@devilishrobby Agree with you on hoping Ncuti would only give up a bit of regen energy but I think in real life he’s an an actor going places (hope so) and probably only signed up for a short time. I loved him as the Doctor, felt like a very fresh take on the character.

@juniperfish Agree with you (and I think @WhoHar and others made the point…[Read more]

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@blenkinsopthebrave

Many thanks for that; I hadn’t come across it before and it’s lovely.  And yes, midges are best contemplated from a distance, dancing in columns in the sun.

@scaryb

😀  Well midges are admittedly one of the few downsides of the Scottish countryside, so I should have realised that it was the Scots if anyone who would come u…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave

That’s beautiful. Hadn’t come across Anthony Hecht before.

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@blenkinsopthebrave

Conrad is not redeemed

Fifty-fifty in my opinion but I think, given RTDs very clear theme on the subject, it’s probably even less likely, so maybe 40-60. UNLESS he somehow feels something for Ruby and tries to make it up with her, sacrificing himself in the process, so maybe 60-40. Ah, hell, I don’t know.

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@blenkinsopthebrave
I think we agree that unlike Belinda, Poppy is ‘special’!

And being a Time Lady is definitely ‘special’!

;¬)

Well lots going in this episode along with some rather (unsubtle) messaging about othering and the dangers of a totalitarian state.

A bit of a strange ep with the Doctor not being the Doctor for most of it, which does rather take away from a show called Doctor Who.

Lots of invention and, yes, @winston, Conrad’s wish is for Britain to return to…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave   I am sure that is what the Doctor shouted on his way down.Poppy is some how important in all this but smarter people than me might figure it out or we wait till next week.

This was a very full episode with so many people and so much strangeness. This might be a 3 pipe problem( in a long hot bath). One thing that I wasn’t s…[Read more]

As @Blenkinsopthebrave says

@whohar, are your amazing powers of prediction the result of that very long time you once spent in the bath?

I’m sure Douglas Adams would wholeheartedly agree with the power of a long bath! (And as always The Muppets are appropriate!)

https://youtu.be/Mh85R-S-dh8?si=5wdNCShsTzj8QbnB

Seconding @Whisht and @Blenkinsopthebrave (and others) about hoping that Belinda isn’t “special” especially after all the hoo ha (Who ha??!) about Ruby Sunday’s mum being “normal” and the doctor’s story being about Belinda because “normal people are just as exciting as stories about Weeping Angels, Daleks and Cybermen”.

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@whohar

The chief problem I have with your proposed scenario for the finale is that it’s an awful lot of material to cram into two episodes, and this is a series in which, as several people have observed, there have already been episodes which might have been better developed over more than 50 minutes. I agree also with @whisht and @blenkinsoptheb…[Read more]