How is this era being differentiated from those prior? How is music telling the story? What’s new about this Doctor’s characterisation? What’s familiar, and what’s novel, about this new Disney Who? (00:00:00) General impressions (00:03:45) Self-conscious overexplaining (00:08:13) Clever rejigging of the Timeless Child (00:10:49) Lack of breathing room (00:15:39) Doctor not needing a purpose (00:18:06) Empty exposition (00:20:46) The bizarre ending & Moff callbacks (00:24:10) Snow attack (00:26:07) Time to talk about the babies (00:27:36) Baby lips vs. Rose's carnivorous bin (00:31:02) NSA-quality idea (00:34:55) Flashbacks within the same episode (00:42:41) Secretly Kill The Moon? (00:45:26) The "Disney scene" at the start (00:50:28) The Ruby Road ending recap (00:51:50) Millie elevating the material (00:56:32) Ncuti's handling of bad lines (01:03:11) Jocelyn/NAN-E and her filter (01:06:38) RTD comments on season airing & structure (01:17:09) RTD Space Babies + adoption comments (01:22:56) Music from Space Babies (chromatic descent) (01:25:31) Entering TARDIS (opening music, drums) (01:28:14) Wondrous music + chromatic descent (01:31:51) This is Gallifrey + Fifteen's theme (01:35:18) Silly TARDIS music + Ruby's theme (01:38:41) Fifteen's theme variation (TARDIS vworping) (01:39:51) Baby unveiling music + other composers (01:43:57) They Took The Baby (01:47:37) Action music (monster dying) (01:50:51) A Good Man (saving monster)… Continue reading →