The thing I keep thinking about in this episode is that the Doctor tells Ruby to play a song to a world where music seems to have "died". But that wasn't the case. It was that music was being "hunted" by something that ate it wherever it could find it. The people listening to Ruby's song were moved, like they could remember how it sounded to hear something so beautiful, but then the Maestro arrived and silenced it, and immediately they recoiled. In this particular timeline, The Maestro had become an urban legend of "Don't play good music, or you'll get killed."
from the two episodes this has been the thing that left the biggest impact imo. just an extended music-only bit. normally they wouldn't dedicate this amount of time to something like this.
Can’t seem to get a balanced review of this episode. It’s either fawning over how wonderful it is without acknowledging the deliberate reconning of lore, or being hypercritical over the identity politics being hammered in. It falls somewhere in the middle, but all the good is lost to the “message”. Just tell a story. There’s no need for ideology or preaching.
Legitimate question, what identity politics in this episode? Queer people and people of color existing? The message of this episode was about music and the range of emotions it helps people explore.
@@nerdlife6676 okay don’t bait. That’s not what I meant and you know it. It’s the drag queen nonsense and the pronouns. I give exactly no fucks about the Doctor and who he/she wants to bang. I actually like male/male as long as I relate to the characters. It’s why I rolled my eyes at most whining reviews of this episode, and rolled them equally at the rah rah cheerleader reviews of this episode. It falls in the middle. Like I said.
