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No, because all the Doctor would know is that she’d relied on him for emergency backup.

If Missy did remember shooting herself in the back, then her decision to stand with the Doctor really is ‘without hope, without reward, without witness’. She makes the decision knowing that this must be why he killed herself. It’d certainly explain…[Read more]

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Nothing can ruin beautiful melancholy if you are determined to believe in it, and by golly, I am.

@bluesqueakpip. Great comment. I also wonder if it is a way of allowing Chibnall the freedom to do what he likes with a new Doctor, unencumbered by the history of the 13. In other words, perhaps, in the Christmas special, the Doctor will…[Read more]

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@wolfweed thanks.

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One thing I meant to ask last night was whether the “Sontarans changing the course of Human History” is the plot of the Christmas show or just some random thought that popped out of his brain whilst the Doctor was communing in the Tardis ?

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Having seen was Peter has done with the Character, in hindsight it would have worked out better if he was number 13, floating on the edge of becoming the Valeyard. Still, c’est la vie.

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Peter is number 14 though

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Yes I did.  We learned it at school and then I read it in an English newspaper. Interesting isn’t it.

@janetteb:  “The nearest I ever got to “hate watching” was Star Trek which I didn’t hate but found it mildly amusing predicting how the story would unfold, the scripts being so formulaic.”

Very generous of you, boring would be my w…[Read more]

Wonderful, great stuff from all the principals, with PC and Michelle Gomez flying. It’ll take a second viewing and more to get to grips with TDF. An immediate thought is that there was something of a `Western’ feel to this one, just as there was to Rachel Talalay’s treatment of Hell Bent, although in a different way.  Here the Doctor is the she…[Read more]

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@peter @wolfweed  I certainly took what the Doctor said to mean that he had expanded the definition of what constituted a human to include people with two hearts, not redefined it.

For that matter, the people on the ship are Mondasians, so are terrestrial humans sufficiently similar, anatomically and genetically to appear the same to the…[Read more]

@wolfweed — good call. Seems to me that this episode had more than a few comic-related references. Cyber-Bill kept reminding me of Kroton and the reference to Planet 14 is an extremely geeky reference indeed….

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First impressions, though I feel a need to watch that again a s a p.

This may not have been quite as good, technically speaking, as World Enough and Time, but in many ways I found it more emotionally gripping. Perhaps that response was coloured by the knowledge that this was Moffat’s and Capaldi’s penultimate episode, but I don’t think that was…[Read more]

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Well I seem to have something in my eye. Sniff.

That was great. There was maybe some stuff that didn’t quite work, maybe just a few too many things left hanging but the good more than outweighed the misjudged. Capaldi has never been better than he was tonight. I really, really don’t want him to go and I really like the idea of a Doctor refusing…[Read more]