Boredchurch, IMO. Rarely seen such a dull lot of characters whose bed-hopping etc. I was supposed to care about. Ugh. I did like Life on Mars, though, so maybe there's hope.

Well-spotted. The blue guy sort of knocked that "all lives are worthless" out of the foreground, I think, just by being — blue.

I'd rather see some "unfortunate implications" explored in SF.

Wait til we find out that the most advanced forms of sapient life are large hard-shelled beetle-like beings evolved to avoid the denser radiation in more tightly packed centers of the universe! Lots of screaming, I should think (certainly from me, anyway).

?? So that should have been stuffed into an already-full story too, when the story was specifically about how workers are ruthlessly exploited by owners and management, as in most of human history, with or without government bureaucrats?

Yep. Just my point, above, speaking of women (and their political issues) in SF.

Rather, I'd say that they failed the episode — balky imaginations? Stubborn preconceptions can do that to a person: yes yes, green goblins, but how *dare* they speak ill of The Free (baloney) Market!

Some folks' ham is others' prime rib, and v.v.

Loved that. So true; we seem prone to taking the wrong lessons from our dead ends and disasters.

The basic fault in capitalist theory is its assumption that rich and powerful people controlling rich and ruthlessly profit-grabbing corporations are "in their right minds". The topmost levels of complex society are often largely run by high functioning sociopaths, according to recent analysis results. Sure makes…

The miners are hardly the company's "customer base", unless a truly vast proportion of humanity is employed mining copper for this corporation. Remember the concept of "the company store" in recent American economic history: you get paid in chits that you can only spend in a store run by the company that employs you…

Why not? Gatis is a close friend and colleague, so Moffat is probably more inclined to acknowledge queerness in his fictional world.

Sure, but we get LA stuffed into our faces far too often in US media, and there was this lovely NYC backlot to rent (cheap, I bet) in Sofia, so . . .