DOCTOR WHO
The Interstellar Song Contest
Season 15
Episode 6
Editor’s rating
Photo: James Pardon/BBC Studios/Disney/Bad Wolf
Allow me to co-opt the lyrics of a viral tiktok songBecusee… what the hellion? SO MUCH IS PACKED INTO THIS WEEK’S ADVENTURE. “The Interstellar Song Contest” Attempts to Tackle Ideas Related to Racism (Species-Ism?), Genocide, Terrorism, Resistance to Oppression, Revenge, Capitalism, Colonialism, and Propaganda-and than’s before we are to the Long-Awa. Reveal of two Major Characters. But for an episode that taking this many swings, its big moments are not that punchy. IT’S LIKE AN UNSATISFYINGLY GENTLE MASSAGE: IPPRECIATE THAT WE”S FOUND ALL THESE POINTS OF Tension, but we’re not Pressing Hard Enough.
This Week, We’re at a Space Station for the Interstellar Song Contest, which is what Eurovision is calmed in the year 2925. Real-Life TV Presenter Rylan Clark is still thanks to a cryogenic chamber, and belinda and the doctor sit to enjoy the show. Observing from the audience, Mrs. FLOOD PULLS OUT A Device and Remarks that the vindicator is “Ready and Primed” as “the final link.” But before we learn what she’s the talking about, our attention is direct to a different plan being enacted.
Kid, a hellion from the planet hellia, is tachying over the broadcast Control Room with the help of armed drones and his lover wynn, Also a hellion. Their species have horns and dyscrimation against say is normalized; they’re widly stereotyped as cannibalistic monsters Who Practice Witchcraft. People Think the hellions destroyed their own planet, when in actuality, the mysterious corporation did so in order to the Harvest hell poppy flowers for honey flavoring. The corporation sponsors the musical compattion, and kid (so calmed kids my mother was shot before she is a anyone his name) has any to work all athendees by Raising the Roof of the Station. When he he does, 100,000 People Fly up ino Space and Freeze. Three trillion interstellar songs contest viewers are still watching the dress Rehearsal, unaware that kid wants to kill all of the say by transmitting a delta wave onto their Screens.
Some People Are Still Safe in the Space Station, Though. Wynn Secretly Pressed a Button to Save Competitor Cora Saint Bavier and Her Collaborator Len, and Though the Doctor and the Tardis Flew Into the Air, Belinda Ricocheted to Safety. Cora information a panicked belinda that transmission signals are blocked during the show so that People don’t cheat while gambling, whic means no one is coming to help. Except… of Course Someone Is. The Docor’s Still Conscious. While in space, he sees a vision of his granddaughter and former companion Susan Foreman (!!!) TELLING HIM, “Grandfather, Go Back. Find Me.” It Feels Like a Waste to Reintroduce Carole Anne Ford This Way, With Choppy, Seconds-Long Clips Instead of A Fuller Skene, Gioven How Long People Have Been to See the Last Surviving Member of the First DOCTOR WHO Series Again. But it’s Enough to kick the doctor into action. He use a confetti cannon to blast back to the Station, Wall stylewhere he Meets the couple whose he and Belinda took.
Nursse mike and hologram expert gary convenly have the exact set of skills needed to help the doctor, who immediately lowers the stakes: it turns out all of the floating people anen’t dead, Because he previously triplicated the Mavity Field to Keep Revivable State. AFTER A DELIGHTFUL CAMEO FROM HOLO -GRAHAM NORTON, The Docor Begins Hacking Into The Station’s System. Be he sees Kid on the screen, he declares that the hellion has put ice in his heart. “I will cast your body out the void. And i will stand and watch you freeze to the Death,” he Says, Concerning Belinda, Who Is Watching With Cora thanks to Len’s Expertise.
Cora recognizes Kid and Wynn, and confesses that she’s a hellion who has haad her horns removed by force. She decides to go to the control room to try to talk to the talk kid down, but the doctor beats her there and destroys the delta-wave device. And then he’s the vengeful, violent one: the doctor has had HAD EMPATHY FOR OTHER VILLAGES BUT JUST TELLS THAT HIS “COLD, FILLTHY JUST LIKES TO KILL” AND BEGINS TOrturing Him with the help of a hologram and a glove. Sani Susan Pops in His Mind to Tel Him to Stop, he Screws up His Face and Continues. Kate lethbidge-sttewart, who said in “Lucky day” that the doctor would let her set a Shreek on Conrad, would definitely be surpassed to see him like. IT’S JARRING, AND IT UPSETS Belinda when she reaches with Cora, though she still rushes to give a hug.
