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Subject: Re: Doctor Who S2/S15 - Ep. 6: The Interstellar Song Contest
Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 13:51:20 +0100
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On 19/05/2025 13:21, Blueshirt wrote:
> John Hall wrote:
> 
>> In message <xn0p5yeh6bvqlqa001@post.eweka.nl>, Blueshirt
>> <blueshirt@indigo.news> writes
>>>
>>> I haven't watched many Eurovision Song Contests live in
>>> recent years, but we did always find the scoring the most
>>> entertaining part when we did...
>>
>> Me too. Before I stopped watching it altogether I used to skip
>> the songs and just start watching when I guessed that the
>> scoring was about to start. Even way back 50 years ago, most
>> of the songs were so dire that I can still remembered what a
>> shock it was when the then unknown ABBA performed "Waterloo"
>> and I thought "Wow, this is really good!"
> 
> I vaguely remember Waterloo, only because ABBA became so big...
> but I do remember Johnny Logan (twice) and our other winners...
> they were always on RTE singing those songs. Now, all kinds of
> everything is more a description of the Eurovision Song
> Contest's participants!
>   
>>> I'm not sure about the two Rani's thing, or Mrs Flood now
>>> becoming an underling either. I was also hoping that
>>> bi-generation was just a once-off in the show too... but RTD
>>> likes to hammer down on his ideas so we've now seen
>>> bi-generation twice in a few years, after never hearing of it
>>> for sixty years! No doubt it will rear its head(s) once
>>> again in the future now that it has become a 'thing'. For me
>>> it was silly fun once, but a stupid gimmick twice.
>>
>> Not so bad as "mavity" being used again, though.
> 
> Definitely a sign that we are in a alternate universe...
>   
>> I now have a variant of a famous Who (as in the rock group,
>> not as in DW) song playing in my head: "Talking about
>> bi-generation".
> 
> It fits! :-)
> 
>>> There's only two episodes left of the season now, so now that
>>> the unsurprising surprises have been revealed, what is RTD
>>> going to throw at us in those two episodes? It's going to
>>> have to be something BIG for a season finale... but will RTD
>>> get the landing right or will it be a damp squib? One thing
>>> is for sure, with RTD's subtle use of the word "mavity" in
>>> this episode, 'that' is definitely going to play a part!
>>
>> I assume we're going to get a two-parter dealing with how the
>> Doctor prevents the end of the world, which from the date for
>> it that was given within the episode would appear to be
>> scheduled for this weekend. I also assume that it's the Rani
>> who is trying to bring about Earth's destruction, though what
>> her motivation for that could be is hard to see.
> 
> The end of the world and how the Doctor gets back to the real
> universe...a universe where gravity exists once again.
> 
> Expect some subtly from RTD with THAT one!!!

If he was in a different universe then why doesn't he know that from the 
references to mavity instead of gravity. The only explanation is that he 
isn't real himself. Remember Doctor Who ended in 2017.



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