So, another Sunday night, another episode.

“Rosa” was nearly unsurpassable for me, so all but impossible for tonight to make any kind of mark. But it failed to even get close, I’d have to say.

Spiders, yeah. Frequent baddies, @craig. Empress of Racnoss was a bit meh at the time.

Today’s eight-legged ones weren’t baddies at all, of course, just…[Read more]

Okkkkay!

That’s more like it.

Back to form with real moral questions tearing the soul apart. Some actual jeopardy. More than one tear shed.

Malorie Blackman, we need more of you doing what you do.

Really on tenterhooks waiting for ep 2.

@craig suggesting we may have to wait till next week for the plot momentum to really get going. Well that’s OK if the jeopardy/character interaction/heart-tug carries the adventure. I suspect it will.

I interpret the very significant BBC publicity highlighting “a hostile alien environment” (together with a…[Read more]

New here. This seems like a friendly place to land my ship. Hi everyone!

Just rewatched Twice Upon A Time to remind myself of how the doctor exited the Peter Capaldi incarnation, and, you know, how do you follow that tearjerker?! Especially if this is to be a complete reboot.

Jodie Whittaker has everything it takes to don the mantle. I’m not…[Read more]