Speaking of infection, I thought it was strange that Ryan and Graham didn't know what a pathogen was.
Yeah, that was weird. I mean, in addition to that not being such an unusual word in general, Grace was a nurse, they're bound to have picked up some things. It was so clearly one of these "we've got to explain this to the kids so let's have the companions ask it" things but it could have been better written. It could have been something like "pathogen, that's like a virus, right?" and then the Doctor could answer that.
There are more problems I notice when I think about the episode in retrospect (they didn't ever really address what a terrible cop Jake made, so they shouldn't have introduced that part, at least not so crudely as they did; and why did everyone forget about Aramu? guess because the writers forgot about him?). But I still enjoyed watching it and enjoyed the Doctor and the fam, and it handled the environmental theme a lot better than Orphan 55 did - for one, it was weaved into the script throughout, rather than tacked on in the end. So I'm calling it a win, even if I'm not about to put it up for any awards. :-)
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Date: 2020-02-04 07:53 am (UTC)Yeah, that was weird. I mean, in addition to that not being such an unusual word in general, Grace was a nurse, they're bound to have picked up some things. It was so clearly one of these "we've got to explain this to the kids so let's have the companions ask it" things but it could have been better written. It could have been something like "pathogen, that's like a virus, right?" and then the Doctor could answer that.
There are more problems I notice when I think about the episode in retrospect (they didn't ever really address what a terrible cop Jake made, so they shouldn't have introduced that part, at least not so crudely as they did; and why did everyone forget about Aramu? guess because the writers forgot about him?). But I still enjoyed watching it and enjoyed the Doctor and the fam, and it handled the environmental theme a lot better than Orphan 55 did - for one, it was weaved into the script throughout, rather than tacked on in the end. So I'm calling it a win, even if I'm not about to put it up for any awards. :-)