@blenkinsopthebrave it was pretty ropey. The two evacuee girls as possessed vampires was high school acting at best.

Too true, particularly the delivery of the line “You should of come into va wawtah wiv usss.” Cockney urchin Gollum, as channelled by 1980s teenagers.

 the 80′s relativist attitude (all combatants are equally guilty) rankles with me< …

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Re the Graun blog…

@Blenkinsopthebrave Ah, you’re just a cynical old Whovian. Has the Doctor taught you nothing??? Nothing is beyond redemption!! Even Dr Who blogs.  This Forum started over there, not just as a reaction to the trolling, but also because we wanted somewhere to continue the discussions when it was “off air”. And because a number…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @JimTheFish

Many thanks. I’ll have a think about the Blog and may transfer it later Blenkinsop. It may be nice to have something to enable a discussion about the actors who have played the Master, you’re right.

Hello @Barnable @pedant @BESD1 @blenkinsopthebrave @spider

I think it was all a con about the-dead-feeling-cremation, just to get them to press the delete button and erase their feelings, so Danny (or others) wouldn’t ruin Missy’s plans

I agree with @pedant, we cannot trust anything Seb or Chang said.  On a philosophical note … why was it so i…[Read more]

@BESD1    I loved your comments. You made a lot of good points. I particularly liked what you had to say about Danny, although personally I thought he acted the pants off it. But I think that what I really missed was a sense of closure between him and the Doctor. The Doctor seemed to have come to some kind of understanding and appreciation of “P…[Read more]

And also

9. I loved the BG Brigadier, but I think there would need to be a genuine narrative rationale to bring the cyber-Brig back.

Agree with @blenkinsopthebrave – I think Moff saw a nice way to do a wonderful in-story tribute the the Brig’s strength of character. But I also think it was strictly a one-off, as it should be.

@BESD1 @blenkinsopthebrave

 If the dead remain connected to their bodies, and can feel cremation or the incisions of researchers,

We only have Seb’s and Chang’s word for that – and nothing they say can be trusted.

@BESD1 and @blenkinsopthebrave

In regards to #1:  It completely depends how you define the ‘delete emotion’ parameters in your IF statement. Is it a ‘pressed the button’ checkbox? in which case, you’d still have to examine the underlying code to determine exactly what emotions are actually deleted … and how you define that in the first…[Read more]

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@blenkinsopthebrave @DrBen

 In fact, I have not been able to even give it a second viewing yet, as a result of my emotional response.

It took me a while as well.

The response to this one was…hmmm….not visceral….fundamental. 

Something deep about that story and the people in it, but also about storytelling. I think that may be why I am so a…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave I’m glad that I wasn’t the only one to have that reaction.  I’ll be right over, with jammie dodgers and kleenex.

@nerys That remains my theory about the “three months” thing, that she’s dying.  Bleak to bleaker, I know, but for some reason it feels right.  And it definitely adds resonance to the line “Danny and I will be fine.”