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One hopes both ladies got something of a say in their outfits. They look perfectly fine to me. It's odd to say neither suits the character given we haven't seen either character in at least 30 years. It's doubtful a woman nearly 70 would still be dressing like an air hostess or still wearing short skirts and high heels (not impossible on the second point obviously) or that a woman of almost 60 would still be dressing like a teenager.
Both of them talked about the outfits on Twitter the day the trailer came out and both (particularly Janet) praised the wardrobe department for their creations.
 
Ace's outfit makes sense assuming they're sticking with the thing established about her from SJA about her running a charity organization now, which was also referenced in Sophie Aldred's novel and one of the Blu-ray trailers she appeared in. I definitely get CEO vibes from it.

As for Tegan, I'm sure her outfit makes sense within the context of whatever this episode says she's been up to in recent times.
 
I do t think either costume suits the character, but I do like the way Tegan’s is oddly similar to Davisons jacket in some of the cut and piping. Ace in a pin stripe suit is odd mind you… maybe they’re shocked because someone has nicked the laptop from the cooling stand in front of Ace?
Fun fact, Tegans coat is entirely made of woven celery, with each button being a small condensed package of celery absorbing radiation goodness that one can consume in cases of emergencies. :p
 
The interview with Chibnall in the new DWM is very revealing and he says more in it than he has since he got the job.

No doubt it will get quoted from all over the place but one key thing for his last episode is that there are no plans and never were any plans to reveal where the Doctor actually comes from.
 
Not going to quote the whole thing since DWM could do with all the readers it can get but...

On Flux as a serialised story “I wouldn’t have chosen to do it like that, and I didn’t choose to do it like that.”

"The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos" is his least favourite script as as he had to do big rewrites due to “some problems” and they had to shoot the first draft.
 
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The interview with Chibnall in the new DWM is very revealing and he says more in it than he has since he got the job.

No doubt it will get quoted from all over the place but one key thing for his last episode is that there are no plans and never were any plans to reveal where the Doctor actually comes from.
Good to know that we don't have to worry anymore about Bel and Vinder's baby being The Doctor.
 
Just wanted to say... I really don't like this version of the Master. No suavity, no stillness at his core, just (to me) a shouty madman.

That was how I felt about the John Simm Master most of the time. Considering how good Simm was in shows like Life on Mars, I didn't think his talents were used well in most of his Doctor Who appearances.
 
That was how I felt about the John Simm Master most of the time. Considering how good Simm was in shows like Life on Mars, I didn't think his talents were used well in most of his Doctor Who appearances.
I felt the same of Simm. He had some good bits, particularly in "The Sound of Drums" before he became super manic, but I didn't really enjoy his performance until he returned in "World Enough and Time"/"The Doctor Falls."

Conversely, I've mostly loved Sacha Dhawan with few minor exceptions (blanking on details at the moment).
 
Simm was a great Master. There were shouty madman bits, particularly in “The End of Time” where he was more a plot device than the antagonist, but I don’t think that’s remotely a fair description of, say, the black comedy of the scene where he gases the cabinet, or the almost flirtatious tension of the phone call with the Doctor, or the desperation of the death scene, or…
 
Thing is, it feels like another case of something that is actually pretty much like something that came before being treated as some anomalous and bad new thing because it's happening now instead of ten or fifteen years ago.
 
Is it controversial to say that I'm not a fan of any version of the Master other than Delgado? And that's only because I enjoy the dynamic between him, Three, Jo, and the Brig.

Every version since then has felt to me like a generic and annoying comic book villain, with Simm and Dhawan's Joker-inspired versions being the most grating of all. Although I couldn't stand Missy either.
 
Is it controversial to say that I'm not a fan of any version of the Master other than Delgado? And that's only because I enjoy the dynamic between him, Three, Jo, and the Brig.

Every version since then has felt to me like a generic and annoying comic book villain, with Simm and Dhawan's Joker-inspired versions being the most grating of all. Although I couldn't stand Missy either.

I actually think that's fair. Delgado had this quiet, elegant menace to him.. Or at least that's how I remember it. I did enjoy Simm's Master, though... He made the character his.
 
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