Doctor Who: Wish World Review - 4 Ups & 6 Downs

Let’s run through the Rani’s scheme, shall we.

Step 1: Block the Doctor from returning to Earth so that he can charge up the Vindicator.

Step 2: Acquire magic god baby who grants infinite wishes.

Step 3: Upon his return to Earth, ambush the Doctor and steal the Vindicator (conjecture due to the aforementioned absence of context).

Step 4: Use magic baby powered up by Vindicator, which now has the power of twenty supernovas, to create a new world wished up by an alt-right conspiracy podcaster.

Step 5: Push the Doctor into realising he’s in a wish world by relentlessly monologuing at him (but you made a quirky fourth wall reference to exposition which makes it okay).

Step 6: Utilise the power of a Time Lord’s doubt (which as we all know, is super powerful) to break open reality.

Step 7: Omega, for some reason?

In the history of convoluted plans in Doctor Who, this rivals even the Master’s insane Rasputin gambit from The Power of the Doctor.

If you have an infinite wish genie baby, supposedly the most powerful god in the Pantheon (again…), why not just wish for Omega? And why does the most powerful god in existence need a little bit of tech that’s done some planet hopping in order to amplify its powers? Even if it does, why can’t the Rani charge the Vindicator herself in the form of Mrs Flood – she’s been everywhere the Doctor has been all season, so presumably she’s got her own TARDIS?

Everything about this premise is convoluted nonsense that doesn’t hold up to a degree of scrutiny. There are so many ideas that don’t gel together and belong in entirely different stories, and the depressing thing is almost all of them are fixed by removing the unnecessary genie baby from the equation.

The Rani is a scientist – just let her do a science thing to bring Omega back, if she really insists upon it.