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Doctor Who: Orphan 55 (2020)
I am Afraid it Keeps Getting Worse
I was hoping to find a silver lining but nothing is shining at me about this episode. I love Doctor Who so I am really trying to like this Doctor, it's just so darn hard.
Other reviewers have hit on just about anything I could say but if there is one thing I really dislike in this episode is the devices stolen from previous science fiction standards. The technobabble comes fast and furious so it really helps when watching this Doctor to keep the subtitles turned on.
6 coupons from the Bandohzi Herald, you know, delivered by the coffee machine upstairs. Oh lookie, they form a perfect cube, a teleport cube you say? Oops, bizzit!
Last time I saw that was a video game in the movie 'The Last Starfighter.'
The TARDIS has coffee machines? Spaceballs anyone?
Hopper virus cure- pinch your ear, sneeze the silly thing out of your nose, and then suck your thumb until the bats disappear. Greatest thing since crayons and half a can of spam.
Meet the green haired people. The son seems to be a cross between Will Robinson and Wesley Crusher.
Dregs? Really, just saying, Dregs?
Exciplex modulator? Seems the Federation could have used one of those when fighting the Borg. The Federation's workaround was less than successful.
Daughter with parental issues. "How about good ole fashioned passive-aggressive discussion?" That was actually a good line.
Just when the doctor needs oxygen she figures out the Dregs exhale oxygen. Figure the odds. And how about the Time Lord Vulcan Mind Meld.
Vending machine is made in China. I understand the purpose of this plot device but wouldn't that machine have been hundreds, if not thousands of years old?
Bounce Capacitor? I actually like that term, its Timey-Wimey!
Need to add the Hopper Virus to the teleporter drive core to upgrade the fuel source. Good thing I have one in a crisps pack in my pocket. I just hope teleporters can't sneeze.
The Doctor declares that "The future is not fixed." Where have I heard that before? Oh yes, Kyle Reese - The Terminator (1984) Then John Conner again in Terminator 2 (1991). Actually they say "The future is not set." But you get the idea.
'The future is not fixed' is a kind of a concept The Doctor works with, unless the future actually *is* fixed, then we just don't talk about it.
And the biggest problem I have with this episode is I am so tired of being preached at by fictitious television. It's like Bugs Bunny campaigning against cartoon violence. Now that the cold war Armageddon has eased from public lexicon some are reaching for a new vehicle for the apocalypse, enter climate change. Stop preaching, you are not non-profit and you do not have the right.