for u!
― shackling the masses with plastic-wrapped snack picks (sic), Saturday, 30 December 2017 09:16 (six years ago) link
I enjoyed this. I wasn’t expecting multiple callbacks to Into the Dales, though.
― Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Saturday, 30 December 2017 13:18 (six years ago) link
This was great but I'm not sure Bill being a duplicate was a very satisfying way to end her arc (though I guess that was the point). i enjoyed the big speech and even Gatiss was good, an achievement in itself.
Bingo on many Moff tropes:Timey-wimey / location-hopping"It's a big not a feature" / No villainScrewball dialog - great, then overstaying its welcome Everything gets summed up with a big meta speechBeing 20% terrible and 80% very, very good indeedMaking my partner cry more than once an episode
I think Capaldi would've got the best regeneration episode BY FAR if they'd just kept it to the end of last season as planned. But I still think Matt Smith's was the best (and underrated, except possibly by sic).
Overall I still get excited to see Moffat's name in the writing credits - he might not have bettered Blink but he definitely equalled his other RTD episodes. And he's forgiven for the last episode of Sherlock (one of the worst things I've ever seen).
― Chuck_Tatum, Saturday, 30 December 2017 15:46 (six years ago) link
All the nu-Who, available now:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/group/p06870tz
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Monday, 11 June 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
Awesome. Time to blub at Human Nature again I guess.
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 12 June 2018 09:43 (five years ago) link
Brain Of Morbius is a story that showed onscreen faces of the Doctor pre-Hartnell, that have never been referred to before or since
Yeah, this is a pretty contentious claim. Also, some of them are probably Morbius's faces.
It's only contentious because nerds; it's plainly what the production team intended at the time. (As well as in-joking by including themselves.)
Turns out that it was only the production staff / freelancers (plus one guy who worked down the hall) because an open call for volunteers from BBC staff got zero responses
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/D-UFtbiXkAAZbt3.jpg
― quelle sprocket damage (sic), Tuesday, 2 July 2019 22:56 (four years ago) link
Haha that’s some confusing self-and-others quoting, I thought you were disproving your own point for a minute.
― JimD, Wednesday, 3 July 2019 09:02 (four years ago) link