6 Ups & 5 Downs From Doctor Who Series 12

2. The Underlying Moral Messages

Can You Hear Me? Doctor Who
BBC

What links Orphan 55, Praxeus, and Can You Hear Me? The answer, they all played out like they were pre-school TV shows with a moral message to be learned by the end. Some did it well, some did it not-so well. Orphan 55's climate change message was haphazardly slapped on the end of an already mediocre episode. Praxeus' message of cutting down on plastic use was better woven into the narrative, but was still a very loud presence aside from the morally dirty doings of alien scientists.

Can You Hear Me? worked its subtle magic the best however. The message of caring for your own mental health is very strong in itself, especially today. It's put across as a much more subtle underlay to the dastardly god-like villains taking most of the stage. It's a message that was strong in meaning and execution- right up until the very end.

The final ten minutes of the episode saw our three companions coming to terms with the nightmares they had witnessed during the episode, but it was much less subtle, and way more explicitly on the nose compared to before, and it unfortunately tainted what could been a truly fantastic episode overall.

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