doctor who season 7 episode 3 [full length]
Added 2025-05-24 13:00:10 +0000 UTChi everyone!!
here is my timed reaction to doctor who season 7 episode 3 "a town called mercy"
i really enjoyed this episode!!! it was a good lesson to learn about how people and things are not always black and white.
thanks for watching with me!
Comments
I agree about the dialogue. Season 7a is top tier in that department, even if maybe the episodes overall don’t stack up in comparison to other seasons. Toby Whithouse, who wrote this, also wrote The God Complex which I’d also argue has some of the best writing/dialogue. Both of those episodes kind of get overlooked, imo. Amy asking “What then, Doctor, are you going to hunt down everyone that’s made a bullet or a gun or a bomb?” And the Doctor giving his speech about the price of mercy absolutely stabs deep. I love when this show doesn’t pull its punches and gives the audience meaty moral dilemmas to examine. This is a perfect level of “sandbox” science fiction. It’s not close enough to real life to feel heavy handed or preachy but it also grapples with real questions. Not to sound like a boomer but I sometimes worry that kids shows nowadays don’t deliver the same complexities- not like Doctor Who or Star Trek or other classic sci-fi. And I think kids are smart enough and thoughtful enough to get meaning from heavy episodes like this. I’m not exactly plugged into kids television these days but are there any shows with genocide, horrifying human experimentation, justice for war crimes, and the perpetuating consequences of violence? I guess superhero movies kind of dip into that arena but that subset of sci-fi was built to be less sandbox, more literal moral messaging. But like I said, I'm out of the loop with kids programming.
Katie Niekamp
2025-06-23 22:16:23 +0000 UTCLike others have said. The uncomfortable truth is The Doctor has such intense rage and contempt, because it's like looking in a mirror for him. Their paths, while different by their actions, have a similarity. Both helped people for many years. They fought for the survival of their people in a war. Committed an unspeakable war crime. Then returned to helping people. We always have to remember, when 'the moment' came, our titled hero sacrificed an unimaginative amount of lives to kill the enemy. The justification for both, was to save lives. This is an enemy, at least for The Doctor, they still continue to encounter and fight. So both living with the choice, and seeing it was futile.
Death Lego
2025-05-26 20:41:57 +0000 UTCfella being the most intimidating title
Emme
2025-05-26 20:19:23 +0000 UTCMarshal. Deputy... Fella
CJS
2025-05-25 14:30:46 +0000 UTCBig Finish is the place to go for those extra stories.
Zr0w3n
2025-05-24 20:16:56 +0000 UTCDon't forget that we learned in series 1 that the Doctor killed his own people to stop the time war, everything said about Jax in this episode applies to the Doctor too. Also, there have always been weeks or months in between episodes of Doctor Who where the Doctor and companions go on other adventures that we never get to see. Tennant's doctor was constantly referencing stuff we hadn't seen at the beginning of episodes!
Bryce Bassitt
2025-05-24 16:39:52 +0000 UTC
