PurpleTentacle

You can save the lives of others with a headache. Even if he thought this was just a headache (which would have been way too stupid for an astronaut, but okay) he should have known that there was a risk of him having internal bleeding after the massive trauma he sustained and that taking a blood thinner was stupid. So I don't get the argument here. Was his headache so debilitating that he couldn't function? If so Aspirin wouldn't do much, which he should have known and it should really have given him pause that he had a splitting headache, shortly after he was knocked around by a landslide. Or was the headache not that bad and he could have functioned perfectly fine without painkillers and so he should have done without, after just sustaining injuries in a landslide? Also still doesn't explain why Kelly didn't freak out after he told her what he just took. I freaked out the second he said it and I'm just a dumbass, not a highly trained biologist and astronaut. It has been a year and a half and time has not changed my mind on this (just got back to this thread through a notification). If anything it seems even more stupid now, Those were testosterone injections, not anabolic steroids. Just like a lot of women take estrogen when they enter menopause, men might elect to supplement testosterone.

Locally? Yes. Globally? No. Not with a 1,1km diameter asteroid. The moon is real damn big (much bigger than a small rocky planet would usually have, that thing is gas-giant-moon-sized). Compared to earth there is basically nobody there. Also the results would be a lot less bad on the moon. No air blast and no fire ball, because there is no air. So the problems are only the direct impact crater and the debris.

Well Hawk did dial his random encounters back a lot once he got married and that was before the AIDS epidemic. That is of course if we believe him, but I don't see much of a reason not to. If he wanted to lie he would have just denied it outright. Also he usually doesn't seem to be the bottom. At the HIV test questionnaire he even said "never". So maybe Tim was the only exception to that rule. It's unfair but true that you have a much, much higher chance of contracting HIV when you are the bottom rather than the top.

This ending was hard. I didn't cry but was certainly on the verge of tears. I get why it was important for Hawk to tell his daughter his truth at the quilt. But I would have liked to have seen Marcus and Frankie again. Maybe they could have walked up, when the camera was panning away. I hope Jerome makes it. I can't quite remember when this storyline took place, but I found an article that said 1986. The first HIV drugs came out in 1987 and the really effective ones around 91, if I remember corretly. He's young and even untreated HIV can have an incubation time of a decade or more. So he cartainly has a good chance. Sometimes I'm glad how far we've come. Then I remember that Matt Bomer has basically only been able to play gay roles since coming out, while his twin brother from another mother, Henry Cavill, reamains in the closet and gets all of them juicy straight action hero roles, alongside countless other Hollywood actors. Which then reminds me that we still have a long way to go.

Nah, plenty get close enough to earth. Mars has cleaned up its orbit just like earth. Otherwise it wouldn't be considered a planet. That Mars is closer to the asteroid belt really doesn't matter. You could mine asteroids from the belt, with a base on Mars, but that is not what they are doing here. Oh there are constantly asteroids crossing earths orbit. Good thing is, asteroids don't just go off course. But that doesn't mean that there couldn't be one on a colission course with us at any time. One can only hope that if that happens we get our shit together and intercept it fast enough. Goldilocks is 1.1km in diameter. If that falls on a city or an inauspicious place in the ocean that sucks. That's the city gone, or maybe multiple by Tsunami, and even further there will be a ton of damage and death due to the air blast. But it isn't a planet killer. If it falls on land it might lower the temperature by about 1°C for a few years. So less than we've already raised it with our CO2 emissions. For comparison, the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs was about 10km in diameter, struck earth at the deadliest angle and hit sulfur rich rock. Basically it was the worst case scenario. Good for us though. We likely wouldn't be here without it. But 1.1km is pretty big. I'm not sure how realistic it would be to capture such a chonker in the first place. I suspect that it's pretty much impossible, even with FAM-technology, but I don't know for sure, so I won't put that on my list of gripes.

Considering how much of a hubbub they made around it, you would have thought Elisabeth had fucked a black guy or something (not that I would have a problem with it, but you know it would have been extra scandalous). But of course it was just some dancing and maybe a snog that wasn't even shown on screen. *yawn* This show has the balls of a Gorilla (very, very tiny). This was a sweet goodbye to Margaret. I shall miss her mischievous personality.

