Doctor Who

Of course they can't put it on Christmas day any more.
Having a special of their tentpole series on a major Christian holiday. The BBC can't be seen to suggest that Christmas is any more special than other religious holidays. :P
 
Alien interference with the birth of the baby Jesus?

Christmas theme
Matches the cultural/historical background of one of the companions
Miracles and sightings already documented
Perfect setting for weeping angels

Unfortunately if you give the current writers those points they'll probably set it in a 60's primary school with the doctor trying to save the school nativity from alien custard, the screwdriver used to change the viscosity using science to the runny stuff they serve today.
 
ttaskmaster said:
send Team TARDIS to a 1970s police station.... Manchester & Salford, perhaps?
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... or, maybe the Doctor needs to return to his own past to right #metoo abuses by preceeding incarnations;
I cannot believe with todays optic it was all above board.



I thought the emblem for kaboom was a bit close to dominoes pizza - with equally disaterous effects on society
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but did not know if the story was heading in the direction of solyent green - no ?
albeit the obvious parallel's with Amazon as a worldwide #1 (or is that alibaba) with similar working conditions, although the references to it is the way people use the systems, not the systems themselves seemed the Facebook defense.

Once again the doctor assumed people were ill intentioned, and was definitely not Hercule Poirot ...but - she's a people person, or is Bradley more so.

[edit afterthought - no asimov compliancy check on their source code
A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm.
A robot must obey orders given it by human beings except where such orders would conflict with the First Law.
A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.]
 
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Not a bad episode.
Just happy to have some actual sci-fi again.

Sinister helper robots had a whiff of Matt Smith's Space whale episode about them, and I thought the BBC having an episode where a company has to hit diversity quotas (10% organics) was amusing. Oh yeah, and they ticked the 'have an a55hole white guy' box again.

But yeah..... not bad..... I'll give this one a pass.
 
Moonpie2 said:
Sinister helper robots had a whiff of Matt Smith's Space whale episode about them
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That's ^ the only episode I'd seen since the reboot before this series . Always had it in my head it was a Tennant one, but must have been mistaken. Either way, it was really good, and agree with the general consensus that this Space-Amazon episode was also great.
 
I guess we'll find out in time (pardon the pun). Maybe among other things; Chris Chibnall is fed up with having to meet certain diversity quotas, rather than just get on and write a sci-fi TV show.

I can't help but think, that the BBC is sticking their oar in and not just letting the people hired to make the show, get on with it.
 
Marsman said:
I guess we'll find out in time (pardon the pun). Maybe among other things; Chris Chibnall is fed up with having to meet certain diversity quotas, rather than just get on and write a sci-fi TV show.

I can't help but think, that the BBC is sticking their oar in and not just letting the people hired to make the show, get on with it.
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Weird that this sounds exactly the same as the supposed argument that Kathleen Kennedy is "ruining star wars" with "femanist SJW agendas"

Do people here actually have evidence that the show runner of Dr Who is being forced by the BBC to put in things to fulfil quotas?
 
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