#volume two

11:20 AM EDT June 22, 2026:

The Soft Machine - "Orange Skin Food" From the album Volume Two (September 1969)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

5:39 PM EDT May 14, 2026:

The Soft Machine - "Thank You Pierrot Lunaire" From the album Volume Two (September 1969)

Last song scrobbled from iTunes at Last.fm

This story was pretty interesting. So The Doctor and Rose are trying to go somewhere cold, only to find themselves in a freezer of a space supermarket like place. They find themselves in the middle of a group of Ice Warriors waking up, an employee trying to collect the recycling, and two pirates trying to rob some of the food to resell.

So the Doctor and Rose investigate and learn that the Ice Warriors have been frozen for nearly 500 years, scooped up by the company that owned the food storage place due to wanting to get cheap ice and not even paying attention to what they grabbed. The Ice Warriors are from a time when humans and Ice Warriors were at war, a war that ended hundreds of years ago. The Lord, Hasskor, has decided to do a suicide attack on a nearby planet to kill all the humans, only to learn that the remains of the Ice Warriors are also on the planet. Hasskor is unable to complete the attack due to the pirates blowing up their own ship and the Doctor preventing them using the food storage place, so Hasskor kills himself in an attempt to kill the Doctor. In the end the Doctor, Rose, and the refuse girl Lorna, go down to the planet to find a way to help the Ice Warriors survivors get compensation.

Overall it was an interesting story. The Doctor and Rose’s relationship was so good, and the Doctor not wanting to leave Rose behind and having to be physically dragged away by the Ice Warriors. Hasskor was particularly cruel, wanting the Doctor to watch as Rose dies on a screen with the TARDIS right there but unable to get to it. Driving home just how helpless he was.

I felt so bad for the Doctor in that moment. And even after all that, the Doctor and Rose try to take him to the planet to meet his descendants, to find him a place to belong. Because in the beginning he was much more merciful until he lost Rose.

At the same time though, I’m Australian, and it came out on my birthday, December 26, so it felt kind of special to me. Because of that, I was lowkey hoping no one would actually die. I think a near-death moment or lasting consequences would’ve been enough to keep things intense without going all the way. It just felt like it was trying to be darker than it actually was.

honestly i completely agree with this! i think it was a lot of filler and they’re adding way too much new lore in at the last moment. i absolutely loved volume one, i think volume two could have been way shorter and could have had a lot more happen.

i did read that netflix cut a lot of scenes so it kept it’s pg-13 rating. which if that is true really sucks and does explain a lot. i just think they have way too much going on and too many big bads to deal with between military, dr kay, vecna and now 008’s storyline!

i also agree that there should have been deaths… i thought nancy or jonathan were goners and then got saved at the last moment and all sense of urgency, similar to everyone in the hospital.