I didn't really think they were going back to the well of asking whether the Doctor was a bad person. But hey, the guy has got a body count, and when you need to get rid of a death-obsessed executioner in a hurry, well…

Yeah, I think this has at least temporarily borked the continuity of "Return of Dr. Mysterio," though I'd have to rewatch that episode to see how badly. I'm guessing Moffat will offer up some hand-wavey explanation sooner or later, which given the relative quality of "Extremis" and "Mysterio" is fine by me.

Paolo Sorrentino: "This new show I'm doing with Jude Law as the young pope will easily be the most boundary-breaking, narratively inscrutable, irreverent depiction of the Vatican to come out this year."
Steven Moffat: "Hold my beer."

Thing is, putting this *very* broadly, capitalism is rarely all that smart about how it achieves efficiency. It's not hard to imagine an algorithm maximizing certain desired variables (short-term profits, day-to-day worker efficiency) while losing sight completely of any more holistic measurement of worth (like, oh…

I can't really think of the Doctor suffering a potentially long-term injury like this before, though. His healing factor is also maddeningly inconsistent in terms of how it's meant to work, or even really to what extent he has one.

For sure, this still feels like a distinctive way to tell a multi-part story, given Doctor Who tends to reset close to completely between episodes.

Lance Parkin has had multiple editions of AHistory published that puts all the Doctor Who stories in chronological order, though I'm not sure when the last version came out or how up-to-date it is at this point.

Moffat addressed this in the latest DWM. I won't spoil anything further, just to say he's discussed that issue.

"Unrelated" in the sense that it's not literally continuing the same story on board the space station as the second episode of a two-parter.

Is Dahh'Ren Bad At Intersectionality?: A Droning Thinkpiece

Yeah, I don't know if there was a 100% great solution here, assuming there was no practical way to just have empty suits walk around with no helmet.

I get that, but frozen dessicated bodies shambling around are still frozen dessicated bodies shambling around. That one suit operating all by itself in the early going was the most effective for me at getting across the idea they were going for. Having the suits walk around empty (with blackened visors if necessary to…

I mean, you'd probably have to add a couple extra storytelling beats — thinking of more ways to play with the capitalism satire would have been one obvious way to do it — but that was definitely 90 minutes' worth of character beats just waiting to be expanded.

Cool, thanks for setting me straight.

Also, there are quite a few 5th Doctor guest characters who feel more like companions anyway. That highwayman dude Richard Mace in "The Visitation" springs immediately to mind.

I guess they are, but we probably want a bit more specificity if we're going to start throwing around the vague "the one with the ____" descriptors, you know?

Seriously, I don't know if the Class we get tonight is *good* exactly, but it doesn't just feel like it's a cover version of a dozen other YA shows, so I'm already way more interested.

Yeah, that part was bad. I get the Shadow King acting like a human, but I think they needed to keep his lover acting like an alien for the scene to work. Just felt like they were going for a cheap gag.

I've never been *that* big a Sarah Jane fan. I mean, she's great, and Elisabeth Sladen was terrific, but I'm not 100% sure she's in my top five of classic companions.

Oh wait, I know what you're talking about. That was the one with the trees, not the plants.