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Review of The Interstellar Song Contest by skarosdrones

24 May 2025

This review contains spoilers!

I don’t want to watch a show with characters like this. Doctor Who was supposed to be better than this. It was supposed to be about people who gave a s**t about what was going on around them. Belinda’s personality is completely gone, to the point where I’m genuinely considering whether we'll find out that she’s under some kind of mind control tomorrow. In this episode that’s at least somewhat about corporate involvement in genocide all she seems to care about is The Doctor. I simply don’t buy their relationship here, and if I did I would hate it because it has the effect of making the participants completely uninteresting. I don’t think it’s too much to ask that there be some goddamn character drama, or that the someone who in her first episode was disconcertingly willing to sacrifice herself for strangers and called the Doctor dangerous for testing her DNA without permission would respond to him torturing someone Dr. Gorst style with nothing but a hug and a token note of concern (for him, of course. Caring about that other genocide survivor isn’t relateable enough or something). The politics were bad but in an extremely boring way. Society has moved past the need for Revolutionary With Valid Points Who Then Threatens To Kill A Bunch of People For No Reason.


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