I am by no means an expert in cultural studies focused on memory and adjacent topics, but I do think being a witness is meant to carry a heavier connotation than the time travel equivalent of changing your profile picture on Facebook.

Yaz couldn't save Prem because it would literally prevent her actual grandparents from meeting, so she and none of her family would exist. Slightly shorter memory needed for an alien race who aren't up to bad, just there for posterity of those who pass away. A quick note on episode titles: so far we've had three titles that are vaguely misleading. As if we couldn't understand anyone's perspective unless we literally are placed inside it.

Yaz had been the companion least well developed thus far, so the idea of using her family history as the reason to take viewers to a historical setting Who hasn't explored before is an inspired one. Demons of the Punjab was a real surprise to me because I don't normally like historical episodes; this episode however, blew me away.

Move over Syfy channel, Netflix is moving at light speed. WWII connection) and in a number of lines (radio broadcast, dissatisfaction with the process, English not too popular round here). Yeah, there was always going to something afoot. And it's the antithesis of a trite celebrity historical, making a point of depicting people who were forgotten by history.Just from the project it sets out on, it makes virtually all other NuWho historicals seem infantile, even if it's slack in several aspects of craft. "Demons of the Punjab" delves into Yaz's family history—and the partition of India—in another blast from the past. (The Last War in Albion Book Two Part Twenty-Five: Scenes from The Nativity), Pex Lives 29: The Tribe of Gum/The Face of Evil, Forward, to the Past! While I liked the design of the monsters (called Thijarians in my subtitles, if that's of any interest), part of me feels that for this particular story they should have appeared more like the Grim Reaper, as a subtle Doctor Who-ish explanation of why we have that image. Are there problems? Yaz's family return in modern day Sheffield, with Shobna Gulati, Ravin Ganatra and Bhavnisha Parmar making a pleasant through brief return. But was it enough? Web design by Pro Blog Design.

Whether it’s a good episode though, is up for discussion. Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Coffee (LOST), The Size of the Mouth and the Size of the Brain (Partners in Crime), “I became a feminist as an alternative to becoming a masochist.”: Turnabout Intruder, 1/2.*/"£5/8£-&'(? Not just Yaz, but the aliens of the episode, who appear and disappear as quickly as they explain their career pivots from assassins to “witnesses” of historic deaths. Whittaker's definitely trading off of that as one of the more collaborative Doctors, but I'm rather fond of the Doctors who inspire heroism in ordinary people through the example they set. ": Balance of Terror, You Were Expecting Someone Else 23 (Only Human), "Your emotions make you weak! Jodie Whittaker as The Doctor also shines here with some great moments with the 'Demons' and how she is protecting the human race. “The soul is the prison of the body”: Prison Riot. I've thought S11's writing has been mostly terrible, however pretty it looks, but this episode startled me by being something I appreciated and even approached respecting. Sport, sport, masculine sport, prepares a young man for society... You Were Expecting Someone Else 14 (The Seventh Doctor Comics), You Were Expecting Someone Else 13 (The Video Games), Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 35 (Star Trek: The Next Generation), Time Can Be Rewritten 31 (Atom Bomb Blues), Take Hitler and Put him in the Cupboard Over There (The Curse of Fenric), Skulltopus 12: Come Out onto the Balcony and Wave a Tentacle, Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 34 (Press Gang, Doctorin' the TARDIS), Rewrite History, Not One Line (The Greatest Show in the Galaxy), Put Life Into Anything Made of Plastic (The Happiness Patrol), I Won't Explain Its Secrets To You, And Its Philosophy of Movement (Remembrance of the Daleks), Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 33 (Marvelman), 1987's Just the Isle of Wight (Dragonfire), Time Can Be Rewritten 29 (The Fires of Vulcan), The Late 50s! Happy go lucky Rose finally had a but of pathos and heart in her story, and clearly this week was the episode of Mandip Gill's Yaz to shine. The list is sure to generate debate amongst die hard sci-fi fans. Just like 'Rosa', this episode is hirstorical and also almost brought a tear. There’s no way to rewrite it as a pure historical without losing the central plot. I suspect Patel had some input to the writing of the Khan family in "Arachnids", explaining why South Asian viewers were so delighted that the correct plural form of "pakora" was used (which apparently almost never happens). It's the gentleman guppy.”: The Ambergris Element, Call Vala From her Close Recess (The Last War in Albion Part 25: Alan Moore's Future Shocks, Battle Picture Weekly), Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 78 (The Time Traveller's Wife), “Hello, little teeny-tiny people!”: The Terratin Incident, Pop Between Realities, Home in Time for Tea 74: Merlin, “I love you! The first, .css-1psntrz{-webkit-text-decoration:underline;text-decoration:underline;}.css-1psntrz:hover{-webkit-text-decoration:none;text-decoration:none;}"Rosa", had aired three weeks previously, becoming the first home run episode of this latest era of the more than half-century-old program. ), For the record, Patel has said he wants to come back and write a space-y story next time.

