The tsuranga conundrum space gremlin
I hear the next few episodes may have new writers given that the only truly remarkable story so far has had a new writer’s name on it, this must surely be cause for hope.
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There’s no reason for it to be the Doctor who figures out how to solve the problems on board, and her companions are likewise mostly left to wander around engaging in some of the most forced character “development” thus far.
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This is once again Doctor Who operating as a different show, in this case Star Trek, probably Next Generation or Voyager. But whereas The Ark in Space a precursor, in some ways, to Ridley Scott’s Alien went down the claustrophobic horror route, The Tsungara Conundrum is more of an action adventure romp, with the. It’s pleasant not to have people dying and reviving and the universe exploding or turning inside out every week, as one gets numb to these things very quickly, but surely there’s a middle ground where one can get the sense that something happened in the last hour or so. It’s hard to tell if this is an intentional misdirect or an accidental anticlimax, but either way it all falls strangely flat. Verdict: Showrunner Chris Chibnall recently said he wanted to make each episode of.
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Instead they find a convenient expendable source of energy, and the pilot pulls off one last flight. Team TARDIS are transported aboard a hospital spaceship, where a ferocious invader threatens everyone’s health.
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I thought the monster would be dispatched by the pretty but superfluous android jumping out into space with it (he can’t be hurt by its toxins and is slated to be shut down if its human dies, yet he mostly stands around and does nothing) or even the Doctor feeding it that wonderful antimatter drive. The Doctor even has time to wax philosophical about antimatter, of all things. Neither of these is enough to create any kind of suspense just as with the spiders, once these things are established they do very little to seem dangerous at all, much less create an atmosphere of rising stakes. A voracious toxic-skinned creature that feeds on inorganic material (and/or energy) boards the ship and is presumably poised to chew through the hull or a crucial system at any moment, but this isn’t enough of a threat, so there’s also some sort of merciless pest-control system that’s ready to blow up the ship rather than allow this thing to make planetfall. The Tardis shook violently as she tried to maneuver us away from whatever was following us through the. At best it’s a quick abstract sketch of a couple of alien cultures, barely removed from our own at worst, the first full-on snoozefest of the series.Īs in “Arachnids,” there’s quite a bit of running about urgently to disguise the fact that almost nothing is happening. Hold on The Doctor said rushing around the console. The setting, while featuring lovely set design of almost Tron-level sterility, was just a ship the individual stories (a decorated pilot with a career-limiting ailment, a pregnant man from a race with male and female pregnancies) underwritten the threat a sort of neutered cross between a Xenomorph and a Gremlin.
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I’m at a loss to understand why Chibnall felt this story was worth telling.