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Spoilers The Eaters of Light (Grade & Discussion Thread)
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Oh, Nardole. That's not what happened to the Mary Celeste. It was Daleks.
The deal was to guard Missy's body for a thousand years. Dialogue in The Pilot suggested he'd been at the uni for 70. Whether he'd intended to keep Missy in the vault for the full thousand years was never elaborated on.
The deal was to guard Missy's body for a thousand years. Dialogue in The Pilot suggested he'd been at the uni for 70. Whether he'd intended to keep Missy in the vault for the full thousand years was never elaborated on.
Death by Scotland! 
I will miss Nardole.
Pretty solid episode. Nothing groundbreaking. It was a nice monster-of-the-week episode and that's where Doctor Who does its best. Isn't Rona Muro the first Classic Who writer that made into Nu-Who ? I know Paul Cornell and Robert Shearman wrote for Classic Doctors during the Wilderness Years, but my memory fails to remember anyone who wrote a proper Classic Episode.
Between this episode and that one from Gatiss, not to mention the whole Series Finale exploring the Mondasian Cybermen, I'm quite happy Moffat's send off is being very reminiscent of the Classic Series. After all, it looks like we're getting something totally opposite with Chibnall. It's nice Moffat is laying the necessary foundations for it before Chris comes in and starts introducing new concepts.
I can't stop thinking this Season as another "soft reboot" like Season 5 was. The whole thing about Bill continuously talking about the Translator Matrix seems oddly out of place for us who are watching the show for a long time, but for people catching up with it now, it kinda makes sense... I think Season 10 will be in relation to the future Chibnall Era what Eccleston's Run was in relation to David Tennant's Run. A stand-alone Season with a different Doctor and a very different pace, but very necessary to understand the whole thing.
I will miss Nardole. Pretty solid episode. Nothing groundbreaking. It was a nice monster-of-the-week episode and that's where Doctor Who does its best. Isn't Rona Muro the first Classic Who writer that made into Nu-Who ? I know Paul Cornell and Robert Shearman wrote for Classic Doctors during the Wilderness Years, but my memory fails to remember anyone who wrote a proper Classic Episode.
Between this episode and that one from Gatiss, not to mention the whole Series Finale exploring the Mondasian Cybermen, I'm quite happy Moffat's send off is being very reminiscent of the Classic Series. After all, it looks like we're getting something totally opposite with Chibnall. It's nice Moffat is laying the necessary foundations for it before Chris comes in and starts introducing new concepts.
I can't stop thinking this Season as another "soft reboot" like Season 5 was. The whole thing about Bill continuously talking about the Translator Matrix seems oddly out of place for us who are watching the show for a long time, but for people catching up with it now, it kinda makes sense... I think Season 10 will be in relation to the future Chibnall Era what Eccleston's Run was in relation to David Tennant's Run. A stand-alone Season with a different Doctor and a very different pace, but very necessary to understand the whole thing.
I had it in my head it was longer though that makes more sense.
Yes, she is indeed the first to write for both.
This episode reminded me of something. We used to have a local zoo that only had animals that were indigenous to the state and one of the animals was a crow and it was a bit of a secret among the locals that it had been taught to talk. At least twice I witnessed family quarrels because someone was sure a family member was faking the bird saying Hello but wouldn't admit it and stop. Very odd.
I have no idea what I Pict is. I just know there was a group of annoying people with face paint and scottish accents (that felt like they should to be in a Scottish Young Adult movie or something), and this being ancient times I assumed they lived in a village. Since I really disliked them, I'll admit I didn't bother to pay much attention to anything to do with them, so if they had a name or had stuff about them explained it all went in one ear and out the other for me.
Brush up on your history. Calling them villagers is grossly ignorant.
They're some ancient group of people that lived somewhere in Scotland. Of all the things to be "grossly ignorant" of, its fairly harmless. Up there with not knowing the life span of a fruit fly or what Tom Baker's middle name is. Probably one of 10,000 ancient groups of people the average person has never heard of. I definitely won't be looking up anything about them.
Maybe if Doctor Who hadn't written them like annoying rejects from a YA post apocalyptic film, I might bother. As it is, I know they're an ancient Scottish people. That is all the episode needed me to know, and I intend to completely forget about them until I rewatch the episode sometime in the future (then I'll get annoyed at them all over again, probably).
Well, since the episode itself called them Picts, the fault lies entirely on you, not the writer.
Much better than Star Trek's "The Alternative Factor," although it has a similar resolution. Again, it's the characters that carry it; across the board they're all very interesting. The plot not so much, except the twist that the gatekeeper let one of the beasts out. Beautiful setting, lovely costumes.
The epilogue seemed to succinctly answer my question about why the TARDIS slipped back to Earth last episode: it needed maintenance, and so it was more or less a malfunction.
The middle option.
The epilogue seemed to succinctly answer my question about why the TARDIS slipped back to Earth last episode: it needed maintenance, and so it was more or less a malfunction.
The middle option.
There in lies the problem.
Can you elaborate on this. I'm curious how you gained this impression.
Until this comment, by you, I was under the impression that everyone had heard of the Picts.
The Picts were real? I've never heard of them before.
It was a decent episode, probably on the same quality level as last week. I was getting a bit bored though, but the final 20 minutes were really good. Also, I loved the use of music in this episode, probably it's more endearing quality.
It was a decent episode, probably on the same quality level as last week. I was getting a bit bored though, but the final 20 minutes were really good. Also, I loved the use of music in this episode, probably it's more endearing quality.
I've heard of them and I'm Italian (I admit that I had to look for the Italian word for "Picts")
