and Frank
episode of The Last of Us.

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Get out of here.
Really interesting.

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How is this time he went?
Something is happening.

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I don't know.
Are there going to be infected

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in Doctor Who?
Is there going to be time travel

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in the last?
Of us, maybe the.

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Stars are written.
So going into this episode, I'm

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very excited because this is
really Derek's first full

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journey into Doctor Who, which
is makes me so happy, so, so

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happy.
So I am kind of used to

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companions changing.
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about Season 2 is Belinda
Chandra.

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She is the new companion here.
We did see her and boom, she

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played Mindy Flynn.
So how are you feeling about the

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change of that?
But we can't really reveal a lot

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that happens in this episode,
but we're going to kind of give

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you vibes and feelings with this
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Well, my, my wheels are already
turning and I'm trying to see if

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there is some sort of clue
happening here that the last

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companion was Ruby Sunday and
then she played Monday.

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Flynn, are we going through the
weeks?

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Will be will there be 7
companions?

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What is happening here?
But as far as the changeover, I

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mean, I'm welcoming it, right?
Because I feel like at the end

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of Season 1, we kind of
completed Ruby's arc and we're

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leaving her in a safe place,
which I always like.

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You know, when you look back at
past Doctor Who seasons, not all

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of the companions get left in a
very safe place.

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I would say 90% of them don't.
It's horrible.

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So when we can kind of leave
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living their lives for a little
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Yeah, I, I like it.
I think it is interesting

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whenever we have like one season
companions, we do know that Ruby

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Sunday is going to come back in
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So there's going to be doubling
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I'm not sure.
So her story is not over, which

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I think is very interesting.
There is still some lingering

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questions I think around, but
just focusing mostly on Varada

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Sethu's introduction here.
I love a companion that isn't

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automatically awestruck by the
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And that was one thing that
during press conferences and in

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this episode is very apparent
that she has like she has a main

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character journey and it's like
interrupted by the Doctor and

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all of these things that
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So it's a cool dynamic because
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I would say like Sarah Jane
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really those reluctant
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So I like the I'm not ready to
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Absolutely.
I I think that to me feels more

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realistic than some of the other
reactions.

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I think we as the viewer, right,
we're like, I would be a

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companion.
This looks like so much fun, but

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if we were actually put in that
position, it's completely

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interrupting your entire life.
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in this storyline.
I think it makes it a stronger

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character, right?
They have stakes that they're

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living for and not that Ruby
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living for, but she was able to
kind of freely leave.

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At least it was easier for her,
let's say.

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Whereas it it feels like for
Belinda, like you said, this is

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she doesn't want to be torn away
from her life.

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She likes her life.
She's working towards something

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and she's.
Starting a new shift on Monday.

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Exactly.
So, you know, she really the

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new.
Anyway, I'm trying to think of

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the timing of things and I'm
telling you, I'm already trying

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to connect things and we've only
watched one episode.

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Sometimes in the show there is
coincidences, coincidences.

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I said the odd and I'm not.
So it's just it's just a

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coincidence or it's intentional.
So I like that those gears are

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turning because, yeah.
I know, and and so it's like you

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don't want to put your eggs in a
basket just yet, but it's hard

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not to.
But I do think, you know, it's

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watching this last season.
I, I kind of have this love hate

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relationship when it comes to
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wherever he goes, it's like is,
is he there always in the nick

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of time?
Or is it because he's there that

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there's trouble?
So it's like when he, when his

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path crosses yours, you know,
you have to wonder.

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This might not end so well for
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There is something that happens
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calls that out point blank.
So I'm very interested to see

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fans reaction to that because I
think that is a a criticism or

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something that is known with the
doctor.

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Are they doing it for selfish
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to actually take this person
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But why is there always trouble?
It does make it hard because

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there is usually time in between
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So really we're only watching
the climactic parts of their

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journey and not they're just
everyday going to like a beach

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on some other planet.
So that's kind of how the Doctor

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Who works.
I'm curious, what do you how

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long do you think this sort of
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this journey is going to last
for Belinda?

