The Zygon Invasion
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First off, the obvious real world parallels. They started out seeming a bit forced, but by the end it was just, yes, the Zygon attacks work a lot like terrorism, that's just how it is, rather than "Look at the point we're making!"
And it's a tricky thing to get right. There are all sorts of potential ways an analogy like that can go horribly, horribly wrong. But we've already had the set-up of "Zygons are people, not monsters, and most of them want peace", and this gets emphasised with the Osgoods and their insistence that it doesn't matter which of them is which. (And it also works in another reference to hybrids.) So it's not "a race of terrorists", which would have been terrible, but a race with terrorists. Like Discworld dwarfs or Marvel mutants. Fair enough.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who spent the scene where the Doctor is lambasting the Zygon leaders wondering if he'd got the right girls or was just making an idiot of himself again. It turns out to be the former, of course, and when I thought about it of course he knew who they were; he didn't just think "Weird kids, must be Zygons".
I vaguely wondered if Clara had been replaced near the start, then I forgot about it, so it still came as a shock. The sheriff, on the other hand, I was pretty suspicious of all the way though.
Very disappointed to learn Harry Sullivan spent his time mixing up nerve gas, although given his own experience with Zygons, I suppose it's understandable. (Speaking of which, I suppose there's no chance the Skarasen is going to be in part 2? Presumably they've found a substitiute for its milk.)
Osgood, of course, was brilliant, as was Jac/Ros-from-Bugs. (I really hope they haven't actually killed her, although I can't see any way they haven't.)
And that cliffhanger! I'm calling it now, that's the real Kate who reported she'd been neutralised. The thing about "they're shapeshifters and could be anybody" works both ways. But I can't imagine how the Doctor's going to get out of this. (Not even an after-credits "Next Time"!) Doubtless all will be revealed next week, at the regularly scheduled time of "whenever"...
First off, the obvious real world parallels. They started out seeming a bit forced, but by the end it was just, yes, the Zygon attacks work a lot like terrorism, that's just how it is, rather than "Look at the point we're making!"
And it's a tricky thing to get right. There are all sorts of potential ways an analogy like that can go horribly, horribly wrong. But we've already had the set-up of "Zygons are people, not monsters, and most of them want peace", and this gets emphasised with the Osgoods and their insistence that it doesn't matter which of them is which. (And it also works in another reference to hybrids.) So it's not "a race of terrorists", which would have been terrible, but a race with terrorists. Like Discworld dwarfs or Marvel mutants. Fair enough.
I'm sure I'm not the only one who spent the scene where the Doctor is lambasting the Zygon leaders wondering if he'd got the right girls or was just making an idiot of himself again. It turns out to be the former, of course, and when I thought about it of course he knew who they were; he didn't just think "Weird kids, must be Zygons".
I vaguely wondered if Clara had been replaced near the start, then I forgot about it, so it still came as a shock. The sheriff, on the other hand, I was pretty suspicious of all the way though.
Very disappointed to learn Harry Sullivan spent his time mixing up nerve gas, although given his own experience with Zygons, I suppose it's understandable. (Speaking of which, I suppose there's no chance the Skarasen is going to be in part 2? Presumably they've found a substitiute for its milk.)
Osgood, of course, was brilliant, as was Jac/Ros-from-Bugs. (I really hope they haven't actually killed her, although I can't see any way they haven't.)
And that cliffhanger! I'm calling it now, that's the real Kate who reported she'd been neutralised. The thing about "they're shapeshifters and could be anybody" works both ways. But I can't imagine how the Doctor's going to get out of this. (Not even an after-credits "Next Time"!) Doubtless all will be revealed next week, at the regularly scheduled time of "whenever"...
