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Doctor Who: New Earth (2006)
Doesn't make sense
This episode is one of the most nonsensical episodes of Davies'.
It starts off showing us the 10th Doctor in full form. Then immediately Rose acts completely mesmerized by him, with longing romantic looks that are just cringe inducing. The fact that Rose loved The Doctor was much more subtle in previous episodes, and this scene is just way too much too fast and even a bit creepy.
Then we are introduced to the fact that the psychic paper can apparently pick up the thoughts of someone a mile away. Maybe if they were a telepathic race or if it were transmitted somehow, but turns out a regular human can do this too. This never appears in the series again when a human is in distress.
We go through a few amusing/humorous scenes in the elevator and the hospital which was enjoyable. Rose meets Cassandra once again, and she is the best part of the episode. We get some character building with her that was a bit interesting. However, soon the mind transfer element is introduced. Now, the Doctor does say the use of that technology is illegal, but really if this is an in universe ability anyone could use given the access to this technology, then why would it not be used by other villains? Seems extremely powerful and she can even possess the Doctor, which means it works on any intelligent species. Also, when she possesses the Doctor, shouldn't her mind not be able to handle it? The only thing she notices is that the Doctor has 2 hearts and has "parts".
So ignoring the mind control ability which is never brought up in the series again, we now have a nonsense plot about the hospital curing patients using these humans grown to carry 1000 diseases. But somehow these can cure diseases of people that are not human and the other evolved humans that are in the hospital such as the Duke and his lawyers just appear to be regular humans. So why are they even considered a different species? And why didn't Cassandra try to take over their bodies? Was Cassandra's plan just to wait till Rose happened to show up since there are no humans left? She says that are mutants, but they look perfectly normal to me. She even considers taking the Doctor's body for good even though he's not human.
Then the diseased humans are let out and it becomes a typical boring zombie chase. This is definitely the weakest part of the episode, though the mind switching with Cassandra was amusing, it got old quickly.
Then, I guess they didn't even need the diseased humans in the first place because the elevators disinfectant was enough to cure all of the humans instantly, with absolute zero side effects and they even have clear skin. So why not just use this on the hospital patients too if it is so powerful?
The episode ends with a nice scene where Cassandra goes back to see her past self and this is the best scene in the episode. We actually see that she wasn't such a bad person to begin with and was seriously concerned and appreciative that this random stranger was hurt, though it does raise some questions about time paradoxes, and if she remembered that her future assistant looked exactly the same as this person that died in her arms, etc.
Overall, the only interesting part had to do with Cassandra's character. Even the Face of Boe is wasted just to set up future episode. It would have been more fun if they just got rid of the whole zombie thing and just had more scenes of Cassandra or proper Rose and Doctor interactions and exploring more of New Earth than the hospital.
Star Wars Resistance (2018)
No Stars, No Wars, and no Resistance.
This new series is creatively bankrupt from the start. This is a Star Wars without any of the adventure, any conflict, character, or creativity. The entire series so far (up to episode 10) takes place around one system. The planet is just a platform surrounded by water, very similar to the Kamino planet from Attack of the Clones. There are no landscapes to explore. This is almost like a sitcom. The small cast of characters walks around this one area doing nothing of interest besides solving very watered down problems while weak slapstick goes on. It could have used a laugh track. The "just for kids" excuse is false. This show has the same TV-Y7 rating as Rebels. It is just made as a cheap cash-grab. I grew up watching the Clone Wars 2D and 3D cartoons. Those were perfectly age appropriate and still watchable as an adult. This is just the laziest thing. It is a disgrace.