**Pausing for a few moments to point at Mr F, our representative from Sockpuppetvania, and laugh**

@jimthefish

Forgot to mention something: the thing that absolutely blew out any shred of residual doubt about Whittaker’s Doctor was “Don’t threaten me”. Delivered on that tricky axis between steely resolve and matter of fact truthiness.

@misterf55

Five, four, three, two….

There’s a Tom Petty song for every occasion. And quite often, a Johnny Cash performance…

And the song from the ep

@mudlark

It wouldn’t just be non-survival. He would be rendered down to his constituent molecules toot-suite. DNA is not that robust and even if it were, a gene is just a gene but not even that if it is just an unordered gloop of nucleotides. And there would be 5 great extinctions to sort out any residual issues…

@mudlark

but I remain a trifle worried about what the baddy could still achieve from whatever time he was zapped back to, even if it was to the Jurassic or the primeval ooze. I seem to remember several short stories on that theme written way back in the 1950s and early 60s.

He would last a few seconds. Boiling hot and no breathable atmosphere. All…[Read more]

@miapatrick

Being unusual (in very few cases impossible) is one thing. Being in the midst of state-sponsored racism is quite another.

@JimTheFish @Juniperfish

Worth noting the role of the cop in this. It wasn’t just a grace note . He tailed them and his in-story purpose was to lampshade that racism here wasn’t just a social attitude (as could be argued for Victorian London as witnessed by 12) but state policy in a democracy. Montgomery was a very dangerous place because the…[Read more]

Oh, and the Banksy gag.

And a baddie who is not not an alien doing it for bizarre alien reasons, but a Nazi doing it for Nazi reasons.

Other musings:

“Don’t threaten me”;

Ryan’s second bit of “gun” play. Wonder if that will come back to bite him;

The conversation behind the bin, although a bit spelly-outy for me with a lot of miles on the clock, was probably worth spelling out for younger viewers;

The console’s crystal thingy goes up and down;

The Doctor’s casual “Just want…[Read more]

@craig

Oh look, we have a fuckwit in the house. [at]oldgitdotcom needs evicting.

@juniperfish

Obviously he got zapped back to the primordial soup and contributed his biochemistry to kick-starting evolution 😉

Ryan did say “as far back as it would go” – but a possible arc thread.

Meanwhile, it is nice to see how things have changed…

That moment when Graham realised he had to be on the wrong side of history…

@ichabod

I just checked “Heaven Sent”,

Start with the right episode. Heaven Sent was the middle of a three-parter.

“You say your line, I’ll say mine”.

I didn’t see that somewhat clunky timing until re-watching Heaven Sent,

I was commenting on this episode, the topic of this thread, the clue being:

Anyway, back to what actually happened in…

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*Runs around waving shirt in the air*

@thane16

at approx. 45:49

I admire the precision of that approximation.

But as someone on That Twitter said: “Find someone who looks at you the way the Doctor looks at the Tardis”.

@whisht

Thanks mate.

@craig – I think we are at the point where we are going to need a new pub.

I nominate The Kebab and Calculator (again)

Call me Captain Obvious:

@shinymcshine

So long Dr. Who, I already miss you so much.

Oh dear Lord.

Post “corrective” fanfic: CHECK

Suggest writer (whose steepedness in relation to Who is as impeccable as it can be) is insufficiently familiar with Dr Who : CHECK

Accuse writer of selling out: “CHECK”

Deny calling writer a hack, when writing to a brief for money (that…[Read more]