Consolidated UK figures were less than a million on top of the overnights with episode seven. Just a mere forty thousand higher than Capaldi's lowest viewed episode. I think the figures should bump up for the rest of the run though.
Consolidated UK figures were less than a million on top of the overnights with episode seven. Just a mere forty thousand higher than Capaldi's lowest viewed episode. I think the figures should bump up for the rest of the run though.
Yeah that seems to be a problem with a lot of these stories. Historical genius turns out to have been given masterful idea by time traveler or alien.
Even having aliens doing some form of mirroring action during a historical tragedy can have a bit of a cheapening effect. I know they probably don't intend it that way, but that doesn't mean the effect isn't happening.
So if Jack and the Master also return in the finale I'm curious if they'll meet each other again. Makes me wonder if the Master, by infiltrating MI6, also had a role in getting rid of Torchwood and UNIT, especially considering the latter gave him a lot of trouble.
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Wait how does the Mary Shelley story jibe with The Silver Turk?
Looks like maybe the series has been borrowing from it's own EU again-something that it pretty much kind of did from day one (Gallifrey being destroyed happened in the books too. Roger Sherman, Moffat (Blink was originally an annual story) and Paul Cornell wrote their own adaptations of their material though).
One of the coolest things I thought about the Lone cyberman was that it's damaged arm had a Tenth Planet/Mondasian Cyberman look to it. Also the preview for next episode shows the "Cybusmen" design being used again.
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Just had a thought. Although the Daleks are of course the Doctor's #1 enemy, it seems the Cybermen have dealt him more personal blows. They're partially responsible for Rose getting stuck in another dimension. They got one companion killed (Yeah I know the Daleks were partially responsible for Sara Kingdom and Katerina but they weren't really as long-running as Adric), converted a companion's boyfriend (Danny) and a companion (Bill) and have been responsible in part for two regenerations.
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Big Finish has a sale on the Eighth Doctor/Mary Shelley stories.
I'm kind of wondering if the Timeless Child thing is going to be something of a "bait and switch" with them promising some reveal about the Doctor's past, but either changing it at the last minute to mean something else or making it just murky enough to still have an air of mystery about the character. It's Doctor "Who" afterall.
It's something we saw, for example, with the Name of the Doctor, with some of the marketing hyping that we would learn it's name, but instead revealing somewhat of the meaning of why he uses "The Doctor" as his name, but also of course revealing his "secret": The War Doctor. Likewise, the hybrid was something not really given a straight answer either; and I doubt that the original series would really have really gone through with the entirety of the Cartmel Masterplan even if it had continued (Even the novel which adapted part of it, "Lungbarrow", still left some lingering mysteries about the Doctor's nature).
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Anybody got the feeling that one of the companions might be tempted by cyberconversion? Graham perhaps, because of his age and possible cancer?
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Well, Spyfall made a point about referencing the fact there are multiple universes/realities. Then you had Orphan 55 (which was set in a possible future). I think the EU stuff is absolutely going to factor into the endgame for this series.
Personally, they should just abopt a stance that every story has happened, but the Doctor's travelling back and forth through time constantly alters events. Therefore everything has happened, but also everything hasn't happened.