@kevinwho @nerys

But I think we can all be with @craig…

@craig I remember you posting about your wife before. Thank you for continuing to share your thoughts about her here. She must have been such a lovely person!

This episode for me is the gift that keeps giving, it’s so rich with allusions.

Thanks @nerys for your post. 🙂

@cathannabel I absolutely love Gide, The Vatican Cellars and The Counterfeiters being among my all-time favourite books. Haven’t read Theseus though, so that’s really fascinating thank you.

I totally see your point and agree, @mudlark,…[Read more]

@Craig

I emailed that link to my brother in France and his response this morning was. ‘Nice one! But isn’t there a worrying bit at the end where she falls off a cliff holding it, into an all-consuming fire, and the whole country comes crashing down?’

@cathannabel

As always, a beautifully expressed post. And coincidentally, I was thinking last night of Buffy’s The Body and what an impeccable piece of writing it is. Possibly one of the finest 40 minutes of television I’ve seen.

I love this:

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@craig   I wish I could hug you right now because we both need one. Virtual hugs will have to do.

@craig She sounds incredible. 🙂

@kevinwho Thank you for sharing those bittersweet and beautiful words. I really like your take on Doctor Who aswell.

@craig @cathannabel @kevinwho

I’m so sorry. I can’t imagine how it must feel to lose a partner or parent. I wish I knew the right words to say. Language is rubbish sometimes.

“if it seems we’ve wandered too far afield from the episode”… or maybe right to the heart of it?

Such a beautiful photo, Craig. I hope you get your dream tonight.

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@craig — JEEZ!  One look at your Xmas card, and I almost called the bomb squad!  At least now I’m awake, though, so thank you, and merry thingamabobs to you and all right back!

@craig @ichabod @miapatrick @pedant @idiotsavon

Let’s play Finger The @Cumquat

No. Wait. That came out way more obscene than intended.

Or did it?

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@craig is there any way there could be a method to be notifiedor follow a specific topic without actually posting first,like the notify me of follow up replies is emails, as I often like to follow a conversation thread before putting my own two penny’s worth into the discussion. May be something like the Facebook follow button for any given topic.

@craig

I think you could see the arc as Graham and Ryan’s grief over Grace’s death, in which case It Takes You Away would have been a good finale episode.

But I don’t think it quite is: as I say, my thoughts haven’t exactly coalesced yet, though I strongly suspect another blog is a’comin’. I think the arc is about ‘grace’ and the loss of…[Read more]

@craig

I also said last week’s episode, “It Takes You Away”, could have been made into a better season finale,

I understand what you mean, but I don’t think so. My thoughts haven’t quite coalesced yet – though I will say that this episode and The Woman Who Fell To Earth are the only episodes this series I’ve watched three times.

I think the a…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave and @Craig

Shouldn’t this discussion be in BBC Approved Spoilers?

@Craig
I don’t think it was trying to be that sort of finale. At least, given the jokes in there about previous overblown finales, I’d say the script was deliberately trying not to be that sort of finale.

If Chibnall had left the Earth out, then we wouldn’t have got that moment of realising that the Earth isn’t really the centre of the…[Read more]

Yay! Graham faced his demon and survived. The series arc was never the Stenza, or Tim Shaw, it was Graham’s journey (and on another level, Ryan’s). False gods, the value of life, the soul-destroying nature of a life focused on vengeance. Tim Shaw paid the price for this, Graham didn’t have to. And Team TARDIS is the Doctor’s fam!

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@craig

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).

Yup, I agree completely. The difference between us is that I think the fact that everyone on Earth was going to die was – backstory.

The reason we’re not getting this is because in an RTD or Moffat…[Read more]