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I found the whole story really clever tbh

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Very Wibbly Wobbly Timey Wimey…

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And on that note did anyone else catch Pelia’s comment at the briefing?

“....I think I was in a phone box at the time"

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I think that's the third time she's referenced the Doctor.

We also saw the TARDIS very briefly.

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It is confirmed by writers her story includes her traveling in the Tardis and there was talks of a crossover

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi...gg-newsupdate/

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Terrible episode for me. it was stupid when Buffy did it and it is stupid now. At least in Buffy there was singing

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They subjected us to a musical episode a year or two ago.

I don’t mind stupid filler episodes when you have 23 or more slots a season to fill. US broadcast shows have always done it. But when you have only 10 episodes to write per year, and the technical resources to make every one of them look better than a feature film from 30 years ago, there’s just no excuse for it.

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I’m watching it now, and cringing. It’s embarrassingly bad.

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Painfully, awfully bad.

Was there nobody in the production meeting with the sense to stand up and say this shouldn’t be attempted?

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Hmmm, so this should be interesting when I watch it later .... :erm:

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I loath musicals, so I'm glad they resisted that.
I didnt think the episode was that bad, but certainly not great.
They have done far worse (like that horrible musical episode, I had to skip 90% of that, I just cant stand them).

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Much better this week. Big callback to the motion picture too, which actually helps make the ‘wormhole’ sequence in the film make more sense in the context of everything later established in the various TV series.

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I despair at this series now. Another stupid themed episode

Just up to the credit I was about to quit till the bit before. Giving it a chance but seriously be serious Star Trek haha

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Brave, referencing one of the poorer odd numbered original films. :D

Last night’s episode was frustrating. Full of very different ideas that never properly meshed together. I still think their biggest problem is they’re looking back at some of the fluff-filled TNG filler episodes and trying to emulate them as if they were core trek rather than realising most of them would never have got made had that series not had 23 or more episodes to fill each season. When you only have 10, they all need to be as good as Yesterday’s Enterprise, or Masks. Ironically, there were distinct emotional echoes of Inner Light in the last few minutes of last night’s episode but they felt tagged-on. That whole sequence felt like it belonged in a different (and much better) story.

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Yeah agree they are making filler episodes and no story arc. Is there even a central protagonist this time round. Not seen any big bad and if we have I forgot about due to as you put it all the fluffy stuff

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Stand-alone episodic story telling was a deliberate creative decision for SNW and one I happen to agree with. Arcs have a tendency to disappear up their own ar$3 after a while and actively deter casual viewers. SNW does have recurring characters and stories that build on one another but it has never had an over-arching season-long arc in the way Discovery or Picard had.

That said, there is no creative reason why it should suffer for that - TNG was made the same way and didn’t suffer for it. The current production team just don’t seem to ‘get’ Trek. They’re looking at a huge body of classic material and assuming we all loved all of it, and then re-making their own favourite bits. Sadly the result is an endless parade of Data/Wesley does something endearing and ‘ooh look Holodeck’ crap.

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But they are suffering for it now because obviously they are running out of storylines . This was just another intervention by Similar Q (no idea what the character is or species)