Ncuti Gatwa Doctor Who and spin offs

[CaptainWacky]

Third episode - It was good, I was happy it didn't just copy 'Midnight' exactly. The ending felt like a bit of a cheat though? The episode establishes that the monster jumps to the person who killed its previous host and the Doctor and the other characters act like this is a binding rule so the viewer believes it. We get the visual indicator that it jumped to Belinda, so why did it end up on the other girl and not the one who "killed" Belinda? I know the explanation from nerds will be "the monster doesn't have to follow the rules" but the episode acts like it does until then. Or maybe it didn't jump to the young girl at all and that was just paranoia at the end who knows.

 

[whisky]

Maybe the other girl just lied when she said it wasn't her.

 

[Eggs Mayonnaise]

Why would the Doctor believe the entity died with Shaya? I's non-corporeal, it'll just wait around for the next host. In fact, why didn't it jump to the Doctor when Shaya jumped?? It would have been more believable to me that the Doctor would lure the entity to jump on him because he had some magic timey-wimey way to deal with it.

This was a good ep, but like many Trek eps where the universal translator suddenly has impossible abilities just to get the plot moving forward, this ep required more logical concessions than usual, almost every step of the way.

 

[whisky]

The well was five miles deep, he should have had a lot of time to get out. Unless she banged her head on the side on the way down.