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    2 days ago

    If you are going to make me put a coin into a cart because you don’t trust me to be an adult and tidy up after myself without being nannied, then I am going to do my damndest to bypass your lock and leave a mess out of spite.

    In the shops where I am trusted and not required to pay a coin (I never even carry cash these days) I tidy up because that is the decent thing to do.















  • That was an OK finale.

    I’m of two minds about the resolution with Ruby’s mum. On one hand, there being no significance at all is a bit of a let down, but on the other hand when dealing with gods, the whole point of the power is the belief, and that explanation does tie everything up fairly neatly. (not sure why ruby kept snowing though). Seeing her get back together with her mum was a nice send off.

    Getting rid of sutek by throwing him off into the vortex, and having that undo everything was a bit iffy for me. There’s not been an established precedent that throwing someone into the time vortex undoes every action they ever did, and surely if that were the case that leads to a paradox?

    Lots of call backs to past DW. Including the trend that at the end of the season every single person in the universe dies. But I guess that is the risk when you have a show that’s gone on for so long, once you’ve pushed the limits of danger to the max, there’s not really any way to escalate the tension further.



  • I’m not a bidgerton fan, I prefer my period dramas to be of the star trek variety. But this was still a good episode, I was getting echoes of “family of blood”.

    Rogue is interesting, we’re given basically no back story but I was convinced they were going to tie the character somehow to Jack Harkness. I’m glad they actually followed through on the kiss and didn’t just leave it teased, that would have been very 2005.

    The marriage proposal scene got me thinking - the doctor is already married to river song. We know that she has had interactions with doctors other than 11, so the marriage seems to go beyond regens. How does marriage even work. Is that polygamy? Parallel monogamy?

    I like the inclusion of nerd terminology like cosplay and dnd - Get the kids watching radicalised early :)

    Ruby was good in this - clearly a competent companion that can think on her feet. I was kind of hoping we’d make more progress on the twist by now, I guess we’re keeping all of that for the very end.

    Lesson to take away - always build a backdoor into your deadlock seals.



  • Alright, I have some feelings on this one.

    First, I’m not a fan of when TV shows and movies use hones to have characters talk to each other. Texting is just awful (if I wanted to read, I’d read a book) and video chats often seem incredibly limiting and boring to me. Having a whole episode of that… ew.

    The characters themselves, they’re obviously meant to embody the worst of vapid superficial influencer types. But my god, but the end I was 100% on side with the rogue AI here. Finish them all off and spare me having to listen to them speak. Pity about that Ricky guy, he died an unexpectedly brutal death.

    It felt a bit black mirrory, with the way it was shot, with the makeup and costumes, with the way the actors were just overly smiley and oblivious. But even with the theme of over-reliance on tech, I found the “I can’t walk without the bubble” bit a bit of a stretch.

    Morals: Don’t walk staring at your phone, you’ll walk right into traffic and die. Also felt a bit of environmentalism at the end - “I’m an expert, I can help, listen to me”, and of course everyone thought they knew best so now they’re all going to die.

    We’re no closer to figuring out the mysterious woman, and I’m struggling to find what the connection could be.

    Best part of the episode: The 2 factor authentication from hell. Loved that.