Is it wrong that my first thought was: well, what I would do is find a way of convincing everyone on earth they were in a simulation’?

Otherwise: scary Narnia.

the doctor would never kill the master.

I like that Nardole remembered his ex’s name when Bill asked him to ‘shut his girlfriend up’.

And also, Ganymede? Rosalind’s choice of the name makes contextual sense, why would a company use that name? Just th connection to Jupiter?

Also, I seem to recall someone talking about the fluid link being in a pre gap episode. Do we know that the ‘you’ who gave Nardole his orders is twelve?

Hang on, just rewatching this episode and:

‘you’re missing it arn’t you.’

‘Competition.’

‘space.’

one of the masters must be in the vault.

also, a bigger build up to the space station than I remembered. Did the male astronaut hack in at the start?

@MissRori– me too, which is why I prefer the idea of the road to hell paved with ‘indifference’. To say it’s ‘good intentions’ is to imply it might be best to do nothing. Indifference.
The entire point to the doctor is that he meddles. But I do love that the show doesn’t shy away from the fact this is also problematic.

@pedant– thank you! I was having a lovely time as well, was a little upset when it all vanished. It’s another problem with threads, really.

Oh also, the ‘it’s not my fault’ and the idea that this eliminates ‘what can I do about it’.

Is the road to hell paved with good intentions or indifference?

@mudlark oh I loved that.

But, bloody he’ll! ‘I love space. I miss space. Lovely, leathal, boiling freezing to death space. Let’s go to space. Not there. Let’s go to dangerous space.’

‘it would be a worry’. What’s in the vault?

I’m dealing with an emotionally unstable 20 year old right now, so my own life might be fueling a ‘hmmm’ regarding the…[Read more]

OK we’ve had persistence of consiousness (the pilot/Silence in the Library) tiny creatures that turn you into a skeleton (smile/Silence) the setting, within days and metres of one of River and the doctor’s dates (thin ice/a good man goes to war) it’s not right to be kept in a shadow of real life plus ‘I talk to a dead person'(knock knock/damn I…[Read more]

Nardole was fantastic in this. Matt Lucus that is. In fact everyone was fantastic in this one.

the doctor is blind. He’ll never be able to look at anyone ever again? Clumsiest line in the whole episode has to mean something.

He means twelve right? This personality. I’ve always felt regeneration is a death. (Just as you get such different…[Read more]

I lived the brief exchange in iambic pentameter.

I’m scared/ don’t be/ why not/ it doesn’t help.

Has anyone seen the Guardian thread? So much positivity! People really like Bill. I do. What are the chances she’ll get a second season? I really think she’d be a great transition into a different Doctor and showrunner.
I wouldn’t change the last few seasons, but I like the idea that Moff is producing a straightforward, classic who season here. I…[Read more]

@thane15– The Girl Who Waited, when Amy got left behind- the most horrific thing is that she didn’t age faster or anything- she was just stuck there for that long!

Interesting context on Moffart saying he deliberately wanted a companion who wasn’t white…
Noted Nardole and not ‘slaving for a human’. Now robots and their interface as indigenous species… and an all white Tardis crew wouldn’t fully work with such a story line. Or all white colonists…
Incidentally, the emoji thing started off very Black…[Read more]

Oh I’ve not seen the pilot then- I hadn’t realised they reshot.

@morpho– Were they not aliens in the first episode? I know they weren’t in the film, but I thought they were in the CV series, and it was Cushings doctor who was human. There’s a really good theory about that one here somewhere…

@Morpho, continuity with the first episode of Doctor Who can be tricky, though. Regeneration didn’t even happen then. I also though she seemed very confused and upset in class for someone raised on earth, she seemed surprised by the difference in her knowledge and understand to theirs.

re: The TARDIS- how is it done in other languages, anyone know? Do they just put together the first letters in Spanish, French etc? I didn’t entirely get her question, because all the word Tardis is is the acronym, and that’s just the English version, because the translation circuits also translate everything into (modern) English, presumably…[Read more]

anyone else notice, when Bill made a noise near the vault, Nardel asked the doctor what setting he left the door on, and the Doctor said ‘friends’ or something? i.e. It’s interesting that she could get down there…

plus, I also think he said he liked that she smiled, rather than frowning, when she heard something she didn’t understand.…[Read more]

I really, really want it to be Stephen Mangan, if we’re sticking with white male.
But then again, I might not want a Doctor I have a weird crush on.
I’ve only seen Kris in My Family, which is an awful sitcom. If we’re having a sitcom actor, why not Richard Coyle? Did anyone here watch Strange?
Doesn’t matter, not happened yet. I loved Smith, I’m…[Read more]