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Review of The Edge of Destruction by Dogtor

10 November 2024

“As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves”

 

C’est entre quatre murs d’un studio londonien fauché qu’on nous raconte un univers aussi impossible et merveilleux que foncièrement terrifiant et dangereux.

Mais c’est ici aussi qu’un vieillard terrifié apprend enfin de son amie une leçon.

The Edge of Destruction est un épisode décisif. Il brise les certitudes de chaque personnage, et fait de leur seul foyer un des endroits les plus dangereux de l’univers.

Néanmoins, c’est une expérience tellement atroce qu’ils découvrent enfin qu’ils ont besoin les uns des autres, et  que face à l’immensité, ils devront se serrer les coudes.

C'est tout l'esprit de la série en fait.

“As we learn about each other, so we learn about ourselves”

 

It is within the four walls of a rundown London studio that a universe as impossible and wonderful as it is fundamentally terrifying and dangerous is told to us.

But it is also here that an old man, terrified, finally learns a lesson from his friend.

The Edge of Destruction is a decisive episode. It shatters the certainties of each character, and makes their only home one of the most dangerous places in the universe.

Nevertheless, it is such a harrowing experience that they finally discover that they need each other, and that faced with the vastness, they will have to stick together.

That's really the spirit of the series, in fact.

(Translation generated by AI, so mistakes are possible).


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