I don't get how they ever thought capturing and mining an asteroid in Mars orbit would be a good idea? How have they never looked for one that could be captured from earth? And how did it take them half this episode to come to the conclusion, that mining it in earth orbit would be the only logical solution? I don't get this show. Supposedly these people are super smart, but then they make the dumbest decisions and mistakes. This episode was quite emotional. Alida was justifiably angry, but at some point she acted almost like the bombing was Margo's fault. What would she have done if she had been there? Likely gotten blown up. It's not like that would have saved anybody. I still doubt Margo would have spent one day in prison. Her espionage would have been swept under the rug faster than you can say operation paperclip, in order to not embarrass the US. If she was valuable enough she might have even been allowed to stay on, with constant supervision. If not she would have been made to quietly resign. Are these kinds of contracts, where the employer can just change all the terms, legal in the US? Because they sure as hell wouldn't be in any european country.

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They still lost quite a bit of travel time, doing the tasks in that order. They could have been there first. That they already did the Grab does not matter, it only matters that other teams did that one faster. Clearly it didn't take as long as the Glass. We have no idea when either team finished their tasks. You can't trust the edit. Also yes, the self drive goes to my first point of not doing the tasks in the obvious order. Best case you come out even, worst case, as it seems was the case here, you just wasted a bunch of time. The harbour location is waaaaay out of the way but the third location would have put you quite a bit closer to I-5, from which it is a straight shot (take that and then the WA-522 and you are there). So less driving and easier navigation. No, you never have an advantage. That is an error that is easy to make, but also easy to spot when you think about it for a bit. Let's say the final memory task is directly next to Glass. One team drives to the end of the line (Grab) first, does the tasks backwards (Grab -> Grunge -> Glass) and now they are directly next to their final memory task. Let's say that's 20km total. Now let's look at another team. They do the tasks in the obvious oder: Glass -> Grunge -> Grab. After they have done their tasks, they have to drive back all the way to Glass, to do their final memory task. Now they have driven the exact same distance our first team has, 20km. So you see, best case you come out even. But now let's say the final memory task is directly next to Grab. That would mean our first team (out of order) would need to drive nearly 30km, while our second team (in order) only has to drive 10km. Doing the tasks out of order is a huge gamble with literally no upside. I don't really begrudge Rob and Corey for making that mistake in the heat of the moment, but if you have time to think about it, it's an obvious mistake. Map for better visualisation:

What we know: - They chose a not so clever route, by driving to the furthest location first. - Rob took 8 times to get the trapeze task, while the beards only took 3 each. Seemed like each time took quite a bit of prep work. There might have been other things, but those two alone probably would have done them in.

I do like a scramble for the final leg, but this one was just dumb. If the locations are set up in a line, 9 out of 10 teams will take that line. Because yeah, you could speculate, that maybe you have to come back to the city center regardless, but would you? If you follow the line and have to go back to the city center, you lost nothing. If you don't follow the line and don't have to come back to the center, you just made a big detour. The tasks should be setup in a triangle around the location where you got the clue for the scramble from. I know that might not always be easy, but if you can't make it happen, don't do a scramble. The producers were just lucky that Rob and Corey had a complete brainfart, otherwise all teams would have been together the whole time. The trapeze challange seemed unfairly physical, especially for a final leg. It's just frustrating to see a team that made it through the whole race run at a wall during one of the challanges, not because they can't see the solution, but because they physically can't do it. Luckily Rob has a good amount of stamina and learned a little bit each time, so it wasn't a total bust, but would Steve have been able to do this, if last leg had shaken out a bit differently? I doubt it. I think Phil would have needed to come out there. Would have been a first for a final leg, wouldn't it? (If we don't count clue box eliminations in another country) Seems like Rob and Corey also lost a bit of time with navigation, although maybe not. Rob had 8 attempts at the trapeze as opposed to the next team who had 3 each and I don't think their gamble to do the furthest destination first payed off (not that it could have, best case they would have come out even). After the memory challange it was painfully obvious who would win. I'm not sure why the editors even bother at that point. Good race. Sadly my least favourite team won and I don't think rich people need even more money. But they did run the best race. Gotta give that to them. At least they aren't an attrocious team, god knows we have seen win those before. They are just on the bottom of a very sympathetic bunch.

You are right, there is a closeup there of his hand, he is opening and closing it and maybe there is an ever so slight tremor. But if that was supposed to be foreshadowing, it wasn't communicated very well. Could also just be nerves. First ever asteroid capture and all. Afterwards he works the controlstick just fine and we've never seen his hand shake in any other situation. It's a bit weird.

