Doctor Who Season 2, Episode 2 Breaks The Fourth Wall To Pay Homage To The Fandom
This article contains spoilers For “Doctor Who” season 2, episode 2, “Lux”.
“Doctor Who” is no stranger to animation. Apart from relatively minor projects as The “Daleks!” animated show and more important companies such as the longtime project of the BBC to save part of the 100 lost episodes “Doctor Who” With the power of animation, the matching creatives have offered animated programs of “Doctor Who” of variable diversity for years. So when the The trailer for “Doctor Who” season 2 teased the doctor (Ncuti Gatwa) who is literally animatedArdent fans were undoubtedly eager to discover what the series reserved for them.
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It turns out that the animated episode, “Lux”, is nothing less than a love letter for dedicated fans … but not the way they could have expected. When the animated living caricature of the moonlight, Mr. Ring -A -Ding (expressed by Alan Cumming), turns out to be Lux Imperator – The God of Light of the same Pantheon as Maestro (Jinkx Monsoon) and Sutekh (Gabriel Woolf) – The Villain Straps the Doctor and Belinda Chandra (Varanda Sethu) in a series of animated series and films animated. Fortunately, they realize that they are able to manipulate the rules of the universe of the film to escape, which allows the pair to break the fourth wall and to leave the show … and in the living room of a trio of enthusiastic Whovians and ranging from the goods that watched the episode.
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Lux proves that Doctor Who knows and loves his fans
“Doctor Who” has a famous fans base, which the doctor learns from first hand when he and Belinda came out of the TV and in the comfortable house of a trio of super-fans. Provising that they watched the episode and knowing everything about the show and its characters, these Whovians quickly convinced the doctor that he is a fictional creature, that the Lord of Time is surprised and even a little delighted to learn.
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The conversation proceeds in a way that many fans could rush into an interaction with the star of their favorite show. The doctor and fans quickly establish a report and have a good mood debate on the best episode of “Doctor Who”. (The doctor tries to promote several episodes of his own mandate, while fans unilaterally promote the excellent “flashing” of the first era of David Tennant.) Finally, the show embraces the capacity of the Fandom in Nitpick and to interpret clues and details, as the trio admits that they are just a particularly sneaky layer in the trap of Mr. Ring-A-Ding. In a really meta moment, it turns out that the fans are fictitious, and they choose to help the doctor and Belinda to escape … at the cost of their own existence.
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The scene is a fun and unique tribute to one of the most dedicated science fiction fans bases. It is also a hilarious commentary on the Fandom bracelete, given the thorny tendency of a fan to condemn the points of the plot of the episode and to spit the hatred of Hashtagged on the last era “Doctor Who”. As a last nod to viewers of the show, the so -called fictitious trio is even resurrected for a scene of average credits – for which “Doctor Who” is generally not known – where they comment on the quality of the episode after seeing it in full.
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