@JimTheFish – Ta for the wipe!

Calling @Craig or @JimTheFish ? Sorry – I dun a whoopsie…..

I think I’m going to join the ranks of “not my favorite”. I didn’t hate it, and some of it was quite good. But a lot of it was just odd and jarring.

I am with @jimthefish on this one: Trying to stitch otherwise stand-alone episodes into a story arc is problematic and in all likelihood will show its scars at the joins: or sew it would sea…[Read more]

@jimthefish Your post #58533 pretty much sums it up for me.

Like @wolfweed I’m not feeling well today, so my addition to the discussion will be brief.

All three episodes, but mainly the last two, had a nagging sense of unfulfilled potential.  ‘Extremis’ I truly enjoyed; it had intrigue, humor, and even had some concepts to contemplate, but it…[Read more]

After battling for (seemingly) hours with various internet locations (thanks for the suggestion @serahni but the geo-lock put the kibosh on that) and finally iTunes, managed to see it, and (as a good citizen consumer) paid to see the remaining episodes.

By and large, agree with @jimthefish on this one, and even those determined to see it in a…[Read more]

A couple of other points I didn’t noticed being raised yet:
* Again the Doctor’s plan consisted largely of taking the pyramid by force, which isn’t a particularly inspired solution, and force has been an increasing tactic of late. If the Monks had simply closed the door, it’s not clear there was a backup plan- pile into the Tardis, I suppo…[Read more]

Some quick thoughts, as it’s late! Overall I liked lots of it a lot, but not as much as the previous 2,  particularly Extremis (which I really liked). My problem with it was much as @JimtheFish (and others) have pointed out – that the Monks were just a bit vague in what they wanted, after their set up as near omniscient beings, with their…[Read more]

Thanks as ever to @Wolfweed for all the brilliant spots and research. Ringtone, eh? I completely missed that. And how sad about Moffat’s mum. As @Blenkinsopthebrave mentioned, it’s later that it hits.

I liked this episode, while recognising its weaknesses, especially the frankly rather pathetic attempts at taking on the pyramid with a plane and a…[Read more]

Wow!

This place is looking very spruce 🙂

I’ve missed you all – been stuck in a big alternative universe of RL for far too long! Mega thanks to @Craig, @JimtheFish, @Wolfweed and @Pedant in particular for dragging me back!

Absolutely loving this series, Capaldi’s knocking it out the park (hope you’re more convinced now, @Bluesqueakpip (but…[Read more]

Another challenging episode for me to comment on. In the end, I enjoyed some elements of the episode, but there were a awful lot of misses in there too and I’m afraid I can’t rate the plot much above a shambles.

@jimthefish made some good points and @blenkinsopthebrave hit some of my issues here:

OK, bear with me, because you know how much I l…

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@jimthefish I thought the barely moving mouths added to their creepiness. They’re not human, they’ve just taken on that shape. They’re quite possibly not even speaking out loud.

As for the quick surrender, if you believed the end of the world was imminent and the aliens weren’t the cause but could prevent it (even at a cost) how many missiles…[Read more]

But your average domestic moggie and fancy breeds? They would be very quickly ‘selected out’.

@pedant, many individuals would, and of course many domestic cats are spayed/neutered so it wouldn’t matter from a gene pool point of view. But I’ve certainly had cats that were fantastic hunters (unfortunately for the smaller creatures in our local wil…[Read more]

@pedant: Interesting post. thank you for that.

A simm-ulation. ahahaha hahahahaha ahahahaha. aha.

Oh very droll. *chuckles*

@missrori;   As many are now asking elsewhere, how does the main plot of “The Return of Doctor Mysterio” fit into this timeline?  If the execution is happening shortly after the Doctor bade goodbye to River, and this i…[Read more]

@jimthefish

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

I don’t think the BBC would allow a “suicide” in a program with a younger audience base in any case (nor do I think that would be an appropriate way to handle it). The Doctor could voluntarily regenerate without self-harm though.

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