The Jewish man in need of help is ignored by the elders and leaders of his own people, and the one who stops to help him is from a people who should be, by their societies’ teachings, his enemy. That man, who he has been taught to hate and fear, saved him.

Cody of Some More News had a good angle on it too, pointing out that accusations of rioting and wanting a civil war come exclusively from the people proudly stockpiling guns, and fighting anyone who tries to attack them, the side being accused never mention civil war or wanting violence in the slightest.

There’s a few good episodes later on, including one surprisingly brilliant one just before the heavily serialised last few episodes. As a self-professed huge Futurama guy, you’d probably enjoy a lot of what they go for in the run’s back half. Despite it being a messy run I’m certainly optimistic for where the show can…

Quoting the Good Samaritan story makes sense to bookend the season, but the way he gets it wrong, and the way no-one else picks up on him getting it wrong, indicates pretty firmly that the show thought he was correct. Are there any other examples of him undermining himself through inaccuracies anywhere else in the…

If that were the case, there would have been some acknowledgement of it, but it never gets corrected or even questioned. Some cut to one of the guards escorting him acknowledging that he’s way off the mark would have covered that - or some other instance of him obviously misinterpreting something would have clarified…

I wouldn’t go to DDS1 as an exception - that’s the one with the writer who thought the Good Samaritan story was about patriotism.

Okay, so maybe UK vape culture is different to US vape culture or maybe I’m just not close enough to it, but I didn’t at all get what they were talking about here. I know a lot of people who vape but none who I’ve known to vape with hash oil, only with nicotine (and many not even that, just the flavoured steam), even…

Partly disappointed that there won’t be more, partly very satisfied that the latest episode wound up being the final episode, as it worked for that perfectly as the ultimate episode of the show and a perfect maybe-evolution for Nathan; anything after could jeopardise that (in the way that Review never quite lived up…

I thought this episode was a lot of fun, and I’m genuinely elated that they’ve already confronted the bigger villain in episode 2; I was concerned they were going to keep him a secret from the leads until near midseason like usual.

Real shame to lose the Arrow reviews, but I get it, you’ve got to be economical about it.

Yep, I assumed she was like 20 if that, but the actress is 34 (6 years older than Grant Gustin, and 4 years older than Candice Patton!). I think they were implying she’s born 2-3 years pre-Crisis, so about 27/28, so they’re sort of splitting the difference between her appearance and her age.

They’re definitely tiptoeing along the line of ‘too wacky’ - what worked for being loopy and daft in the afterlife seems... just strange in the stuff on Earth. Of course, they don’t want to lose too much of the tone that they’d set up, but there is perhaps a better way of incorporating the weirdness into the stuff on…

I think that was it! Thanks for helping dissect my thought patterns there :D 

I was thinking earlier about the difference between Torchwood’s ‘Day One’ and Angel’s ‘Lonely Hearts’. Both are a second episode of a spin-off show featuring a monster killing people by using sex, metatextually as a way to delineate the series from its parent show. But, while Lonely Hearts is a touch hammy and is…

It’s a very good point to remember. It’s easy to imagine a 1969/70 internet going ‘He wrote The Krotons and The Space Pirates - you can’t POSSIBLY trust him with the next Doctor’s debut story!’.

EDIT - I realised too late that I’d put The Hungry Earth/Cold Blood as RTD-mandated - I meant to put exec-mandated, as that double was under Moffat’s rule.

12's Zygon two-parter is absolutely terrific... until he reveals that it’s happened before and he has a fail-safe in place for it all. It’s meant to make him look like a super genius who can plan in advance, but it not only undermines his passionate diatribe, it actually makes him look like a callous bastard complicit…

Yeah, his previous scripts really stick in my mind as someone who should on no account be given more Doctor Who to write.

Capaldi was at his most interesting in his first season, after that he just became a generic Doctor rather than ‘the Twelfth Doctor’.

I was almost expecting them to work it out in this episode. It’s certainly an angle I expect to see addressed, if not by them actually working it out then by them painfully all but working it out.