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Review of The Interstellar Song Contest by Merchant

17 May 2025

This review contains spoilers!

Garbage.

The characters are all cardboard and flat and our main cast is barely 2 dimensional with some of the worst politics we’ve seen while probably well intentioned a Eurovision song saving the day and making all well is incredibly tone deaf when the Hellions are presumably an allegory for Palestine.

The torture scene sticks out as completely out of character for The Doctor even in their darker incarnations let alone Fifteen, I don’t think what Kid did should get that reaction when it was made clear they were all still alive for the time and especially when this is the same man that saved Davros of all people like it just felt unnecessarily cruel like it doesn’t even serve much of a narrative purpose with Belinda who has completely lost any semblance of her character from The Robot Revolution and now exists to be a companion stereotype.

Susan and The Rani are here too I guess in a very jarring way with Susan getting these random flashback things and then that stupid reveal that felt like a dime store YANA reveal especially after all that build up ughh awful stuff.


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