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Kerblam! Gallifrey Gals Get Wibbly Wobbly! S11Ep7

🕑 Added 2022-06-30 17:00:07 +0000 UTC

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Amelie W

"We must do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn a living. It's a fact today that one person in 10,000 can make a technological breakthrough capable of supporting all the rest. The youth of today is absolutely right in recognizing this nonsense of earning a living. We keep inventing jobs because of this false idea that everybody has to be employed at some kind of drudgery because, according to Malthusian Darwinian theory, man must justify his right to exist. So we have inspectors of inspectors and people making instruments for inspectors to inspect inspectors. The business of people should be to go back to school and sit down and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living." -Buckminster Fuller, 1970 AD "We're doing society a big favor by paying humans to do jobs that robots could do cheaper and better" - Kerblam corp, the distant spacefuture

Aaron Funnell

Very lovely to get a shout out by Katrina for my comments about dyspraxia so thanks again for that. It's notable in Kerblam! that Ryan's difficulty when starting his warehouse job is mentioned. That's an extremely common trait in dyspraxic people. I work in a supermarket and that's definitely my experience when i first started my job. I appreciate Doctor Who talking about an aspect of the disorder outside of movement difficulties. Often, when dyspraxia is talked about it is often purely based around the co-ordination problems when in reality there are a fair amount of other symptoms. There are dyspraxic people who have symptoms more commonly associated with ADHD, some that are thought of as related to dyslexia, some that are more closely related to autism etc. Ryan's trouble when he started his new job (if he's like me) would have been down to the poor short-term memory, difficulty concentrating, weak time management as well as the physical difficulties caused by under-developed muscles and poor hand-eye co-ordination. As a bonus though dyspraxic people do generally have a superior long-term memory. For example, i can vividly remember my third birthday party and even flashes prior to that, one of which is watching Genesis of the Daleks presumably on VHS, which is my earliest memory of TV. This also means once we do learn something, it's lodged in the brain forever. It just takes longer to get it to stick.

DarkAshtar

I've enjoyed the series so far

DeathSwitch

Always enjoyed this one! Great twist. The worker with the daughter (cant remember his name even though ive just watched it 🤦‍♂️) is a popular stand up comedian here called Lee Mack. Was a pleasant suprise to see him here, however short lived it was. Oh Charlie.. the classic example of someone with a well intentioned mission fighting it the wrong way.. its a shame he didnt change his mind after Kira died but as soon as he started with "if it helps the cause", I kinda knew he had to die. The issues about the writing are more overall series plot for me. The idividual episodes themselves not written by Chibnall are usually quite good, its just the overall direction for the Doctors story across the 3 seasons is what i have a problem with personally. Im pretty sure even if you dont agree and you enjoy what they do, youll understand why many had a problem with it. But until then! KERBLAM

Nicole Mazza

Like I said, the murdering part wasn't good. Trying to dismantle a broken system was what I agreed with more.

Bill

Hahahahaha. Right there with Katrina, loving Paula's panicked predictions. Then Katrina's face when Paula sees the goo!! 😂😂😂

Jade Ellis

This was one of my favourite episodes of this series when I first watched it. I only became aware of the problems with the message of the story later, although I think due to how it comes across badly. Still a good episode though.

Sufyaan Kazi

Let's not forget, bubblewrap was a serious "creative prop" for deadly invasive monsters in very early Classic Who 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Really liked this episode, so very glad you loved it gals. Greedy business and the drive for pushing work work work over individual freedom was really central to a lot of classic who episodes, so good to see a modern twist. The twist in the story regarding who was the villain was pretty cool too 👍🏼

mark saunders

By killing innocent people?

mark saunders

Completely agree.

mark saunders

Have to disagree with you here. Although i enjoyed Series 11, for me Series 12 & 13 were an improvement. And if the plot point you're referring to is what i think it is, i have to disagree there too. It's not dumb at all. You may not agree with it, but that doesn't mean it's dumb. Sorry.

Nicole Mazza

I think I'm Team Charlie on this one, overall. I don't like the murder aspect, obviously, but it's not like the 'good' guys he was fighting against weren't horrifically terrible either. Sometimes when you're stuck in a corner with a gun to your head, you have to fight back in a big, ugly way to make positive change. It sucks.

