A time traveling alien with a Northern accent investigates killer mall mannequins, one of which possesses a trash bin that then eats the costar's boyfriend and transforms him into a plastic golem. They get to the heart of the infestation, and the Doctor readies his weapon -- "anti-plastic," of course -- but desires not to use it as he struggles to talk intergalactic law with the malignant plastic blob. Then he runs off with the girl for adventures in future episodes.
Many of the flavor-of-the-week sci-fi concepts were quite good, and some were not. But anthropomorphic cat nuns! A giant head! Evil buckets with eye stalks! Killer statues that can only move when you're not looking!
Maybe it was some inner child aging out of me, but I feel like the show's writing took a nose dive about halfway through Peter Capaldi's Doctor.
Starhunter (Caravaggio) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starhunter
Farscape (Claudia Black before her voice was in every computer game) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Farscape
[0] if you need an American English translation, maybe "theater kid energy".
It wouldn't have occurred to me to call twee a foreign word. However, my feeling of its meaning was... very close to the gloss given on wiktionary (and marked "UK"):
>> Overly quaint, dainty, cute or nice.
The unambiguously American Merriam-Webster agrees:
>> affectedly or excessively dainty, delicate, cute, or quaint
"Characteristic of theater kids" conveys something different to me. Do you disagree with the dictionary gloss, or do you think it's a good description of how people might describe a performance by theater kids?
https://www.edwest.co.uk/p/the-unstoppable-rise-of-british-t...
(nb I'm not sure about the political analysis here but the citations are good.)