Yeah, the film is definitely the next plan for the Mandalorian, but I hadn’t heard anything about what was being planned after that, I would have thought that would be it, but I guess there could be another season of the show after it.

Are there any more episodes of The Mandalorian? I could have sworn I saw something a year or more ago about filming starting on season 4, but then I never heard anything else until the film was announced. I figured that was going to be the end of that story.

Exactly. Until the reveal, a friend actually thought it was a Golgafrinchan deal, where the planet had ditched all it’s useless, entitled younger generation just fend for themselves.

Even in the first moment of the reveal, I thought it was a class issue, until I realised what was actually being done. The whole ‘the clues were there, people should have noticed’ thing might work for an American audience, or a London audience, but there are still large swaths of the UK that look exactly like what the…

“Of a sort”...come on, “From a certain point of view” was right there.

Man, if I’ve ever heard of a simpler, more concise and guaranteed idea for rejuvenating the show, I can’t think of it. The show has all of space and time as its canvas, why can’t we get more than ‘go to area x, which is being menaced by monster y’?

This season was basically exactly what I expected it would be from the moment it was announced that RTD was coming back, and yet it still came as a bit of a shock just how much it felt like nothing had changed since 2008, even down to the Doctor being the last of the Time Lords again. Then all of his other tricks were…

Ah yes, the AICU. Can’t wait.

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And the team-up, Rise of the BE-9.

Speaking from a personal perspective, this would have been an incredibly useful distinction for them to have made about half an hour ago.

I’m amazed at how much this series has felt like the 2005-09 era, just with its worse excesses brought to the fore. I know I shouldn’t be surprised, given it’s still RTD, but having it feel like the last 15 years never happened to the show hardly seems like the direction to go in. I suspect your prediction for the…

That may have been one of the stupidest things I’ve ever seen in Doctor Who. An elite, well-funded organisation, tasked with protecting the UK from Doctor shit and with decades of experience of doing just that, lets someone called “Harriet Arbinger” through the first round of the screening process?

Huh, I hadn’t realised that, but I just checked and you are correct. I just thought it was a standard Disney+ thing everywhere, but I guess it makes sense given that we can just watch on iPlayer.

I spent the whole episode expecting Rogue to reveal that he was actually Captain Jack but had ‘had a little work done’. There’s zero chance of Barrowman coming back now, so I think I’d be OK with that kind of way out of it. Groff seemed to be having great fun, so I can’t imagine it being the only time we see him.

Taylor Swift as Tigra confirmed!

Yeah, I tend to think I’m reasonably well-up on these things, and I don’t remember seeing anything confirming this.

Matter of Loaf and Death is wonderful. There are also a bunch of shorts that were made around the same time, which are probably on youtube and from what I remember are also worth seeing.

He’s playing Bob Bohner.

Not great. The 7-day figures count all the viewings on iPlayer as well, and the series started lower than the end of the Flux season and have dropped from there. The Overnight ratings for 73 Yards took a bit of a bump up, so their +7 figures should be better, but it was still a million less than the overnights for the…

A lot of RTD’s Who always feels like him doing stuff because he wants to do it, regardless of whether it all actually hangs together as a story. But then that’s about what I expect from someone who I’m convinced based two and a half hours of TV on a “Master Race” joke.

Nope. At least, not this Brit’s sensibilities...