Where to begin…
The entire world is going mad through as thinly veiled jab at online forums only we barely see any fallout from this aside from litter and the occasional traffic obstruction.
References to cancel culture, anti-vaxxers, online dating and “kids with their joysticks” (someone tell Davies it’s not 1978).
Some bizarre image that never existed infected every single TV screen ever with a sinister giggle.
More past companions are hired by SHIE-er… UNIT.
A reference to a missing story with Neal Patrick Harris playing a reject from Cabaret.
Donna (or Shouty McWorkingClass, as I call her) knows computer logic now.
The Doctor totally loses his cool and has a series of near nervous breakdowns as Tennant place him as being totally unhinged.
Davies rewrites the rules of regeneration (again) and the new Doctor uses ‘Toymaker magic’ to create a duplicate TARDIS all ready for the new spinoff.
The Toymaker is defeated by a game of catch (I cannot believe Davies tried to make that dynamic… it’s catch) and even though the Giggle is erased, many are dead which doesn’t add up but nothing in this story does.
More awkward gender politics and of course she’s vegan. Equally awkward racial statements (‘do you come in a variety of colors?’).
Ncuti was quite good, though Donna’s joke ‘Do you come in a variety of colors?’ was worrying. How will Davies write for Gatwa?
If you’re thinking this should have been better written, so could the episode. As poor as the previous two were, this one was the worst of the lot. There was nothing celebratory about any of these specials and if the 60th episodes and the ‘Goblin Song’ are what we should judge this new era by, I think I may just sit this one out.
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