4th November, 2018.
Yes: it’s official!
I think my favourite show has managed to revive … Beep the Meep … !
Ker-CHING!
Ahem!
You can tell I’m burbling, can’t you … ?
I am tired, after all: as I was at five, this morning, to get everything I need to do, done.
Including the Daily Teaser, since you ask!
And, yes: there’s a Bonfire Night one, tomorrow!
At any rate?
I’m knackered …
And frankly?
OK, I’m thinking the central creature is … familiar …
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Episode 5 — The Tsuranga Conundrum — opens with the team — the Doctor, Graham, Ryan and Yas (Jodie Whittaker, Bradley Walsh, Tosin Cole and Mandip Gill) — on an alien junkyard planet, looking for assorted bits, bobs and parts.
At least, they are … until Graham uncovers a sonic mine: one that almost fatally injures the team.
That almost … ?
Is because that are pick up by a passing ambulance ship: run by an intergalactic equivalent called the Tsuranga.
It’s on its way back to a Rhesus Base*: so that its passenger-patients can be comprehensively healed.
It’s only when the ship heavily automated ship goes through an asteroid belt, that trouble starts.
It picks up an extra passenger.
It picks up …
The P’ting …
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Now … tired?
Yes, very much so, to be honest.
But still coherent enough — I think — to tell you I liked this episode.
Witty dialogue — “It’s eaten my sonic!” —, sympathetic supporting characters†, a well written plot, and a menacing monster?
It’s a great episode: solid SF, with a few science references — 51 is the atomic number of antimony, for example — a nicely done plot, and well worth watching for the third time in an evening.
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Talking of THAT creature?
The P’ting is quite something.
Something that initially had me thinking of Beep the Meep, a monster from the of Dr Who Weekly.
That is — on reflection — more easily compared to the Slimer in Ghostbusters.
Ravenous, unstoppable … and downright silly.
Granted? There’s a flaw: I felt Mandip Gill was a touch underused, again.
But on the whole?
Taking Ryan’s story forward, showing Graham’s funny side, and Yas’s ability to kick?
The Tsuranga Conundrum is another very strong episode.
* I’ll be honest: I didn’t have the subtitles on, so couldn’t tell you the spelling. Either ‘resus’ or ‘rhesus’ seems appropriate. Resus is short for resuscitation. Rhesus — taken from the name of the monkey — is a component of human blood.
† From Brett Goldstein as the confident leader, Astos, Lois Chimimba as the nervous Mabil, Suzanne Packer and Ben Bailey-Smith as brother and sister, Durkas and the doomed General Eve Cicero, and Jack Shallop as the heavily pregnant Yoss? This episode has a very confident supporting cast.
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