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  • fsxylo@sh.itjust.works
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    11 months ago

    Calling it now: Ruby’s parents are from space/the future and they die. The woman who dropped Ruby off is Ruby from the season finale.

    The episode was entertaining but I’m not sure how I feel about actual magic in doctor who. Even the witches from the Shakespeare episode had technology. Genre shifting an entire show is certainly a choice.

    This was definitely more of a character episode than an adventure, with the bad guys taking a backseat and then just disappearing. If unit could have shot the ship with a laser and the episode ends the same then it’s a bad resolution.

    • CeruleanRuin@lemmings.world
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      11 months ago

      Magic I can pass off as just weird science that we don’t have the language to explain yet, just like the Not-Things from the space beyond space. The goblins weren’t all that different from the reapers that eat paradoxes.

    • currawong@lemmy.ml
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      11 months ago

      If magic is a troublesome word you can technobabble the thing instead.

      Like in the Star Trek: Strange New Worlds musical episode, they encounter a field of improbability.

      You can “quantumify” anything that seems magical into something that sounds sciency. :)