UNEDITED EXCLUSIVE: Doctor Who Season 12 Episode 3 REACTION!

What a shit episode. Although regarding time, it’s mostly in flux. Regarding the villains of the episode, there just shit weavles, creatures that you will be further acquainted with in further viewings of torchwood. I liked jodies performance more than any other episode but this story and script was so dull and preachy.

Ward Junior

I found this episode much better as a rewatch

Matthew Case

Well that was.... Not quite as poor the second time around. There are some bits I liked and other bits that were blah.

Daryl

Well that sucked! I'm being charitable here. Need I say more?

DinoX7

I've not seen anyone mention this but I don't understand the alternative Earth's bit at all, because wouldn't that be a parallel Earth? Unless I've missed something, in all of New-Who they never mention anything about alternative Earth's/realities so I'm sure that was a bit of a cop-out if people didn't like this being on Earth. Personally, I think this could easily been set on New Earth which would have been a cool throwback. Also, shouldn't the Russian sign have been translated into English?

The future in Who is never fixed, except for certain points which have to happen. We've heard Ninth Doctor say that time's in flux and can change; 12 gave Clara the choice to save the moon egg or destroy it and basically every story. They just used the word timelines in this which seems to have thrown people a bit. I really liked this episode, I have to say. The end was a bit heavy handed, but the argument can be made that being subtle over the years hasn't worked at all. https://twitter.com/DWPoop/status/1217162770430464000?s=09

Mr K

I think this one of the most universally hated episodes of who

Yeahhh it’s a rough one. Poor Benni.. So close to catching up though!

WhoviVortex

How great would it have been if when they cut from the doctor to the dreg in the end the cut to that stupid damn frog instead

Magus

So I considered this to be the worst episode of who I ever watched, and thats comparing it to fear her and the other terrible ones. None of the past ones made me quit who, this episode literally did. This episode put me in a shit mood for like a whole week, I think a big part of it is knowing we are getting a shorter season and we started off on a much better note then we get this a total throw away episode trying to scold us about climate change when the biggest factors of climate change our out of the hands of the average joe. So I decided last week that I still really wanted to watch your reactions but this episode was so bad I didnt know if I could sit through it again so I quit watching new episodes and will just watch your reactions so we can suffer together and I wont have to sit through the worst TV to be aired in ages

Magus

Why can't I like comments?

Cooper Vision

I feel like Ed Hime thinks there has to be a weird alien monster of the week. I think this episode could have been a lot better if he had the mutants be more just deformed humans who had adapted the the environment but still spoke english or whatever and there be a conversation between the normal humans and them. They wanted to deliver a to the point message of climate change is bad and we need to stop before its too late but they could have also give the "monsters" motivation behind their actions. Like first we humans selfishly ruined our garden planet and now these new inhabitants have adapted to the environment and then here come the humans once again to alter the planet and make it unsustainable to the mutants. so it would be like a 2 sided cautionary tale of 1 dont ruin the planet in the first place and 2 if theres life on a planet dont try to terraform it and ruin that species ability to live. because essentially thats what we would be doing in this episode if the terraforming worked were wiping out a species we created. I feel like in Jodies seasons weve gone more for defeating or running from a threat despite the show trying to send messages theres not as much of an actual conversation and trying to come to a mutual resolution. I guess they were trying to show the doctor cares about 1 life even if its an old man who will probably be dead tomorrow, but we barely know this character and we are supposed to care about him and accept everyone putting their lives in danger to save him when hes obviously dead. And why was he the one the dreg kidnapped? they had plenty of other characters we didnt get introduced to that they could have kidnapped but nah lets got for this old dying man and then we are supposed to care about him. The second they left the dome I was like WHY WHY WHY what are we doing? why are we out hear? Didnt feel invested in the story or characters even the copy paste of Ryan onto a female character with the same back story oh my dad died, your mom died and my mom left when it was your dad who left oh we can relate so much.... well when you literally copy paste a character that would happen.

Magus

Only one more episode and you have caught up

I have no name

I was LIVING for your reactions this episode😆 I couldn't stop laughing at "BENNI!!" every time. It's by no means my fave, but I DID like it better on rewatch. I feel like if something's a fixed point, we are told "this is a fixed point" or that we can't let history change, but other times(most future stories tbh) is like eh whatever, wibbly wobbly timey wimey. Also maybe it was assumed that Bella and Kane could get themselves on the transport, idk? I DO really like the message of the episode, but I can see how it's a little on the nose(but then again, in times like these we really need to spell things out to get the point across, so I can see both sides in that argument/criticism that some people have). I also like how the Doctor is more snappy and "moody" this ep, it carries nicely over from the last episode. Also, The Doctor running out of oxygen first bc she talks too much is the most on brand thing.

Lilly M.

I think you nailed it with your thoughts at the end. This episode wasn't received very well at all. Personally I didn't mind it, it was eh.

Alex Cross

Ed Hime also wrote It Takes You Away from S11 and apparently for that episode he delivered a script which turned out to be 20 minutes longer than the episode length so lots had to be cut out. From watching Orphan 55 it looks like the same happened here.

Matgo Styles

Haha Benniiiiiii has already become a meme. This hasn't had good reviews but I kinda dig how messy it is. It wouldn't be Doctor Who without a hot mess of an episode. You're right in saying there's too many subplots. When Bella first appeared shortly after Ryan got the Hopper Virus I thought she was a hallucination of his, and I think that would have been a much better twist, showing Ryan falling for her and then all of a sudden finding out she wasn't real. I think that would have added to the unease felt between the companions and the Doctor at the moment.

Matgo Styles

The episode is alright, the editing is truly subpar.

Cooper Vision

terrible episode, especially comparing it to the ones surrounding it

Oliver Harrison