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Review of 42 by SomeGuyO7

7 June 2025

This one is weird because it has a very intriguing premise, brilliant set deisgn, ample stakes and no real plot holes yet still manages to be mid. None of the characters have any traits outside of a few token mentions, that are told directly to the auidence. You have the loyal one and the married one and the one with no friends that Martha falls for for some reason. Her character is borderline assasinated by just how easily she falls for random men. She didn't even have a full hour with this guy. It wasn't even for anything as she just leaves in the end anyway. The doctor is fine here. He's mostly normal with a few bit of corny dialogue, but the bit at the end annoys me a bit becuse he says he's scared instead of just letting the audience infer that and it kills any prexisting stakes. The pub quiz stuff is fine, though the Elvis question makes no sense since they are halfway across the universe from and potentially millenia away from 20th century earth. Only real plot hole. Overall I want to like the episode more, but the characters are so flat it makes the emotional moments ring hollow, the science is so questionable it borders on fantasy, and a lot of the direction and lines are so campy it again undermines the stakes.


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