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Well, something that is known
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this episode is that they even
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the Doctor, she has no choice.
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happens in this is they they, he
can't bring her back to when he

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took her from Earth.
So that is the mystery.

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That's something that always
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Or I would say if there's going
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mystery, it's usually with the
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So the companion's mystery is
why can't the Doctor take her

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back to Earth, which is almost
inverted what usually happens?

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So I think it's going to be
depending on how they play it.

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If she if Belinda has this
understanding of like, it's not

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his fault.
So we're in this, we have to

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figure it out.
I think it will work.

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But if it's going to be every
episode of like, you were

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supposed to Take Me Home and you
can't Take Me Home, It's like

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that could get a little that
could get a little old.

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But I think this character
Belinda is very smart.

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I love her charm.
She's already, I'm much more

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comfortable with her than I was
with a Ruby Sunday.

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And that's not nothing to do
with the actor.

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I just think it's the character
themselves.

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I like that she is forward.
She's a nurse, she cares for

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people.
She's willing to do things that

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you know, she'll put herself on
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I just like her already.
So I think they balance all of

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those things.
It'll be good.

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Yeah, I I think that's a really
interesting point as far as

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comparing kind of Ruby's
character to Belinda's

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character.
And so with Ruby, Ruby felt

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younger to me than Belinda.
I felt like although Ruby had

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her own story of wanting to find
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and having all this bad luck
follow her around, she was still

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kind of bright eyed and bushy
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Whereas Belinda feels like more
a little hardened, a little more

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kind of like she's been through
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Yeah.
And I think she she knows where

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she's going.
And then it's interrupted, which

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I feel like always is a nice
foil for the typical

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interactions with the Doctor and
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One thing that I am curious of,
and I'm just kind of posing this

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question out there, is that I
like being settled with a

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companion for a little bit.
And I like it when they're

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usually here for like 2 to three
to Four Seasons or so.

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It's, it's interesting that they
decided to change companion so

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quickly when Anshuti is so new.
And I'm do you feel like it's

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almost like replaying some of
the beats, which it does happen.

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It's kind of the charm of the
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But do you feel like it's too
soon for you as a new viewer?

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Because for me, I'm I'm used to
adapting to it, but I want to

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get comfortable with this doctor
before we keep kind of doing the

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new stuff over and over again.
You know, as far as it being too

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quick, I mean, not necessarily
I'll say that I don't know if I

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necessarily have like a concrete
answer.

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But I think the thing for me is
in looking back at Season 1,

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Ruby, I thought it almost felt
like they didn't know what to do

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with Ruby anymore, you know?
And so it was like, I thought

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the beginning of the season was
really strong.

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And then in those last two
episodes of Season 1, it, it

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kind of was like we were trying
to wrap our minds around all

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this TARDIS stuff and everything
that was going on and them going

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into like the recording.
And so it was like, oh, well, we

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did that already.
So we just needed to get rid of

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her.
But you know, I do think the

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exciting part of whenever
there's a change of cast in

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anything like I'm thinking even
from like my own personal thing

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of like an anime like Pretty
Cure or a show like Power

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Rangers, is that seeing someone
get their powers for the first

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time is really exciting.
And so those beats, I think that

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it's fun to be in that moment
with them of seeing how big the

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TARDIS is and meeting the Doctor
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It's just, are they doing it in
a new way?

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And so for you as a viewer, I
mean, of all that's been viewing

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it for a really long time, did
it feel too quick?

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No, I mean, it did in the aspect
of like, I still want to know

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more about who this doctor is.
It's very apparent that this

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doctor is more empathetic, is
more emotional in good ways and

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sometimes bad ways.
So I'm, I'm, I'm guess I'm still

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wanting to know more about this
doctor and get comfortable with

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them.
But throwing maybe a different

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type of person in there with him
will push his story along a

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little more.
So at this moment, I think I'm

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on board.
I'm just curious if it will keep

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carrying that same feeling as it
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I will say this premiere, this
Season 2 premiere is stronger

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than Season 1 when we meet Ruby
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I think both of them have good
stories, but this one just felt

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a little more elevated.
And there are some things that

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they do with like camera work
and just situations in this,

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particularly towards the end
that I don't think we've seen in

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Doctor Who before.
So that I'm very excited for.

