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Wish World is the seventh episode of Doctor Who Season 2… or, perhaps Series 15 or Series 45.
I don’t know why this goes back to Bavaria, 1865, but as for the Rani, Kate O’Mara’s character turned up during Colin Baker’s tenure, by which point, I’d stopped watching. I don’t like cocky people, which even extends to characters in film and TV, hence I can’t stand BenCum’s Sherlock, or Colin Baker’s Doctor. As such, I didn’t see the Rani during then, nor opposite Sylvester McCoy.
Apparently, she wasn’t much of a character, anyway, but as we’ve known for some time, Russell T Davies has run out of ideas, and along she returns, as Archie Panjabi (San Andreas).
This episode brings the two leads into it, as if they’re real people with real day jobs, and living in a 1960s-style world, with the Poppy child from Space Babies, highlighted by incels who rushed to the internet to post pictures of her to compare, although you have to wonder why they’re storing pictures of babies on their PC’s hard drive.
I’d seen mentions online of Wandavision, the Marvel thing. I managed to make it through three episodes before I ditched that complete shit, even though the collective groupthink would have you believe it was wonderful.
With another incel, Conrad, on TV, plus Mel and… oh, who cares. Why are skeletal dinosaurs walking about? And why is the Doctor’s office a carbon copy of the room we see Deadpool in, early on in the last film?
And why is everyone putting their bins out for a Saturday collection? They’re NEVER collected on a Saturday.
Alternate universe, blah-blah-blah… Segregation, blah-blah-blah… Doubting Big Brother, blah-blah-blah… Other worlds, blah-blah-blah…
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— The Post Monument™ (@thepostmonument) April 10, 2025
Where is all the wishing in Wish World? Why has this turned into Doctor Who: The Cosby Years? Either way, they’ve clearly spent a lot of money on it, but no-one checked to realise that the script is total gibberish. The same was the case with Fountain of Youth.
Still, only one more week of this woke nonsense. Some think Gatwa’s going to regenerate at the end of the finale, since he’s apparently been sacked – not for ditching Eurovision, since the regeneration scene was apparently filmed in February. Either way, it’s a wish granted!
Who will he turn into? Who would actually want to take on the mantle of the Doctor, in its current form? Might be worth bringing back Paul McGann, if only to give him a proper shot at the role.
And when we get to the end of Wish World, it’s 45 minutes of set-up and nothing else. I had no idea what was going on, and I doubt next week’s finale will make anything clear.
It’s also not going to ‘drop’* on iPlayer early, but only be available when it broadcasts on traditional TV…. unless someone leaks it in advance. I wouldn’t be surprised.
How do you think things will turn out? Answers on a postcard, please, to:
- Russell T Davies’ Back Passage,
Upper Left Buttock,
Cancellation Street,
Incel Avenue,
Self-Satisfaction Cul-De-Sac.
London W1A 1AA
And as for…
(*fuck, how I hate that term. If something drops, you pick it up)
Wish World on the BBC iPlayer, and on BBC1 at 6.50pm tonight.
Season 2 is available to pre-order on Blu-ray and DVD.
You can also buy Season 1 on Limited Blu-ray Steelbook, Blu-ray and DVD.
Score: Utter fucking gibberish.
Director: Alex Sanjiv Pillai
Producer: Chris May
Writer: Russell T Davies
Music: Murray Gold
Cast:
The Doctor: Ncuti Gatwa
Belinda Chandra: Varada Sethu
Mrs Flood: Anita Dobson
The Rani: Archie Panjabi
Ruby Sunday: Millie Gibson
Conrad Clark: Jonah Hauer-King
Otto Zufall: Atilla Akinci
Violett Zufall: Leni Adams
Poppy: Sienna-Robyn Mavanga-Phipps
Melanie Bush: Bonnie Langford
Shirley Bingham: Ruth Madeley
Kate Lethbridge-Stewart: Jemma Redgrave
Susan Triad: Susan Twist
Colonel Christofer Ibrahim: Alexander Devrient
Lakshmi Chandra: Nila Aalia
Devika Babu: Josephine Lloyd-Welcome
Val Balham: Hermon Berhane
Winnie Petheridge: Sam Lawton
Brian Dale: Joshua J Parker
Carla Sunday: Michelle Greenidge
Cherry Sunday: Angela Wynter
Susan Foreman: Carole Ann Ford
Rogue: Jonathan Groff
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