Doctor Who: Dot And Bubble Review

Doctor Who has never really been afraid to tackle difficult subjects with them often doing so in subtle ways and while that subtlety was lost in the Chris Chibnall era f the show. It is something that thankfully has been somewhat returned to the show with the episode that i'm going to be reviewing for you all today not only being a prime example of that but also being one of the best reviewed episodes of this current series and so then join me as I review the episode that is the second of two Doctor Lite episodes with the episode in question being called simply just "Dot And Bubble" enjoy.

The plot of this episode is young Lindy finds her whole world turned upside down when monsters start attacking her town and so she has to team up with The Doctor and Ruby to hopefully find away off of her planet before she two gets eaten by the monsters. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual plot that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good with this episodes plot being perhaps the best plot of this current series because of the fact that this episodes plot actually has a twist in it that does genuinely catch you off guard and yet it dares to tackle it's subject matter in a subtle way with this episodes plot being one of the best written plots of this current series and is a sign that the shows show runner and this episodes writer Russell T. Davies really hasn't lost his touch and can craft some some really good plots when he really wants to and while some aspects of the episodes plot do feel underdeveloped like for example it's never really explained why only the rich kids are sent to live on this planet the plot on the whole is a really good plot with this episodes plot also being really rather entertaining and as well as being really rather engaging as well in my freaking opinions anyways / at least.

Starring in this episode is Ncuti Gatwa as The Doctor , Millie Gibson as Ruby Sunday and Callie Cooke as Lindy Pepper-Bean. Also starring in this episode is Eilidh Loan as Cooper Mercy , Aldous Ciokajlo Squire as Harry Tendency , Niamh Lynch as Hoochy Pie , Millie Kent as Valerie Nook , Billy Brayshaw as Blake Very Blue , Pete MacHale as Gothic Paul , Max Boast as Dr Pee , Tom Rhys Harries as Ricky September , Jack Forsyth-Noble as Weatherman Will , Milo Callaghan as Alan K Sullivan , Susan Twist as Penny Pepper-Bean , Ellie-Grace Cashin as Suzie Pentecost and Jamie Barnard as Brewster Cavendish.

Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual acting that's actually featured / presented to us in this very film was in all honesty not that bad for the most part. As while yes the acting from the shows series leads is as good as it could possibly be given there extremely limited screen time in this episode and the acting from both Callie Cooke and Tom Rhys Harries was also pretty good it's the acting from the rest of the episodes characters that falls short with them all just turning in some really bland and boring performances which in the case of Susan Twist does oddly work given what we know about her character in later episodes but for the actors that are playing Lindy's "friends" it's not something that really does work out all that well as there meant to help us the audience to understand not only the world that there currently on and the people on it but to also get a better idea of who they are as people and outside of there screen names none of that is put across an granted all of the actors that play her friends are supporting actors and there for won't be required to turn in as good of a performance as the episodes other characters the actors playing them still need to actually act and turn in a performance with the acting that's in this very episode also being helped by the fact that his episodes script is just so good that all this episodes actors have to do is just say the lines as they are written and a good performance really will come out of them naturally which is something that really does help to raise the overall quality of the acting that's in this very episode.

Doing the CGI for this episode is the true legends and the really greats that are currently over at Real SFX. Now then interms of what I personally thought / felt about the CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual CGI that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty not that bad as while the episode does have some fairly obvious CGI like the monsters for alot of the time it also has some hidden CGI as well like the fact that alot of the backgrounds are done in CGI are have had some level of CGI work done to them and that can be very distracting as it makes the whole thing just look fake and while the CGI monsters do look good and they do offer a reason as to why they were done in CGI in the Doctor Who Unleashed episode the practical monsters that they built and had on had on set for the episode look so much better then the ones that were done in a computer as they were done by real people and practical effects will always look better then effects that are done in a computer but with that being said when they do show of what the monsters mouths look like that was something that looked really good and it was something that was done entirely in a computer which is a good way to use CGI in this episode as there's no way that they could have done something like that practically and there for they had to use CGI.

In what was a rather smart move the makers of this episode actually get us to like Lindy at the start of the episode. Only to then have it be revealed that she's actually a racist horrible person who is only looking out for number one this was such a smart move to make as while the episode does plant the seeds of Lindy's more racist nature all throughout the episode it's all done in throwaway lines and so they could be very easy to miss and yet when it does get to that big reveal near the end of the episode where she openly leaves the one who actually helped to save her and lets him die and then turn down travelling with The Doctor and Ruby because The Doctor isn't one of them it's still a shocking twist and it's one that makes you wonder if Lindy was always like that as she was seen as being a very likable character at the start of the episode and one that you wanted to see survive and it's only then that you realise that not only all of Lindy's friends but also all or surviving people on the planet Finetime are all of a certain color and that right there is a subtle way to tackle racism in this show as while it doesn't outright way say that Lindy and her friends are being racist infact it could also be viewed as them being classist buy it's something that once you notice in repeat viewings of the episode then it's something that you then can't unsee as it's just that well done.

