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Pinkfong and Baby Shark's Space Adventure (2019)
The Best Documentary of All Time
Despite the graphic and extreme violence and gore, particularly in the Halloween themed part, in which many bones are visible, this is an incredibly informative documentary about life on other planets and the extraterrestrial beings you may meet along the way. With love, betrayal sacrifice hilarious comedy, this truly is a film for all occasions, bound to go down as a timeless modern classic. Absolutely on the edge of my seat the entire time, with deep moments of reflection on top.
Doctor Who: The Haunting of Villa Diodati (2020)
Best Chibnall Episode by Far!
Great episode!
The companions and side cast are actually quite funny and act a lot less like planks of wood and a lot more like actual human beings. The companions' characterisation and motivations are convincing, unlike, well, the rest of the Chibnall era. The dialogue is subtle and engages the audience, unlike a lot of Chibnall episodes, in which a character will flatly exposit the events to another character so the audience don't have to do any thinking for themselves
The setup in the house is sufficiently creepy and unsettling, and the explanation of it being caused by a perception filter is clever and makes sense. The Lone Cyberman is genuinely terrifying, and that, along with Jack's warning in Fugitive of the Judoon, adds proper stakes to the episode. However, his slight human side that comes through a couple of times through the episode adds dimensions to him, making him slightly more sympathetic and interesting.
The Doctor in this episode is brilliant. She never really had the right confidence or screen presence needed to play the doctor in the rest of the Chibnall era. But in her encounters with Ashad, she is perfect, fully aware that he could kill her at any moment, but still toying with him and making jokes, although once the danger gets serious, the Doctor does actually take it seriously, keeping the stakes that the setup had built up.
The scene in the cellar with Shelley is great, with the first real meaningful conflict between the Doctor and companions for ages. The Doctor's speech about the responsibility on her shoulders is really well done, and you really understand her conflict.
And then at the very end, when the Doctor realises she can't win, and is forced to surrender the cyberium, would be a great scene even in an RTD or Moffat episode. The ending is bittersweet and leaves the viewer in anticipation of what is to come (even if that did turn out to be a complete mess).
It isn't perfect though. There are a couple of lines that feel awkward or unrealistic, such as the conversation in the TARDIS at the end, as well as a few classic Chibnall tropes, such as a slightly rushed ending, although not as severely as it often is.
Overall, by far the best Chibnall episode from Doctor Who (not including Torchwood), and the only episode from Chibnall's run that I would say is worth rewatching.
Doctor Who: The Timeless Children (2020)
Ruins the show in the most boring way possible
An episode that basically just acts as a massive exposition dump with no interesting action, character growth or interesting sci fi concepts. The core message of the show has always been that anyone can be special and great, it's what a person does that makes them special, not who they are. Although the doctor always had abilities amazing to a human, they were average to time lords. But now, the Doctor was a potentially all-powerful, omniscient god, and is now basically that even to the timelords. This completely destroys the message of the show. My main problem is that this changes everything for the worse in terms of the message and theme of the show, but basically nothing in terms of any interesting plot threads to explore. I really don't know why the hell Chibnall thought it would be a good idea to do this. The only reason this isn't one star is because I think the Time Lord Cybermen were cool (controversial, I know)