@pedant

It’s an interesting analogy and I think it’s definitely there but (and this feels oddly like something we’ve discussed on the Buffy threads) its kind of comparing apples and oranges. Who has not been ensemble show for a long time and I suspect that the way its mythos has panned out means that it never can be again.

The issue I think is…[Read more]

@kevinwho

Nothing to apologise for. It was an interesting post.

In answer to your question, I think Who’s real strength is that it does something audacious every so often. It’s the episodes which push the envelope slightly that seem to get remembered. All of the ‘classic’ stories are atypical in some way or another. Genesis of the Daleks is…[Read more]

@mudlark @bluesqueakpip

I just want to point out that I’m not railing against some kind of BBC amphibian agenda here. Just at seeing a quite promising Stranger Things/Solaris fusion squandering its potential in such a spectacular fashion….

@whisht @craig

And possibly ‘It’s Not Easy Being Green’?

@miapatrick

When it’s representing a sentient universe, one is enough…..

For a while there, I thought I was going to have to eat my words of this week and call this a pretty good episode. Then frogs happened.

Let’s just say that if I ever hear anyone diss Kill The Moon for moon eggs ever again I will not be responsible for my actions.

@cathannabel

And, of course, the mighty but short-lived Long Blondes….

@craig

yeah, I saw that earlier. As usual, CoG is one of the voices of reason among the WhoTubers and on this he’s dead right.

I suspect the Whovian obsession with ratings comes from when ratings were used as the excuse for cancellation in the 1980s. It’s a hangover from a time when they actually meant something and they live in fear of a time…[Read more]

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@thane16

Happy birthday. Hope it’s a good ‘un!

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@tardisprototype94

Social Messages are everywhere

Lawks. As they have been ever since the show started.

Alan Cumming was lots of fun in this and, um, that’s it really. Spent much of the episode being reminded of The Mark of the Rani, which, oddly enough, was the story that made me check out of the show back in the 80s.

I think I’m done. At least for the time being….

@miapatrick

it seemed to me that all the consciousness was in the system, not individual robots.

Which seems to me be the problem. If the System is in control of the bots, then why bother with a needlessly cryptic SOS? Why not just turn off all the bots? Presumably because Charlie had hijacked the control protocols in some way. But I’m still…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

Avoiding the obvious critique is fine but I think you have to think it through and not just do it for the sake of it. Leaving aside the plotholes which, let’s face it, have never really bothered us, this episode seems to be all over the place intellectually, with its ‘terrorism wins’ and ‘let’s define people’s self worth by their…[Read more]