After three long years and seven specials Doctor Who is finally back with a brand new full length series. To say that the hype for these first two episodes has been big would be a huge understatement as there has been alot of hype surrounding the release of these first two episodes so much so that you couldn't really escape it as it really was everywhere and so then join me as I give you my SPOILER FILLED review of the episodes that see the launch of the latest Doctor Who series with the episodes in question being called simply just "Space Babies" and The Devil's Chord" enjoy.
The plot of Space Babies is when The Doctor and Ruby find themselves on a space station crewed by babies they have to find out what the thing is that's haunting the babies and in The Devil's Chord The Doctor and Ruby find themselves at Abbey Road in 1963 where they have to defeat someone who wants to rid the world of music forever. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plots that are actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plots that are actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad with The Devil's Chord having the much more stronger plot which would have been better served as the actual first episode of the episode whilst the plot of Space Babies is a plot that's better served for that of a Christmas special and not the main series itself with both plots being really rather entertaining and as well as being really engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
Starring in these episodes is Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor , Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday and Golda Rosheuvel as Jocelyn. Also starring in these episodes is Sami Amber as The Voice Of Eric , Lonnee Archibong as The Voice Of Adjani , Shola Olaitan-Ajiboye as The Voice Of Poppy , Param Patel as The Voice Of Marcel , Robert Strange as The Bogeyman , Cadence Williams as The Voice Of Sandra , George Caple as Paul McCartney , Philip Davies as George Harrison , James Hoyles as Ringo Starr , Simon Jason-Smith as Vinnie , Jeremy Limb as Timothy Drake , Chris Mason as John Lennon , Kit Rakusen as Henry , Shirley Ballas as Herself , this shows composer Murray Gold as Himself , Johannes Radebe as Himself , Chicken Run: Dawn Of The Nugget star Josie Sedgwick-Davies as Cilla Black and Jinkx Monsoon as Maestro.
Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. However that's also the problem as the acting in both of these episodes isn't all that good either with the voice cast in episode one not really turning in that good of a performance with there performances coming across as being wooden but at the same time the acting from the live action cast in both of the episodes is really good for the most part as Jinkx Monsoon does have a habit of shouting alot of her lines when it would have better suited if her lines weren't shouted at all what really really foes help the acting in these episodes is the fact that the scripts for both of these episodes is just so good that all the actors in both of these episodes have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in these episodes.
For once it's impossible to say who did the CGI for both of these episodes as there's no effects company listed anywhere online. Now then 8nterms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual CGI thats actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad with both of these episodes having some really good CGI but at the same time there are some effects in both episodes that don't look as good as the rest of them with the babies CGI mouths in Space Babies just looking weird and kind of off putting and alot of the effects that the villain in The Devil's Chord uses just looking either A) unfinished or B) to cartoony to be taken seriously in a live action show all of which makes you wonder where all of the Disney money in these two episodes went to as alot of the time you can't really see the money either on screen or really in the CGI for both of these episodes.
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One of the things that got alot of hate from the second that it was announced was the fact that Disney+ and thus America are technically getting this show at a much more better time. With the British getting the show at midnight on BBC IPlayer which means that if you love Doctor Who and you live in the UK it means that you somehow have to avoid spoilers all day long which shouldn't be a thing as Doctor Who is a UK institution and has been since the nineteen eighties and yet for some unknown it's the Americans that are getting favored over the people that helped to make the show as big as it is in the first place with this being made all the more odd that when you take into account that when they tried doing a same day release for The Day Of The Doctor they gave the UK audience the better time whilst the Americans got the special in the afternoon which begs the question why the same thing couldn't be done here with this feeling more like something that was forced upon show as current showrunner was caught on Instagram liking comments from people who really don't like the fact that the Americans are being favored over the British audiences.
The villain of episode two The Maestro really does feel like she or they are trying to be hard to be funny and scary. With it being revealed that they are actually related to The Toymaker which really doesn't make sense as that character doesn't seem like the kind of character to have kids as he seems like the type of character who really does care more about himself to settle down and start a family which makes this what does seem like a good idea seem like one that was done to justify why The Maestro is acting how there acting instead of having them act crazy and insane just because of the fact that there crazy and insane which is all the reason that you'd really need you don't need to know why The Master is crazy you just know that he's crazy and that's all you need for that character to work and it's the same thing for this character but with that being said tho this character does seem like a fun character who could really develop into a great villain for this new era of the show and the fact that they openly give you a reason as to how that character could return during the episodes musical shows that the makers of the show know full well that there expecting her to become a series regular villain should she be brought back.
While both episodes have there more goofy moments with the Devil's Chord even having a musical number near the end of the episode and Space babies having talking babies. It's Space Babies that seems the more goofier of the two which isn't as bad thing as it does make the episode more fun but at the same time tho it's also something that doesn't work as it gets in the way of telling a good story which in that episodes fairness it really could have bee and it's those more overtly goofy moments that go along way to make that episode feel alot more like a Christmas special as talking babies are the types of things that you'd expect to see in a Doctor Who christmas special and not something that you'd expect or even want to see in the show proper and while the musical number in The Devil's Chord is a goofy moment here it actually serves a purpose to the story unlike the musical sequence in The Church On Ruby Road as here it goes to hint at how the villain could be coming back and while both episodes are incredibly goofy both episodes are also really fun to watch as well.
Now then while I cannot for the absolutely life of me remember what ever the grand total running time was for both of this episode I do know for a fact that episode one has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty six minuets and twenty four second an episode two has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty nine minuets and forty eight seconds. With episode two having the better running time as it has more then enough there interms of plot to really cover that large amount of running time where with episode one where it does have alot of plot to really cover that large amount of running time it also has alot of scenes that feel alot like filler scenes that are there just to pad out the episode when the episode itself doesn't need padding out take for a example the bit with The Doctor and Ruby being in the dinosaur period where Ruby steps onto a butterfly and becomes an alien really thanks to the butterfly effect whilst it is a fun scene it's also one that doesn't really play a part in the episodes plot but I will admit that both episodes really do have some some really good pacing to both of them tho.
So now then as this is an action show that means that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in these very episodes well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us un these very episodes was in all honesty not that bad. However that's also the problem as the action in both of these episodes wasn't all that good either with episode one having the better action out of the two episodes just because that's when the episode feels alot more fun but in a good way where as the action in episode whilst impressive doesn't really take fully advantage of what it is that The Maestro can do and thus it feels alot less creative and alot less fun to watch as well but when we get some good action in that episode it really does grab your attention and really is some creative action but episode one will always have the better action out of the two just due to how fun it is but what could have made it better was if they actually had the babies play apart in the episodes just to really go all the way with that episodes goofiness and it would have the action in that episode all the more fun to watch as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.
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Overall while Space Babies is the more fun of the two episodes it's The Devil's Chord that is the overall better of the two episodes as that episode feels like it should have been the series premiere where as Space Babies feels alot more like a Doctor Who christmas special due to how goofy that it is in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as all of the bad things that are in both of these episodes in this very review and as result that means that Space babies earns itself a grand old score of exactly a 6.5 out of 10 where as The Devil's Chord earns itself a grad old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 with both of these episodes earning a grand old score of exactly a 7 out of 10 from me.
Now then as for where I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review well then boys and girls and as well as ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images that I personally used in this very review from the official Doctor Who fandom wiki page , IMP Awards . Com and Google Images. With my personally preferred website that I personally preferred to use to get the images that I personally used in this very review being the wonderful Google Images since all of the images that are currently up and and featured / presented to us on Google Images are all really fairly high in quality and as well as being fairly really freaking high in definition.