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3 May 2025
God there is so much wasted time in these episodes, I honestly can't remember that last time I saw a tight script, must have been last season, what the hell happened between the last season and this? There's like 5 things that happen in this episode and all of them are drawn out to the point of tedium, breaks and pauses and endless reiteration, a bloody flashback to a scene from less than 5 minutes ago!? What the hell is this? Yet again this episode fall prey to "tell don't show". Ruby tells us that she has PTSD, that she's struggling with all of the things that she has seen and done and been done to her, but the moment the episode calls for it she's a badass action hero who tases the monster and says "go to hell." I don't know enough about PTSD to know that people suffering from it aren't able to do both, but they seem completely incompatible as a layperson, so as a writer it is your job to show us why they aren't, not just have two tell-don't-show heart-to-hearts where she says she's affected by these thing, let me see it, let me feel it, 'cause as it stands, I don't. As with several of the first season episodes, I have problems with Millie's acting, to be blunt, I just don't believe a word she says. I don't see Ruby Sunday saying these things - especially with the forced stuttering - I see Millie Gibson, the actress, saying lines. The ending dialogue between The Doctor and Conrod is pretty good, if a tiny bit on-the-nose.
Also, I didn't really like Ncuti in the first scene, why was he yelling? Just giving a kind of energy that really didn't match the scene, the other people aren't yelling, so weird choice.
Box standard, boring, wasted potential. Also, the village should have been Upper Leadworth /j
5/10
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