There are many similarities between “Wish World” and last year’s “Ruby Sunday Legend”. Of course, they are both the penultimate episode of their respective seasons Doctor Who. They are also built around the return of classics Doctor Who Villain, also repays a mystery that has been shown in every season. Unfortunately, both of them have a very fatal similarity: they both wait for the game aimlessly, with little meat on their bones as they count down to the last minute cliff disclosure.
But “Wish World” is more problematic than “Rude’s Legend”. The latter episode can at least be related to the fact that we don’t know the last minute yet, at least depending on tension and atmosphere, which is the revelation of Sutekh’s return (unless you read the rumor, that’s). In most cases (more on this later) “Wish World” is building a dramatic moment, and listeners already know its protagonist: the doctor meets the return Rani and understands what this might mean. That’s just a very Strange Experience, even before you understand how the mechanism Doctor Who This is a big reveal.
The world of “Wish World” is the contemporary earth before its obvious destiny erased, except that it is its side version. With the help of a convenient magical baby, Rani left, picking up in medieval Bavaria at the opening moment, the seventh son of the seventh son, which doesn’t feel very evil in science, especially when the baby is essentially just starting in any way she wants, thus making the “lucky days” radiate the “lucky days”. The palaces on high places in London, with the help of this magic wunderkind, determine the state of the world, the weather and the pleasant life.
These subjects include the Doctor and Belinda, who are now Mr. John Smith and his wife Belinda, living with their young daughter Poppy, a retro modern nuclear family dream as Belinda Insurance Teams rather than pioneers against alien threats. It turns out that the creepy atmosphere of this blatant opposite sex survival is: Everyone is very clear about acknowledging that women are good daughters, good wives, good wives, and then good moms, and when “Mr. Smith” spreads out a male colleague (a male colleague (no more than his Colonel Ibrahim, who is all at home, and he all by chance by chance by chance by chance, which is a benefit. What comes to mind is not cisgender or heterosexuality is an offense to this world that Conrad hopes to prepare for everyone.
It turns out that we can also add “disabled people” to Conrad’s list of mean paranoid bumpers, because in addition to reversal thoughts on women and queer people, the paranoia of the disabled around him led to a society with disabilities that was underground, who were not as omnipotent as they were on Conrad, that they encountered their own facts so much that they met an inappropriate person, that they met a person’s attitude. What happened around her, leaving her team with Shirley and her friends at the disabled camp to start trying to figure out what was going on. Good job Conrad Really sucked In some very specific ways!
It’s just where “Wish World” looks at while trying to tell more stories, and it’s a shame because the weird creepy atmosphere is pretty good, even if that means continuing to contact Conrad (again, to Jonah Hauer-King, he just disrespects, he just disrespects Incredible Good at playing a completely decayed man). After “Mr. Smith” cursing the deadly compulsive heterosexuality (against a wild, randomly returned cameo by Jonathan Groff’s rogue, he sends a message to the doctor to help him doubt the nature of the world of desire, basically saying “I’m gay, but remember his attitude until you’re like you, until your own episode!” Remember that he’s the doctor. After linking with Shirley, Ruby’s “investigation” essentially slams the brakes at its own power, so both of them can basically look up from under the huge escarpment of bones as it’s above London.
Then there is Rani, or rather Ranis plural, they sit in the above-mentioned bone palace, and they are also very much just working hard, because the latest incarnation of the traitor era is actually pleading the doctor to ask the doctor to ask the doctor to ask the world to find out the world she ruled in Conrad, so he can remember a false thing, so he may be a more important person, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who he is, who she yes. But it’s a weird atmosphere that leaves Conrad’s Bigot Paradise out of it. Essentially, the episode is ticking until the moment you reach the moment between Doctor and Rani, even if she spends most of the third act of “Wish World” to make his face appear in an attempt to break him down once and for all.
But because we already know she is Rani and the Doctor is not an insurance salesman named John Smith, there is no nervousness or mystery about what to build, so you are just a viewer who knows, waiting for the shoes to fall off to see the main character of the show, and one shoe you know will give up. At least “The Legend of Ruby Sunday” has the mystery of the Susan Triad that builds a sense of fear, even if there is nothing more to do outside of this episode – all “Wish World” is a convincing and creepy concept that gives up in the middle of half and then a straightforward ticking effect as we wait for the final moments of the episode.
So it turns out that the “Word of Wishes” needs to uncover another mystery at the last minute, as the doctor realizes who Rani is no longer an actual reveal of us. It turns out the Rani’s big ticking clock counting down to May 24 has been powered by collecting the doubts of anyone who’s questioned Conrad’s reality, the Doctor included, juicing up the Vindicator the Doctor and Belinda have charged throughout the season even further to rip a hole through Earth and reality itself… opening up a dimension where none other than Omega, the ancient, godlike co-founder of Time Lord society (well, Timeless Child stuff though!), wait.
Granted, “World of Wishes” does indeed destroy it, and in addition to our heroes, will inevitably cancel the next episode “Time forward This time, as we watch the earth split and collapse into horizontal, the cliffs seem to make Belinda in addition to the presence of Doctor, Conrad and Ranis. But Omega’s revelation is more confusing than it is currently shocking, as it feels like it’s everywhere after the plot is built on a revelation that has already undergone a huge compromise. Of course, we don’t know Why Rani is doing all these weird things with Conrad and a magical baby, but this episode never sees it as a mystery of interrogation, it’s just ticking in the background, and Rani longs for the doctor to know her.
So when Omega is called – we can’t see him, it’s just his name being discarded – it could have been something like “Wish World” which is largely out of the left field (unless you’ve already happened to see Russell t Davies laughing at the mystery of the country people between Conrad and Ranis on Instagram last week, but should have performed in the binge? Rani and the Doctor’s encounter is everything that “Wish World” arrives at that time, and because it builds it at all runtimes, that moment itself doesn’t really sit outside the last few minutes of climax, stealing away very little tension.
Again, we’re going to wait for next week’s finals to trace back to make this week’s preparation worth mentioning…and if we really need Rani to return to Herald Omega, and all the meaning of the times Lords and Gallifrey at the time. That Feel At least there are a lot to dig. Imagine if we got a two-part ending that actually took advantage of its time to do this?
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