@janetteb background noise, yes! The adults were quite confused by me as a child, I appeared to be hard of hearing, but hearing tests didn’t really back that up. I’d just about got the hang of things in London, moved to Manchester, realised how much I’d been lip reading and how differently people move their lips in Manchester. Many jobs that…[Read more]

@janetteb background noise, yes! The adults were quite confused by me as a child, I appeared to be hard of hearing, but hearing tests didn’t really back that up. I’d just about got the hang of things in London, moved to Manchester, realised how much I’d been lip reading and how differently people move their lips in Manchester. Many jobs that…[Read more]

Really happy to see a reference to dyspraxia as a learning disability as well as a motor skills issue. I honestly struggled working behind a bar, I’d be terrible at a checkout.

Started as a clear critique of Amazon, but ended up being more than that. Both the system, and one of the human staff put unreasonable pressure on human employees. The…[Read more]

@tardigrade I’m absolutely certain Graham will break our hearts. I don’t know though, I don’t think he’ll die of cancer, but this is the second time he’s spoken in defence of someone keeping something quite important from their family. I think at the very least he sees the time he has right now as a bonus, he sees the time he had with his wife as…[Read more]

@tardigrade what’s depressing is the predictable volume of comments on this being a ‘PC version’ of what happened in India, propaganda etc, despite the light touch of how it was dealt with here. What’s been really hardening is the amount of comment’s I’ve seen across the internet from people saying they didn’t know about partition and now they’re…[Read more]

@mudlark my friend’s mother’s family moved from India to Kenya after partition, they were Muslim but chose not to go to Pakistan. The women in the family who are muslims don’t wear full head coverings. (Her mother actually does wear a kind of headscarf when she goes out, but she’s a Christian and I think wearing it is more of an old fashioned…[Read more]

@nerys there was a breif mention, of Hindus, Muslims, and Sikh people living and working side by side, can’t remember who said it, maybe Umbreen?

@notime problem is, if she saved him, Yaz wouldn’t exist. Which also means they wouldn’t have travelled back there. Too much paradox. Besides, the Doctor’s words were ‘when people ask for help, I never say no’. She wasn’t asked to save him.

I think it makes a point as well, you can’t just run around taking away all the bad things that happen.…[Read more]

Main takeaway from this episode: Chibnall has excellent taste in writers. And the focus of this series is the importance of people.

For a while I was a little excited there, arch wise, it felt as though we had our third episode of people being targeted by aliens or people from the future. Instead we got something very interesting, Aliens, the…[Read more]

Assuming you mean Rose, there is a bit of a pattern to that… I’m not slamming Chibnall, but I do think he’ll be all the better as a show runner the more he lets other people write episodes.

@sontaran2589 To be fair she’s got an Indian accent when she’s speaking English, but she wasn’t speaking English in India/Pakistan. The Tardis translation unit has given people in Pompi welsh accents in the past.

@lionheart564 Doula was the word I was looking for. Google searches work much better when you have the foggiest idea how a word is spelt, it took me longer than I’m proud of to find it.

@lionheart564 I was actually thinking of you when I pointed out this episode had a black person (a woman too!) owning an android designed to look like a white man, in the context of what we were talking about before.Robot ownership is linked to slave ownership, the word robot even comes from a word for slave.

The medic who died was not presenting…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip oh I completely understand the logic. And even the fact that there isn’t any direct communication, meaning that the ship can’t be hijacked and the crew forced at gunpoint to make up a plausible story, and the crew can’t play on the pity and compassion of the people down on the planet. It is very logical and utilitarian, it’s more…[Read more]

OK this episode. Other than I’m pretty sure Graham isn’t in remission (or at least has no intention of telling people when he ceases to be)…

The Graham-Ryan parts remain strong. Men evolving to give birth but only through (albeit nerve free) cesarian, odd, admittedly, but this is far in the future. Could be a deliberate genetic modification.…[Read more]

@jrant I think it feels that way because this run is being presented (and conceived) as a kind of fresh start. The original relaunch seemed very disconnected to the original Who to a lot of watchers, but since that start, much of new Who has been building on RTD’s original concept, especially the Time War and the idea that the Doctor was the last…[Read more]

@jrant I think it feels that way because this run is being presented (and conceived) as a kind of fresh start. The original relaunch seemed very disconnected to the original Who to a lot of watchers, but since that start, much of new Who has been building on RTD’s original concept, especially the Time War and the idea that the Doctor was the last…[Read more]

@Craig, yes I have noticed he’s writing a lot of these…

Graham talking to the pilot brother about her lying about her health ‘well she might have a good reason for that’. Hmmmm.

@lionheart564 trying to formulate a comment along the lines of ‘so we all look the same to you?’ that makes it clear I’m making a joke 😉 … sometimes europeans are bad at telling the difference between facial characteristics of, say, Korean and Chinese people in a similar way. The racial difference in that episode would be registered by…[Read more]

@lionheart564 yes I keep double posting, though my links seem to be working.