But six episodes since the season 11 premiere, I still couldn’t tell you who Yazmin is, which is even more egregious considering this episode is ostensibly about her.

- Episode I: Back to the Future, Myriad Universes: The Worst of Both Worlds Part 1: The Bludgeonings of Chance, “This is our world, the world of the Information age”: In the Hands of the Prophets, In Case You Missed These Fabulous Opportunities To Give Phil Money, “All the world's a stage”: Dramatis Personae, The Husbands of River Song/Series 9 Wrapup Podcast, “We never touch but at points”: The Forsaken, The Annual Eruditorum Press "Enjoy That New E-Reader" Sale, Book Launch: Guided by the Beauty of Their Weapons, The Eruditorum Press Christmas Party Shabcast, “Everything is alive”: If Wishes Were Horses, Christmas Is This Friday, So Here's Another Post About Death. Not an American, but I thought that Manish reading pamphlets and listening to angry men on the radio was rather reminiscent of someone watching Alex Jones videos on YouTube. Everyone knows Halo and Call of Duty but they don’t get your creative juices flowing! We compiled a list of the most creative video games. The fact that Partition is a massive event in Earth's history doesn't have much to do with that; the Doctor saves small groups of good people from massive historical cataclysms all the time, like the family from The Fires of Pompeii.

(The Last War in Albion Book Two, Part 10: Burroughs), Totemic Artefacts: Playmates Star Trek: The Next Generation Part 3 - Wave 1 Vehicles and Role Play, Totemic Artefacts: Playmates Star Trek: The Next Generation Part 2 - Wave 1 Aliens, The Arc of Alchemy (Doctor Who: Season Twenty), You're On the Global Frequency (Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge), Totemic Artefacts: Playmates Star Trek: The Next Generation Part 1 - Wave 1 and the Bridge Crew, Weird Kitties Reviews, Batch Two (Frankenstein, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Full Disclosure, The Race for Space), Weird Kitties: Best Short Story Open Thread, She was just somebody who felt cramped by the confines of her life. It's not The Happiness Patrol, but ... damn. Django

But the problem with Yazmin is that she remains a still-undefinable character. Time Can Be Rewritten 15 (Eye of Heaven, BBC Books, Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 20 (Mary Whitehouse), The Lion Catches Up (The Talons of Weng-Chiang), Time Can Be Rewritten 14 (Asylum, BBC Books, 2001), Pop Between Realities, Home in Time For Tea 19 (Children of the Stones), I Don't Look Back. It would have been a better story without them, too.I'm getting the weirdest feeling from this season that the Doctor and companions are in fact extraneous to most of the stories. The doctor is coming across as more and more stupid.The worst of the season.1. Scenes of brutal torture, excessive and unnecessary knife and gun play, physical agony, gory and gruesome crime shall be eliminated. “Black Hole Love Triangle”: Come Out, Come Out, Assassin, The Things That He Might Remember (The Impossible Astronaut/Day of the Moon), “Just like in this book!”: Leave It To Us! “Prisoner and Escort”: Pardon Us. Trouble follows in the form of two demon-like creatures, who the Doctor first spots in a painful and unnerving vision, and who seem to be the culprits in the mysterious deaths of several people related to Prem — first his older brother in World War II, then the Holy Man who was supposed to marry Umbreen and Prem. In this she mirrors the bulk of the episodes; good, solid, functional, and stubbornly unspectacular.

There's something about the whole "The Doctor is ineffectual this season/ doesn't do anything" discourse that just feels off to me (not so much that I think people are being too harsh to her because she's the first female Doctor, at least not in communities like this one, more that it just doesn't reflect how I've found her character).

The aliens within this episode had no input to the story and seemed added purely because of it being a Doctor Who episode. What Would You Do? My Supple Skin is a Mess, A Secret Story (The Last War in Albion Part 52: Wein and Wrightson's Swamp Thing), “Television causes...Not smartness!”: The Little Dictator! > Yeah I'm intrigued as to where "Vajarians" came from in the first placeMaybe from someone who speaks with a British accent with th-fronting?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Th-fronting. is in play here, but it’s justified as something other than moral duty, and finds itself working, much as it did in 1964.

This dry and humorless version leaves me hugely disappointed every week. I find myself in complete agreement with Jack on something (maybe you'll make a Socialist outta me yet)But nothing this season has so far warranted a rewatch. "And the Doctor did nothing? If there's a hot take for the era so far it's that people are gonna peg the villains as the era's big flaw. The contrived diversity is to blatant it like writing it on a brick and smaking someone in the face with it.

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