• haverholm@kbin.earth
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    2 days ago

    Spectacular answers

    Look, I’m optimistic about the new season until proven wrong, but even I wince at that kind of hollow hyperbole. The episode previews have been promising enough that I’ll be happy if the season arc is cohesive and sticks the landing.

    Unfortunately, I also know that it’s when RTD aims for “spectacular” he tends to lose sight of the basics.

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    It’s weird because they spent a season playing with Ruby’s mom, Susan, Sutekh trying to tell us that important character identity twists are bad, and now here’s a new important character that’ll have a big identity twist? Really?

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      I don’t know if the message was that identity twists are “bad,” so much as a bit of a deconstruction of what “importance” is.

      And in all fairness, the Mrs. Flood mystery was very present even at that time.

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        In hindsight, not “bad” I suppose, but when they had the big Ruby reveal, they were definitely making fun of everyone who was freaking out just like Sutekh in interviews and everything.