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Quite fun and worth it for Michelle Gomez’s interpretation of the 12th Doc alone…

@tardigrade—

Yes, I was wondering where your post went to.

Honestly, I can’t see them having any concept of rent as we’d understand it

Well, we see the ‘tablet’ with the human history showing on it beside the dead shepherd. Surely the Vardies had seen that, or more likely had access to databanks of human culture and history. I think it’s saf…[Read more]

@missy—

It must be some other show you’re thinking of — perhaps one specific to your region? The ‘official’ after show is definitely Christel. Here’s this week’s btw, with a cracking interview with Peter Capaldi, replete with some interesting tidbits on his take on the Doctor’s character, the discovery of alien life and the usual gubbins about…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip — yes, I think the Doctor did perform what he considered to be a piece of ad hoc ‘justice’. (so much for him not being ‘the police’). It’s also his Time Lord showing, let’s face it.

@tardigrade — it wouldn’t be the first time that the Doctor has left a planet with a precarious ad hoc ‘peace’ and just hopes that it’ll all turn out…[Read more]

@mudlark and @pufferfish—

I think there’s a definite Puritan edge to all the names of the colonists and I think this is possibly what made me think of Faber’s Book of Strange New Things. Is it possible that this colony ship is reserved for a religious faction/cult of some kind (after all, the Scots got a ship to themselves). Although it is an…[Read more]

My personal take is that Broadchurch has always been a flawed creation and that the first series benefited from being broadcast during a period of relative drought of quality drama. The second series was pants and Chibnall did himself no favours by lashing out at his critics instead of just putting his hand up to its failings and just carrying on.…[Read more]

@missy—

Last week I thought the presenter was rather silly and not a true DW fan. He was just doing a job. That was my impression anyway

Think that’s a bit unfair. Christel Dee is a long-term YouTuber with serious Who tendencies and was doing really rather good fan vlogs for quite some time now. That the BBC has taken on her show as the…[Read more]

@pedant—

Re the bird, it did occur to me that it might be a Dodo (think about it)

Ooo, that’s a really cool idea. I’m really enjoying all the Hartnell love this series. It’s often felt to me that his era tends to get forgotten about as somehow being too ‘old fashioned’ or ‘too long ago’ or something…

Though I suppose it’s probably too much to…[Read more]

We all know that Peter Capaldi is quite the talented artist but it turns out that Heather is no slouch herself. Really liked this.

The paintings are an interesting spot and definitely seem to be a ‘thing’. Although I must admit I was convinced by the Tarot talk last year and that didn’t seem to have any lasting significance. I do wonder if SM and the production team do like to throw something in for the likes of our little gang to chew over but which is essentially tangential…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave — also think you’re take on the episode being at least partially about language is spot on. Though I don’t seem to mind emoji as much you or @ pedant 😉

@mudlark and @wolfweed — the Van Gogh painting is striking, but I think the chances are it’s a striking similarity. I suspect the cornfields were chosen because its a…[Read more]

@janetteb — Planet of the Daleks is cheesily terrible — Terry Nation really phoning it in. But as it’s my first encounter with Who in any form I have a significant soft spot for it…

Not quite as glorious as last week but a pretty solid episode nonetheless. I like how the first 20 or so minutes had a real old-school feeling to them — the equivalent off what would have been the first episode of a BG story, with lots of questions, a mystery, a new world to explore, and Capaldi is definitely reminding me of mid-period Tom Baker…[Read more]

@missy — fair enough. The After Show is very good and it’s been posted up-thread a bit. It’s well worth checking out for the interview with SM and Pearl Mackie. But basically the Dalek scene was cut because it affected the pace of the episode.