“Objection your honor, Are we to take Shakira’s word that her hips do not lie! What proof do we have of the honesty of her lower body?  Why my client could claim that his feet don’t fib and shake them around for you as well if that will speed up the end of this case”

if shakira gets sued she won’t have to swear under oath, since her hips don’t lie

If Fantasy Island can be a horror movie, this can be a thing. 

“deep-pocketed super-fan from the U.K.” who loves Pee-wee so much that he’s willing to put in $10 million of his own money to make the movie happen

Inject this into my veins right fucking now.

After her chemistry with Ada Lovelace and then Tesla, I’m wondering if this Doctor even needs companions? Just let her make a new buddy each week, I say.

The Doctor as a builder/repair person is potentially a great attribute to add to the cat lady bit, and as noted in the review it was there in the first episode. But like a lot of things it’s been mostly dropped except as an occasional grace note from her character.

Though pretty much all versions of the Doctor have had a knack for inventing, it’s a quality that’s been central to the 13th Doctor right from the very beginning.

The episode worked for me but I thought it was a little late and too obvious to do a Tesla episode, post Elon Musk and post Tesla becoming a big meme for epic bacon sriracha fucking Bill Murray hot sauce people on the internet, including an internet campaign to make a museum for him when one already exists. (I think…

WAY better than Orphan 55. The scorpion queen felt like the wrong kind of silly (there’s a reason many Sentai villains use masks), and I wish more had been done with the acorpion drones, but they served their purpose I guess.

Best line for me:

There were a few moments where it felt like Doctor Who. But it was the worst of the ‘statement’ episodes I’ve seen. Sometimes they have a message to deliver and it is done well. Sometimes it’s a tad heavy handed but the ‘camp’ in Doctor Who covers for that. This time they presented a point of view I agree with in such…

That would explain the references to "Midnight" :) 

This reminded me of a Seventh Doctor era story like Delta and the Bannermen or The Happiness Patrol. That is not a complaint!

“The future doesn’t have to be this way, if billions of people made the right decisions...”

We just sat through 45 mins of a dozen people making the stupidest, suicidal, self absorbed decisions. This is not an optimistic episode.

Also: animal-human hybrids in a post-apocalyptic earth? Clearly this was a Cats prequel.

For me, this was the episode that killed off any hope of Yaz becoming a proper character.

Seemed like a worse version of Midnight, the other episode where the Doctor winds up trapped with strangers on an uninhabitable vacation planet. It’s a much more focused episode with a similar message.

Definitely on the ‘forgettable’ list. Which, to be fair, there are usually a number in any season so I don’t hold it against them too much. It wasn’t horrid just... meh. I kept waiting for a twist or clever idea that never came. 

Totally agree. The headline says it all. I would go so far as to call this the most ridiculous and half-baked episode of Chibnall’s run. I was laughing out loud at parts because they were so silly. And the message, while I’m sure well intentioned, was literally “Fix global warming or you will turn into/get eaten by…