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@jimthefish

It wouldn’t surprise me at all if Yeats and the Irish Literary Revival helped make ‘fantastical’ political in Southern Ireland, but I think he might have been riffing off an older tradition. You don’t get much more political than Dean Swift, even if his most famous work is now seen as a children’s story.

Yeah, I think the gap is…[Read more]

@Jimthefish

To be honest, when the robber pulled out his pistol my first thought was dissident Republicans, but I can see why an Irish reporter might not be too keen on saying that. We in the UK tend to see the troubles as Northern Ireland, but most Gardai deaths on duty (that aren’t accidents) result from a crime investigation that turns out to…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip, @jimthefish

I thought you might enjoy this Irish perspective on the episode:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/tv-radio-web/doctor-who-landed-in-1950s-rural-ireland-last-night-the-fiddles-never-stopped-1.4183190

@Jimthefish

The Easter Rising was in 1916, but Brendan’s Garda mentor (do we ever find out his name?) is wearing a Garda uniform when he’s investigating the finding of Baby Brendan. Which means that has to be 1922 or later (unless we’re doing a Whoniverse thing of fudging the dates/uniforms because it’s not our universe).

So when Brendan is seen…[Read more]

Okay, so I had a chance to rewatch this episode – some thoughts on that.

Firstly, while I’m going to wait and see what next week’s like, I think I may have to apologise to CC for saying his ‘future-set’ episodes aren’t that good. Given the massive amount of information that had to be given to the audience, this was a very well paced first…[Read more]

@jimthefish The Doctor is definitely getting interesting, more edge. The bouncy freshness of her original regeneration feeling the pressure, perhaps, of so much time and memory

.@ollie14, I think so too, but I also agree wit @bluesqueakpip that he’s the timeless child

We now know that the Time Vortex can do one of two things to human style b…[Read more]

@jimthefish All links are “No follow” so no harm done, no rankings improved. I don’t really mind.

A good episode. though like @mudlark I was not keen on the bad “Jane Austen pastiche ” at the beginning. It felt “soapy” and reminded me too much of a certain Red Dwarf episode. the S/O was saying that he preferred last week’s episode but then the story picked up and all was forgiven. I do love the Mary Shelley story though am not an authority and…[Read more]

Some responses to the comments of others:

“Doctors”: is this show good? It seems as though every second Doctor Who cast member has been on it.

@psymon
“they are annoyingly inconsistent this season about fixed points, multi-verse theory, cause and effect, butterfly effects”

Mmm. Although the new Who has not strictly stuck to a plan, several…[Read more]

@mudlark

I’m not sure that’s entirely fair – as I said a couple of weeks back, it’s really difficult to do an arc that may involve the Doctor’s past without going back into the Doctor’s past. I’d agree Chibnall didn’t have a ‘winner’ like the Weeping Angels when he tried a series of entirely new monsters – and it may well be that he’s got the…[Read more]

@jimthefish

Well, ghosts in the Whoniverse are often the sign of a time distortion. So maybe the ‘conflict’ with the Big Finish audio (haven’t heard it) is a subtle signal that the time distortion caused by sending the Cyberium back (followed by the Lone Cyberman) is more dangerous than we think?

The Big Finish set with Mary Shelley then becomes…[Read more]

Hi @davros

This is probably a question for our resident Time Lords, @craig, @jimthefish, @phaseshift, who manage the site. In the interim, there is always the “On the Sofa” thread, which is open to all Who-related discussion.

@blenkinsopthebrave @jimthefish

Two of my favourite film books, strangely enough.

@jimthefish

“Frankenstein Unbound”. What a fantastic movie!

@craig

Of course, the problem with watching Ken Russell and Roger Corman now, is that we are possibly setting ourselves up for disappointment with the approaching episode.

I’ve not really been commenting much on the episodes.
Usually everyone here covers all (and then much more!!) of my thoughts.

Oddly with this episode I find myself agreeing with @jimthefish but also with those more disposed toward it.
Personally I found the Graham and Doctor interaction at the end jarring, but not because of past Doctors and how…[Read more]

@jimthefish

Looking back over the previous comments I find myself in agreement with all your points on this one. For example, I agree with your point that Yaz’s mental health issue might have been more effective if it had been seeded in previous episodes. Also agree strongly with your points about the Whittaker Doctor. She seems to have forgotten…[Read more]

@jimthefish

It’s about memory. Not fanwankery – memory. I’d have to check the individual episodes to see if I can spot the set, but the two themes running through that I’ve spotted so far are genetics and the Doctors’ pasts. I don’t think it’s really possible to do an arc about whether the Doctor and the Master’s pasts are based on a lie…[Read more]

The first thing that struck me about this episode were the parallels with Listen, and not just in the sequence of the titles – Listen, Can You Hear Me?  Both dealt with the hidden fears which lurk in our subconscious and in our nightmares; the insecurities and doubts which generate the monsters under the bed and the bogeymen haunting the shadows,…[Read more]