One expects any comedy to be well handled in DW. It might be less known to US audiences, but John Bishop, Catherine Tate and Matt Lucas had all had successful TV comedy shows, not to mention the games how hosts John Barrowman and Bradley Walsh. Bernard Cribbins was a storied comic actor, Jon Pertwee’s next gig on UK…

I really appreciate the humour in tonight’s episode. Most of it came from the Sontarans, but Mary’s delivery of “I have no idea what’s happening” was extremely funny.

I reckon you’re onto something there. The Angels are supposed to be the oldest race in the universe, and this temple seems similarly ancient/timeless. Plus Azure says something about the Mouri being “quantum locked” against them, and their arrangement in a circle may be intended to keep the where they are and immortal.…

I’m pleasantly surprised by how competent these two episodes have been. The mechanics of a fairly complex plot have worked unusually well for the Chibnall era, without the usual patchwork over big plot holes and major pacing problems.

In fact, I’m really curious why the show made the decision to separate Dan from the Doctor, rather than keep him by her side and build up their nascent relationship.

I was also just thinking about Nardole, but he really isn’t incompetent, he’s basically a junior Doctor with a contrasting worldview.

Yeah, when’s the last time we had a companion who was not great at being a companion in a comic way? Harry Sullivan maybe? Sometimes they did it a bit with Rory, but generally he was a pretty competant character.

More like Mancunians.  The Everton fan analogue in this would be the Lupari.

If one knows anything about Liverpool folk is is that you do not fuck with their docks.

I wasn’t sure if the Sontarans would work as serious threats/ villains since Strax was such a great funny sidekick for so long. Their semi-gratuitous slaughter of prisoners in the present, soldiers in the past, and even other Sontarans for being captured did help establish them as formidable bad guys, as did their…

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You know, guys, if you’re going to have a cliffhanger where it looks like Yaz might die, don’t immediately follow it up with a promo for next week’s promo that shows her alive!

“If one knows anything about Liverpool folk is is that you do not fuck with their docks. He takes the Sontaran presence very personally, and that feels very real and authentic for a character like Dan who has a pre-established love of his city and the desire to protect it. I know that might not necessarily translate…

I’m really impressed by John Bishop. Not because he’s an exceptionally standout performer in any particular way, but because he’s got the exact right range for a long-term Doctor Who role; thoroughly British in a very specific way, and good enough at comedy to handle the silly as hell scenes, but able to hold his own…

I am going to call it.  The Muori are the Doctor’s people, she just doesn’t know it as she ended up abandoned/orphaned as the Timeless Child.  Not certain how it will actually play out, but guessing this will resolve that dangling thread before Chibnall’s end.

I am blown away by how good things have gotten all of a sudden.  Which just makes things that much more disappointing because we’re near the finish line.  We get a glimpse of how things COULD’VE been only to have it taken away so quickly.  

The Seacole vs Nightingale bunfight has been going on for decades as regards whether one was more legitimate than the other. While the accusations that Seacole wasn’t properly trained or establishment enough clearly smack of racism, there is definitely doubt as to whether she was actually present at battlefields and…

Mary Seacole is pretty famous in the UK, to be fair. We have the Mary Seacole Trust which is a very active foundation, the NHS have the Mary Seacole Awards for nurses, and the Mary Seacole Leadership Programme for managers. A load of our hospitals have a “Seacole Ward”. I think kids are taught about her in the school…

Listen, and understand. That algorithm is out there. It can’t be bargained with. It can’t be reasoned with. It doesn’t feel pity, or remorse, or fear. And it absolutely will not stop, ever, until you watch this movie three months after it comes out.

I never thought I’d miss the overpaid studio execs who used to design movies by committee. Then the algorithms came.