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A terrific episode. Like @tardigrade, I wondered if if the play on killer suits was the jumping-off point for Jamie Mathieson’s script. He should be taken under Chris Chibnall’s wing so he can be the next showrunner! All of his episodes have struck me as least excellent, with Flatline and Oxygen brilliant.

Nardole is now looking more su…[Read more]

@tardigrade  The Doctor may be vulnerable right now, but he was still able to save the day without his sight in this story.  Perhaps he will find a way to work with/around his disability, however long it lasts.  But yes, this would also be a good reason to team up with the Master/Missy…especially since the next few episodes (possibly until the…[Read more]

@Arch

Im still pretty convinced, that whatevers in the vault is a child,

This would certainly fit with what we saw, or rather heard. Fur Elise is a relatively simple piece for a child to master and, when interest is sparked in the prospect of a new story involving children being eaten, we get the jaunty ‘Pop Goes the Weasel’. *   Some children ar…[Read more]

@thane15  Puro — I respect Mr Suchet, immensely, however. I think this story was important for its dialogue during prologue and epilogue.

Ha.  Time for a re-watch (I haven’t done that yet.  Bugs . . . I’m relieved, though to have them out of the way now, so I don’t have to worry about a heart attack now that they’ve arrived and done their thi…[Read more]

@tardigrade

I could speculate beyond that, but

Oh, go on, you’re among friends!

I am trying to link it to anyone we know from Who history, but I am stymied by the piano playing. I cannot link that to anyone.

Unless it’s Stevie Wonder, who found out about performing under London Bridge for River and the Doctor…

@jimthefish I am really enjoying these episodes but feel that it is time for something meatier. I did like the two parters last year though they would have benefited by the odd single story and would like there to be a two parter this series, just to vary the pace. I don’t think we are entirely without an arc this series. There is the mystery of…[Read more]

@thane15

Bless your sharp trained ears, puro.  I had nearly got to the point of wondering whether I was suffering from aural hallucinations. The only other thing I could think of, after all other possibilities had been ruled out, was that there might have been a very tiny glitch in the cable transmission which had slurred the sound of…[Read more]

@tardigrade

You are right. If, in the version you saw, you could clearly lip-read ‘Bill’, then they are certainly different takes.  I have just checked (by fast-forwarding through the UK broadcast version which I recorded), and in that Capaldi is three quarter turned to camera, and one can equally clearly lip read ‘River …’ – two syll…[Read more]

@thane15: No, by all means, it’s a fair comment.

@tardigrade: Thanks for that, but even that information almost lost me. *blushes*

@ichabod: Ads? Humbug! I record everything we want to watch, and if I miss anything I watch iView.

I’ve heard a lot about Netflix and watched Abominable Bride on Stan. It seems to me, that everything is beconming so…[Read more]

@tardigrade

Your solution is an excellent way of turning a public service broadcaster into a state broadcaster.

Sorry. No.

Until such time as cross-media ownership rules are reinstated (which isn’t going to be any time soon) we need a powerful service provider not in the hands of foreign billionaires. For all its failings, successive…[Read more]

@ichabod I get the feeling that Moffat is throwing everything at this last series because he really does love writing for Dr Who and he is having as much fun as possible before he leaves. His love for the series and the “lore” has really shone through these past eight years. It is just a shame that those impossible to please fans who want…[Read more]

@brewski

I think that may be my favourite bit of bonkerising ever. I kinda want you to be right.

@tardigrade

Which bit of the BBC are you referring to? Just the drama? Or the full service news operation? Or some of the best factual programming in the World? Or the two children’s channels? Or the Welsh and Scottish channels?  Some of the most t…[Read more]

Oops sorry I think I should have referenced @tardigrade rather than @mersey. Apologies. I don’t watch much ABC  but am happy to keep paying for it because, like libraries, I view it as a invaluable public resource. If the money was not taken out of tax however I simply wouldn’t pay for a service I so rarely use. However if our weasel government…[Read more]

@mdlark  Stories in which every meaning is dictated, every t crossed and every i dotted, and in which nothing is left to the imagination of the reader or viewer are seldom very satisfying.

When an artist says (or thinks) “I hope my work survives for a decade or two after I’m gone”, he or she is usually talking about hoping that the work has…[Read more]

@tardigrade—

I wouldn’t overstate the strong position of the Beeb. It’s been on the ropes politically for a decade now and if the next general election goes the way it’s looking it’s going to get worse. But Who is one of its strongest properties, that’s for sure. I think it will definitely become a streaming property at some point — it’s…[Read more]