Well, after those reveals, season 2 continues on Saturday with... Wish World. Part one of the two-part finale, we go back to Russell T Davies penned episodes. The Unholy Trinity are here and RTD keeps teasing us with more.

Traps are sprung and old enemies unite as the Doctor and Belinda finally arrive home to find a very different world. Can the Doctor see the truth before midnight arrives?

8am on iPlayer, and 6:50pm on BBC One.

Discuss the episode here ~

Aren't they holding off the iPlayer release because of the cinema simulcast? I thought the only way to watch it was live at broadcast or after on streaming

EDIT: Ignore me I thought we were getting both episodes back to back this weekend 😅

Edited May 20May 20 by lewistgreen

I feel like the only thing I can say at the moment about that episode is how incredible Archie Panjabi is as the Rani. What a performance

That aside though... this is all really going to hinge on The Reality War and the pay-off (which... I'm concerned about slightly given what we got with Empire of Death x). There's so much to cover. I was expecting little nuggets about things that have led us to where we are now but instead we've just got more mystery added in I was waiting for a big moment to arrive and it just... didn't. Starting to wonder if it could've all felt a lot better and had us gagged as viewers more-so than the reveal last week if we didn't have it happen at the end of The Interstellar Song Contest and we learned who she is in that dance scene with a cut to the Harmony Arena and the bi-generation?

After Conrad being an absolute ball out the park villain in Lucky Day, I'm struggling to see that he's part of the Unholy Trinity. A pawn in The Rani's game to do what she needs and wants? For sure. An actual player involved in raising the stakes and even slightly resembling the kind of person he was in Lucky Day? No.

A great concept for sure, but it doesn't feel like I'm on the edge of my seat desperately waiting to see how it all unfolds next week like I should be with a Doctor Who finale? That said, I'm intrigued to see what they do with Omega and I'm 100% anticipating Mrs Flood betraying Archie Rani in some way now given the dynamic there.

So we got 25 minutes of The Twilight Zone (It's a Good Life) via Wandavision followed by 20 minutes of one big exposition dump and the whole thing felt like a flat mess just to bring back a bit part player from the classic era whose 1980s revival was underwhelming in the first place.

Panjabi was indeed brilliant as The Rani and the two leads continue to perform admirably yet without seeing the finale it's impossible to know if this episode has any meaning. We'll see next week but RTD is not great at sticking the landing in finales.

Nice ham gag though.

Edited May 27May 27 by Severin

I dunno I really enjoyed it and was given more breathing room and set up the reality war really well, Made me realise i miss the 2 partera (obviously not possible considering episode run limit)

Hopefully the reality war doesn't turn out to be anticlimactic

1 hour ago, Calum said:

I feel like the only thing I can say at the moment about that episode is how incredible Archie Panjabi is as the Rani. What a performance

That aside though... this is all really going to hinge on The Reality War and the pay-off (which... I'm concerned about slightly given what we got with Empire of Death x). There's so much to cover. I was expecting little nuggets about things that have led us to where we are now but instead we've just got more mystery added in I was waiting for a big moment to arrive and it just... didn't. Starting to wonder if it could've all felt a lot better and had us gagged as viewers more-so than the reveal last week if we didn't have it happen at the end of The Interstellar Song Contest and we learned who she is in that dance scene with a cut to the Harmony Arena and the bi-generation?

After Conrad being an absolute ball out the park villain in Lucky Day, I'm struggling to see that he's part of the Unholy Trinity. A pawn in The Rani's game to do what she needs and wants? For sure. An actual player involved in raising the stakes and even slightly resembling the kind of person he was in Lucky Day? No.

A great concept for sure, but it doesn't feel like I'm on the edge of my seat desperately waiting to see how it all unfolds next week like I should be with a Doctor Who finale? That said, I'm intrigued to see what they do with Omega and I'm 100% anticipating Mrs Flood betraying Archie Rani in some way now given the dynamic there.

Told you my spoilers were true

i agree Archie Panjabi is brilliant as the Rani.

I feel like the acting snd the pace and cgi was 10/10 and overall a very good episode, but nothing really happened? Like nothing has left me thinking or wanting to know more

It was definitely a part 1, and I think my opinion of it will largely hinge on what's to come, but it's certainly laid a lot of groundwork. The concept of the wish world was great, Archie Panjabi is phenomenal as the Rani, and there's some really great story threads that I'm really hoping get tied together perfectly this week!

I've caught up on this and I wish it was a better stand alone episode that focused on the wish world and did more around that, other signs than just the mugs etc... and less characters involved so it was able to better focus on the slow realisation that the world wasn't real. As Severin said, I guess that would have been a bit similar to Wandavision but I think it could have been a strong episode...

As it was, I'm not really sure what I thought. There was a lot going on and I didn't enjoy the concept that the whole thing had been set up just to get doubt, it just felt like such an unnecessarily convoluted thing to have as a plot device just to get to an excuse to make a fake world collapse. But I'll reserve full judgement until the finale has happened.

Doctor Who does Wandavision...intriguing concept, though unfortunately this idyllic world that has a darker underbelly has been a bit done to death recently and there wasn't really anything here that they did differently, there was things about the world I liked, but I think they could've done more with it. I do agree with others that it was ultimately just a set-up episode and will depend on how it is resolved next week (Just please be better than Empire of Death x)

Caught up on this last night...

I enjoyed it until the last 10 minutes when it descended into so much technobabble and exposition. The stuff in the World that had changed I was enjoying - sure it didn't make sense, but then as soon as the Doctor and Rani(s) met it kind of went into nonsense. Hopefully things will become clearer in the second part - but it didn't feel it really hung together that well.

Also have to say wasn't a massive fan of Panjabi's take on the Rani - she seemed to jar in pretty much every scene she was in. It was nice to have the Kate O'Mara flashbacks though. Also Ruby was well used. Varada Sethu has felt really underused for pretty much the whole series; Belinda is a great character though, but it feels like there haven't been enough episodes in this series where she has managed to play a key part - which is a massive shame!

Overall, uneven - enjoyable in parts and I'm hoping for a good pay off in the second episode....

But there is so much to resolve/ cram in, throwing Omega into the mix feels a bit of a bridge too far when we have the 2 Rani's, the whole world needing to be changed back and also Susan returning and about 20 arcs to resolve.

It sort of feels RTD has tried to go full on Eleventh Doctor/ Moffatt era with the amount of arcs that he has going. Moffatt had 3 Series' to resolve his arcs - and even then that wasn't enough as everything had to be shoved into The Time of the Doctor. But yeah, fingers crossed for next week

I'm going to the cinema next Saturday to see Wish World/ The Realty War on the big screen - which should be fun!

Gone back the watch the 2 rani episodes for comparison and archi definitely was the right person to step into kate's shoes you can really tell they are the same character

(Side note the amount Mel shrieks im glad she isn't like that in the revival 🤣🤣)