They have the same stage designer though. Also I really don't like Kanye at all it just seems like misplaced blame. 

When I’m doing chores around the house and I’m by myself I talk out loud in a British accent. Not sure why I do it, but at least I amuse myself.

Seeing Prem serving in battle was not shocking. The US also has a history of having its colonized/marginalized people serving in its armies. The Tuskegee Airmen and the Borinqueneers come to mind.

Yeah, I’m not american (nor british) and the Rosa episode really felt like an illustrated history lesson; quite a bit contrieved (and the bland villain didn’t help). This episode felt much more heartfelt and genuine. I really don’t need a full history lesson each time I watch doctor who, and it was just enough context…

This season admittedly has had a dearth of traditional villains for the Doctor to dispatch. Is that your real problem, or is it specifically that the episodes’ respective antagonists aren’t visibly dead, suffering, or behind bars at the end?

So far this has been the most successful season of Doctor Who since the revival, so I don’t know what you mean by “just down to hardcore fans.” The audience during Capaldi’s last season was down to just the hardcore fans, and the viewing numbers reflect that. 

The writer has been tweeting a bit about his research and such for the episode.

I agree that RTD and Moffat made the Doctor a god and gave the sonic screwdriver even more magical problem solving power than the classic show. It seemed like Moffat had set up dialing that back when he faked the Doctor’s death, but he just wound up falling back in that rut. It is good to change things up a bit, but…

yeah, there’s that (the thing that’s still so amazing about S5 is the diversity of tones pretty much every week while at the same time everything is tied together beautifully by the theme of fairytales and stories). but you’ve also got Tony Curran as Vincent who really is just one of the best performances in the…

I think a lot about Vincent and the Doctor with this series because it does feel like every episode is going for the same tone. And if you’re going to base a series around an episode from a previous episode, it’s a pretty good one to choose. But one of the things that made that episode work so well is that it was just…

Maggie will definitely be dating Parker. This is the most boilerplate-soap element of the series right now; there is no twist it can pull to surprise me, because they were all done on 90210 25 years ago, or on General Hospital 40 years ago. This is why I loathed the original’s obsessive focus on relationships. I don’t…

...I mean it’s not like Chibnall invented the Doctor’s anti-gun tone. At times it was very present in the Tennant era, so it is a trait of the Doctor’s that different writers will emphasise to different degrees.

He hosts The Chase, but is also an actor (worked on Law & Order UK with Chibnall before and appeared in the Sarah Jane Adventures) and has recorded an album of Jazz Standards! (So Graham suggesting singing some songs at the wedding wasn’t too far-fetched.)

I felt the same way about Vincent and the Doctor when it first aired (which seems to be the episode Chibnall is basing essentially his entire blueprint on - I wonder if he tried to get Richard Curtis back for this season?) but over time started to appreciate the monster’s symbolic meaning in the episode, even if it…

They did happen every now and then.

I think that it worked for the fact that though we only see Prem’s death, that last shot in their ship shows that his story was similarly played out a million fold with all the other faces that popped up. You understand the emotional weight of a single person’s death without mixing it in with scenes showing the…

I continue to really like the straightforward plotting and storytelling this season, and it being so heavily character-driven. I think it was exactly the new direction the show needed after the over the top excesses and twistiness of the Moffat years (as much as I loved much of that).

Each week, Graham keeps jumping up my lists of favorite companions. His chats with Yaz and Prem may have put him right below Ace, my all-time favorite.

“Nothing worse than when normal people lose their minds.”

A common thread runs through most of the episodes of this season, man’s inhumanity to man. Rather than renegade scientists or killer cyborgs, the real enemies have been the bigotry, bloodlust, profiteering and paranoia of ‘normal people.’ There are few moments…

I don’t think “eventually” is a fair characterization of three weeks from proposal to implementation.

As for the anti-Semitism, this is an excerpt from a letter my mother, then age 19, wrote on March 22, 1943 to her parents (who had finally escaped from Berlin and emigrated to the USA via Lisbon in June 1941). By then,…