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  1. Griffin Griffin

    There's a spoiler period on Doctor Who right?

    Sunday, 01-Nov-15 11:44:06 UTC from web
    1. Gherkin ☑️ Gherkin ☑️

      @vcgriffin It's true

      Sunday, 01-Nov-15 11:47:14 UTC from web
      1. Griffin Griffin

        @thelastgherkin But what if I had a time machine and.....

        Sunday, 01-Nov-15 11:49:44 UTC from web
        1. Gherkin ☑️ Gherkin ☑️

          @vcgriffin Then your future travels would be filled with even more spoilers

          Sunday, 01-Nov-15 11:53:42 UTC from web
          1. Griffin Griffin

            @thelastgherkin Nopony wants those

            Sunday, 01-Nov-15 12:04:21 UTC from web
          2. Griffin Griffin

            @thelastgherkin I can say something very vague though like David Cameron is going to feel more betrayed then when he caught Theresa May with bacon in the home office

            Sunday, 01-Nov-15 12:07:12 UTC from web
            1. Gherkin ☑️ Gherkin ☑️

              @vcgriffin You can say whatever you want so long as you hashtag spoiler it. I'd be interested in a discourse because I'm in two minds about the episode.

              Sunday, 01-Nov-15 12:08:58 UTC from web
              1. Griffin Griffin

                @thelastgherkin well then its a bit overtly political aint it

                Sunday, 01-Nov-15 12:11:06 UTC from web
                1. Gherkin ☑️ Gherkin ☑️

                  @vcgriffin # Naturally you're more well-read than I am, but as soon as there were things like rehoming of immigrants and terrorist splinter cells I was suspect there was some kind of an agenda.

                  Sunday, 01-Nov-15 12:16:21 UTC from web
                  1. Griffin Griffin

                    @thelastgherkin the 20 Million directly relates to the 20k of Syrian refuges that the UK government has promised to take. The whole episode is so full of the type of left wing agenda that the BBC is always accused of. Its like back in Merlin when they made Merlin and Arthur's relationship so gay, just trying to get a bite of the daily mail. Subtlety is not this episodes strong point. We could just call Zygons Zebras at this point

                    Sunday, 01-Nov-15 12:21:44 UTC from web
              2. Griffin Griffin

                @thelastgherkin Eeep. ok anything is now blanked out should be # (my bad). Have now finished it. I like it but I feel I have just watched an episode of spooks, back when spooks was good rather than an episode of Doctor who,

                Sunday, 01-Nov-15 12:16:56 UTC from web
                1. Gherkin ☑️ Gherkin ☑️

                  @vcgriffin # I think this series has been really talky and not much getstuffdoney. And it seems too many cliffhangers are becoming about the main characters straight up actually dying only for it to be reversed the following week.

                  Sunday, 01-Nov-15 12:21:54 UTC from web
                  1. Griffin Griffin

                    @thelastgherkin Yea I think there has been too much talking and not enough running. I have no idea who the show is aimed at any more. (though there was a lot of talking back in the day too. But I would have thought Corridors were cheaper than script writers. #

                    Sunday, 01-Nov-15 12:24:46 UTC from web
                  2. Griffin Griffin

                    @thelastgherkin As for everyone living, that has been going on for a while, I mean how many times did they try a kill Clara last Christmas????? It is getting annoying all round, but I did like the bring back of Osgood, as I think it made sense (but no having watched the War Doctor since broadcast, I A, forgot about it and B, cant call it out on it). While we are on it, how else were they going to bring Missy back? (though when then did it did feel cool and Meta, but I think its being way overused (and Meta feels too overused at the moment to. we seem to have progressed from post modern to meta (but this is a different rant) #

                    Sunday, 01-Nov-15 12:29:20 UTC from web
                    1. Gherkin ☑️ Gherkin ☑️

                      @vcgriffin I think the point of cliffhangers is supposed to be "How will they get out of this one?" rather than "Will they get out of this one?" The first episode featured Clara, the Master and the TARDIS explicitly exterminated. The second cliffhanger featured the Doctor as a ghost. This week's cliffhanger ends with the death of Kate Stewart, Jac and the UNIT troop. So far the resolutions have been about it looking like they died, but they teleported away/were actually a hologram/will probably be saved by selective film editing. That's what's been bugging me. #

                      Sunday, 01-Nov-15 12:35:53 UTC from web
                      1. Griffin Griffin

                        @thelastgherkin "How will they get out of this one?" rather than "Will they get out of this one?" ~ I think that is largely a question of semantics though, right? Will they get out, == yes allways. "How will they get out of this one?", still a question, take "The second cliffhanger featured the Doctor as a ghost." , it was obvious that he would have just used the Holo projector thing like an OHP, but he still could have been dead to the average kid. On my slow watch though (painfully slow) of all of DR who, the cliffhanger is resolved many times by the Robot / monster stopping, the doctor just standing up (or later on climbing back up his umbrella) or someone pushing something out of the way. Most of the time the resolutions are dumb. I think why its jarring is its been so long since we have been given a sting of 'cliffhangers' its feels odd to get back into it. #

                        Sunday, 01-Nov-15 12:48:14 UTC from web
                      2. Griffin Griffin

                        @thelastgherkin Also remember the really good Weeping angles cliffhanger with 11? all he did was shoot the floating light orb. The Zygons have not killed anypony yet either, so I don't think they will start now. And as long as the Doctor aint on a Malaysian airliner, and that Surface to air missie ant russina. all will be ok. #

                        Sunday, 01-Nov-15 14:34:18 UTC from web
                        1. Gherkin ☑️ Gherkin ☑️

                          @vcgriffin I thought that cliffhanger had something to do with an animated Graham Norton.

                          Sunday, 01-Nov-15 18:33:35 UTC from web