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This week brings us Dot and Bubble, scripted by showrunner Russell T. Davies, directed by Dylan Holmes Williams (who helmed last week's 73 Yards), and described thusly by BBC:
The world of Finetime seems happy and harmonious. But an awful terror is preying on the citizens. Can the Doctor and Ruby make them see the truth before it’s too late? THIS piece in RadioTimes indicates that this episode finds no small part of inspiration from Davies' love for BLACK MIRROR, and was actually pitched to Moffat back when Moffatt was taking the reins of the show, and had asked Davies if he'd like to script something for the series. Davies: "I thought of it way back when, around 2009, when I was still working on Doctor Who, because I pitched it to Steven Moffat in a restaurant in Los Angeles. He was saying, 'Would you come back and write for the programme?' Every year, he’d ask me. How lovely. "So I pitched this episode [in April 2010], in a restaurant called Hal’s on Abbot Kinney Boulevard. Karen Gillan [who played Amy Pond] was there. They were in LA to launch their first series, and I remember pitching – I used to call this – 'visible Twitter'. [EDIT] "We didn’t go very far with the conversation, because the idea was literally too expensive. But you wait 15 years and here we are."
It'll be interesting to see such a long-gestating tale come to fruition, but I do hope, at some point, Team Davies manages to attach a bit more gravity to their current storytelling. Not 'gravity' in the dramatic sense, 'gravity' in the sense of 'identity' and holistic grounding. 'Gravity' as in lack of frivolity.
The Dot and Bubble discussion is now ready to be 'happy and harmonious!' We warmly invite and encourage an open discourse and free exchange of ideas, but will enforce a strict zero tolerance policy regarding trolling, disrespect, or hate speak of any kind. COMING NEXT WEEK: DOCTOR WHO: ROGUE
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