@wolfweed — that video is excellent but begs the question why didn’t he get more votes? He certainly deserved them.

@mudlark — yes, the DUP is the worst of all possible worlds. Reminiscent of when the Cybermen suggested a pact with the Daleks in Doomsday and will undoubtedly go the same way, even if it takes a little longer. As someone on…[Read more]

In other news, this General Election night looks as if it’s going to be a belter….

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@wolfweed — there, hopefully that’s worked this time….

@wolfweed — duly removed. Interesting though. I’d recommend you repost in Spoilers….

OK, I’m going to put it out there that I’m not massively sold on Toby Whithouse episodes which for me range from the ‘meh’ to the ‘flawed but interesting’. And this one personally falls right in the middle of that scale.

This has been the oddest loose trilogy of stories and I’ve not really been sold on it — if anything it’s proved once again (as…[Read more]

Welcome back to @scaryb and @fatmaninabox…

I was beginning to worry about the two of you….

ah, it’s good to have the old family back together… sniff….

OK, I must admit that I share a lot of @blenkinshopthebrave’s reservations about this ep. I liked Extremis and the issues that it played with — and the ideas of political consent, the choosing of leaders wholly unsuited to our personal interests was great too. The Monks strategy was basically Project Fear, the political cosh of choice from…[Read more]

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@wolfweed — I like the idea but I wonder if a suicide-regeneration might be too dark even for Moffat.

@thane15 — yes, I think your idea that this story is going to be about fake news and the rise of the alt-right is spot on. Note how many times the word ‘real’ was used in Extremis and it’s no coincidence that the confrontation with the monks…[Read more]

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@kharis and @missrori—

Yes, I think there’s a bit of misdirection going on re. The Vault. I don’t think there’s any doubt that it was Missy that was put into the Vault but I’m not sure it’s Missy that’s going to come out. There always seems to have been this assumption the Doctor and Master’s confrontations happen in the linear order that we’ve…[Read more]

Another fine episode, although possibly my least favourite of the run so far — although that could well change after ‘parts 2 and 3’ of this three-parter. It’s basically The Android Invasion updated for the 21st century but the point of this episode is not so much about the getting there but the lovely little beats along the journey. As @craig…[Read more]

@wolfweed— and the scary thing is that Alpha Centauri is still a gazillion times more appealing and, well, more human, than May could ever manage to be…

@pedant— I agree that there’s unlikely to be any big secret behind Nardole. But at the same time, over-reading is kind of what we’re here for….