welcome back 80s who cotton candy coloured ultraviolance. overall brilliant episode however pacing was all over the place and some of the dialogue was pretty out there but otherwise a breezy and fun start to a new season. the completely out of pocket horrible moments made the episode and 'polish polish' has now become a vocal stim.

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.

astonishingly broken script

Going to go through in bullet points because my thoughts are kind of scattered on this.

1. Immediately confused by the implication that the Doctor killed a bunch of people on life support when he blew the power grid to the hospital.
2. I wish there was more time for us to think that MissBelindaChandra One was utopic before disrupting that perception, even if we know deep down that something has to be wrong for the story to work. The immediacy of a lot of the pacing doesn't give us enough time as an audience to really get to grips with everything and everyone, especially characters that are going to die in two minutes. This is a trend that we saw start in Joy to the World (where we are introduced to side characters less than 10 minutes before their departure) that has been carried on into this series. There's a similar thing with Manny with whom you can tell that they've gone a bit too heavy-handed with the 'Queen Belinda' stuff so early on, to the point where we really didn't need the 'This is all your fault, Queen Belinda' ADRed over during the scene where the base is compromised: the look on his face was enough to convey his hatred to be honest.
3. The AI Generator is a dumb name for an AI Generator, even despite the twist. A lot of the sci-fi-esque names in this are pretty generic and unmemorable, except from the planet name itself being MissBelindaChandra One.
4. I feel like they did a decent job of establishing Belinda's character, she doesn't seem super unique from past companions, but I do prefer her to Ruby already in terms of characterisation, and she does take as much agency as she is afforded early on, which is important. She also reacts semi-realistically to events and revelations. Something feels a bit off about the line delivery but that's nothing we haven't seen in pretty much every episode over the last 7 years. So far this is a pretty good introduction.
5. The pop-culture references don't feel as bad as from what I remember of last year, but 'yass queen' did hurt my soul a bit.
6. Since they said that she is a Queen by name only, I don't understand why they would listen to her when she says not to shoot the rebels, surely they would take her and then also shoot the rebels anyway.
7. Planet of the Incels line made me want to die inside, it was just too much, the implication was quite clear without it.
8. They finally gave him some flaws, yay! And she doesn't like him by the end of the episode. This is a genuinely good jumping off point for the series to come, and I look forward to her challenging him more. And the ending was really ominous.

The TV series continues to be amazing. This might be the best companion introduction that the series has ever seen, expertly establishing what makes Belinda compelling and interesting.

A+. Maybe S.