Doctor who season 1 episode 2 space station

Could the Doctor be even more gravely injured from this experience than heвЂ™s currently letting on? WeвЂ™ve seen in trailers for the season what looks like regeneration energy seeping from himвЂ¦ is Twelve facing a slow death? (I hope not.In between your next winter weekend trip, get some quality couch time in.That shot as Nardole looks out the window of the station and sees all the suit-zombies approaching him is pretty creepy.And space zombies were a thing on an episode of Enterprise as well. Spock went (temporarily) blind in another episode. BillвЂ™s suitвЂ™s AI, which Nardole seems to think is a past girlfriend of his, is kind of a reversal on the time the EnterpriseвЂ™s computer turned into a flirt. Actually, the final frontier bit isnвЂ™t the only Star Trek reference that could be construed here.The final frontierвЂ¦ Final because it wants to kill us.вЂќ But aside from that, the mystery of the vault remains just thatвЂ¦ for now. And of course, the Doctor has been injured in that his blindness wasnвЂ™t as temporary as he made it out to be. Yes, Nardole notes that if the Doctor was weakened or injured or sick вЂњour friend down thereвЂќ would notice it. And then in a post note weвЂ™re told that six months later вЂњcorporate dominance in space is history.вЂќ If only it was so easy back here on Earth.Дo you have a reservation?The episode is also lacking development on the vault front. The DoctorвЂ™s solution is to rage against the machine, to threaten to dismantle the entire system in order to fix it. Does needing to breathe count as a pre-existing condition? вЂњOxygenвЂќ breaks down this concept in a sci-fi manner that elegantly illustrates what is at stake for many folks in the here and now of the 21st century. ItвЂ™s too expensive to let them live and so they must die. WeвЂ™re fighting an algorithm, a spreadsheet - like every worker everywhere! WeвЂ™re fighting the suits.вЂќ Indeed, as these space miners become inefficient in their work, the system - the algorithm, the suits - decides that they are better off replacing them wholesale than letting them continue to breathe the air that the system is paying for. вЂњThe bottom line where human life has no value at all. вЂњThe end point of capitalism!вЂќ says Capaldi in that breathless Capaldi way. Here we have the Doctor arguing for the common man and his basic rights, which can easily be read as a health care parallel. ThereвЂ™s an undercurrent of humanism that hits particularly close to home for anyone following the current debate regarding health care in the U.S. And this outing for the Doctor does resonate on certain levels. This season has had its fair share of forgettable human supporting players each week, but this lady rises above all of them to remind us how such characters can make their mark.ДЄlso memorable is the brief sequence where Bill is facing the very scary ordeal of being exposed to the vacuum of space without her helmet, and the experience is portrayed in a dizzying burst of imagery as she lapses in and out of consciousness while her suit and the Doctor take control. And heвЂ™ll never hear her, because sheвЂ™s taken out by the suit-zombies moments later.

But he canвЂ™t hear her because the communications are down on her damned suit.

Actually, the most touching moment of the episode involves the one-shot character at the start of вЂњOxygenвЂќ - the poor woman who in a moment of desperation blurts out to her man that she wants to have a baby with him. ThereвЂ™s a lot of busy work involving the spacesuits which keep the Doctor and his pals alive, but what should be the most effective dramatic moments of the segment - BillвЂ™s вЂњdeathвЂќ and the DoctorвЂ™s being struck blind - donвЂ™t quite land. вЂњOxygenвЂќ has its moments, particularly when dealing with the zombie-ish unfortunates who couldnвЂ™t cough up the cash need to keep on breathing, but the episode itself is not one of Season 10вЂ™s strongest outings.

Doctor who season 1 episode 2 space station