2025 REWATCH

• This is not a terrible story, it’s just weak, I’m sure that might mean the same to people lol.
• I find the concept of the story very interesting, I still think it should be a UNIT interviewing/interrogating Elton. But it transcends to modern social media culture now, so I guess it makes sense.
• However, I felt less inclined to watch; I had less time for it on the current rewatch, if that makes sense. I’d defend it’s weirdness and uniqueness in the past, but I think its novelty is slowly running thin on me.
• That’s not to say there isn’t genuinely some beautiful moments, the whole Jackie section, is marvellous, and the flashbacks of Elton’s Mum is heartbreaking. The realism of the LINDA and the characterisation of the group is so sweet.
• It’s the ending I raise an eyebrow at, the audacity to have the line about a love life is forever going to be questionable

Russel T Davies, you are on kink watch

New Who Review #24

Love & Monsters

This story was very filler. Not much happened but it did feel like a recap of the show so far. It was about this man called Elton and how he met the doctor before and become Obsessed with him. He had a group called Linda and they were all killed off by the Abzorbaloff. It recapped all the earth story's so far so we had the Autons from Rose. The Slitheen crashing into big Ben from the Aliens of London. The Sycorax ship from The Christmas Invasion. This was a doctor lite episode so not much to say about them here. 5/10

I think this episode actually has a really strong opening half but the moment the Absorbaloff shows up it just stops being fun, and the ending is pretty unsatisfying

I don’t know why so many people don’t like this one; it’s sweet. Tragic but light. I enjoy the focus on characters that aren’t the Doctor or companions. On the way ordinary people’s lives are disrupted. And yeah the monster wasn’t that interesting, but in this case the point of the story was the relationships more than the monster.

Also, the look into Jackie being lonely was nice. I like the thought of her calling Rose about it and Rose insisting they immediately track this guy down.