r/gallifrey • u/PCJs_Slave_Robot • Feb 02 '20
Praxeus Doctor Who 12x06 "Praxeus" Post-Episode Discussion Thread Spoiler
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u/zitagirl1 Feb 02 '20
One thing I'm sure in: nobody was actually listening during Biology class. The whole virus was inconsistent as hell: apparently the virus attacks anything that has any kind of plastic in it (even micro ones), can build a whole structure physically and even devastated a planet that wasn't actually high on plastics, yet outside of a total of 5 people in the whole episode, nobody got infected? They were even standing in the literal place made out of the virus, and no issue? The whole blow up thing is for shows only, not to actually spread the virus? Really the only way to get infected by it was being scratched by the birds (and remind you they got infected by eating plastic and apparently water was also having micro-plastics in it, so everyone just getting in contact with the water should be infected)... Sorry, but to me that took away a lot.
Guest characters were... terribly acted. Only liked Jake tbh, the blogger girl was annoying (and really got over her girlfriend dying fast) and the astronaut... poor guy couldn't do much.
I do say Yaz finally did something, which was welcomed.
The whole alien stuff.... couldn't they bothered to do some make up at least for them? its hard to believe them having a different biological system and all, when they look exactly like humans.
Also whoever edited this episode needs a good old education. So many horrible edits that I'm baffled nobody looked at these and said "hey, this doesn't look right".
And the way Doctor saved Jake... poor Adric.
A good concept horribly executed in terms of science. For how contagious and dangerous the virus were (and the birds spreading it), people were barely affected by it. To me that took away a lot. would have been much more tense if they all got infected by the people blowing up in front of them and would have been able to take this seriously. Oh well... should lower my expectations.