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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 an abused species plot tool. Failed to be heroes or any kind of cause. The episode was a missed opportunity to get our all too natural life companions on our side. Oh well. There’s still snails, maybe…

The character back-story development did work well. Let’s see what next week brings. More co-authoring, please god.

[MadTimeTravellingScot @replies]

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.

 

 

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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 few hidden signs in ep 1) as code for ‘we’re at least moving some of the immigration and race issues into the public awareness arena like we did with LGBT’. But what do I know?

(For non-UK viewers, ‘hostile environment’ is a strategy by the UK government to make it difficult for foreign nationals to live in the UK)

This philosophical direction is in tune with the humanitarian/universalist values of the doctor and pals.

So, keep reading between the lines, folks. We’re never irrelevant. We’re always challenging.

 

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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 sure yet that the scripts do. Yet.

Opening ep was hard work to watch first time through. More ‘Five Go Ape in Yarkshire’ than a real narrative. Sure, it had some heavy industrial lifting to do, mostly done. The setting was brilliant, and the characters are interesting if not enticing (for me, so far, Graham stands out).

I’ll wait for many more episodes before I make my mind up, but if the new Sunday slot is to work and attract new viewers, well, it really needs to start to wow.

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