So here's how I imagine things went for Russell T Davies after last week's "Interstellar Song Contest".
RTD: The big thing on everyone's mind is going to be that mind blowing cameo from....
Dugga do! Dugga do! Dugga dugga dugga do!
RTD: The unexpected cameo by the Doctor's granddaughter, Susan. Yes, it's...
Dugga do! Dugga do! Dugga dugga dugga do!
RTD: (That is so annoying!) Yes, it's the great Carol Ann Ford herself back as the original Doctor Who companion! Fans have been...
La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La!
RTD: (SHUT THAT DAMN THING OFF!) Ahem! Fans have been begging for Susan to return for years. And the other big reveal....
La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La!
RTD: (This cannot be happening!) The big reveal that Mrs. Flood is... the Rani!
Dugga do! Dugga do! Dugga dugga dugga do!
RTD: THAT and her bi-generation into the great Archie Punjabi is ALL that Whovians....
Dugga do! Dugga do! Dugga dugga dugga do!
RTD: ...will be....
La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La!
RTD: ...obsessed with.
La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La! La!
RTD: I give up!
Dugga do! Dugga do! Dugga dugga dugga do!
Welcome to Doctor Who Is NEW! where I post about the latest new episode of Doctor Who.
This week the Doctor finally gets Belinda back to Earth on May 24, 2025.
Sort of...
The world has changed.
Completely, fundamentally and not in a good way.
It's as if someone made a wish, a really bad wish.
Welcome to...
Wish World
by Russell T Davies
ALERT: There will be spoilers, honey!
Pre-credits sequence is set in Bavaria in 1865 where the Rani arrives at a farm house and demonstrates she is quite the evil person of evilly evil evilness by stealing a newborn baby, turning the mother into flowers, the baby's six brothers into ducks and the father into an owl.
The baby is the 7th son of a 7th son which means the infant is a source of incredible power which the Rani intends to use for evilly evil evilness.
It's the Rani. It's what she does.
Run the credits and...
The Doctor John Smith awakens in bed on a bright sunny morning next to his wife Belinda. The two love birds give each other a quick kiss as their daughter bounds into to the room.
(Hey, it's Poppy from "Space Babies".)
Look, there's Conrad (yes, than son of a bitch from "Lucky Day") on the telly advising that the weather is perfect and beautiful in London and everywhere in the world, really!
It's gonna be a great day as John Smith dresses in a dapper suit to go to work while Belinda stays home to fulfill her destiny of daughter, wife and mother by cooking and cleaning!!
We're in JD Vance's wet dream. Ewww!
Happy happy joy joy!
Happy happy joy joy!
Happy happy happy happy....
Well, you get the idea.
All is perfect in a perfect world.
But there is a knock at the door.
It's Ruby Sunday.
Who seems to see that John Smith is the Doctor.
Belinda gets on the phone to report there's a doubter at their door.
What kind of dystopian Mad Men crossed with Handmaid's Tale hellscape are we in?
In her bone palace in the sky, the Rani will explain.
I mean, she will literally explain her plot to us.
If I have an issue with "Wish World", it is the massive info dump that Archie Punjabi's Rani has to give while dancing in high heels.
OK, the dancing thing is kind of cool but the Doctor has no agency in breaking the spell of this world. The Rani has to spell it out for him.
As the world cracks apart from under the Rani's bone palace, the first of the Time Lords Omega is returning!
Russell's gone back down deep in the well of the classic series to bring back another formiable threat. Omega appeared in The Three Doctors (1st, 2nd and 3rd Doctors) and again in Arc of Infinity (against the 5th Doctor).
We get a blink and you'll miss it cameo from Susan again.
And an unexpected return from a guest star from last season!
RED ALERT SPOILER WARNING!!!
Rogue is back!
Just for a little bit and it really makes no sense but who cares? Rogue has a mere moment to break through the fog in John Smith's brain to get him to see the truth about the world around him. (And to tell the Doctor he loves him! Awwww.)
(They did not get Jonathan Groff back to shoot this one thing. It seems when he was on set the year before to shoot "Rogue", RTD had Groff stand in front of a green screen to record this bit of dialogue for use a whole year later!)
"Wish World" is a bit of a muddled mess with whatever the hell the Rani is up to and her plans involving Omega but props to the show for it's alternate world building. Converting UNIT HQ from a state of the art sci-fi set to a 1950's themed insurance company is an incredible feat of set design.
There's a big mess for RTD and company to wrap up.
Next week: "The Reality War"
Here is a clip from 1973's "The Three Doctors" where we first meet Omega.
And because I must hate you all....
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