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@oochillyo It has been too many episodes and too much time now for me to remember the specifics of this episode, but it sounds like they had to release the fuel storage on the ship.  I don’t know if that was to like push them away from the sun or to make the ship less heavy or what.  If the engine was broken then I don’t know how it would have d…[Read more]

@oochillyo So the Weeping Angels might be able to fly, if I’m going by the one scene in those episodes where the more humanoid ones transform and look more like angels again.  One of them had their wings spread, and I believe it was airborne.

This of course makes the angels even more threatening because they could probably fly faster than they…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent Thank you, you made some sense of that whole plot!  I guess I missed the part where the angel had crashed the ship, and kept getting confused about whether the beginning scene was related to this Stormcage Jail.  I still wonder why she was allowed to act alone for such a big part of the mission.

@oochillyo The living room t…[Read more]

@oochillyo @Rewvian The way I see it (unless I’ve missed something) – River was in Stormcage jail (which we never see in this episode, it wasn’t on the crashing ship, we do see it in a subsequent ep) for killing someone – I think the Doctor in his future (her past). She was released from Stormcage on parole (under the custody of the Bishop)…[Read more]

@oochillyo We don’t mind your longer posts at all.  I have been known at times to really write pages of stuff, myself.  I say if you enjoy getting your thoughts out on here then go for it!  This place could use a bit of discussion and debate anyways.  We’ve got a small community, but apparently a pretty good one – and it’s not too busy to stay in…[Read more]

@oochillyo I will have to continue my rewatch and see if I pick up on any of those themes strongly.  It might take me a while to get around to watching the next episode, but one of these days I’ll write something about it.

“The fairy tale series” isn’t a bad way to describe season 5.  I remember one of my personal gripes with it was how the D…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I think you analyzed and summarized that whole aspect of the episode much better than I was able to.  I think the part about choices not being clear-cut was probably right on the money.  Amy could have very well destroyed the humans to save the Star Whale, but fortunately it just so happened that wasn’t what the Abdicate button d…[Read more]

By complete surprise, I came across this today. I have no idea of its origin, but it is utterly charming.

And, @oochillyo, I hope it provides some comfort.

Hi Everyone,

Like you, @Oochillyo , I enjoyed this episode.

The Doctor’s new origin story is a bit galactic fairytale isn’t it?

A foundling, she confronts the Evil Step-Mother who experimented on her as a child. A mother who stole her genetics to create her (adoptive) species, recruited her to meddle in and control Time, and mind-wiped her when…[Read more]

@oochillyo   I borrowed them from my local library, maybe yours has them too. I enjoyed them quite a lot so I hope you find them.

stay safe.

@oochillyo

It depends where you are, of course, but BritBox has all the Sarah Jane Adventures (plus pretty much all of Classic Who and a number of other cultish goodies too…)

@oochillyo In the US Sarah Jane Adventures is on HBO Max, as is Torchwood.

@oochillyo Good luck with finding Sarah Jane. We have the collection but not sure that there is any easy way of sharing it. It has been years since I watched it but I did enjoy it. It was nice to see Elizabeth Sladden get a chance to develop her character and I liked the “companions”. They were all well developed characters. Only disapointment was…[Read more]

@oochillyo

Good question. However, the next Doctor – apart from being a MALE *winks* – should be British.

I have always fancied Kris Marshall. He can be an absolute nutter, but when he becomes serious, one knows about sharpish.

Whoever they choose, he will have to be very agile.

Missy

@dentarthurdent and @oochillyo    I guess this one aired before this site was started so no comments. It is a really good episode asking that age old question “Does the end justify the means?”. Tyrants everywhere have always thought so but so do good guys sometime.

The Doctor is great in this one , he wears a cowboy hat and talks to horses and ch…[Read more]

@oochillyo

Hi Declan    Thanks for being so broadminded.    I tried not to get too carried away with my criticisms (though I’m not sure how successful I was there).    Actually I was breaking an unwritten rule of mine which was, don’t get too negative (I hope Craig will forgive this one occasion   🙂     I know Craig founded this site because t…[Read more]

@oochillyo as our emperor Craig  said the episode felt very messy. I think/feel it’s as if Chibbers has tried to cram 2 episodes of information into 1. Now I’m used to Who having stories stretch over 4+ episodes being a pre gap fan  where episodes were only 25-30 mins and essentially this season is supposed to be 1 long story. I know previ…[Read more]

@oochillyo Interesting concept, though I think it would be more suited to a spinoff than a series of Doctor Who.

The problem I can see is, that as soon as we the audience start seeing things from the point of view of someone, we start sympathising with them, even if they are ‘evil’. That certainly happened with Battlestar Galactica with the Cylon…[Read more]

@oochillyo   Yes, it seems fairly clear that the droids think they have a mission to perform, and don’t care about collateral damage.   In fact they don’t even recognise that collateral damage might be a thing.

This was evident in the following exchange:   REINETTE: I have seen your world, and I have no desire to set foot there again.
DROID: We d…[Read more]