I’m all for messages leading to action about climate change, but I’m struggling to see how that episode helps. Apart from the generally poor and clunky script and plot, it is so on the nose and preachy that I can’t believe anyone will be convinced to act that isn’t really a hardcore environmentalist. It’s like one of…

This was great. Somehow Dutch (or Flamish?) sounds like a made-up language here which makes it even funnier :).

Yeah, my memory mixed it up because there’s another short story in that same book where a guy absorbs cancer (https://talesofmytery.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/dan-simmons-metastasis.html).

Closest I can think of is “Vanni Fucci is Alive and Well and Living in Hell” by Dan Simmons (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayers_to_Broken_Stones) 

At this point, he should just keep saying it’s coming in 1 year and release it by surprise one day - marketing impact guaranteed.

This has been one of the best Who seasons: very few weak episodes, some truly remarkable ones, excellent performances from everyone and very little timey wimey plot hole crap.

“I’m suddenly very miffed that the BBC ended up revealing the news of both the Mondasian Cybermen and John Simm’s return ahead of time. On the one hand, there’s a damn good chance it would’ve leaked anyway, so they got to control it. On the other hand, god, can you even imagine how much crazier this episode would’ve…

I expected Superman to fly around the earth real fast to go back in time and play again.

Very cool ending - I like a short with a punchline!

They were truly red shirts.

[rant] Can I just say that although I quite like your recaps, I absolutely loathe the way you announce each new god and theme of the upcoming episode days before it’s out. Not only do you have a perfect place (morning spoilers) to place this kind of thing for people who like it, it is far from pure promotional stuff…

I’m also excited - not because she’s a woman, but because it seems like a new story (not one we’ve seen 100 times before) and it looks uplifting and fun.

“Sacrifice everyone else to save one loved one” is a lazy plot point and really should be unforgivable: one death (especially one who regenerates!) vs billions in slavery should really not be hard to choose if you’re “the good guys”. How are we expected to respect characters that act in such a selfish manner, who talk…

This was the last episode for me (after following most of the season while doing something else at the same time) - it’s just so poorly plotted, lazily written and with the character development you can expect from a pre-teen drama that no amount of telepathic gorilla fights can save it.

Is it a Windows-only issue, or also on Mac? It’s surprisingly not mentioned in the Checkpoint page.

They tackled storylines that make it really easy to suck for a TV show if the writers are lazy or just bad: android (replace anyone with anyone!) and virtual world (we can do anything to characters without consequences!). I’m glad it didn’t suck at all.

It’s become a guilty pleasure and I’m just watching the end of the season out of habit. Lots of small fun moments (the crossovers!) but the scenario is very poor and doesn’t progress season after season, the constant relationship drama for EVERY.SINGLE.PERSON is annoying as hell and there’s just too much good TV…

I came here to post that exact thought. The CW wigs are out of control!

For me, it was at “this looks extremely stupid”. It’s probably not going to work, or not last the distance, but if by any chance it does, it’s gonna be my new guilty pleasure.

This is awesome and I want it to happen again. Stop global warming!