Thanks as ever to @Wolfweed for all the brilliant spots and research. Ringtone, eh? I completely missed that. And how sad about Moffat’s mum. As @Blenkinsopthebrave mentioned, it’s later that it hits.

I liked this episode, while recognising its weaknesses, especially the frankly rather pathetic attempts at taking on the pyramid with a plane and a…[Read more]

Wow!

This place is looking very spruce 🙂

I’ve missed you all – been stuck in a big alternative universe of RL for far too long! Mega thanks to @Craig, @JimtheFish, @Wolfweed and @Pedant in particular for dragging me back!

Absolutely loving this series, Capaldi’s knocking it out the park (hope you’re more convinced now, @Bluesqueakpip (but…[Read more]

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

@wolfweed  Thanks for that very sad news about this terribly hard stress Moffat was under (and still is and will be for a long time, I imagine).  I think Capaldi’s mother died unexpectedly just before they began filming Season 8.  Such a hard, heavy kick in the heart that is . . .

@countscarlioni    the Doctor requesting a coordinated mili…[Read more]

@wolfweed

I repeat. Bill’s phone ringtone could be of some significance. (see post 58281)

what a brilliant catch! i checked ‘the pilot,’ and bill’s ringtone is the same there (when she gets a call from her stepmum)… so is this series dovetailing with the harold saxon storyline, somehow?! could bill’s mum be one of martha’s sisters? wow, i wi…[Read more]

@wolfweed
That’s very sad. Sometimes, continuing to work helps you cope, and sometimes (often the same time), your responsibilities mean that you have to persevere regardless. The loss of a parent, particularly if they are elderly, in my experience, whilst difficult at the time, can be partially reconciled by the knowledge that “they had a good…[Read more]

@wolfweed Thanks for that info. IMO this script clearly needed work and we now understand better why it couldn’t get it. It’s a pity that schedules couldn’t have been moved to allow Moffat to take time away from the pressures of work. I guess this came at a really bad time (not that there is ever a good time for this to happen of course), coming…[Read more]

@Wolfweed

Not only is that  a disturbing personal situation tbh you can totally feel it in this episode.

That was amazing  and so very interesting catch about the Pyramid!   Thanks for that!

@whisht

Oh yeah, Battlezone rocked – one of the few video games I was any good at.

@wolfweed

God, that’s horrible. I’ve no idea how he could have worked through that.

@pedant – apologies missed a post of yours.

Battlezone – yeah, I kinda thought similar and then it kinda felt that the designer was given a brief of “a bit like visualising sonar” which to be honest is probably easier than recreating ‘crappy’ (nowadays) visuals (that I remember as being pretty fuckin’ awesome).

@wolfweed – that is unbelievable.…[Read more]

@Wolfweed      You know it does sound a bit like the Osirians  and the powers they had?

They’ve had previous interests in the Earth  and pyramids too.

I was thinking it could be Rassilon and a web of time thing.  Particularly since  the

“assumption”  of Mondasians in some episodes and the conclusion of this trilogy

leading into that?

@Wolfweed

Love this movie!  Thought about this last season when the Doctor first started wearing

the glasses.    I was wondering if  an homage  would happen?   There are

some parallels .   Now the Doctor has to figure out how to ‘cut the broadcasted/ televised/

webcasted /  signals”  like Nada did in “They Live”.   I think that the sungl…[Read more]

OK, I must admit that I share a lot of @blenkinshopthebrave’s reservations about this ep. I liked Extremis and the issues that it played with — and the ideas of political consent, the choosing of leaders wholly unsuited to our personal interests was great too. The Monks strategy was basically Project Fear, the political cosh of choice from…[Read more]

Random replies to some of your excellent comments:

@Miapatrick     I imagine the sight restorers are either in his office or in the TARDIS, probably not in his pocket.

@wolfweed  To be fair, it wasn’t world peace, only a temporary agreement between three people. It’s hard to imagine it would have survived for long. The Fenric situation was si…[Read more]

@wolfweed OK that sounds entirely plausible!

@wolfweed Well I did big it up to about 300%…. But no way is Bill 11-12 stone – the numbers must be off one way or another.  I would not want to speculate about her weight either, but she’s only a wee lassie.

@wolfweed Doesn’t that say ‘Male’?  So not Bill’s stats.   I can’t read the numbers anyway…

@blenkinsopthebrave  Yes, I was unsettled by the way the whole sim thing was dropped.  Am reserving judgement till we see the next ep, because overall I did love Veritas and if I loved this slightly less there was plenty to enjoy and at least like a grea…[Read more]

@wolfweed @craig

I doubt either of you have heard this since virtually no French pop crosses the channel (although you never know):

La fin de la fin du monde