Late-stage Doctor Who episode
Really strange choices made here. So unlike the previous two episodes that you have to wonder if this wasn't shoe-horned into the production for some extraneous reason. What's most bizarre is why they would take a show that was working in every possible way, remove one of its best characters for an episode (which is a big deal, considering there are only 6), and suddenly do a hard shift to focus on a lady Loki who looks like a carbon copy of Jody Whittaker's Doctor Who - probably the least popular Doctor of all time. And the TVA aesthetic that made the first episodes so fantastic was largely missing too. Felt like a different show. Plus, you could see them leading up to Loki's big "revelation" so far in advance that it did kind of feel like the whole episode was a pretext for it to happen. Like it was all a woke public service announcement. (Did they bring in Chris Chibnall to write this episode...?) Sure hope the show returns to form after this!
- korereviews
- Jun 29, 2021