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It's like, yeah, they have like
the Disney money, right?

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But also I think with all these
different creatives and stuff

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going on, we could have
something very special.

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Yeah, I agree.
I really loved all of the

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practical effects that were in
this.

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Sorry, I didn't mean to like
segue from like companions to

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like visuals, but yeah, I that's
how you feel about the

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companion.
Well, you know, we could just

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stick on it for a moment and
just saying as far.

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But yeah, I I agree.
I thought the visuals in this

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episode were phenomenal.
I really loved, like I said, the

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practical costuming and the
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It felt it.
It felt like a nod to like

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Classic Who, but updated for
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That's one thing that I love
about what they're doing.

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You know, feel how you feel
about Russell T Davies.

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I personally really like what
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Again, let's see what happens in
the season and if the pantheon

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comes back.
But like something that I like

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that they're doing with this new
who is they're using that

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practical but then adding those
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So the robots that are in this,
that kidnap Belinda, they're

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practical, right?
But their faces change, which is

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obviously CGI, but it's such a
nice detail that it feels old

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but feels new at the same time.
So as long as they keep that

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energy and understand that,
which I think they do, it's

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going to be good.
Like it's going to, it's going

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to check that box for new and
old fans.

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Definitely, but kind of now
going back again, timey wimey,

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twisty, timey wimey.
Let's talk about this doctor a

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little bit 'cause one thing I
really noticed about this doctor

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is even through, you know, that
Christmas special, right, That

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we're not talking about, I, he
gets very, very attached to

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people, right?
And so it seems like he's

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constantly having his heart
broken.

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So does this feel like rooted in
something that we don't know?

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Like what?
What are your feelings on like?

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How?
Like I think this doctor cries

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in almost every episode.
Well, yeah, I think it's very

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apparent each Doctor has to set
themselves apart.

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And in this particular story for
this episode, the way Belinda

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and the Doctor meet is kind of
just like this.

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Like, they're going like this
and then they meet and then it

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goes forward from there.
So it's like by chance, but also

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not.
And so this doctor goes through

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some things, timey, whiny things
that when we meet up with them,

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there's very much emotional
stuff that happens.

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So that is always something that
does happen.

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The doctor loves and loves hard,
and he cares about every living

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thing.
He has two hearts.

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Right.
That's why I like the little

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polishing robot in this one,
where like when he had to

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deactivate the robot, he kissed
the robot and he's like, I'm so

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sorry.
Like he understands the Doctor

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themselves understands that like
everything deserves a chance to

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live and non violence.
Like that's always what the

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Doctor is.
This Doctor is shows that

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emotion a little more where as
like I would say David Tennant

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may might show that also a
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This one definitely cries more,
which I don't mind.

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I think I'm just so used to the
Doctor being nonviolent, being

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emotional that I guess coming in
from the outside, it's like,

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God, this guy cries a lot.
It's like, yeah, this one does.

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Some of the other doctors
didn't.

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Some of them were like angry.
So he's setting it apart.

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I think it's fine.
But like, what do you?

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Feel about it I you know, and I
think the key here is one of

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those things the one of the
points that you made before is

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that we don't see the in between
of the episodes.

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So granted an episode, you know
to tell a story you need a

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beginning of climax and end,
some sort of big moment to

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happen.
But you know, it might be nice

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if we just saw them like
chilling for one episode and not

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being so life or death, freaking
out, screaming for help.

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I mean, that's the thing, right?
It's like you grow really

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attached to the companion, and
sometimes when an episode is so

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good, you grow really attached
to like that guest companion or

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that guest star, which is
fantastic when it happens.

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But a lot of times we just don't
have time for that.

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I think this episode for the
premiere was like maybe 40

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minutes, like take out credits.
So they had a lot to get

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through.
They had to reintroduce Verada

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also this new character that
they're playing and reintroduce

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the Doctor and go from there,
right?

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They had to do the season's
mystery, so they didn't have

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enough time because there's
other characters in this that

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something happens to them and
the Doctor gets emotional.

