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Review of The Interstellar Song Contest by ThePlumPudding

21 May 2025

Much has been written about this highly controversial and contentious episode, which arguably has failed it's audience politically more than any episode since the seminal "Kerblam!" The episode equally succeeds and fails massively: Despite featuring the best looking special effects in Doctor Who history, the surprise return of Susan, and a earth-shattering performance by Ncuti Gatwa, the episode can't overcome it's ridiculous messaging, which is poor storytelling even disregarding it's frankly enormous political implications. It is impossible to ignore the vacuous simplicity of "Kid's" character, a growingly concerning trope in the current age of media of the "activist" going wrong. Kid attempts ultracide in this episode for a reason that doesn't make any sort of legitimate sense -- Does he really think that all of this will fall back on the "Corporation" and not the person who sabotaged the station and attempted to murder uncounted people? From a strict sense of what I can tolerate watching, it's not even the worst part of the episode, an honor which goes to it's hideous post-credit sequence.

However.

And this is a big however. I am being fully serious, and I don't want to seem like I'm doing an ironic bit here.

The episode does in fact have Dugga Doo in it.
Which surely earns it some points.


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