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  • Doctor Who #11.4 "Arachnids in the UK"

    Another new episode tonight on BBC One and BBC America!

    Episod Description: “Something’s happening with the spiders in this city.” The Doctor, Yaz, Graham, and Ryan find their way back to Yorkshire – and Yaz’s family – only to find something is stirring amidst the eight-legged arachnid population of Sheffield.

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    Nothing really happens during the opening tease. The only tease that there is something going on... is a supposed spider POV shot (that sadly never gets re-used. Would've been an effective view to give the impression of the spiders being present, without having to pay for the CGI to constantly show the spiders). There's a token lesbian character... who gets killed off in her second scene (*cough* bury your gays *cough*).

    The episode has Chris Noth as a boring Trump parody, that the episode outright insists isn't Trump (despite him clearly being Trump). Jack Robertson is no Helen A (from much better story "The Happiness Patrol"). He is no mastermind behind a great conspiracy, involving animal mutation. A company owned by him dumped some stuff, without his knowledge. Including some stuff from a lab, that the lab didn't properly check before sending it to said company (also, pretty sure all biological samples of something, would have to be destroyed at the lab. Probably by incineration). So, everything probably really is the fault of the lab. If it's simply the toxic waste, why was only the spiders affected? Wouldn't all animal life, like worms and maggotts be affected too? Why weren't there giant versions of those?

    Everyone wants to kill the spiders humanely, by locking them away (which would rather kill them slowly and painfully (either starving to death or be deprived of oxygen), not humanely). When the big spider is shown to be too big to breath, and it's established to be literally choking to death, Jack Robertson chooses to shoot the spider to death. Then the Doctor is disgusted with him... for putting a suffering animal out of its misery. What he did was the humane thing to do. Rather than dying of asphyxiation, it was allowed to die quickly. It was suffering. Had no chance of survival. It was either shoot the poor thing... or prolong it's suffering. What does it say about Chibnall's writing, when the Doctor comes across as extremely cruel, while the one whom he wants us to dislike... is the one who does the humane thing towards a dying and suffering creature?

    The spiders (or Jack Robertson) have no grand plan, that could threaten city (much less the rest of the country or the world). They're turning this empty hotel into a spider web... while becoming bigger and bigger, until they're too big to survive and will die by themselves. The staff aren't there. When they show up, after two days, they'd discover this place covered in web, and be unable to enter (thus preventing any harm to any humans).

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      Originally posted by jon-el87
      What does it say about Chibnall's writing, when the Doctor comes across as extremely cruel, while the one whom he wants us to dislike... is the one who does the humane thing towards a dying and suffering creature?
      12th Doctor: "Never be cruel."

      13th Doctor: "Sorry, I didn't hear that first word. Now, if you'll excuse me. I'm going to trick Tim Shaw into absorbing five DNA bombs, which are illegal in like every galaxy. Then, after tricking him into activating them, judge a guy, that Tim Shaw assualted and tried to kill, for kicking Tim Shaw off a crane (seconds before Tim Shaw teleports away). If Tim Shaw hadn't teleported away, the fall would've killed him, likely instantly (sparing him from the pain caused by the DNA bombs). Then I'm going to berate a guy, for putting down a dying animal humanely. He should've allowed it to suffer. Allowed it to die slowly and painfully."

      Are we sure that the 13th Doctor isn't an early manifestation of the Valeyard?

      The Master: "The Valeyard is an amalgamation of the darker sides of your nature. Somewhere between your 12th and final incarnation."
      Last edited by jon-el87; 08-08-2021, 02:52 AM.

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