Well, that was pretty damn good and easily Chibnall’s best work on the series. Long may it continue. It didn’t have the sheer energy of The Eleventh Hour (but what could?) but I’d say it was a stronger introductory story than The Christmas Invasion. Tonally, Whittaker seems to be pitching her Doctor somewhere between Tennant and Smith and that’s…[Read more]

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@bluesqueakpip @missy @pedant

Interesting convo

Mark Gattis, writer of Empress of Mars, has said in interview how his first instinct was to object to the casting of Bayo Gbadamosi – on the pretty much the exact same grounds as @missy objecting to David Copperfield; there were no black soldiers at that time and in that place.

Fortunately, bef…

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@pedant

Also sorry to hear about the diabetes.

And those quizzes were bloody difficult. (25/30 & 23/25) Looks like that Twitch Marathon paid off after all….

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@pedant

Yeah, I saw that. Moffat’s tribute is wonderful. Pickwoad totally made his mark on the show, which I imagine is not that easy to do after 50+ years.

@tempusfugit

Welcome to the site.

Michael Pickwoad, who did really amazing work as production designer in the Matt Smith/Peter Capaldi eras, including a pretty stunning console room, has passed away.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/doctorwho/entries/f6239164-b00e-48ea-824f-94ff6de67428

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This is a great discussion and the only thing I could really add to it is ‘what @pedant said’….

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