Doctor Who Social Club

No need for spoiler tags in these threads, people should know what they're getting into!

I don't think I'm quite as high on it as you are, but that was a lot of fun.

I’m getting flashbacks to “Idiot’s lantern”

For sure - I know that's not a terribly well-regarded episode, but this was a good execution of that basic premise. I thought a lot about "Flatline" as well.

I like how the segregation was handled with seriousness, but wasn’t turned into a hamfisted Teaching Opportunity.

I've often thought that there's a core tension with addressing civil rights issues on DW - they're important, and they absolutely should be addressed...but they also run the risk of dominating every single episode in which they're relevant (which, unfortunately, is a lot of them). I think it was handled pretty well in the Whitaker era, and that continues here.

F—, the giggle…!

A blindingly obvious connection that I didn't expect (mainly because I don't spend a lot of time speculating). I'm actually glad RTD continues to lean into these incomprehensible beings that play by their own rules.

The (fictional) fans were lovely, and tragic, and clever

I look forward to the rage of people who feel like they've been attacked. The fans were a lot of fun, and I fully expect to see them again in "Wish World." It just seems like they have a larger role to play, and their whole deal seems to overlap with Mrs. Flood's.

All in all, a really deftly-handled episode. A fun, one-off story that also manages to further the Doctor/Belinda relationship, and continue to seed the season-long arc.

My biggest complaint? Logan, the diner employee. I feel like this show has a long history of trying and failing to write natural-sounding American dialogue, and Logan unfortunately got the worst of it. The time period helps to paper it over to an extent, but it bumped me almost every time he said more than a handful of words.