Once, Upon Time 🐍 Discussion & Review | Doctor Who: Flux

Appeals to possibility, imaginative concepts, shadow shows, the nature of serialisation, validities of fan judgements, space laws, why episodes get compared, preferred versions of history, tensions, projections, producer comments & more! (00:00:00) Intro, & what we liked (00:05:13) Overexplanations (00:07:51) Chibnall & Strevens comments (00:12:23) Character vignettes, & an imaginative premise (00:17:37) The 40th anniversary, & the core ideas at work (00:22:47) Cops all the way down, laws in this era (00:33:31) Setup & payoffs (00:37:15) Why the Weeping Angels worked (00:44:18) Tension between Yaz and the Doctor (00:50:30) Story resolutions, ‘amaterial’ drama (00:54:28) Bouncing off an era, serialised consistency (01:00:08) ‘Shadow shows’, fandom imagination (01:11:09) Writing off shows (01:15:05) Russia & Sontar, Ruth & Doctor (01:24:12) ‘Too early to judge’ (01:35:01) Serialised hooks, changing endings, leaks (01:37:58) Vinder, Captain Jack, COVID19 (01:44:18) Bel’s Story, guns (01:49:25) Why fans compare showrunners, episodes, eras (01:58:52) Outro…

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