Villainous, immortal nightmare gods Zellin (Ian Gelder) and Rakaya (Clare-Hope Ashitey) wouldn’t be out of place in an episode of Star Trek: The Next Generation or Buffy The Vampire Slayer. I love the idea of a computer system controlled by harp-like strings. Nem is gondolsz arra, hogy valakik direkt erre vágynak mert ebből táplálkoznak. 12.7 Can your hear me? Thanks to Zellin’s nightmare powers, Ryan, Yaz, and Graham are forced to confront their worst fears, many of which relate to the way traveling with the Doctor has changed their lives. Ellenség: Rakaya. In a welcome bit of continuity, Ryan is still haunted by the scorched Earth and Dregs of “Orphan 55,” as well as by his newfound fear of leaving his friends to face those problems alone. The most interesting thing about the immortals is the animated sequence where we learn about their origin, which was a cool new storytelling technique for Doctor Who. Zellin and Rakaya taste the Doctor’s wrath…and their nightmare’s own bad breath. “Can You Hear Me?” has good intentions, but in an era where TV shows are now regularly offering nuanced explorations of mental health issues, this episode’s celebration of humanity’s powers of perseverance comes across just a touch too generic. It also immediately made me think of the opening sequence of the animated movie FernGully, so that’s yet another ’90s tie-in! Alas, Tahira winds up being a plot device at best and a nonentity at worst. Rakaya (Doctor Who) Yasmin Khan; Ryan Sinclair; Graham O'Brien; Eternal(s) (Doctor Who) Mutual Non-Con; Medical Trauma; Aliens Made Them Do It; Angst and Hurt/Comfort; The Eternals (Doctor Who) Post-Episode: s12e01-02 Spyfall; Post-Episode: s12e07 Can You Hear Me? Doctor Who is all over the map in an episode about mental health. But it feels more like a tonally misjudged gag in a tonally misjudged episode. Yaz’s sister Sonya lost a job and learned to cook. Instead, its big lesson seems to be “Talk to you friends about your problems!” which is definitely a good and important reminder, but also one that’s somewhat limited and simplistic too. At some point in the distant past, he and Rakaya found two inhabited planets in the same solar system and made a bet as to who could destroy a planet first to amuse themselves. Was the police officer a future version of Yaz who went back in time to help her younger self? I didn’t see it until the very last moment, but… those were her eyes, weren’t they?”, Zellin thought for a moment. Though the TARDIS fam don’t come to any conclusions yet, it’s nice to see them grappling with interior problems rather than just exterior threats. And they soon become painfully aware of the ways in which time has slipped away while they’ve been traveling. Yet the story is told in such an ominous, fragmented way that I kept waiting for a more dramatic shoe to drop. And though Zellin’s ability to detach his fingers and stick them in people’s ears is effectively creepy, it’s also kind of goofy, which, again, sits oddly with the episode’s more serious aims. Doctor Who ‘Can You Hear Me?’: behind the scenes. The inhabitants of the planets went to war with their own people and eventually each other. (PROSE: Forever Autumn) Two Eternals, (PROSE: The Guide to the Dark Times) Zellin and Rakaya, once descended from a "higher plane". Unsurprisingly, that makes for a rather odd tonal mismatch. Félsz a sötétben elaludni, mert van valami a lelked mélyén amit elrejtesz magad elől is? Easily the most baffling choice “Can You Hear Me?” makes is to anchor its timely yet timeless story about mental health around antagonists who feel like they’re straight of the ’90s. That’s especially true of the big climatic scene where they... slowly walk down a street in Sheffield wearing off-brand X-Men Halloween costumes! 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