Dr. Who Reaction 12x7 Can you hear me ?
Added 2025-02-22 15:00:06 +0000 UTC
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"Blundering. Top of my CV, alongside plays well with others and excellent tap dancer in a crisis.", The Doctor, "Can You Hear Me?" I think I would have liked a whole episode set in and running around medieval Allepo learning more about the place (with alien monsters probably annoying the locals). Now, we have done history-based stories before (like, as you pointed out "The Fires of Pompeii") but I'm always happy for some educational Who stories. I liked the animated presentation of the backstory. That reminded me of a story told in animation in one of the Harry Potter movies - but, actually, more strongly, of the start of the movie of "Watership Down" (from 1978) which, even though the whole film is animated, they tell a story within the story using a completely different style of animation. I liked Yaz mentioning the places she had been to - and, of course, we recognise them. To be honest, I didn't find the actual content of the character's nightmares as the point of the story - it was the invasion of the characters by the using the nightmares which was the unsettling thing. Zellin mentions a number of names that are callbacks to Classic Who stories - that always makes me happy while at the same time a new Who viewer can just understand them as throw-away names. As has been mentioned, Ian Gelder (Zellin) played the civil service scientist in Torchwood's "Children of Earth". But he was also the voice of the cloth-like killing creatures in "The Ghost Monument". When the two "Eternal" creatures appear on the suburban street about to cause suffering, it reminded me of the Torchwood episode "Out of the Rain". "Do you have any idea where those planets might be?", "You get me an A-Z of the universe, and I'll be able to stick my finger straight on ... No, I've got no idea.", The Doctor and Graham, "Can You Hear Me?"
Andrew Vignaux
2025-02-25 00:26:30 +0000 UTCAs a storyline, this is really no more than average (I struggle to remember the details after only four years). However, the companion 'epilogues' remain memorable. Yaz' backstory was much needed; and the final scene with Graham was extremely well handled. I have read much criticism about the Doctor's handling of Grahams cancer dilemma, but to me it rang completely true. As someone who has had cancer very much in my life (I have recovered it from it myself, but I also lost my wife as well as my two best friends to it) I COMPLETELY understand the significance of this scene. Friends and family simply do not know what to say or do when confronted with the C word. The message of this scene seems very clear to me: if even the Doctor is unsure how to respond, think of how it must be for everyone else when confronted with this news. It's not often that I come to the defence of a Chibnall script - but this is one definite exception!
Ian Smith
2025-02-24 16:20:25 +0000 UTC
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