Regardless of Tyrell's "real sexuality", it does seem as though his move here was for a business purpose.

See George's Corollary: "The only difference between technology and magic is the availability of a culturally acceptable explanatory fiction."

Ah, but it's magic - which means there isn't a "way that it works" in scientific terms. Otherwise it would be technology.

It's very well done. A modern tale told in Regency times. The whole world feels "solid".

Right - I was wondering why they kept cutting away from the WP action to show the wife and kids and search. You just wouldn't do that… unless it's a clever ruse because those two things aren't happening at the same time at all.

So, the "Interstellar Interruption" problem - where things keep getting cut away to a story you are not interested in - really figured here.

Ah, yes, indeed! I'd say the effect was even a bit worse in that DW episode!

Good point on limitations being a driver. Elsewhere I saw this:

Indeed. Good overall, but I was pretty disappointed when I discovered how they hatched that plot at the end…

…it doesn't need to be an expensive proposition, it just needs to be a smart one.

Haha, yes. It all makes sense now: The Doctor! Green Wing!

Indeed!

So, what do we have? Romana, The Rani, Valeyard, The Watcher, The Master, Susan, some other Time Lord. She's quite playful though, and doesn't seem very evil overall (yet). Returning to Coal Hill School could be a hint, but I'm inclined to think it's just a nice connect back to the old series.

Yeah, that's what made me think this was a bit like Sapphire & Steel, this episode: What if people could be trapped in photographs, what if nursery rhymes were triggers that let evil break in, what if random everyday objects could have a sinister undercurrent or be repurposed in other ways, what if time itself had…

Like Sapphire & Steel, the photographs story…

"Jump 22" worked because it took aim at exactly what it was, so much so that it got away with demonstrating the problems by having them. After the end-credits, etc, "Jump 23" would break the implied contract with the audience I think. Unless they really, really went for it on recasting and being deliberately stupid…

But no - UK audiences and previous Fans Of Pegg aren't "getting it" either. It's not that they want Spaced-Pegg or Shaun-Pegg again and again, it's that the films he's in really are pretty poor quality at whatever-they-are-trying-to-be. It's just disappointing.

Because it turns out, he's not that smart on his own at writing or decision-making. He needs someone to bounce off (Frost) and someone to filter his ideas and focus them (Wright).