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[Six Fiend]

Ooh all about immigration / refugees and radicalisation tonight. Thinly veiled comment on current goings on.

[Morningside]

I laughed when The Doctor was talking to those two girls in the playground unheeded. Why did no one question who the 'nonce' was ?

[ajprice]

Question mark underpants

[Six Fiend]

Chuckle at both comments

And a benefits gag too!

Edited by Six Fiend on Saturday 31st October 21:00

[Morningside]

"...think you'll going to pinch their benefits."
Bit of a dig there?

How much do you bet someone is going to make a complaint about poor taste/timing about blowing up a plane.

Edited by Morningside on Saturday 31st October 21:05

[SpudLink]

Before everyone comes along to say "that was crap", I would like to say I think that was one of the best episodes of seen in quite some time. Well paced, "invasion of the body snatchers" story. UNIT battling to stop the monsters, like in the John Pertwee days. Picture of William Hartnell in the UNIT office. Proper cliff hanger ending.

[Trevatanus]

Morningside said:

I laughed when The Doctor was talking to those two girls in the playground unheeded. Why did no one question who the 'nonce' was ?

I did say to my Mrs that it was not setting a very good example!

[Hamish Finn]

Trevatanus said:

Morningside said:

I laughed when The Doctor was talking to those two girls in the playground unheeded. Why did no one question who the 'nonce' was ?

I did say to my Mrs that it was not setting a very good example!

fk me! What is the UK coming to, when you can't even question reptilian aliens in a children's playground without some holier-than-thou comments?

[Jim the Sunderer]

Those elite special forces were embarrassingly st.

The first lot falling for a trick straight out of a Homeric poem.
The other group had about 3 hours to shoot those 6 foot condom bds but did nothing, not a single shot while the enemy were standing in a nice line.


Good idea for a story though, ruined for me because the BBC won't pay for gun shooting SFX.

[Mr GrimNasty]

Blimey what a juvenile allegorical tale of Islamification migration/resettlement, complete with ISIS flag rip-off.
It'll certainly turn out to be all the infidels, sorry, earthlings, fault for this Muslim, sorry, Zygon, world take over bid.

I was almost disappointed Casualty didn't follow up with an FGM special, no it was just the Polish fisherman eating Carp/swan cliche - but it is us UKers that have got it wrong as just catching a fish and not eating it is stupid according to the pretty young doctor, and the Pole turned out to be the nice guy, no surprise.

Still, Cuffs will be back on next week with it's united nations Police force that looks nothing like Brighton's at all, with more classic lines about funding cuts cutting them off at the knees.

Ah.... the impartial Beeb. Don't you just love it.

'Not public broadcast programming, but broadcasting to program the public.'

[Trevatanus]

I wonder if there will be any complaints about the shooting down of an airliner with a SAM bearing in mind the events in Sinai?

[anonymous-user]

Trevatanus said:

I wonder if there will be any complaints about the shooting down of an airliner with a SAM bearing in mind the events in Sinai?

I was thinking of the Russian shooting down and the local guy that was killed in it

[glazbagun]

I thought that was pretty good. I mean Dr Who is pretty lightweight anyway, so the themes of an enemy that looks just like you, divisions of ideology within the Zygons, shooting down an airliner (didn't see it blow up yet of course), hostage videos, lots of peril etc were better than I'd expect.

It will, of course, end up with the liberal utopian types winning through, but that's no different to Star Trek or any other family Sci Fi. I just hope there's a satisfying ending and not some Deus-Ex thing (as much as is possible when you have a time machine).

[Riley Blue]

That's how I regard it too, a bit fantasy viewing for a Saturday evening in. It's taken far too seriously by some.

[MiniMan64]

Riley Blue said:

That's how I regard it too, a bit fantasy viewing for a Saturday evening in. It's taken far too seriously by some.

This.

It is rather unfortuante timing for them this week though. Of all the episodes to be showing...

[ajprice]

MiniMan64 said:

Riley Blue said:

That's how I regard it too, a bit fantasy viewing for a Saturday evening in. It's taken far too seriously by some.

This.

It is rather unfortuante timing for them this week though. Of all the episodes to be showing...

Yeah, shooting the plane down with a rocket launcher was iffy. Last series they edited Robot Of Sherwood to take out a beheading scene, because journalists being killed was in the news. After that, nobody thought shooting down a plane in this series was a bad idea?

[SpudLink]

I don't think it's a bad thing for Dr Who to throw in some real world nightmares along with the fantasy monsters. It's being broadcast after 20:00 these days, so it's being aimed at slightly older kids (although not always successfully).
I would have expected more comments about showing a child being dragged away in a body bag by his parents.

[Morningside]

Peter is not happy about the later time slot. I agree with him. I think they will lose the children viewers and if it is later then why not make it more adult? Then again, if you do that then you may as well have Torchwood.

It's a bit of a mess really.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/tv/tv-news/peter-capaldi-s...

[ajprice]

Today, I had a 'Walter White is Malcolm In The Middle's dad!?!' moment. Osgood is the woman from the Maltesers advert.

[Mr GrimNasty]

ajprice said:

Today, I had a 'Walter White is Malcolm In The Middle's dad!?!' moment. Osgood is the woman from the Maltesers advert.

I'm surprised it took you so long, there's only so many women that talk like their testicles have dropped.