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Review of Jubilee by Merchant

11 May 2025

This review contains spoilers!

Another Shearman banger I swear I think he might be my favourite writer for Doctor Who right now he’s just so bold and darkly funny I can’t enough of it.

I love the commentary here with The Daleks being used as this marketable franchise dulling them down leading to the rise of fascist mindsets among Britain oh it’s brilliant and it’s made even better by how Shearman writes these people in the most bizarre & absurd way possible it’s just so interesting to me.

The Jubilee Dalek is the star of the show here providing a really fascinating view on Daleks and their character as The Dalek has lost everything about itself for 100 years questioning Dalek society and even possibly developing a twisted kind of empathy (or the closest it can get to that) for Evelyn

One big gripe I have is the 1903 stuff, I didn’t really care about that plotline much and I think it would’ve been much better off without it.


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