I don’t know why I didn’t care for this episode. Just watched it last night (had been traveling so I missed it premiere day). Something about the stakes just didn’t appeal to me.
Also the camera work was really strange in this episode.
this post was submitted on 14 May 2025
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Few days behind, surprised nobody is talking about this yet.
Slightly disappointed that Belinda comes in and nobody yells "DON'T CLOSE THE DOOR!"
Fugitive doctor cameo 😍 I really hope that she will be the next Doctor. Also, I hope the alternate mavity timeline with Gods and magicks will end. This denatures the genuinity of the serie.
I wasn’t a fan of the Fugitive Doctor as a one off. Felt like a dumb plot point in the already weak Jodi stories that they were not prepared to do anything interesting with. (And I wasn’t a fan of rewriting the “lore” of the show.) it would be interesting to learn she is the “next” Doctor and meeting Jodi she wasn’t a fugitive yet. Although I’m not sure if that works with some of Jodi’s plot lines? It did seem to be her past not her future.
Although with timeline confusion and memory editing power anything is a go.
Alternate timeline? What do you mean by that?
This is the timeline where mavity doesn't exist, it's mavity. 😉
I try to avoid screenrant and their clickbait (but thank you). I know there's apparently a timeline where everything is the same but it's called "gravity" (... Weird?) but that's not what I'm asking. They called this one the "timeline with gods and magics" so they seem to disapprove of there being entities that are classified as "gods"?
That's something that's new since the Gatwa era, these... entities of god-like power and abilities.
The ones we've seen so far:
Sutekh - "The Legend of Ruby Sunday"
The Celestial Toymaker - "The Giggle"
Maestro - "The Devil's Chord"
Mr. Ring a Ding - "Lux"
The Barber - "The Story & the Engine"
You seem to be under the mistaken impression that Doctor Who isn't at least 90% of what I think about in an average day :) I know about the pantheon but talou seems to have a unique perspective that I'm trying to understand.
Oh btw, wikis on fandom.com should be avoided. Try tardis.wiki instead :)
Not to put words in the other users mouth, but magic and Doctor Who don't typically mix, maybe that's their beef? The closest things we've seen to conventional capital "G" Gods previously were the white and black guardians.
But I'm still waiting to see how Mrs. Flood fits in to all this and to see if there's a connection to River Song and Amy Pond, or The Rani perhaps?
I'm counting on the pantheon to be "gods" in the Lovecraftian cosmic horror sense, very real beings that are just so far outside of anything we can comprehend that they might as well be "gods". The Doctor has said things to that effect (most recently in Lux, I think). They only look "magic" to us (see Arthur C Clarke). There have been "magic" beings before who turn out to just use a kind of science we don't understand yet.
Do we think the Barber is part of that pantheon? Because he was revealed to not be Anansi (Saga/Loki/etc) after all so he'd be someone/thing else, no? Coming back to Lovecraft, since he pretended to be a trickster god, he might be a kind of parallel to Nyarlathotep, maybe. That would still make him a kind of "deity", for lack of a better word, but not one of the "big ones".
Mrs Flood is either (and I owe this insight to tumblr user being-of-rain) a Time Lord called the Neighbour who bends time and space to be everybody's neighbour and her ultimate goal is to solve the housing crisis by bringing about the apocalypse OR (fingers crossed) River.
River would be good, but maybe too obvious. They brought back Sutekh, why not Romana? That would be a mind blower...
True but there's a connection between "flood" and "river". We haven't seen any Romans since Rory, have we? ;)