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Regarding the library I think - reference to "Silence in the Library." I notice Rose's is the only one that says "would like to meet." :(

Funnily enough there's one RTD-era episode commentary where Moffat goes into a little speech about what makes the Doctor the Doctor, and it boiled down to, "He's completely ordindary and not special in any way, he just has the give of the gab." I can't remember the full thing but I was slightly shocked and dismayed when I heard it because his perception of the Doctor seemed so negative. So I think he really does see the Doctor differently from most fans, i.e. not a hero or special at all. The polar opposite to RTD's Doctor-worship. For God's sake can't we have a showrunner who's in the middle?

Kate Stewart was brilliant in her few small scenes. I'd actually love her to be a new Companion.

FWIW I watched the Doctor Who Extra and Moff pretty much stated flat out that the Master can/will come back, which makes me happy. Do whatever you like to Clara but don't you dare kill my Master!

I agree. Missy was the best part - can't wait to see the character again, whether it's as Missy or the Master. Though I hope it's as Missy. Tie between Danny&Clara, the Doctor and Clara lying to each other, and Missy's 'a wizard did it' magic bracelet for worst.I did enjoy hearing the S1 Cybermen music again. I'm cheering that Danny is finally gone (and really, he doesn't actually have much reason to be angry at the Doctor - the Doctor wasn't involved in his death and Missy's scheme wasn't really his fault -- 'how dare you put trying to save all of humanity over my and Clara's unbelievably dysfunctional relationship??') I can buy love saving the day sometimes but not when it's two awful people who are just dating who have done nothing but lie and be emotionally abusive to each other. And passing the buck to Danny to avoid the Doctor ordering the human-cyber army to commit mass suicide. And really, giving Clara some random Middle Eastern kid who doesn't speak English, doesn't have any paperwork, whose parents are probably dead - and even if they're not they're hardly going to understand how the son who died years ago is back but still a child? Is that really better than her getting the apparent love of her life back? Actually it would have been a perfectly decent RTD-style episode if they'd cut all the Clara/Danny stuff and just made it the Master coming up with a wacky Cyberman scheme which somehow the Doctor and UNIT foil. It reminded me of Sontaran Experiment/Poison Sky a lot.

Contractually Fox have to show the entire 10-ep miniseries.

Mine too. Btw 'piss in a cup' was improvised by Olivia, and they did a dozen takes with her coming up with different lines each time!

I can't help but contrast Clara threatening the Doctor to get Danny back with Rose trying to manipulate the Doctor to get to see her late father in Father's Day - the latter being beautifully handled with the Doctor being furious with her, it completely backfiring, and Rose ultimately learning to accept death and that you can't and shouldn't try to fight what is lost. If Clara does get Danny brought back to life just from throwing a tantrum I won't be happy.

Personally I got the impression the data core has probably not been in existence more than a few years, and that Missy is selective about which consciousnesses she puts in there. I don't think everyone in the world who's died since she set it up, has their consciousness wind up there. But I might be wrong. Next week's episode should be interesting, I hope they expand further on the Nethersphere. Maybe. It looked to me like the force of Gallifrey being pushed back into the Time Lock knocked him unconscious when it knocked him down. We see him standing in the background watching as the Master starts zapping Rassilon and that's the last we see of him in that scene, then everything whites out, then there's a scene of Donna's mum watching Gallifrey vanish from the sky while people celebrate, then we go back to the Mansion and the Doctor is lying alone on the floor with his eyes closed moaning and appears (imo) to be slowly coming round from being unconscious. We don't see him get knocked down or anything that happens between the Master starting to zap, and the following scene. So in theory anything could have happened between the moment the Master was zapping and everything started whiting out, and the Time Lock being sealed.

RTD confirmed (word of God, so non-canon technically) that the woman was the Doctor's mother. Exactly. None of that stuff was real, just a Master plot to use some kind of technology we've seen before (saving the consciousnesses of the dead as data). I don't think the Doctor ever had any intention of visiting any kind of real afterlife (or really believed that's where they were), it was just another Moff fakeout. I think he was just trying to comfort Clara and probably thought they'd be taken to some other point in the Clara/Danny timeline, perhaps (assuming he's finally put 2+2 together from them meeting their descendent) to visit the child Clara might unknowingly be carrying. He pretty much confirms it when the TARDIS first lands and Clara asks, "Is this where Danny is?" he answers "Almost certainly not, it's where there's a connection with Danny, where your timeline re-intersects with his." If there was even the remotest chance it might be possible to visit the actual afterlife and see your dead loved ones he would have either tried long ago, or made a pact never to try.

The entire volcano scene was supposed to all be just a dream, so I think it was supposed to not quite be realistic or make sense. Because dreams aren't like reality and don't use real world logic. No, his fate was left intentionally open. We never saw if he got sucked in with the others or if he escaped. The Doctor lost consciousness at that point, and it seems more likely he ran out.

They (Fox & the creative team) definitely wanted a second season, but the low ratings have kinda torpedoed that.

Ratings dropped this week, but apparently the figures for people recording Gracepoint and watching later were good last week, compared to the live ratings. Doesn't seem hopeful for S2.

To be fair posters on a TV forum aren't really representative of the audience - most people who watch Gracepoint have never heard of Broadchuch (since hardly anyone in America saw it) and the target audience is people who haven't seen Broadchurch.

Olivia Coleman played the Ellie role in Broadchurch; she's not in Gracepoint.

It's the same writer for both shows.

They remade it because a) hardly anyone in America saw the original (and there is very little faith that a foreign show, with a heavily Scottish-accented lead, would do well on network TV), and b) because the people who made Broadchurch wanted to do an American version, in order to further their own careers and because Fox gave them more creative freedom than ITV. There is a different ending but I have no idea what exactly that means or how different it is.

Broadchurch definitely wasn't a remake of anything. I know what you're referring to, but those articles were wrong and the media making assumptions. Chris actually developed and started work on Broadchurch a good ten years before it ended up on air, a few years before the show some journalists have called it a remake of. Though it's very likely that the success of those Scandi dramas paved the way for Broadchurch being greenlit.

Taller, but thinner. :P

Tennant's taller than Eccleston. :)

Interesting review from someone who hasn't seen Broadchurch. http://www.untemperedtv.com/?p=1789

It started airing here a few weeks ago. I doubt it's got anything to do with the BBC being "snooty" about American shows, as they air lots of US shows and they also air BBCA's Orphan Black. They either just didn't think this show was quite the right fit for them (or the production didn't think the BBC was the right choice for them), or E4 put in a higher/earlier/better offer, or possibly had some prior relationship with the production or talent. There's no reason a BBCA show would automatically air on the BBC.

It's finally started airing in the UK! Hooray!

Fox are contractually obligated to show all the episodes, they can't shelve it.

Caught Iain Glen in a truly terrible zombie movie (one of the Resident Evil sequels) on cable TV the other night. He ends up turning into some kind of super-venom-mutated-monster-thing. Not quite sure about the hyphens there but that's what I'm going to go with.