@tardigrade @jimthefish

There seems to have been some issues with post getting treated as spam. @Craig was trying to get the bottom of it, but….algorithms.

@tardigrade—

Yes, I was wondering where your post went to.

Honestly, I can’t see them having any concept of rent as we’d understand it

Well, we see the ‘tablet’ with the human history showing on it beside the dead shepherd. Surely the Vardies had seen that, or more likely had access to databanks of human culture and history. I think it’s saf…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip — yes, I think the Doctor did perform what he considered to be a piece of ad hoc ‘justice’. (so much for him not being ‘the police’). It’s also his Time Lord showing, let’s face it.

@tardigrade — it wouldn’t be the first time that the Doctor has left a planet with a precarious ad hoc ‘peace’ and just hopes that it’ll all turn out…[Read more]

@mudlark and @pufferfish—

I think there’s a definite Puritan edge to all the names of the colonists and I think this is possibly what made me think of Faber’s Book of Strange New Things. Is it possible that this colony ship is reserved for a religious faction/cult of some kind (after all, the Scots got a ship to themselves). Although it is an…[Read more]

No, @thane15 , I think @tardigrade has called this one pretty well, because I came in to make the some of the same points. I hope @tardigrade won’t mind if I post what I wrote last night as it reiterates certain points. Fair warning – @tardisgrade was kinder than I am.

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So, third rewatch and Smile still baffles me slightly. I like a lot o…[Read more]

@missy—

Last week I thought the presenter was rather silly and not a true DW fan. He was just doing a job. That was my impression anyway

Think that’s a bit unfair. Christel Dee is a long-term YouTuber with serious Who tendencies and was doing really rather good fan vlogs for quite some time now. That the BBC has taken on her show as the…[Read more]

@tardigrade @thane15

The Doctor talked to and about the emojibots and the vardies as if they were intelligent, although whether they were supposed to be independently intelligent or together formed a composite intelligence wasn’t entirely clear, and in that light the reboot could be seen as a liberation.

I understood the vardies to be so…[Read more]

@tardigrade

* A rushed and rather mundane resolution- a “reboot” solution isn’t a great one.

it felt rushed to me, as well, but i accepted it as the least of three evils, the two greater ones being: wipe out the vardy to save the humans (which, if done successfully, would cause the building around them to possibly collapse, or simply doom the c…[Read more]

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