The tsuranga conundrum space gremlin android#
The tsuranga conundrum space gremlin series#

Pting might've been too cute to be menacing. Ryan giving the best advice I think you can give to an expecting parent, it doesn’t matter so much if you make mistakes, as long as you’re there for your child. Graham and Ryan got a few more nice scenes, and I really liked how they helped the pregnant guy find his courage and take on the role of father. Actually, the Doctor continues to be a highlight for me, as well as the companions, although poor Yaz is still essentially a glorified extra at this point. Yet there were some moments of brilliance, like the Doctor talking about the anti-matter drive evolution like an iPhone, and how she marveled at its beauty. To say this was a quintessential Doctor Who middle of the road episode would be an understatement. Which inevitably means a lot of running around, scanning things with the sonic, and generally the Doctor being smarter than everyone else also, there’s usually at least one person making a sacrifice (sometimes a fatal one). So we go through the usual hijinks in an attempt to save the ship, not only from the little gremlin trying to eat it, but from the organization that runs the ship remotely. With the status quo re-established, the Doctor quickly started to figure out the Pting, its motives and needs.

Mabli didn’t even try to step up, leaving the Doctor in command. Which was interesting, instead of having her run around and take charge she did step aside for Astos who did an admirable job being in charge for the first half of the episode, at least until the Pting killed him. She ends up struggling throughout the episode to move as quickly as she needs. The Doctor gets up too quickly, and due to her unusual physiology, she hasn’t fully healed.

The tsuranga conundrum space gremlin android#

On this ship, we have a general with a debilitating but secretive disease, her brother and android servant, a pregnant man, the two members of the crew, and of course Graham, Yaz, Ryan and the Doctor. The team woke up on a strange ship, rescued by a rather benevolent species that goes around like an interplanetary search and rescue.

Graham uncovered a sonic mine, which went off. To try to break it down, we started with a mistake on a junk planet.

The tsuranga conundrum space gremlin series#

So I honestly don’t know what to make of the plot, was there one? We seem to have the same issue again and again, where the character work is very strong, but the plots are almost nonexistent, just a series of scenes strung together loosely by an antagonist, common struggle, or catastrophic event… or in the case of this episode, all three. We even got some time with Pting, and he was an overly cute CGI monster akin to Stitch. We got just as much time with the secondary characters, and there were a lot of them. It wasn’t really about the Doctor or her companions, but it also wasn’t not about them either.

There was something a little off about this episode. I don’t know how I feel about this one, which is unfortunate because I’m about to write down my feelings about this one. 'Whole worlds pivot on acts of imagination.'