Or…. what @nick said much more succinctly! 😉

@ichabod, @Nick et al–

Thanks for the interesting comments on the TLs which I plan to reply to. However, don’t want to derail the discussion here too far away from the episode in question so I’ve revived @phaseshift‘s excellent blog on the subject from a few years back and bumped it back onto the front page for ease of access….

@missrori

Now the Master’s taken poor Bill’s body and ultimately turned it into a near-helpless robot slave….
But the Doctor can find a way to fix her like he fixed up Nardole.  It wouldn’t be quite the same, it wouldn’t be perfect, but she could be happy again as a cyborg or otherwise.

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@nick I think the BBC made a commercial decision on the 45 minute thing as outside of BBC on commercial channels you have to factor in the time added by commercial breaks which makes a BBC 45 minute programme 1 hour long. When watching  Who on say What was Uk Gold for example the episodes are shown over an hour

@Nick

Time @ Floor Zero might be going backwards with increased rapidity…

If constant calculation is correct, that would explain the years passing…

@BlenkinsopTheBrave

Which falls faster: A Kilo of duck or a Kilo of witch?(!)

I wonder how long the Doctor will have to bide his time to make up how ever many minutes passed…?

@nick
You are being awfully literal! I’m not sure you have taken on board my reason for including the Monty Python clip. And if my theory does turn out to be correct, as you say,

a good story is a good story and that’s all that matters at the end of the day.

@blenkinsopthebrave               @nick

Great theory but only if they stay put at that end?   I  think the idea might not be to stick around?

Unless they  go back  to the top then use the black hole to play with time.   I suppose

if your the Doctor you can manipulate where the space ship is in relation to the

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@Nick

I’m curious if in the next season when Chibnall takes over if he might choose

to strike a new direction some where between the BG and AG styles?

Broadchurch is a serial format.  He’s done both.  Maybe he’ll create a hybrid  🙂

I’m also curious to see if he brings back any older Who characters.

He has a history with many of th…[Read more]

@nick I suppose you’re right.  You’re going to make me (grudgingly) admit that we just have a different viewing sensibility now.  A shorter attention sp… hey look, a new YouTube video!

@nick You’re reply to jimthefish sums up the he situation in BG Who better than I wrote.

Thanks.  Even if it was a slightly little long winded sum-up. 😉

Some of the very best Who stories, certainly in BG era, benefit from a mysterious build up, setting the scene and the key characters. I think one problem with many AG stories is that they ju…[Read more]

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@nick  I agree that it’s just too hard to come up with a recurring Time Lord baddie that won’t come off as Master 2.0.  That’s pretty much what Rassilon became in Supremacy of the Cybermen.

I know that the Rani and the Valeyard are the two most requested BG villains that haven’t shown up in the AG series (I guess they’ve both had a lot of Big Fi…[Read more]

@nerys I didn’t notice the explanation by @geoffers, but it’s not simply time perception, it is the actual passage of time, measured by any means, that is affected. The really short explanation is high gravity = slow time. The difference of hundred of kilometres from the top to the bottom of the ship affects the relative gravity felt at the two…[Read more]

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@nick—

I think that Moff would need to have a very clever idea indeed to avoid spoiling the end of the S10.

I agree, but much as I hate to say it, SM’s series finales have been a bit lacklustre of late, since The Name of the Doctor and possibly even The Wedding of River Song. For my money, both Hell Bent and Death in Heaven were a bit…[Read more]

@missrori— I agree with you and @pedant that the Hybrid is a concept that’s done and dusted. I’m always slightly bemused when this keeps coming up as I think it was pretty clearly dealt with in Hell Bent. I suspect it’s because it’s such a grand phrase that evokes such a lot in the Whovian imagination that it’s hard to let of and accept the…[Read more]

@thane15  Thane, that is a good point about happiness you make.  Here in America at least self-happiness has become the name of the game, not helping others and being curious.  Explains a lot actually about where society is going.  But I hope for some sunshine next week anyway.  Twelve hasn’t had his Big Bang yet, his day of glory, his happy seas…[Read more]

A bit late to put together my thoughts on this one and read through comments, so I’ll try not to cover too much old ground.

I thought this was an excellent episode and the pick of the season for me.

Mr Razor was a character I was enjoying a lot, even without the revelation as to his identity, which I didn’t pick at all before the final mom…[Read more]

Tend to agree with @Nick that the way Clara’s death was presented in Face the Raven made it clear (at least to me) that she wasn’t dead, or at least not in the sense of an absolute end, taking no further part in the series. Bill’s ‘demise’ seems different to me in that regard, The mise en scene presents it with significance, finality, that…[Read more]