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Early Access - Doctor Who | 9x7 "The Zygon Invasion" - Reaction & Review (Patreon)

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2023-08-11 20:30:14
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2023-08

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Cas_nc12

This is a two-parter is weird but I'll save my thoughts until after you've seen both parts kinda hard to talk about it without the whole and yes this season I think only has one standalone story (not counting the Christmas specials speaking of which I am not sure how the BlueRay works but !!!Try to avoid the Title for the Christmas special (ep 13)!!! it is a spoiler I know it is a ways away still but figured I would try to warn you

Anonymous

s9 consist of 4 two parters, a trilogy, one stand alone and TWO xmas specials :) don't want to really comment on this one till we finish 908 thanks <3

Anonymous

This is actually the last episode I watched live. I had really struggled since Matt left to stay invested, and this episode was just weak enough to put me off the show for years. Funny in retrospect. Season 9 is now one of my favorites and Capaldi is absolutely my favorite Doctor.

tom

The scene with the shapeshifting family getting all the soldiers to enter the church so they can slaughter them is worse than I remember. I question why I always remembered it almost fondly, with it bordering on iconic (at least in this two-parter). Is it the jarring tone? In revisiting it I realized I think the reason is genuinely just Murray Gold's score. Able to infuse any scene with emotion. I've listened to the soundtrack for the Capaldi era and I can pinpoint where so many of the tracks are used. Those American accents, though; always so jarring in Doctor Who. As for the political nature of Doctor Who, it has definitely always been political. If your question was about if it's always been on-the-nose, well that's all about context. There's a lot of old moments from Classic Who that are very direct with their message, but modern hindsight gives us this retrospective clarity about certain issues that -- and this is just my theory -- it makes them feel more bearable. And as for NuWho, maybe it's because politics has become harder to avoid (for better or worse) since you started the reactions, but yes S1 was VERY on-the-nose. RTD became more subtle as time went on, but he had a lot more political episodes in him (and I think we'll get a lot in his new season, so it will be interesting to see how he writes it and on what topics). I remember when I got around to watching/finishing S9 and saw this episode title. I was very excited, because it really felt like we were due an answer regarding what happened with the zygons in the Day of the Doctor 50th Anniversary. Sadly, it didn't pan out the best. My instinct is to say that the problem is a plot like this should've been a half-series or series-long arc (broken up by isolated episodes that were perhaps tied into the grander picture), not just so the ending isn't rushed but so the set-up doesn't feel so overwhelming and out of nowhere. But in reality, I wonder if maybe Moffat isn't able to handle this grand international civil-war/infiltration UNIT-based story. I can't pinpoint what about the writing it is (I felt it a bit in Death in Heaven too), and the only reason I don't write it off as a concept that Doctor Who simply doesn't mesh with is that I think RTD honestly incorporated and made use of worldbuilding for these sort of plots both often and effectively. There was UNIT, Torchwood, Harriet Jones... For some reason RTD's world always felt bigger and more believable to me, whereas when Moffat ventures out it feels so jarring (I wonder if this is related to why RTD puts so much emphasis on the family and earth lives of the companions, whereas Moffat (albeit trying a little in S7-8) seems fundamentally disinterested in this sort of groundwork. Ponytail Clara is very Bonnie, but also very Season 9 Clara in general. And yes, that red lighting and that look. The Doctor is definitely goofier than usual in this episode, more so than I remembered him being. I still hold firm in rejection of the idea that he's completely different from Season 8, and I don't think it's a big deal that a character lights up in between seasons. I personally like that he's finding himself, and there's plenty of serious moments to come that ring true of that unflinching darkness from Deep Breath.