@thane16 doesn’t Ruby’s mother (the known one) say it’s the beast?

This Doctor is very in touch with his emotions. Crying every episode, his horrified frustrated rage in Dot and Bubble. His instant flirty crush in Rouge. After all, if Fourteen is working through his stuff on earth, with his earth family. it’s probably going to lean into that. And…[Read more]

Puppy!

@janetteb I was thinking of you during the first half. I think at least, it’s like when you get the wrong answer on The Chase and so does the Chaser, because the Doctor was really buying the Susan theory for a while there.

And we have new Susan knowledge! The Doctor isn’t a dad (yet). And he’s scared to become one. What would that…[Read more]

@janetteb I was thinking that she was thinking how taking her with her. This series does keep teasing companions not from contemporary London…

So, having bought about it for a while.

I feel the Doctor might have found the Mr Darcy to his Lizzy Bennet. (Only the Doctor knows damn well he’s handsome enough to tempt him). It was interesting seeing a little reversal of the Doctor-River encounters, I saw a little of River in the Doctor in this encounter. And to see a little of that dynamic…[Read more]

<span class=”useratname”>@devilishrobby My hope is a new River. Bit amoral, but goes all in with the Doctor.

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I did play with an idea of a stray regeneration of River for a second. Would have been fun, but probably not.

@craig And I’d love to wish that portion of the interweb a ‘very happy die mad about it’. 🙂

@fozzyb o be fair, Blink is one of the most praised newer Doctor Who episodes, and it was even Doctor Lite-er :).

I feel they made this episode work with it, the last episode worked too, but there is a weirdness in pacing in having two Doctor lite episodes in a row in quite a short run. But I think a lot of that is logistics and doing what they…[Read more]

@fozzyb for me, the relative inactivity of the Doctor goes to confirm that the issue is race. He appears first, she won’t listen. Ruby does most of the communicating with her as you say. Even when she does begin to listen to him she says things like ‘he’s not as stupid as he looks’ and ‘he’s defiantly going to be disciplined’. About him, not Ruby.…[Read more]

Exactly. And I think it’s important to consider some of the things people have been doing with social media – engaging in political activity, taking public records of police brutality. It’s also a way to really communicate, organise, support. It can be used actively or passively.

In the 18th century, there was a kind of explosion of social media…[Read more]

thinking more about this episode – and how I’m enjoying it – there is a unity/overlapping of themes over the series so far. I totally get where the ‘are they the space babies grown up’  ideas are coming from. The society that abandoned the babies because they can’t let them not be born but won’t take care of them is a different but equally awful…[Read more]

<span class=”useratname”>@blenkinsopthebrave Yup. Pains me to say this but the space babies were better than that. </span>

@juniperfish – I think he’s cried every episode so far. I’m starting to think it does indeed have a deeper meaning than just that he’s worked on himself and is in touch wit his emotions. But even that has something to it, he’s no longer trying to be stoic, or avoid any emotions other than happiness and anger – because if y0u do that (avoid grief…[Read more]

@cathannabel – indeed, it’s still very much a might. But he finds things interesting, he just wants to help – I don’t remember seeing any reactions from him when the Doctor talked to him at admittedly a stressful point. I think he would have tried.

@monkey8ea5t  I wonder if in some way I wasn’t a reminder for people (like me) who don’t have to face the question of racism, who don’t experience it, to occasionally drop our bubble and look. Ruby herself surely already knew and then faced again the fact that she can be as unprejudiced as ever but she can’t protect someone she loves from that…[Read more]

just to add – another sad thing about it is, you know who of any of them might have jumped into that Tardis and just had a blast travelling the universe learning about everywhere he goes and saving people? Rickey September. The absolute waste.

The episode was good, the ending rendered it devastating. Like many people I think I started thinking of Black Mirror from the start, but thinking of the black mirror episode it most resembled, this was actually much, much more bleak.

And it is interesting to think about the early signs. I had barely registered, I’m afraid, the total whiteness,…[Read more]

On that was – I very much liked last weeks episode but I’ve never and never thought I would watch an RTD episode after a Moffat one and prefer it so much.

re RIP and I miss you – I think you can love someone and miss them and be absolutely determined that they remain out of your life.

is it possible the dangerous prime minister remains a more m…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u OK that almost makes it seem possible, if we’re getting call backs to old stuff…

@ps1l0v3y0u They’d take to controlling the metal caseings really well…

I’m envisioning Dalek’s advancing, spinning slightly, towards someone electronically demanding CUD-DLE-ME! They could be the most terrifying iteration of the species yet.

@mudlark I think you’re right on the meaning but I’m a little bothered about it because she has a legal next of kin – her mother adopted her. What she has is no genetic relatives. Legal next of kin is generally decided by closest generic relative – or spouse/civil partner – but in cases of adoption, it’s adoptive family. I might be being a bit…[Read more]