Eh, it's not unprecedented in soft sci-fi. See Stargate, for example - people can only go through the gate one way but radio etc is two way. It's an important rule for how the stories work, but they don't really try to justify it and it doesn't really hurt them saince they aren't trying to be hard SF. As long as…

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I think it's more that the conclusion retroactively makes pretty much everything before it terrible as well. When people in season 1 wonder aloud 'What the hell is going on?', if you're wondering as well it's enjoyable. Knowing that the answer comes down to 'it's magic' spoils the expectation that it would all fit…

I would like this, becuase it would mean that anyone going into the rift would know that, ultimately, the Terra Nova colony leaves no trace of itself still visible 70 million years later (since whatever happened happened, so if it had 'left a mark' we would already know there were people on Earth 70 million years ago).

And amputated his own frost-bitten fingertips in his garden shed with a sawblade.

Because they are (on average)?

Is that a bad thing?

Well, there goes my sense of smug superiority. OTOH, it's a better story that way. Much obliged for the clarification.

Am I imagining it, or do we not know what was in the Doctor's room? I ask since people seem to be making a big deal out of wondering what it is. When he looked in and said 'It had to be you' or whatever, he then closed to the door and put the 'Do Not Disturb' sign on the handle.
At the end, the Doctor is talking to Amy…

You do produce a series of inferior copies of the original, motivated purely by money, which gradually decline in quality and tend towards being inoffensive and generic thereby wearing away any goodwill one may have felt towards the original.

Eh, you could argue that newly-assimilated people are expected to be individuals and so they take measures to deal with it. Whereas Hugh was already Borgified and was just stuck back in his slot without any precautions to de-indiviualify him.

That's setting the bar way down in the basement somewhere.

I thought you were one of His prophets?

Fixies do have some benefits for 'serious cyclists' for developing a smooth pedalling rhythm during winter training. They also make it easier to do trackstands. Basically, if you're wearing skintight lycra you can ride a fixie without being a dick becuase of it. You do, however, invite a whole host of other problems.

That is where all the research money would/will go in reality.

That's pretty much my impression - IW wasn't actively bad, but as a sequel to the first DX it was incredibly disappointing.

Bear in mind that the Doctor and Co DON'T REMEMBER the freaky-faced aliens. The files in the Justice Robot described The Silence as a religiour order, not a collection of aliens you can't remember when you look away from them…

No, no it isn't. The miniaturising ray bit was a joke, FFS.

I would just like to express my appreciation for the way that when the Justice Robot was talking about The Silence, neither the crew of the robot nor the Doctor and co had any recollection of the Munch-faced aliens.

What about people who talk at the theatre?