On a much more lighter note this episode is responsible for giving people a massive earworm in the form of "Itsy Bitsy Teeny Weeny Yellow Polka Dot Bikini" by Bombalurina. Why the makers of this episode chose this song to be featured in this episode is beyond me but it is something that really does go to show you that Russell T. Davies really does know how to pick a good cheesy song and fit it nicely into any given episode of Doctor Who because now whenever people either A think of that song or B think of this episode chances are there going to either again A think of this episode or B think of this song as the two of them just match so well together but on the downside of that is not only the fact that people will now have this song stuck in there heads for days on end but they also don't use the song in a fun way like they did "Spice Up Your Life" instead here they just have someone who is meant to be an Internet Celebrity release of a video of him singing the song and that's really it heck they don't even have the characters singing the song either which just felt like a waste of a good idea and heck they even could have have had aa fun sequence with Ricky and Lindy escaping the monsters whilst this song is playing in the just something or anything more then they what they did do with the song would have been more fun to watch.

One of the biggest negative aspects not only with this episode but with this first series as whole is the fact that we got not one but TWO Doctor lite episodes airing back to back. This is of course something that couldn't be helped as Ncuti Gatwa was just finishing work on Sex Education at the time that the previous episode 73 Yards was filming and so he really couldn't be in both of these episodes but at the same time that does also rob us of having a moment where The Doctor truly feels like The Doctor and while this first series was all but mocked by those online for having The Doctor cry almost every single episode here it is something that would have made sense as he is basically being told that these characters would rather die then go with him because of the color of his skin and that is something that could have led to a moment where the character starts to feel like himself and has a moment where Ncuti truly does feel like The Doctor and while the scene that they give him does work and it was indeed the very first thing that he shot for this first series of the show it's also something that would have meant more if we just hadn't had to Doctor Lite episodes airing back to back as that is something that whilst it doesn't hinder this episode all that much it is something that does hinder this first series of the show itself and it is something that really should have been thought about when the episode was at the editing stages as they very easily could have had at least a weeks break between both this episode and 73 Yards and had Rogue air in the middle but as things stand it makes The Doctor feel like a guest character in his own show.

Now then this episode has / had an exact grand total running time of exactly forty three minuets and thirty two seconds. Which is pretty much the bogstandard running time for this show to have at this point in time and ton this episodes credit it really des just the absolutely right amount of plot there to really cover that amount of running time but at the same time tho this episode really doesn't take that full advantage of it's running time as it does leave alot of things unexplained one of which being the fact that all of the kids that are on Finetime or all rich kids with the episode not even fleshing out all of the guest characters apart from Ricky who gets one line of dialog near the middle of the episode and that's really it and when this whole episode hinges on us liking Lindy before she reveals herself to be this truly horrid person she is someone that really should been given the most development since we know nothing about her at the start of the episode and we know just as much when it comes to the end of the episode and it's like that for all of the episodes guest characters and it's something that really should have been fixed even more so when you take into account that this episode really can't fall back on having The Doctor and Ruby show up and so they really had to take the time to make the guest characters interesting and that is something that this episode very sadly failed to do but I really will admit that this episode really does have some really good pacing to it tho.

So now then as this is an action show that really does mean that I have to actually talk about the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode well then in all honesty I in all honesty personally thought / felt that the actual action that's actually featured / presented to us in this very episode was in all honesty really good. As even tho this episode really only has one action scene in the whole entire that action scene is filled to the brim with so much suspense and drama that it is something that really does work for this episode with this episodes action taking a less is more approach by only having either Lindy or Ricky hitting a small ball like object that's trying to kill them and that's really it and that's something that really does work as the scene has so much suspense and drama in it anyways that you really don't need a big action packed finale to make it work and given that it sets up the scene where Lindy is revealed to be a racist along with everybody on Finetime it is a scene that works on it's own and while yes tis episode could have done with having an action scene when Lindy and Ricky first meet up just establish just how much of a threat this episodes monsters are as it is this episode works fine with having just the one action scene in it in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. 

Overall it's easy to say why this episode is the highest rated episode of this current series on Rotten Tomatoes as it really is just that good of an episode and one that might also serve as an episode that's great for new fans to jump of with as the episode gives you everything that you've come to expect from Doctor Who in my freaking opinions anyways / at least. Now then i've talked about all of the good and as well as being all of the bad things that are in this very episode in this very review and as such that really does mean that this very episode really does earn itself a grand old score of exactly a 7.5 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 being ladies and gentlemen I personally got all of the images thar 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 to use to get the images from this very episode that I used in this very review being the really great Google Images really simply just due to the fact that really alot of if not really all of the images that are all really from this very episode with alot of them being better quality then what you'd really think of and all of the images are really of course up and really on Google Images are also really all fairly high in quality and as well as them all being really fairly freaking high in definition.

Doctor Who: Space Babies AND The Devil's Chord SPOILER FILLED Review

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.

SPOILERS START HERE!!!!!!!!!!

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.