@scaryb Oh, I agree that the show seems like a perfect way to tell younger viewers about the Christmas truce, I only wonder if they are aware, even after having seen it, that it was a real event. Hopefully, they will have parents who know of it, or it will inspire them to find out about it in a book.
@nerys Yes, I am with you on Rusty. I could see the point they were making, but it did not mean half as much to me as the final farewell of Bill and Nardole, which I thought was done really, really well.
@missrori I see your point about the Testimony being another version of the Nethersphere, but I saw it more as a version of the Library, in the sense that it was a way of keeping people “alive” in a positive and uplifting way, rather the darkness that I saw as being at the heart of the Nethersphere. (To be honest, I never really quite understood the Nethersphere–fraud, reality or what?) Which brings me to…
@bluesqueakpip
the Moffat-Smith era felt like a golden age; the Moffat-Capaldi era never quite worked for me.
I confess that that captures my impressions as well. I take your point about tragedy, but I tend to think it was also about a fixation, if that is not too strong a term, of Moffat on death, a fixation that began in the Smith years, but ramped up during the Capaldi era. I agree that this would make more sense if the end point was the Doctor’s end, but frankly, I am not sure what Moffat’s motivation for focussing on death so often was, but it was certainly there, and I feel it hampered the Capaldi era, by creating a rather jarring contrast between meditations on death and the light hearted portrayal of a guitar-playing Doctor. In fact, I wonder if I am implying that the truly golden years of Moffat were series 5 and 6. But that is a conversation for another thread.
