Also, nobody at any stage, said that the newly laid egg was fertilised.

Alien biology, innit?

I think some people are forgetting the Rule of Cool.

The MOON IS A FRIGGING GIANT SPACE EGG, people!

Oh, and Moon Dragon responded in fundamentally the same way as Space Whale when it was freed.

@BadWulf That sounds about right . Included the a Doctor line about being perfectly entitled to exist, just not a as huge space thingy (I am paraphrasing a tad).

Line of the show: “I’d rather call you Miss, Miss”

Random notes:

A very direct reminder of Clara’s testy relationship with the Tardis;

Watch your language there are children (plural) on board;

Very large single cell thing has precedent from a Tom Baker story – can’t recall which;

A salutary lesson in what happens when the Doctor obeys the…[Read more]

The Grauniad reviewed the DVD set of Edge of Darkness(1) a couple of days ago.

If you have never seen it, use this as an excuse to plug a great yawning chasm in your televisual experience.

If Bob Peck had only ever done this, then his entire career would have still been worthwhile. His Ronnie Craven is a masterclass in understated agony.…[Read more]

Oh!  And the Doctor whistling “Another Brick in the Wall”! 

It’s only a matter of time before we hear Roger Waters whining about it (there’s a bit missing from the CDs of Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy because of failure to secure Pink Floyd rights and he gets in a right arse about being able to buy individual tracks from iTunes). Twat.…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip

 he’s a sergeant when he shouldn’t be a sergeant,

There is certainly something odd about Danny (that comes from the files marked “Duh!”(1), but I think you are over-reading this: for one thing, TV writers are not exactly renowned for their accuracy on matters military (even in drama’s about the military), but more to the point, prom…[Read more]

@arbutus

the comments on the Guardian and I must say it’s a real slog.

Monday and only three pages. Says a lot about how far the Gruan blogs have fallen.

@Juniperfish

This season is drawing a parallel between reluctant fighter Danny Pink, who wanted to dig wells and save people, and reluctant fighter the Doctor, who wanted anything except to use the Moment, but went there [in time stream 1 :-)], don’t you think?

Indeed, but there seems to be an assumption at large that only the Doctor can jump to e…[Read more]

@Marconi @DoctorBaker

It is not about negative thoughts — you will see plenty if you can resist the urge to be blind – but registering to post them in such a crushingly unoriginal, one-dimensional manner (as if the fatuous “soap opera” complaint is somehow more than lazy sloganising about probably the hardest discipline on TV). It is…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip @Phaseshift @Juniperfish

Apart from Listen drawing a very clear distinction between the Army and the Academy. He rejected the Army and did all he could to keep out of the Time War.

He is of the political class – although not very interested in playing politics.

(Also, Danny was hamming to take the piss out of the Doctor, so I…[Read more]

@marconi

You will find a healthy scepticism about people registering just to post a negative view.

@Phaseshift

I get that – but by far his profoundest experience is as a guerrilla / insurgent in a long and bloody war

Coincidentally, the first episode of Our Girl had a small plot point about not making assumptions about the “Ruperts”.

There are officers who lead, officers who lead from behind and officers who get shot by their own men.

@BadWulf

My wife was a little put off, as she said that she found the attitude to Clara, dialogue between Clara and Danny at the end, to be rather sexist, as if she was some trophy to be handed from Space Dad to Soldier Son.

I confess to being baffled as to where this came from. Danny came across as a weary soldier seeing a familiar pattern and…[Read more]

@Miapatrick

 meant to say as well, I liked what Danny had to say about the Doctor, officer class etc. (I also think this strongly implies that it was a boarding school we saw in the Doctors past.)

Except Danny is wrong – the Doctor was a guerrilla, and was odds with his own officer class even before thew Time War started.

@Marconi – oh dear. Who did you used to be?

Oh, and also :””Ozzie loves squaddie”.

LMFAO

No specific thoughts at the mo except “Most consistently cracking dialogue for several years”.

@Serahni

hinted at that The Doctor had a wife and children back on Gallifrey at once point in his early life?

Not so much hinted as stated, since he an away with his granddaughter.