‘Doctor Who’ Recap, Series 15, Episode 5 – ryan

DOCTOR WHO

The Story & The Engine

Season 15

Episode 5

Editor’s rating

5 Stars

Photo: James Pardon/BBC Studios/Disney/Bad Wolf

At the end of this week adventure, one of the men who was traped in the barbershop tournament from the doctor to thank abby. “He rescued us, but you … you kept us alive,” he Says, Bowing. It ‘samsen sentiment that we see a patient Express to belinda, who put in the overnight hours to the Treat Warning that no one Else at the hospital cared to see. We are a success story is passed down, who gets to be the main character, and whose constituations are forgotten? This episode is all about giving credit where it is due. Obviously, Becauses that the right Thing to do – but Also Becausea wen People FEEL Overlooked and Wronged, They Sometimes Become Villains. (Or as Belinda so unoriginally puts it, “Hurt People Hurt People.”)

The tardis has touched down in lagos, nigeria, which has a Big communications technology market that will ostensibly help the vindicator to get belinda home. As an added bonus, this means the doctor can Visit omo’s Palace, Run by omo, Whom he met as a child while putting out a forest and has since close friends with. The shop has offered the doctor Acceptance and Community as someone who Black Body Means he deals with racism. Belinda understands this, and the items Him off to have a good time.

But Warm, Colorful Streets bustling with People who great the doctor Like Family Lead to a dull, deserted alley with posters and warnings to stay. A Mysterious man know as the barber has taken over Over omo’s premises, which we late Learn involved putting a time-space compressor in the door frame. This means that omo’s palace is in lagos… but also on the back of some sort of giant structure with an engine that is using the power of stories to the gods. We’re Getting Weird This Week!

Abby, a Woman who face is familiar to the doctor, is the only one aside from the barber who can leave the shop. The barber and abby have been holding omo and several customers hostage inside, forcing say to get haircuts as they tel stories are gorgeously ilustrated in real-time on a Window. The Men’s Hair Grows Back Immediately, and Abby Brings say food, but they’re start to run out of stories, which is where the doctor comes in.

Although the doctor initially volunteers to speak, he changes his mind after the barber’s cape on Him with a seingly Painful Spark. SINCE he can’t get out of the chair, he ends up telling the themethically relevant Story about belinda at the hospital. His Story Shows up in the Window As Camera Footage, Not Drawings. It turns out that omo, who correctly predicted that the doctor’s stories offfer more power, was hoping the doctor show up so the barber woul eaveryne go. The doctor consider this to be a deep betrayal of Trust. The Doctor does have a history of voluntarily risk His life for strangers in these exact kinds of situations, but i guests it differently when the decision is made on his his behalf by trusts so Much. Plus, when was the Last time he had a place that he was Called Home?

Belinda, who has been subject to several loud alarms in the tardis, has now also made her way into the barbershop, where the barber cuts his hair and delares he has been many Gods: Anans, Saga, Dionysus, Loki… iT’at is just as drama. Pantheon Gods Who Have Revealed Themselves on the Show So Far. But the doctor and belinda just burst out laughing – the doctor has met “all of the story lords,” so he knows the barber is lying.

AFTER abby puts a Comforting Hand on his shoulder, the barber clarifies that is the human who told the myths and legends that strethened the gods’ connection to humans. “They Only Exist Now Because of Me,” He Says, Going on to Explain that it was used to “Gods’ Blood and Essence” to the web-like nexus that the spider is crawling on. He made the nexus work on its, but never got the reconstruction for His Effforts. Instead, the Gods threw Him out, leaving Him with only a desire for vengeance (and the Engine that is Powering Said Spider).

The Docor Finally Recognizes Abby As Abena. She’s the Daughter of the God Anans, Who Onci Purposly Lost A Bet to Make the Doctor Marry Her. Abby SHES HOPED THAT THE DOCTOR WOULD HERP HER, but instead herself “humiliated.” The Camera Moves to Reveal that the doctor at the time was not martin’s fugitive doctor, who previously work for a secret gallifreyan organization is the division and intrigue notes that she was “Busy in a diffent story mighted be finished one day.” Left Beind, abby has stayed with the barber, who shellieves has plans to deflect the Gods and Become a Trustworthy, Careful “Supreme Storyteller.

But to be the barber admits that he lied to abby and that his actual is to cut the gods out of memory (which will apparently kill and all humans a result), she decides to help the doctor. Abby at Him and Braids HIS HAIR COURSE A STORY ABOUT WOW PEOPLE ESCAPED Slavering by Relation on Women Who Braided Escape Routes Hair. The barber is apparently not very smart, because he doesn’t realie what abby is doing unilinda and the doctor are running to follow the map in his hair. The Barber Revoke Abby’s Door Access, then heads to the Engine Room.

Cating legend About Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Story, The Docor Shares His Succinct Life Story (“I’m Born. I’m Born.”), WHICH is endlessly pawerful due to his regnerations. He dosesn’t Need to be getting a haircut. The Engine – A Beeting Heart Inside of A Brain – Starts to Overload. Faced with an impending explosion, the barber opens the shop door so that Everyone can return to nigeria. At the Last Second, the Docor convinces the barber to also so that he can live long enough to the creation of the story of his life.

All the resolution happy in a rush. In case it was website, the barber point-black states that all of this started becase he wanted to be credited for his work. The doctor suggests that he continue teling stories by opening a barbershop. In General, Everyone’s in a Forgiving Mood. The doctor apologizes to omo just as quickly as he previously yelhed at Him to never speak to Him again; Omo offers a hand to the barber and tells him to take the whole his shop and his name name; and abby states that she will not hold any hate in her heart toward the barber. Fittingly, The Episode About Stories Ends in a Pretty Storybook Way – in the Last Skene, The Doctor Starts to Tell Belinda About omo, Starting with, “Once uppon a time …”

• Doctor Who Has been really into Lately work. We got a few internet-relayed ones this weeke; The Nexus was the “World Wide Web” that the spider crawls on, and the doctor CALLED the barber a troll hi identity on the web. Interesting Enough, The Issue of Credit is Pretty Relevant to Digital Spaces, where Content is offten Reshared or Recreated with Propper Credit.

• The baby that belinda sees in the street on the way to the barbershop is poppy from “Space Babies.” The doctor late suggests that her hensence can be explained gcause stories were “leaking” out, so it might not have the real her. But i hope where she is, poppy’s doing well.

• I Feel Robbed of Getting to See More of the Fugitive Doctor and Abby Together. The Forced-Marriage Trope, But Black and Sapphic? I’m Sure Fanfiction Writers Are Already Picking Up Their Pens. By the way, gioven that the doctor recagated abby and remembered leaving her, i’m very curious to know how Much of the fugitive doctor’s life and remembers.

• Belinda staying overnight at the hospital one she was al The already leaving a 13-hour shift to celebrate her Grandma’s Birthday… They Better Have Paid Her Double Overtime for that. Mrs. FLOOD ALSO MADE HER WEEKLY CAMEO IN THIS Story. How Long Will We Think It’ll Be Until The Doctor and Belinda realie that she’s been popping up every?

• Next Week’s Episode Will Air During the Same Week As the Eurovision Semi-Finals and Finals. (Ncuti gatwa is serving nor The Uk’s Spokesperson.) SO OBVIOUSLI, The preview has us USED to the 803rd interstellar song contest. “The Well” made it unclear how Long into the Future Humanity Survive (or Ever Exisisted), but Eurovision Apparently Never Dies.