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Overview

Released

Wednesday, April 6, 2022

Written by

Lisa McMullin

Runtime

55 minutes

Time Travel

Present, Future

Tropes (Potential Spoilers!)

LGBTQA+, Stranded on Earth, TARDIS is damaged

Story Arc (Potential Spoilers!)

Stranded

Location (Potential Spoilers!)

Baker Street, Earth, England, London, Space

Synopsis

The Doctor resolves to make a difference and save one life in particular. But someone else is making a beeline for Sergeant Andy Davidson.

Mr Bird has something to prove, and he will go to any extreme to do it...

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Get Andy is one of the Doctor Who stories I've listened to.

I joke but like, I don't have much to say, Stranded 4 just isn't doing all that much for me so far it seems. There's some interesting ideas in here, the scenes with Andy and Mr Bird, walking across a war-torn earth, unable to tell where or when they are exactly, are pretty good, I'm always a fan of more Andy, and I think Him and Bird work well together. In the commentary there's mention that this was an attempt at mirroring refugee stories with this, and while I can see some of the comparisons, it just doesn't work as one for me. At the very least to tell this kind of story, when you've got such a diverse expanded cast, multiple gay characters, people of colour, a trans character, I don't think it makes sense to make the focus point of that story your basically one cis straight white man (there's argument to be had over Andy potentially being Bi from Torchwood stuff, but at the very least it's not touched on at all in Stranded, and is more hints than anything confirmed).

Then there's also the side of things with Eight's slow death in space. It's an interesting character exploration, but again, they were talking on the commentary about this section being influenced by peoples experiences of a lonely death during covid, which just doesnt' really work as a point of comparison at all. He saw his friends just an hour or so ago, and he's got the TARDIS reconstructions of them to comfort him.

I think that's a lot of my problem with this, I get what they were going for, but they just missed the mark in ways that almost feel too obvious.

The scene towards the end with Liv, Helen, and Andy though, now that did work for me, without any caveats.

I don't know, I want to like this more than I do, and frustratingly I think I liked it more before listening to the interviews


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