Doctor Who: Kerblam!

[andraste]

There were a lot of things I liked about this episode - plenty of great visuals and a nicely twistly plot - but unfortunately it got into a mess at the end.

I'd guessed early on that it was the system itself asking the Doctor for help, and that would have been fine, except ... the system killed a person and nobody seemed to have a problem with that. If it had threatened Kira to try and stop Charlie, that would have been one thing, but even if the killer AI didn't kill as many people as the human villain letting it get off scott free seems like a bad idea.

Moreover, I'm not sure how giving more people terrible jobs that could be better done by robots is meant to actually help anyone. The solution to broken late capitalism is not more people spending their days packing things in boxes.

While there are definitely things I like about this season, I am increasingly frustrated that the Doctor never seems to get to fix anything. 'The Doctor can't change anything' worked well in Rosa as a demonstration of how tough it is sometimes to not disturb history, but she shouldn't be stuck never changing the system.