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28 April 2025
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Overall I had quite a bit of fun with The Robot Revolution. Belinda gets a great introduction even if the dynamics around her mystery feel very familiar to Clara. I love the look of the Robots and their alien world feels very fleshed out and well realized through production. The story felt a little too simple and over-explained. I didn't hate the idea of an incel taking over this world and obsessing over Belinda - it wasn't a bad idea for a story - but I definitely didn't need the story to explain itself so explicitly. By outright saying they were riffing on the incel online phenomenon, I feel like production instantly dated their own episode and it isn't going to age the story well or give it a timeless feel to it. Still it was a lot of fun overall and definitely left me excited for the rest of the season. As a companion introduction story it is very, very successful in that regard.
I do also love how Who stories in the RTD2 era feel so big and expansive. Every story really feels like it has these layers to it. The Doctor spending all this time on this world building up a revolution gave the setting a lot more weight than it would have as a one-off location otherwise. I love the implied relationship he had with Sasha 55. It reminds me of a few plot lines from the Invincible comics, as well as the energy and what I liked about Joy to the World. Every adventure with the 15th Doctor feels big and significant because we really take our time getting to know our setting and how our main characters are responding to it, which is something that gives each episode a lot of weight and significance to it that feels much more rare in pretty much every other era of Doctor Who - even compared to most Classic Who stories.
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