Those had ideas and themes and depths; this one is silly and fanwanky, and runs on pure energy and love for the show.
I don't think that's entirely fair. Utopia itself is a big idea as setting, fairly heavily explored. City at the edge of time, aspirational leap into the unknown hereafter, etc. You could strip the cliffhanger and make this a one off and it'd still be great.
The plot is a direct lift from the Season 1 Episode of Blake’s 7, Deliverance, where our heroes have to work out how to send a rocket into space to save the civilisation from the barbarians. As Terrence Dicks said, a strong and original idea, but not necessarily one’s own!
"Hang on, Yana says he was found as a baby, implying he's lived a full human life, how the f- has BF managed to crowbar in seventeen War Master box sets?"
Easy one, this. The Chameleon Arch also implants false memories. He would have used it shortly before meeting Chantho, whenever that would've been.
That’s how I thought they’d get round it, but at Russell T Davies’ insistence, the War Master series has a different explanation entirely. He wanted Yana’s life to be real, lived experience. So it is.
Those had ideas and themes and depths; this one is silly and fanwanky, and runs on pure energy and love for the show.
I don't think that's entirely fair. Utopia itself is a big idea as setting, fairly heavily explored. City at the edge of time, aspirational leap into the unknown hereafter, etc. You could strip the cliffhanger and make this a one off and it'd still be great.
The plot is a direct lift from the Season 1 Episode of Blake’s 7, Deliverance, where our heroes have to work out how to send a rocket into space to save the civilisation from the barbarians. As Terrence Dicks said, a strong and original idea, but not necessarily one’s own!
"Hang on, Yana says he was found as a baby, implying he's lived a full human life, how the f- has BF managed to crowbar in seventeen War Master box sets?"
Easy one, this. The Chameleon Arch also implants false memories. He would have used it shortly before meeting Chantho, whenever that would've been.
That’s how I thought they’d get round it, but at Russell T Davies’ insistence, the War Master series has a different explanation entirely. He wanted Yana’s life to be real, lived experience. So it is.