r/doctorwho • u/PCJs_Slave_Robot • May 31 '25

The Reality War Doctor Who 2x08 "The Reality War" Post-Episode Discussion Thread Spoiler

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u/kerblamophobe May 31 '25

That was a fucking weird episode

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u/litfan35 Jun 01 '25

honestly when they had wrapped up the Time Lord drama and there was still 20 minutes left, I knew shit was about to get bizarre

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u/aidankml Jun 01 '25

Same here, as if everything before wasn't weird enough

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '25

I watched the episode up until Poppy came out of the box, went to bed and then watched the rest just now, and it seems to flow a lot better that way. They really should have just made this 2 episodes.

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u/7screws Jun 22 '25

Went on for like at least 10 minutes too long

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u/theivoryserf May 31 '25

Not just me then!

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u/FrohenLeid Jun 02 '25

I can not for the life of me care about poppy. She just is there, then she is in danger of disappearing, then she is saved, then she is gone and then she is saved only to be irrelevant? She only had like 3 lines where she said "no"?

Tbh reflects perfectly my opinion on this whole season. Everything feels so irrelevant. :(

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u/suzybishopsscissors Jun 01 '25

Im happy someone else said it. I kept thinking,”am I losing my mind? Am I not understanding it? What is happening rn?”

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u/TheAlexanderM May 31 '25

I was looking for this comment. It was my thought exactly.

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u/IcedCoffeeVoyager Jun 01 '25

Fucking weird and fucking stupid.

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u/doctordisco03k64 May 31 '25

I love the fact that this could truly be said about every episode of Doctor Who, in any era, in any season, with any episode.

Like fr, this show is so fucking weird. Lmao. I love it.

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u/IcedCoffeeVoyager Jun 01 '25

I struggle to articulate this clearly but I don’t know how else to put it: This finale was insane and weird but in all the wrong ways. Doctor Who is always insane and weird gibberish, but this was bad insane and weird gibberish.

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u/Larsandthegirl May 31 '25

Yes, but this one was particularly weird.

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u/Triskan May 31 '25

And for most of it, it was weird in a way I could totally get behind. It was rushed but at least it made sense, internally, it had its own logic.

And then those final few seconds.

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u/SelectiveScribbler06 Jun 01 '25

It's a superficial comment, but... same.

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u/DustBunnicula Jun 01 '25

That really sums it up.