capaldi’s doctor is so.........arrogant. so...cold. Bill being upset about a person dying, that’s normal. He doesn’t appreciate her for her humanity, her empathy and fresh view on what is normal for him, he tells her to stop it.
and i think it’s stupid they had him gain 1100 years in a damn montage
like seriously? he went through the same amount of years in one regeneration that he had in 10 ? come on
and he doesn’t even tell the boy’s closest what’s happened. distracts them. shitty
also the girl... who plays Kitty is eXTremely pretty.
How is Bill convinced of the Doctor helping people? why does she KNOW this so intrinsically? she hasn’t actually seen it much
‘and you? what do you do? apart from shouting at him?’
Is the narrative seriously even using Kitty as a mouthpiece to criticise Bill’s response to the death of a kid? Did she sign up for fixing people’s troubles? no. she signed up to see the universe.
so Bill’s learned that she needs to ‘move on’ from a kid dying. OK????
How th ehell did they get back up in those diving suits and why didn’t they get eaten lol.
anyway that WAS a great speech, about the value of a life, and the value that an age or society or civilisation or species ascribes to every life. great stuff. I just kinda wish that the emotional response to the loss of such a life hadn’t been so disdained. felt empathy - even uncontrolled - remains an important part of humanity.
it’s good that he totally lost his cool though. after such a buildup
racism and classism explicitly condemned, whitewashing, pointed out, well done.
hah, the villain knows he hasn’t got an ounce of compassion? weird
so the doctor kills someone, Bill is upset, good continuity.
hm so he brings Bill along so she can decided for all of humanity? ‘i serve at the pleasure of the human race. give me an order’ WHAT. WHAT’S HAPPENED TO THIS ALIEN???
I only now realised that Bill was supposed to be a narrative contrast to Lord Sutcliffe in that she prioritised the life and happiness of a human-eating giant fish over the nebulous ‘progress’ of crunching people up. But that moment of decision - Bill’s conflict in this episode wasn’t really set to be about that until that moment.
And the Doctor called Bill ‘Boss’. hmmmm
this is actually an interesting dynamic to set up... AND a good attempt at righting the ‘formal’ power dynamics of teacher-student
This episode actually had lots of good elements but I feel like they didn’t quite come together well entirely. It was messy but it was well done