Firefly24601

The entertainment factor in this episode worked for me. The dialogue was crisp, the references to previous Doctors were great, pacing was good. The messaging was kind of off, though. I imagine the message was meant to be "if we all pull together we can change the system, because we're people and people create, maintain, and repair the system." The other message was "killing innocents in order to fight corporations is probably not that great an idea." But the way they went about it seemed to say "people who try to change the corporations from the outside are morally wrong; we should let the corporations's INTERNAL mechanisms of change lead the way." Which, if we followed, we'd still be working mandatory 12-hour days and 6-day weeks.

TheHimble

I like Series 11 also, some great episodes. Where the story goes after Series 11 is... less good. Only realised rewatching with you that they did put some little hints of whats to come in this Series. I do feel the writing of the Doctor herself gets very inconsistent.

Keith Goodnight

This episode was the first of this season that I really liked: I thought it was a great story and quintessentially Doctor Who. My personal complaint about this era of the series seems to be different from others who also dislike it: at least, the common criticisms that I've heard from others don't match up with my reactions. I find the episodes have been generally overcrowded with story threads that just don't fit together well, although they tend to be brilliantly written on their own. It's easy to really love the pieces, and I often do, they just feel— to me— clunky and ill-fitting when forced into an episode together. That was not an issue with this episode, which is an excellent example of good plotting. Every different plot thread is relevant and comes together as a whole: none have to be resolved and dismissed early because they're in the way rather than contributing. It's actually a good demonstration of why the number of companions is NOT the issue: here, they split up and had their own plot threads, but each was relevant to the whole and fit together into a cohesive story.

Bob Hughes

The point of the story I think is, that automation is just automation. a machine is just a machine but it takes humans to really screw things up, be they the terrorists infiltrating the workers or the faceless corporate overlords who don't even show up in the story.

Bob Hughes

This was my first "most favorite" episode, although many earlier ones have been up-rated after repeated watchings. Coincidentally the Kerblam man just delivered a package moments before your Patreon link showed up. I didn't pop the bubble wrap. I haven't popped bubble wrap in four years. I don't understand that anti-Chibnall hysteria- the Chibnall can't write propaganda. The only thing I can say, is that the pacing of Chibnall era episodes is not the same as Moffett ones. They often seem bursting at the seams with ideas, plot threads, characters and events. It's possible that some people with short attention spans can't keep up?

Firefly24601

They did a good job of saying "murdering thousands of people is wrong," but didn't really thread the needle properly and say "keeping 90% of your population without a job so the corporations can make more money is ALSO wrong." The message I got was more "oh, big corporations just need tweaks and they'll be fine, don't get all worked up about it!" I can imagine the episode's message was supposed to be "exploiting workers is bad, but killing thousands of innocent people is not the way to fix it," but got all muddled up. It's no Oxygen, that's for sure.

Mark Ten

My mother was convinced that the bubbles were filled with toxic gas and if you popped to many, well...

Mark Ten

Paula seems to have gotten no enjoyment watching this one unfold.

Nicole Mazza

As a massive fan of the Seventh anarchist 'Taking Down the Government' version of the Doctor, this story TOTALLY hits me the wrong way (especially in light of me still grieving over last Friday's debacle). In this story, the Doctor sides with the corporation, 'The Man', and not with the people being utterly trampled by it. Very disappointing, to say the least. Still not sure who this person is meant to be, but it's definitely NOT the Doctor, IMO. :/

Scribbles

Oh yeah, Series 11 is good stuff. It doesn't start falling apart until Series 12. And then Flux was just a mess from start to finish. The Specials have been fun, though, since so far they haven't touched on the dumbest plot point since the one where they said River was a Time Lady because two humans had sex in a TARDIS.

William Green

Doctor who did an episode arc, during tom bakers era I think, that feels remarkably similar to this episode, the main difference being that it was about the workers rising up. Not to take away from this episode though.

Red Claw

This episode is written so well. Did you notice how the system directly put the Doctor up to the person causing the problem? If the doctor wouldn't have meddled this could have gone so much smoother with less deaths. But it's not the Doctors fault. How could she have known.

RPGsus Plays

Always loved this episode (I feel that way about this whole era, honestly) and looking back now this episode feels so loaded with interesting things on rewatch. That's all I'll say for now. I love the little bit of character development with 13 that after what happened in Arachnids she decided she doesn't like conspiracies as much as she thought. Still figuring herself out and all that. Also, love Yaz's police training coming in handy with that tackle she gave Charlie.