@kevinwho @cathannabel

I’ve written about this before. I lost my wife 16 years ago but I still feel her presence every day. In many situations I think “What would she do?” or “What would she think?”. Sometimes I even talk to her to ask her.

And thankfully I frequently dream about her – those dreams only bring me pleasure (even after waking up…[Read more]

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@ichabod @miapatrick @pedant @idiotsavon

Let’s just say I won’t be taking any action against the hilarious cumquat – it’s not me either though, by the way.

Edit: As the new Doctor might say “Or is she?”

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@devilishrobby I’m afraid not – well, not that I know of. Maybe in the next update. But no one would mind if you just posted something like:

“Just posting a comment so I can follow this thread”

If you want to unfollow you’ll have to do the same. It’s been done many times before.

@bluesqueakpip We’re kinda on the same page – that’s why I said it would need a bit of rewriting, and maybe something other than a frog to finish off the season – but that wave goodbye could have been a great way to go out. 🙂

@bluesqueakpip I think we posted almost at the same time – I completely agree about Grace – see my post just above yours.

Edit: I was thinking of the stages of grief. One of which is anger, but it ends with acceptance.

@bluesqueakpip Apologies for another post, but another thought occurred to me. As per above, you could easily swap this episode and “It Takes You Away” in the running order. Then you would have Graham dealing with his anger towards Tim Shaw, and then (with a little rewriting) have him finally letting go of his grief with Grace in the fin…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip See, that’s kinda my problem. It didn’t seem to be wanting to be any kind of finale (to me, anyway). As I said, even just a bit of a cliffhanger at the end would have improved it. As it is, it could have probably slotted in anywhere in the season.

As I said, there was a lot of good in it, the ideas and themes, but it lacked…[Read more]

@arbutus Just to clarify, I don’t think every finale should feature the end of the Earth. But as Chibnall brought that into the equation I think it could have been done a lot better.

He could have left Earth out of it completely and done something a bit different and I would have been happy if it had been a bit more exciting.

Do it well or don’t…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip Yeah, I did get all that, but I think with a few tweaks it could have done all of those things but been bigger (and therefore like a season finale) and more “fun” – by which I don’t mean full of laughs, more full of wonder and excitement (or something).

Another possibility would have been if they got there, and by massive…[Read more]

You just have to see this. Andy Serkis as Theresa May channelling Gollum. It’s great.

@bluesqueakpip

What I meant was there was no sense (for me anyway) that everyone was going to die on Earth. It was tell, not show (apart from the CGI).

I think the drama would have been enhanced if, say, they’d cut to Yaz’s family on Earth as it is encompassed by a big red lazer cloud (or whatever it was). If we saw the fear. And then cut back…[Read more]

I have to admit, I was a bit underwhelmed. I can see there were a lot of good ideas, and a lot of interesting themes.

But Chibnall seems to have forgotten the “fun”. I love the scene in “An Adventure in Space and Time” when Sydney Newman is coming up with the concept and his focus is “fun”. And then he focuses on science fiction and time travel,…[Read more]

@devilishrobby I’ve restored your post. For some reason the system sometimes thinks editing is spamming. I’m really not sure why, but I’d rather it more sensitive to spam than less.

@pedant @thane16 Yeah, I had quite a few replies so went with a majority vote rather than a unanimous vote. Hope you don’t mind.

Hi @magickirin, thanks for your contribution tonight. I have deleted almost all of the conversation as I don’t want conversations about episodes hijacked in a way that may put off possible new members.

I have not, however, deleted your account or listed you as a spammer. But if you do it again I will.

We like to have conversations here, with…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox Many thanks, now dealt with.