Episode Discussion | Doctor Who | 1x03 "Boom"
Episode Discussion | Doctor Who | 1x03 "Boom"
Logline
Caught in the middle of a devastating war on Kastarion 3, the Doctor is trapped when he steps on a landmine. Can he save himself and Ruby, plus the entire planet... without moving?
Written by: Steven Moffat
Directed by: Julie Anne Robinson
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That was a fantastic episode. It spares no punches on the military industrial complex, healthcare, acting purely on belief, and ai, all of which are incredibly timely topics. It's an episode rooted in concept science fiction and yet this one felt realistic which only adds to the horror.
I would contest that it would be so easy to take over an entire organisations AI, but then again even here and now it seems any company that taints itself with ai tends to put good practice to the wayside,so maybe it's not quite deus ex.
Not loving the gory bits though, doctor basically kissed a mutilated dead body at the end there...
Not loving the gory bits though, doctor basically kissed a mutilated dead body at the end there…
Yeah, those things were pretty gross. I couldn't stop wondering what they felt like...
It's still not as bad as we've had in the past (looking at you, love and monsters) at least they're not suffering endlessly.
Were you seeing it as a sort of squished body? I thought that from the beginning but then I realised the body was in a jar and that made it less creepy to me.
Might just be me there though.
The way the Doc described it, I definitely saw it as a squished body with a metal base.
There was a bit where he tapped it and you could see it was surrounded by glass, then the metal bit was a screw lid. Not sure really why that's less creepy but up to then I was cringing every time he touched the eye.