The Doctor and Bill are back for another adventure!
The destination comes courtesy of Bills request to see if the future is happy.
Though as any longtime viewer of the show could tell her, this will hardly be the case.
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Vardies) that primarily communicate through their more robot-resembling interfaces, using EMOJIS!
However, that would require there being someonetofancy.
And as the Doctor quickly deduces, the robots were sent ahead to prepare the planet for humans.
He and Bill just arrived early.
But they amend that theory once they visit the plant nursery and find out that humanswerehere all along.
Theyre just dead and being used asfertilizer.
Hes soon joined by Bill and they enter the spaceship that brought those first people to this planet.
As the Doctor notes, the door isnt locked because theyd come in peace.
He then asks her to come join him.
Its harder than hed expected to blow this place up.
Bill leaves to join him, only to run into a plot twist an actual human kid.
When the Doctor meets the kid, he realizes theyreinthe colony ship!
The pods are the surviving population of Earth andhenearly blew it up!
As more colonists wake up, the Doctor and Bill figure out what went wrong with the robots.
Turns out the Vardies had been programmed to guarantee human satisfaction.
This led to a massacre as everyone left was mourning yet another person whod died.
The Doctor figures this is the same fate awaiting the newly woken colonists.
So he proposes alecture…
Only it backfires.
None of the colonists want to know why the robots are acting this way.
They just want to avenge their loved ones.
Thankfully the Doctor figures out what went wrong: The Vardies have become their own species.
So he essentially reboots their interfaces and wipes their memories.
So its actuallytheircity, and the humans owe rent.
When the humans complain, he suggests they smile.
Only theyve overshot that time bya lotand ended up in the past.
And despite Bills questioning, were no closer to finding out what this promise entails.
And as usual, Bills Whovian observational comedy is on point.
But our newest companion proves especially winning in the middle of the episode.
This last point, in particular, is interesting as the episode celebrates the best and worst about humankind.
When they first arrive on the planet, the Doctor is delighting in humanitys optimism.
After all, theres no bigger champion of humans than him.
(And Bills company is clearly enough to make anyone Team Human.)
(It doesnt hurt that the episode also happens to air on Earth Day.)
But this isnt the only comparisons to be drawn to Midnight and Beast Below.
But while this did leave the resolution feeling a bit unresolved What will this rent system look like?
Are the humans even prepared to pay?
