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Spoilers Kerblam! grade and discussion thread

How do you rate Kerblam!?

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This was a fun, well-balanced episode. Good messaging, complex issue. Those asking for a more active Doctor and one with more of an assertive edge got it. Her pure joy at the Kerblam! Man at the start was great. Everyone got a moment to shine, but something about Yaz's "It should of been me" is making me feel Yaz might be the one to go first.

I thought the twist was interesting, though I imagine some will interpret as pro-corporate.

Also, love the design of the Kerblam! Man and "Teammates." Sure, it's similar to Robots of Death but it felt like a fresh slap of paint on a classic instead of a retread.
 
I liked this episode.

Jodie is fast becoming one of my favourite Doctors, she's brilliant. I love the accent.

Nice nod to 11 with the Fez and space Amazon will deliver no matter where you are. Even to the TARDIS moving in the time vortex. Wow OK they're like space piranhas in that they'll find you no matter where you are, even the bloody time vortex. I liked everyone in this episode. I liked them a lot. I love the little bot they found so that was the ball thing I posted a pic of a few weeks back. I thought it was a prop from the Library episode.

The people being turned into goo, they found that but then it's forgotten in the next moment so that was a thread that wasn't closed off.

Space Amazon I rather liked it. So the system wasn't at fault it was asking for assistance.

7/10
 
Apart from lying, politics and sexism, a major contributor to the situation in Salem (leading up to the trials) was contaminated Bread, which lead to a great deal of the community being off their nuts on something comparable to LSD.

Lets see how Who diverges from real history this time.
 
BritishSeaPower said:
Oh, I know what the episode is about - which is not Salem, it's actually King James and near the Scots border - and I've seen the trailer on YouTube. But interesting that BBCA didn't show it.
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OK my mistake I kept thinking it was Salem they were going to visit. Still it looked good
 
BritishSeaPower said:
Oh, I know what the episode is about - which is not Salem, it's actually King James and near the Scots border - and I've seen the trailer on YouTube. But interesting that BBCA didn't show it.
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Which (google tells me) is over two hundred years before Jamie is born?
 
Just watched the episode. Pretty fun romp but also kinda disturbing. Poor Kira!

I can see the parallels with Amazon, or any of a number of mega-corporations.

Certainly very engaging. I give it a 7.
 
Interesting this series how everyday items like bubblewrap are turned into weapons.

There's a lot of interesting themes here too, the dehumanizing of the workers, you're just a teeny tiny cog in a system. All of it, it was rather creepy and disturbing. I don't think it was so much anti automation as much as pro people. People matter in the long run.

Also this series have the writers forgotten Yaz is a cop and has probably got some skills she can use, or has everyone forgotten?
 
Witch trials? More like hunting for witches. America? No. England in the early 16th century.

I think the episode confused self-preservation with having conscience. An entity with a conscience would not kill a person so as to make a statement.
 
Tetragrammaton Invictus said:
Also this series have the writers forgotten Yaz is a cop and has probably got some skills she can use, or has everyone forgotten?
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It's interesting you mention that...as I've watched the series, I've noted a number of cases where Yaz exhibits behaviour that makes it look like she is using her cop skills

Two situations I can think of are:
  1. At the beginning of the episode Rosa, after the racist man in the hat slaps Ryan, Yaz gets in his face and says "Sir, please, take a step back!" in an authoritative voice.
  2. In Kerblam!, after Charlie smashes the control, Yaz restrains Charlie by grabbing him in a headlock (and tries to put him into a rear wrist lock, but fails . . . you can see him wriggling his right arm around to avoid the wrist lock). Though he does manage to escape afterwards.
 
Does anyone think there's something being set up with Graham saying he's 310? Maybe he's someone tasked with tailing the Doctor? Okay, more than likely he was just doing what we all do when we have to endure boring instructions for a long period of time.
 
Sketcher said:
Does anyone think there's something being set up with Graham saying he's 310? Maybe he's someone tasked with tailing the Doctor? Okay, more than likely he was just doing what we all do when we have to endure boring instructions for a long period of time.
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No I think he was just making a cover for himself... He's a regular Earth guy
 
The bubble wrap should have been green.

Other than that missed opportunity, this was an entertaining episode which turned rather grim in parts and had a nice twist. Everyone got something to do and the "message" was delivered with a bit more subtlety than we've seen so far. Good stuff. More of this sort of thing, please.
 
What about the goo? Did they explain why, I got the feeling that they just left that part of the plot alone and moved on. Why were people turned into goo?
 
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