The first one, “Space Babies” was alright, but felt too childish. “The Devils Chord” didn’t hit for me because they just didn’t have the budget for really being able to explore a higher level being of such power.
But Boom? Boom can be defeated by one simple question. “Where’s the Sonic?”
It’s never addressed, the Doctor never asks Ruby to go get it from the TARDIS if he doesn’t have it on him. And it’s never even explained that if she could go and get it, it wouldn’t effect the landmine.
It’s basic questions like this, that need to be answered in an episode like this. It would have taken a total of 4 sentences to cancel out the Sonic. But they never even mention it.
That’s just bad writing right there.
Plus the Doctor’s dialogue felt like it belonged more to Matt’s Doctor than Ncuti’s and DEAR GOD, Moffat cannot write children to save his life.
I’m hoping the season gets better because they’re 1.5 for three with me right now.
I’ve heard speculation that the episodes aren’t being aired in the intended order, and that Devil’s Chord was brought forward and added as a second episode to coincide with Eurovision.
There’s definitely something that feels a bit disjointed about this season, and I’m still not sure why they seem determined to shoehorn Ncuti singing into every single episode (at the start of Boom I joked to my SO that if they manage to fit in a song into this one while he’s stuck on a landmine I’d be very surprised, and they actually did) but also it’s RDT, so having a season be completely bug shit bonkers and then tying it all up together at the end in a clever way would be pretty on brand.
I’m just gonna trust that he knows where he’s going with all this lol.