Doctor Who fans so far this series has been pretty freaking awesome and out of all the reviews i've done so far this is the one that almost never happend due to technical difficulties but if your seeing this review then I was clearly able to post it so here is my possibly spoilerish review of The Tsuranga Conundrum.
The plot of this weeks episode is after getting caught up in an explosion the doctor and friends find themselves on board a ship which also ends up being under attack from a monster. Yeah in terms of plot this episode is fairly lacking and it's pretty straight forward but it is still a fun premise and is something that is typical Doctor Who in my opinion.
The guest stars for this episode are Brett Goldstein as Astos , Lois Chimimba as Mabil ,Suzanne Packer as Eve Cicero , Ben Bailey-Smith as Durkas Cicero , David Shields as Ronan and Jack Shalloo as Yoss. For me the guest actors were just ok really nothing special in terms of overall performances altho I personally did like both Astos and Mabil it's just a shame that neither were given a lot to do in the episode.
Of course our main heroes for the episode are Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor , Bradley Walsh as Graham , Tosin Cole as Ryan and Mandip Gill as Yaz. Ok we've just come of a Yaz centric episode and after weeks of people saying that she's not really doing much in the episodes in this episode she still does pretty much nothing performance wise the people who you expect by now to deliver great performances do do that but at this point in the series we should know a bit more about Yaz.
Ok guys you have had a fair warning but everything from this point on will include some possibly slight spoilers for me another useless character in this episode was Ronan and Yoss just because neither one really added anything to the story they were mostly there just so there was more people to save and that was about it and lets be honest when we all found out that Ronan was a robot we all started to thing of David from the alien prequels and if you didn't then your lieing.
Something which I don't get why they needed to include in this episode was the death of Eve they could have had her get better at the end of the adventure but some reason they killed her off it was a pointless plot point since at that time she hadn't spent alot of time on screen with her brother so we don't really get that emotional feeling when she does eventually die her death could have meant something if we saw them sharing alot more screen time but nope they chose not to do that.
Guys please someone tell me that I wasn't the only one that was reminded of the Porgs from The Last Jedi when P'Ting showed up there just so cute and adorable how are they meant to be taken seriously as a threat I want to give them big hugs not run away from them altho I will admit the fact that they want to eat everything is a pretty cool idea.
The overall quality of the CGI for me was great this episode in fact it's been really good the whole series so far for me the quality of the CGI being shown in this series is movie quality and the best example of that in this episode is easily P'Ting he /she / whatever looks really and looks like they are really there and I can totally see them being sold as toys which is I think the only reason they look as cute as they do.
Overall this was a solid episode not a great one by any stretch of the imagination but also not a bad one it's one that you can have on in the background and have it as purely background noise and if that's what you want then this is the episode for you but those who don't want that will hate this episode for me tho this episode gets a 7.5 out of 10 and don't forget to join me next week as I review "Demons of the Punjab".