@thane16 @bluesqueakpip

Union Jack t-shirt

Yes, quite right – but still massively out of style, especially with jeans.

Because the line really wasn’t necessary, and points up that the team should be in period costume.

I suppose it could be an accidental leftover from the original script,

It was consistent with every other episode this season (…[Read more]

Some of you may have seen this.

For the benefit of our overseas friends, the run up to Christmas has become a competition among the large stores to see who can make the most…well, choose your adjective in the whole gamut from saccharin to sentimental… Christmas commercial. It has become quite high stakes and this your John Lewis shelled out…[Read more]

@whisht

Let’s go s little more oblique:

@mudlark

Are you by any chance conflating

No I just tagged @bluesqueakpip in the wrong place.

But you are still treating it as a historical drama rather than an episode of Doctor Who.

It is much more common than not that the Tardis crew go out in their regular clothes. It’s the norm for Who, such that when Donna dressed up for Agatha Christie,…[Read more]

@mudlark

Come on – you must surely understand that there is not a single dramatic representation of history that doesn’t take liberties to aid storytelling. It is simply not reasonable to apply documentary standards to drama (imagine how @jimthefish or I wince at almost every portrayal of a journalist ever, and neither of us do much of that…[Read more]

@rorysmith

Duh! Of course it’s a fucking gremlin. As old as WW2 but still alive and well in the Tsuranga belt.

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@bluesqueakpip

Also interesting that The Doctor engaged with James as the expert on witchcraft that he claimed to be, not as a fire-and-brimstone fundamentalist it would have been easy to go with. I think that exchange was Whittaker’s “Doctor” moment.

Mind you, after the ducking,  I wouldn’t have minded a passing reference to the respiratory…[Read more]

@craig

And what did the building have to say for itself?

There is literally not a single second that I didn’t love.

But Alan Cummings playing King James I as a not-really-that-repressed-at-all homosexual, while somehow managing to stay just the right side of scenery chewing, may be my most favourite thing ever.

@craig @jimthefish

Somebody unlock the episode thread!

This should save a lot of posts….

@misslegaleagle

I can’t recall when the specific reveal was  off the top of my head, but it was Missy.

@ichabod

I’d read about pubs going under all over the UK, a development that I’ve seen attributed to the influence of inflows of muslim residents into old neighborhoods

Jesus H Christ On A Bike, ichabod. That you even gave such transparent horse shit credence does not reflect well on you.

Read this. It’s about urban and rural change and it’s what…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox

You made me think of hungover Sunday mornings in a Balham house-share and Channel 4’s line up of The Wonder Years, followed by a rotation of Bonanza, The Invaders or The Fugitive followed by The Waltons in full and in order (up to and including Wrong John Boy).

If TP ever shows the 1954 Peter Cushing 1984, now that’s work a…[Read more]

@thane16 @XAD4

The System was right and placed the Doctor next to what it knew to be the real threat (we really do need to slightly fanwank that it had no faith in the humans to solve the problem, and we know its own infrastructure had been compromised by cybernetics expert-cum-terrorist AND that the humans WERE trying to investigate – but had no…[Read more]

@kevinwho @janetteb

As a theme survivor’s guilt has been kind of mined out in Who.

@turntheclock

Trolling score:

Technical merit: 2/10 – excellent failure to punctuate properly.

Artistic impression: 0/10 failure to be original, failure to show craft, failure to even give a good laugh.

Deductions:

-2 for claiming to be a long time watcher. Sheesh, half term was weeks ago.

Overall 0/10.

@whisht

You could go all Bletchley Park and have Station Whisht…