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… but I really saw that the ‘rent’ was satire.

I recognise that this is largely a throwaway line essentially to camera and the ££ eyes were a joke the writers couldn’t resist, but did the Vardies know that it was a joke? :-). Honestly, I can’t see them having any concept of rent as we’d understand it.

I understand “smile” wasn’…

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tardigrade replied to the topic Smile

Just took a quick look at a transcript and it hasn’t helped me. The Doctor goes from ready to blow the ship up to eliminate the Vardies to calling them a slave class without having any interaction with the Vardies in between, which is a wild swing.

I’m also not that enthused about the prospects of the situation at the end. The human settlers now…[Read more]

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tardigrade replied to the topic Smile

@thane15

They were built to do what they did. They weren’t slaves or Oods. So if they weren’t intelligent or conscious then the technological hubris was connected to the Humans -and so the Doctor mediated between the Humans and those ‘creations’ that the humans built or sent ahead. In other words, the re-boot makes the best sense of all. They we…

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tardigrade replied to the topic Smile

A bit of a mixed episode for me.

The pros:
* Some great design and overall visuals. I liked the robot design- as noted, it’s maybe not altogether original, but it was well resolved. The exterior scenes of the colony from the wheat field were really effective. Generic ugly spaceship interior, not so much so.
* Pearl Mackie again. She settled i…[Read more]

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