Dr. Who Reaction 15x7 - Wish World
Added 2025-10-04 14:00:08 +0000 UTC
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"Tables don't do that.", Rogue, "Wish World" I like the concept of Wish World where mugs fall through tables as a representation of doubt and the population just accept it - complete with an industry of recycling bins for the frequent "slip" issues. The Rogue actor, Jonathan Groff, mentioned that he had no idea what his lines meant when he was talking about tables not doing that. "Now it's time for today's story. Doctor Who and the Deadly Wish.", Conrad, "Wish World" The book has a classic "Harry Potter"-style cover and the author is I M Foreman - I M Foreman being the name on the junkyard sign in the very first Classic Who story. Susan, the Doctor's granddaughter, is known as Susan Foreman because of this. In one of the behind-the-scenes shows, you can read the full titles of the other books in Conrad's collection: - Doctor Who and the Big Bad Wolf - Doctor Who and the Pandorica - Doctor Who and the Last Time War - Doctor Who and the Runaway Bride - Doctor Who and the English Rose - Doctor Who and the Timeless Children. Wonderful Doctor Who memories - you know all those episodes and all that history! Did you watch the video I linked where RTD and Stephen Moffat talked about their story they had turned into short books? Perhaps you watched it during an Advent video - I can't remember now. Anyway, the set of books titles Conrad has is exactly the type of titles that the Classic Who books used. I love this! "Happy morning. Unified National Insurance Team. How can I help?", The Doctor, "Wish World" I like seeing the Wish World-styled UNIT offices with all our friends. And we see the return of Susan Triad as the tea-lady (which is what she said she could do at the end of the "Empire of Death" story). "Would I lie? Oh yes, I would. But not this time, darling.", Mrs Flood, "Wish World" I like Mrs Flood. "You recognised your husband's doubt because you've been expressing doubt yourself. That's what it does, Mrs Smith. It contaminates. It breeds. It festers. And it's my job to cut it out. My job, and my very great pleasure.", Mrs Flood, "Wish World" This is a good story. We have a police-state monitoring the public's doubt assisted by informers - chilling. "We danced once upon a time, you and I. At the Siege of Persephone, with the city burning around us.", The Rani, "Wish World" Obviously, I love seeing clips of the Classic Who Rani. The Bone Palace also has a glitter ball which is a callback to a set in one of the Classic Who Rani episodes. "The doubts are not the problem. The doubts are the whole point.", "Doubt is such a beautiful thing. If you question hard enough, then doubt can crack open the world.", Mrs Flood and the Rani, "Wish World" Nice plot twist that all this time we have been hoping that the Doctor's doubt about the world would be the wedge that would bring our Doctor back - but it turned out that this was the Rani's plan after all. "I remember. I remember. The Doctor is me.", The Doctor, "Wish World"
Andrew Vignaux
2025-10-11 01:50:46 +0000 UTCI agree with your high rating for this episode. I would probably go for 9.7 or something like that but it's always hard to judge these things. But some great, inventive plotlines and a very daring twist in the set up. "This is not just exposition, Doctor" says The Rani, after quite a lot of exposition. That's probably RTD's jokey defence of what he has written. And maybe a reference to all the criticism Chris Chibnall got for the exposition in his Jodie stories. Telling rather than showing was the accusation. "Poppy is real" says The Doctor and she was. She was in Space Babies and was called Captain Poppy. And I suppose that's what the Doctor was referring to. She didn't just come into existence after Conrad wished for The Doctor to have a family. Poppy was a bit older than the other babies although not quite a toddler. The Doctor also said something to her in the Space babies episode that may come up later. Conrad has wished for a world that is a social conservative's ideal of what things ought to be like. "I reject your reality" he told The Doctor in his last episode and he really does. The world he yearns for is like a 1950s tv programme with suburban families living a blissfully happy life (apparently) with the wife staying at home, the husband going to work, everybody heterosexual and no inconvenient homeless or disabled people to spoil their warped version of paradise. This is one of the reasons that someone suggested he was originally going to be the same character as Belinda's ex in the opening episode about the Robots. He was very old fashioned about male and female roles too. It also reminded me a bit of the original Stepford Wives film. I didn't see the remake so I don't know how similar that was. I have rambled on again. There is so much I could (and want to) say about next week's show but - spoilers.
Stephen Foreman
2025-10-04 16:08:38 +0000 UTC
