The episode struck me as copying Red Dwarf in other ways, primarily the time distortion; while touched on in the episode 'White Hole', the second RD novel 'Better Than Life' has a sequence where the ship is heading towards a black hole which covers a lot of the time distortion stuff here, as the characters at one end…

I loved the twist, largely because I think it was so well set up not just in the film but in the media surrounding the film - we knew the legendary comics name 'Mandarin'. We knew he was played by a hell of an actor. And he narrated the trailer as several other villains had done in superhero/sci-fi movies at the time…

Not to mention that a lot of the bits cited as 'obviously Wright' were in fact Reed's input (like Luiz's explanations).

Surprised not to see a comparison to Mike in the season premiere taking apart his car to find the tracker.

That young Chuck at the start was spot on - he had the intonation and mannerisms absolutely down. I hope we see more of him in the future(/past).

I think it's great that the show has such confidence from Netflix that they can plan really long term stories… but the downside is there is much less impetus for them to find actual resolutions, knowing the stories can be returned to at a later point. Season two is absolutely the strongest so far for that - while Vee…

I always thought if they were to go for a followup series involving the offspring more heavily they should call it 'Friends and Family'.

That would have been a much better route for them to take. Admittedly it would have smacked a bit of The Curse of Fenric, but it would have made sense here, and been more satisfying and conclusive than 'the power of love'.

True, but we didn't see her in that episode; the notion of her being essentially imagined based on the photos of her wasn't set up in the slightest.

I like Gatiss as a person - he seems very amiable and passionate for the show and its fans - and some of his non-Who (or at least non-canon) material has been brilliant. But unfortunately his record on the actual show has been only one distinctly good episode, 4 meh episodes and three pretty darn bad episodes. Every…

Wheel of morality, turn turn turn, tell us the lesson we should learn:

It would have been much better if that had been set up earlier in the season - sure, we knew she missed her mother, but the idea that she'd created a version of her mother, in part based on the photos the Doctor arranged for her, was totally new to this episode, so it felt incredibly artificial. We've had six episodes…

Some horrendously bad dialogue (typical for Whithouse, but some of his worst in Who since School Reunion), and some horrendously bad direction and editing (I counted at least two transitions where the Doctor changed the direction he was facing during the edit). Also, when it cut to Bill, the Doctor and Nardole outside…

Praise Trackanon.

I recommend you check it out again, particularly if you were a kid the first time around. You may find yourself appreciating different sketches entirely; as a kid the Chicken Boo bits left me cold, but now they're my favourite part of the whole show (particularly the conviction of the show having him turn up in other…

No Chicken Boo, no show.

Mr. Spielboo declined to comment.

Even the British model doesn't prevent shows ending on cliffhangers if they're not successful enough to be renewed - though admittedly if the show has racked up a few series it'll often be granted a special to wrap it up. But a show on its first series could easily wind up with an unresolved cliffhanger.

Don't beat yourself up. Mixed/conflicted feelings is not the same as saying 'this was a good thing'. With the vast majority of artists we make a stronger connection to the art than to the creator - there's a decent chance that, like me, you'd never even heard of Snyder's daughter until this news came out. So, when it…

FUCK you're right! I was thinking they could maybe have rigged up the same system around the city/street, but that would have been perfect. Damn this stupid fucking show!