Yeah, it’s wild.

The Fugitive Doctor has really caught on with people, and RTD has embraced the Timeless Child concept, so…maybe?

Yeah, it’s a double-take of a sentence.

“Kerblam” was an interesting-but-flawed episode, and my memory of “Praxeus” is…fuzzy, at best.

I would say it’s way too early to have any “hype”…but I’m curious.

I somehow missed that Joy had a line that was a (very) thinly-veiled reference to the fact that she had to go through all of this while Boris Johnson and his lot were out partying.

Extremely British doors, at that.

where the Third Doctor berates Jo for her new age-y superstitions

You actually just made me think of the other recent Moffat episode, “Boom,” in which the Doctor berates faith (and, more broadly, religion) throughout the episode, and then ends the episode admitting to having a kind of “faith” of his own.

that reveal of the location.

You know, you’re not wrong about any of this…but I honestly didn’t look at it as an overtly religious thing. I guess in a show that’s visited Atlantis multiple times, and established that the moon is a space dragon egg (except when it isn’t), I just looked at it as a big ol’ slice of holiday cheese.

It probably helps that it was a wide shot without any real details.

On a completely different note, I wanted to give more attention to the segment of the Doctor’s “lost year” in the hotel with Anita. They did a lot with a little in that sequence, and I thought it was pretty special.

Also, the Doctor bootstrapping up the combination was hilarious, and I hope they don’t do something like it again for a long, long time.

This is really great - thanks for sharing.

I unfortunately don’t have much to add - I haven’t seen either version of “War Games”. I kept thinking I would watch the original over the last few months, but…didn’t.

I don’t think the new versions are (legally) available outside the UK?

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My initial reaction is that it was pretty good - not in the top tier of Christmas specials, but pretty good.

I would imagine that some people might not appreciate the lockdown stuff, but I don’t think it was pushing any kind of agenda - just acknowledging that there were some tragic side-effects of that whole situation.

What really struck me was how well the episode fleshed out Joy, Anita, Trev with fairly limited screen time. Ironically, Joy was probably the least fleshed-out, but Nicola Coughlan played the part very well.

Oh that’s right - I was very surprised that that scene didn’t make the final cut!

I never think of that two-parter as being very good, but I periodically remember that it is actually very good.

Yeah, there was an episode in Matt Smith’s first season where he was hopping around non-linearly, but I don’t think he actually interacted with himself at any point.

I’m here for the Doctor being openly annoyed by his own bullshit.

Usually the invisible piranhas that live in the shadows.

The moon is a self-replicating space dragon egg.

“This year, the Doctor will tell you the answer to that question you’ve been asking since you were a small child,” Moffat proclaims. “The solution to the longest-standing mystery in not merely the Doctor Who universe, but the universe as a whole. Watch on Christmas Day!”

This is guaranteed to be something very silly.

You can’t spell “embargo” without “go”!

I doubt he would, yet I also think he’s willing to pull just about anything…

A regeneration is cool, but I hope they go fairly minimalist with it. I like the more…explosive regenerations of the modern era well enough, but I don’t think they need to be retconned into past ones.