Doctor Who seems to be trapped in a space-time eddy of its own making, so what, exactly, is going on?
Doctor Who is in a very strange place at the moment. Which is to say, it’s absolutely nowhere at all. Following the, er, unexpected conclusion to “The Reality War”, theories having been flying thick and fast. Is Billie Piper now the Doctor? The credits don’t list her as such (presumably as a get-out clause). Is she a midpoint between the Gatwa Doctor and whoever takes on the role permanently, like Tennant was between Whitaker and Gatwa? Is she a Watcher-like figure? Will she be in it for a few minutes, then regenerate again so whoever actually gets cast can then get on with it? You get the idea.
What’s The Movie? The 2025 movie I forgot to watch, Good Luck, Have Fun, Don’t Die
What’s It All About, JG? A nameless man from the future (Sam Rockwell) arrives in a Los Angeles diner, ranting about being there to save the world and needing to recruit people from the diner to help him do that. AI destroys the world in the future, and he’s travelled back in time to install some safety protocols in the software before it becomes self-aware to ensure that humanity survives. If that sounds a bit Terminator-y, well, you’re not wrong. Anyway, the man grabs a motley connection of people – including a couple of teachers, a kids-party princess, a lonely woman who just wants pie, among others – and they escape the diner after the cops get called. They’re hunting for the “daddy of the AI”, a 9 year old boy who created it. After overcoming a collection of sometimes-funny, sometimes-surreal, sometimes-violent mishaps, they find the boy’s house, only to discover that the AI is creating itself. It turns out the man from the future is the son of one of the women he took from the diner – Ingrid, the Princess (Haley Lu Richardson). Ingrid’s allergic to technology but forces herself to install the safety protocols. Thinking they’ve succeeded, they go outside to celebrate, only for the man to see they’ve been tricked. He realises the security protocols don’t work, so zaps back to the future with a new plan – infect the world with Ingrid’s tech allergy via rats. He reappears at the diner from the start of the film, and the whole loop begins again.
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