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I think what the show is banking
on is that we understand that

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the Doctor cares deeply.
And if they're like, oh, this

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much time has gone by, we just
have to like, adjust to it.

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Does it work every time?
I don't think so.

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But you know, it's more like, I
like that he.

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Cares.
Oh, absolutely.

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But I think like how much it's
showing that he cares can

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sometimes, you know, be hit or
miss.

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Yeah, I it, it's almost like
everything with this doctor is

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times 5 or times 10, right?
So it's hidden.

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Outfits.
You literally stole my point.

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Wow, I came from the future.
Wow, I'm going to say it anyway.

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Everything with this doctor is
like times 5 * 1,000,000 in his

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emotions, how he acts, how
excited he is, but also what

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he's wearing, right?
So like everything is Uber

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expressive.
And so that part I like.

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I like the expressive part.
But I think if we could pull

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back on some of the emotions, it
would let us sit with it a

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little more too 'cause sometimes
it feels like you're supposed to

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be sad right now 'cause I'm
crying and yelling.

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So it's like, let me, let me get
there.

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Yeah, I know.
I get that.

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Well, I think, Yeah.
And I think that's just how this

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doctor's gonna be.
So there's points where, again,

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it hits and sometimes it misses.
I think in this episode it did

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hit for me.
But again, I'm, I'm kind of a

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veteran with like, having to
adapt to, yeah, this person, the

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doctor knew this person for
amount of time we didn't see.

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So I just have to like, give
myself over to that emotion.

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And I know that's like a weird
ask.

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I feel like I'm very Goldilocks.
I feel like it's so funny

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because like I'm having like I'm
thinking like, what's an example

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of something that would go like
too slow for me?

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And like when I was a kiddo,
like Dragon Ball Z went too slow

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for me, right?
Like a fight could last like 20

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episodes.
And I remember being like young

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be like, Oh my God, And now this
feels too fast for me.

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So it's like I'm just looking
for some middle ground.

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And to be fair, we have less
episodes now, so we'll see.

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I I think overall, though, like
an introduction of a new

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companion, this Russell D Davies
coming back for a second time

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again and and Shooty's second
time being on here.

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I think they all did a good job.
There was like a a sense of

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comfortability and also
elevation, I would say.

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And some of the writing, and I
don't know if that's because of

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Peter Hoare and all the team,
but I very much is more excited

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for this season than I was for
the last season.

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And I was pretty excited for
that one.

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I love Belinda already.
I think like Millie Gibson was

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fantastic and she was like
raising in the ranks for

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companions for me.
But I think Belinda, just after

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this episode, like I and Shooty
and Varada Sethu are going to be

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competing for charm in this and
I'm quite excited for it.

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Yeah.
And I agree.

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And I'm very much looking
forward to, I feel like Ruby

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went into everything with
excitement and I feel like

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Belinda is going to go into
things with a question mark and

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I feel like that's going to be
helpful, right.

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But.
She also isn't like super

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hesitant.
Like she, she, I think she

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deserves to have some answers
and I think she knows that as

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opposed to like just being like,
oh, I'm a little hesitant.

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I don't want to do it.
You know what I mean?

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Like she's confident in her.
Oh yeah, My, my question mark is

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being like, what are you getting
me into now?

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What is happening here?
It's not, it's not a being

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scared.
It's a being strong willed and

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being willing to almost question
the authority of the doctor,

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which I'm welcoming as far as a
story is concerned.

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Yeah, I think overall fantastic
start to the season.

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It looked amazing.
The acting was fantastic.

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The writing was pretty good.
There was one comment which I

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can't talk about.
I'm literally looking at do not

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reveal stuff, but there is some.
There's a comment that Belinda

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makes because of something
happening where I was like, you

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didn't need to like it.
It gave me flashbacks of dot and

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bubble a little bit where it was
like, we understand what's

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happening, but like, you don't
need to like, say it.

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Yeah.
It's.

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It's it's the old show.
Don't tell.

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Right.
It's like the subject, like what

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they're trying to say in this
episode, like, oh, you didn't

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really need to say it, but it's
fine.