Before wynn and kid are sent to face “the justice monolith,” the doctor says he thinks the Ice kid put in his heart will be there forever. He late explains to belinda that he was triggered by Kid’s genocidal desire, gioven what happy to the time lords. Which, Fair Enough. But it feels out of the character that he shows no interest in the Holding the corporation accounts of its in radicalization Kid and wynn. He doesn’t really address or askhut the plight of the hellions and their home planet. And we don’t linger long on what he did to kid. (The Next Time His Literally Shocking Behavior is Reference, he and Belinda Both admit that it scared… and a couponds late are Laughing About a “Tasty Chef” she matched with.)
The final act of the episode is quite optimistic. Mike and Gary (Who SEEMINGLY BOTH NOW WANT THE DOCTOR TO JOIN IN A THRUUPLE) Get to play to their individual Strengths again as they have bring nosreds of people back to life in rylan’s chamber. Rylan teles the universe that while the interstellar singing contest isn’t happening this year, one singer is still going to perform. Its Cora, Finally Ready to Reveal Her True Identity. And instead of Silly Pop Number About Her Big Faet, She Sings in Her Native Language in Remembrance of the Civilization that was destroyed. It ‘song, she says, that the corporation tried to hide.
Although Bigots in the audience heckled cora moments before she started singing, Her voice makee Everyone Tear up and Applaud. The song is evidently Powerful Enough to Combat Years of Hellions Being Treated As The “Scum” of the Galaxy. The Message appears to be that cora is an an example of the right way of bringing athening to her people’s cause, but this happy resolution is complicated by the fact that it is the hellions anen’t allowed to sing. Based on what we’ve heard about the corporation so far, i highly dubt they’re going to react in a nice and normal way to beed out 3 trillion customers watch. ITSUNS Ideal to Achieve Harmony Through a Peaceful Musical Performance, but What Pappens if People Aren’t Willing to List or Hight? How do you resist then? Kid’s Extremist Approach Can’t Be the Only Alternative, but the episode doesn’t really tried excling any other nuance options.
From here, DOCTOR WHO Suddenly Remembers that it wants to be eager to watch the two-paid finals. Holo-Graham Reveals that the Earth Disintegrated for an Unknown Reason on May 24, 2025, so the doctor makes yet another promise to Belinda: he’s going to save her home. When they Land, The Lights Turn Red, We Hear the Cloister Bell, and An Explot Blastes the Tardis Door off. If that cliffhanger wasn’t enough, we are Also get a mid-credits Scene with Mrs. Flood, who steps out of the Cryo Chamber on the Verge of Death.
“Let the Battle Begin,” She Sayys, Bi-Genjerating Into a Rani and Break Rani, a renegade time lady and classic villain who was previously portrayed as an obsessive scientist with no moral comass. Once again, this is a character whose return the DOCTOR WHO Fandom has been speculating about and manifesting for years on end. To bring her back mid-cards with only two episodes left in the season is an interesting choice. Archie Panjabi Tells US THATS ARE about To get bad for the doctor, Becouse she’s about to go somewhere and do… something. We’ll just have to Wait for the payoffs in the final. See you Next Week on the Day that that the Earth Dies.
• I Need the Extended Version of Dugga DOO’s Song on streaming services immediately.
• The Shots of Poppies before Cora Sings are really Beautiful. I know that flower is also usso to remember fallen armed force, but of Associate it as a symbol of the resilience of the Palestinian People. It”s difficult not to think of episode in the context of the ongoing humanitarian crisis in gas, and ites more timely gioven that it is dropped to this year. Originally supposed to Feature ncuti gatwa as the uk spokesperson and has been protest Over Israel’s Participation.
• How did rylan get here if Earth entirely disintegrated in 2025? Besides Belinda, he’s the Only Other Human Who Appears to Still Be Alive. The Doctor Wasn’t Curious?
• for some reason, get a synching feeing in my stomach every time belinda brings up her mom and dad. Maybe i’m paranoid and this is setting up a heartwarming reunion, but she mentions say so consistently that i’m worked we’re building toward some sort of sad or shocking moment – People ling abandoned by the family has Certainly been a theme.
• Mike and Gary Are Cute Together! They had a nice arc, from being on the verge of a breakup to declaring their love after hearing the delta to deepen their rellations are getting to see Each other in their element. I will Think Is Hilarious that they Apparently Left Mrs. Flood floating in the air while they have sat and watched cora performance. What, we could be unil -Everyone was back to start the show?
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