"Hey, let's go play three card monte with that little girl!"
"Oh, you know those are always rigged."
"Then how come that girl's winning? And the one before her?"
"Babe, those girls look exactly alike. I think they're related. Or at least in cahoots."
"See, look, now there's a third girl winning!"
"She… um, ok. She looks ide…

You underestimate that tux's power.

"JMS has often shown a tendency to start out with neat ideas and then increasingly phone it in as a story goes on."

I, for one, am just pleased that she remembered Bill & Ted's favorite way of getting out of a jam.

Mind. Blown.

I just hope they remember to show us a scene of his parents getting gunned down in an alley.

That scenario would still better than Colin Baker's death.

Off the top of my head: I remember 'Spare Parts' focusing on the gradual ice-death of the planet. The ship we're on isn't Mondas, but it certainly came from there (or Mondasians somehow boarded it). It's possible these Mondasians fled their homeworld, but deteriorating conditions meant that those onboard who were hip…

It's ok, we both got skunked by Dr. J.

Nice to see every enormous space machine comes with its own Zathras.

What Ghost of Easy E said. Are you seriously suggesting rape culture was created in the 1920s when Hollywood movies appeared? That's not even privilege, that's just bone-stick-stupid ignorance.

Ohmigerd. I once used an unoccupied bathroom stall to change my clothes instead of an officially-designated Changing Room. Please forgive me!

Sorry, I don't buy the artistic freedom argument, because it's way too close to the crap Sarah Palin and Bill O'Reilly pull when they equate "encouraging sponsors to dump them" to "infringing on free speech".

At a guess, I'm assuming the final scene is the beginning of the full disclosure he's narrating to Chloe.
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In looking at your comments about the Doctor's perspective Alasdair, I'd also have liked if Bill threw the Doctor's reasoning back in his face. "You constantly risk everything to save people, even if it's from the consequences of their own terrible mistakes." Be an interesting corrective to the theme last season of…

At a guess, I'd say that the reliance on cameras is the monks minimizing their effect on the world… the old problem of the Observer and the Observed. Even the pyramid is just a shiny object, and only deployed at a critical point.

"But I really do think a crucial part of Doctor Who is that, at its core, nobody is ever expendable."

Budget cuts and Brexit. Freakin' Tories, man…

Or, as I mentioned with regard to Cottrell-Boyce's 'Smile':

Well, it's going to be run by the guy who wrote… um… that Silurian two-parter, and Power of Three, and Broadchurch. Yikes.