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Like it's a very minor critique,
but everything else I can't wait

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for you guys to see, especially
the climax and stuff.

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What we can say is when she is
travelling and there's that like

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what did they call it, like a
time rift almost thing.

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Those effects when that happened
because the Doctor's travelling

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and she's travelling, it's just
like this boomerang effect.

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It's just so, I don't know, you
feel it in your bones doing

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that.
It's so cool.

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They really did some great stuff
in this episode.

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And like you said, I think that
this is a wonderful start to

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this season.
I think it did a good job of

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introducing Belinda as a
character and kind of where

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they're going from here.
But I what I really enjoyed

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about this was it felt like a
true start to an adventure,

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right?
It's lifting off of Earth.

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There's a whole other place
we're going to with a whole

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crazy problem and we get thrown
right into it, and that felt

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exciting to me.
It did feel very whirlwindy, but

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like I'm going on an adventure
type thing.

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Yeah, I, I, I totally get that.
Maybe like the unfortunate thing

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with like the start to Season 1
officially was that there was

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kind of already starting with
like the specials and everything

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and it was so they had that to
play with.

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So maybe it is harsh to compare
the two, but I do feel like this

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one is a little stronger, yeah.
So what are you expecting from

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Season 2 as far as maybe getting
some questions answered?

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One thing we can say is Misses
Flood does show up in this, and

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when she sees the doctor, she's
like, oh, don't let him see me

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because she lives right next to
Belinda now, which I think you

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had mentioned.
You're like, does Ruby live next

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to her?
That would be hilarious.

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Is it all on the same block?
Is it just like this one timey

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wimey block where all all of his
companions are going to live?

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That would be disgusting.
Why is she there?

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That's the big question.
I think that's the biggest

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thing, right?
We in season 1, they introduced

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the Pantheon, we got the Maestro
and the toy maker and Missus

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Flood and Sue Tech.
So I'm curious how all of that's

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going to continue because it it
very much seems like there's a

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season mystery and then there's
like a show mystery.

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So let's let's see how they do.
Weaving Ruby back into it is

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gonna be interesting.
And you know, thinking back to

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Season 1, it's just kind of
funny that like, Susan Twist was

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there, but Susan Twist wasn't
really the old the old lady we

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should have been concerned
about.

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We should have been concerned
about Missus Flood.

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And so here we are again with
her so I am.

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I hope we get some misses Flood
answers is.

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That your like biggest thing for
season 2.

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Well, there's that, but also I
have the question of, you know,

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I do love, love.
So I'm hoping that the rogue is

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back at some point.
Yeah, he just.

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Kind of fell through a portal
and that was it.

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I think, yeah, I think the
biggest, I guess questions we

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can say we'll have more
thoughts.

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I would say for Episode 2, we're
not going to be doing a spoiler

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free review.
So we'll we'll, I will mention

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some of the things we couldn't
mention in this one and that

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one.
But I would say the biggest

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questions for season 1 going
into season 2 would be where's

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rogue?
Who is the Meep's boss slash?

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I guess toy maker and the
maestro, but also like how did

448
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the maestro and toy maker know
about Sue Tech and who is Missus

449
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Flood?
You know, so like, I think those

450
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are really because we found out
who Ruby was, we found out her

451
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mom, you know, so those are
done.

452
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And are we still wondering where
David Tennant's Doctor is at

453
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this point?
No, No.

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Just hanging out with.
You know, with Donna.

455
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Donna, which is lovely.
That is nice.

456
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Will we ever see them?
Maybe.

457
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There is always going to be that
question of like when a world

458
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ending event happens, what is
that doctor doing?

459
00:24:53,560 --> 00:24:57,280
I think that can be a little
iffy, you know, but hopefully

460
00:24:57,280 --> 00:24:58,960
they're just like, it's a
different timeline, so.

461
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I mean, there's always that
answer.

462
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That's always the backup.
Yeah, so I don't know.

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Let us know what you thought of
Doctor Who Season 2 Episode 1.

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And if there's any questions
that you have from Season 1 that

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haven't been answered, yeah.
OK, see you on the not spoiler

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side next time.
Goodbye.