Australia doesn't. Students usually have to fend for themselves with private market rentals.

I enjoyed them in the Big Finish audios.

Fun times. Geez the Doctor pulled some creeeeeeepy smiles in this ep, which I really appreciated. If Capaldi's not careful, he's gonna end up my fave Doctor.

Not that historicity matters much in this show, but the Norse took insult-flinging REALLY seriously. They did it a lot. They codified the consequences into laws. I feel cheated someone hasn't been accused of taking it up the arse before now.

Eh, semantics, you could use past tense for any past companion, alive or dead.

Lucie is far more sensible.

See I thought that was just some quick one-note character development for the purposes of this story. Perhaps Moffat is improving.

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Yeah nahhh eloquent justification for you didn't like this story, sorry mate.

Well, I know I definitely am! And not just because kids, but he usually doesn't let anyone except under extreme sufferance, necessity or fondness. Seems weird and OOC to me.

My point is that kids' logic doesn't need a setup. We had a missing sister, oh no, she's saaaad. By the end the sister reappears in a swirl of gold things. As kids expect in order to enjoy an episode. Now we are happy again. Yay!

It's focusing on a few people, very local, with a peripheral awareness of the global. Cutesy.

"outraged"

Just stop watching already and cluttering up comments with your ~superior idea of what enjoyable speculative television should be.

It might be why he's been shown obsessively scribbling mathematical equations several times this series. Weren't we told rescuing Gallifrey would take billions of years of calculations or something?

I just really want to know* what sort of special trees grew in the middle of deserts and ice tundra. And what green stuff managed to make the oceans green.

Is this what city folk do, sleep over in museums rather than camping trips and big scout halls?

Yeah, "companion from the present day who is also super-special" is pretty narrow, but I suppose it's what Moffat thinks we want from an audience surrogate. RTD thought similar but without the "super-special".

Meh, but that's part of what makes this so British, it's all about the small concerns of ordinary Brits, with a link to show how it's part of a wider issue. It's very "Scouring of the Shire".

Is it really? *laughs* (Though that's shit.) I continue to maintain that Brits don't tend to look for take-home messages in their shows anywhere near as much as the US, where simplistic morals seem to be deliberately written in and expected (in which case it's not so much overreacting as getting pissed off with what…