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LeMarchand

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I always assumed ether A) Don't question it, or B) The Doctor plucks them out of their timestream and drops them back off moments after it happened. More than likely it's the former. But it's Sci-Fi, I don't expect every little detail to add up. As far as I see it, Graham, Ryan and Yaz haven't 'popped home' outside of Demons of the Punjab. Have I missed some dialogue that implies otherwise?

 

Seems a bit more than a "little detail" to me, but that might be down to me not liking the whole "must show their 'real' life" thing. Don't know about the current lot, but, reading between the lines, past NuWho companions seem to have been very much "part time" adventurers. Slackers!

 

On another topic, I think @ICTDirect_Dave may be a member of Organics First. In the past, any parcel we've had from them has been packed with that expanding foam stuff. But the two I opened two on Monday were full of... bubble wrap. I took it outside very carefully!

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6Foot2

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Great, now my house will be full of bubble wrap I'm afraid to pop

 

I've an idea, leave it over there (*points) That's it, pop it in the corner.

 

:getmecoat:

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jthompson

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I did really enjoy that episode. It had some Portal vibes. Stephen Merchant would have been a good fit for one of the characters. Either the reception/director character, or the site agent/terrorist.
Garacesh

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As for Kerblam!, I finally got round to watching it last night and, up until the final few minutes, it all felt very 'Who' to me. The Doctor and pals nonchalantly going undercover to investigate an issue where they had no real information, the little sparks of companion ingenuity, the red herring sleazeball who it turns out isn't actually the baddie, The Doctor giving a grandiose threat-warning, creepy robots, and a misguided baddie who did have a bit of a point (though he was, admittedly, a bit of a wet-flannel).

 

The reveal was a bit rubbish though, and I think they should've spent a bit of time explaining that 'the system' had become an AI over time, I think we were supposed to sort of just figure it out but it felt a bit out of place considering nobody else ever referred to it in such a way. Also how did 'The System' know of The Doctor? How did Charlie manage to reprogram the robots to steal people? And also the doors of the TARDIS kept out Genghis Khan and his Mongol horde, but a delivery bot can just teleport in and out? Then again, the continuity of TARDIS security has always been a bit, er, wibbly wobbly, in order to accommodate the plot.

 

Ooh.. To add to this, the conveyor belt CGI was terrible. And the jumping between them bit was especially carp.

AJWhite1970

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Ooh.. To add to this, the conveyor belt CGI was terrible. And the jumping between them bit was especially carp.

 

Not to mention that entire scene was copied directly from Monsters Inc.....

sparkeh

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Just caught up with Kerblam!

 

Entertaining episode (still loving JW) but just thinking that the reaction to deaths are getting a bit weird, too... nonchalant? Not just The Doctor but all the characters seem to move on very quickly.

sonofsanta

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I just caught up to ep5 last night (watched Arachnids and Tsuranga) and, I dunno... it feels like it has the same problem as Star Trek: Discovery to me, this series, in that the production is wonderful, the acting is great, the interplay between characters is brilliant (the three companions are working really well for me), but... the actual story is rubbish. I mean, "giant spiders mutated by toxic waste!" was a tired plotline when I was watching it on 90s Saturday morning cartoons. Every episode so far has been predictable, rehashing old tropes uncritically, and not had any greater sense of meaning and import. I'd hoped for better from the writer of Broadchurch, honestly.
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jthompson

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One of the things I like about it is that it's really episodic (?) and not too heavily serialised. With all the high production value TV series going on, it's refreshing to watch something that doesn't have "du-du-dAHHH!" cliffhangers at the end, prolonged character arcs, parallel plots about political intrigue, etc. Space Amazon one week, medieval ye olde witch dunking the next. What other show could get away with that? Edited by jthompson
E_G_R2

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The writing has been quite weak as others have said and the story's tend to close rather quickly.

 

I'm beginning to find the Doctors facial expressions a tad repetitive and cheesy I hope that's not going to be her trademark.

 

Plenty of rumours that the current show runner and line up are going at the end of next year.

 

- just seen above clip

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Arthur

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Amazon accidentally streamed an unreleased episode of Doctor Who

 

Amazon users who tuned into stream Doctor Who’s latest episode, “Kerblam!” experienced a little more time traveling than they bargained for. Rather than airing the correct episode, Amazon Prime Video apparently skipped ahead to “The Witchfinders,” an episode set to air this coming Sunday.

 

The mistake was spotted by io9, who also notes that the closed captions for “Kerblam!” curiously aired as part of “The Witchfinders” — surely a jarring mistake for anyone trying to make sense of why conveyor belts have anything to do with the 17th century. In a statement to io9, BBC Studios said it was aware of the error for US Amazon Prime users. “We are investigating how this happened and have taken the steps to remove it,” the company said. “BBC Studios would like to apologise if anyone’s enjoyment of the series has been spoiled by this mishap.”

 

Ironically, “Kerblam!” is about a not-so-subtle parody of Amazon. The company has since corrected the error.

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