I actually think he doesn't have a brain disease. We've never seen his hand tremble except when he put it on the controlstick. I think he has a bit of the PTSD from seeing his friend get yeeted into space on an asteroid. If they ate Danny or not, I'm not sure. It might be a bit dark for this show, but the thought did come to mind.

I was joking. ;) That isn't lying. And no, he couldn't just have ignored it. That is what a shitty writer would have done, which RTD is not. All of the things that happened to the doctor in recent regenerations compound to the burden that they are carrying. You can't just leave that out. If you did, the whole thing wouldn't work anymore. You are the one constructing a conspiracy theory in order to be able to argue against a strawman. Nobody else here talked about any conspiracies. That was the original explaination, yes. But in the timeless child it was explained that the gallifreyans regeneration abilities, actually came from the doctor's DNA, who is an alien from another universe and were spliced into the timelords by Tecteun. With the new timeless child explaination regenerations are genetic and they come from the doctor. The original explaination for River's regenerations doesn't fit the timeless child explaination. That's the whole point here and the two explainations are so opposed to each other, no amount of fanwanking can make them fit, I'm sorry to say. That's not how the chameleon circuit works. Well if there was a perfectly logical explaination, he probably should have given it. It isn't the story the doctor was told by the Master and Tecteun, but you can always retcon that. Way easier than fitting the timeless child into established canon, which "discredits" it pretty thuroughly. If they want to, they can also come up with something completely original and not use the gap between the 2nd and 3rd doctor. I don't particularly care.

I did see that after my post. But thank you. It was indeed very sweet. The whole behind the scenes was. On the other hand, we always have to remember that Russel lies his ass off in order not to spoil things. Just watch what he said about the Meep before the episode aired. Here I could see both being true, a fan talking to him, but him mainly doing it, so he could actually get the UNIT-scientist into the Tardis. Eh, he couldn't even tell her that he loved her, while his clone could. On the other hand he could tell Donna that she was his best friend. I think he is where he belongs, with family. He can find love again in a later regeneration. Agreed.

I'm always kind of split on this. On the one hand, how this was marketed, like it wasn't addictive, was obviously wrong. On the other hand, some people obviously needed these stronger opiods. We saw a guy piss himself because he couldn't get off the couch because of all the pain he was in and then walk around normally on oxycontin. For those people, I think the bigger problem was, that the government and doctors went full panic mode and made it basically impossible to get opiods continously, which made these people have to switch to street opiods. Had they just continued to get their medication, the opiod epidemic wouldn't be half as bad as it is now. So I see this as a problem with two causes, a greedy company pushing an addictive drug under false pretenses and then an overreaction by the government.

At episode 3. My current theory is that the dictator dude from the future manipulated events throughout history to make a nuke go off in London, which made him ruler of most of Britain. The Professor went back in time to stop that, even though he know it would cost him his life. The markings will help with that. Let's see if I'm at least somewhat correct or totally off.

So what you are saying is: Danielle shows mostly good judgement. Like getting Gordo home before he hurt himself or others and completing missions, while Ed shows mostly bad judgement, like taking Danny on that mission, something Danielle had warned him about. Also I don't remember how Danielle's decisions put anybodies life in danger on Mars, I remember that Danny nearly killed everybody, something that is also on Ed, for taking a seriously unstable person on that mission. Can you remind me what Danielle did wrong there? She is the commander of the base. Helios personal, russians, amricans, everybody has to listen to her call. His trusted co-pilot got herself imprisoned when she assaulted a guy. She tried to handle Ed with kid-gloves, but in typical Ed-fashion he just had to be an ass and escalate the situation.

First of all, you wouldn't know that at that point. Second of all, I wouldn't be so sure. The clue was "race to the pitstop", not "make your way on foot to the pitstop" and from what I can tell the pitstop was quite a bit away. They might have just cut out a driving section. Did you turn off motion smoothing on your TV? It's often on by default and should really be off, to not blur the crap out of things like this.

Better hope there isn't any self driving after. Because at that point, you aren't allowed to drive anymore. That happened to Derek and Claire last season in the Munich leg. Derek exed a beer in a Biergarten and afterwards Claire had to drive. Had they both done that, they'd been out.

Yep. I think they were going for that.

I think you are right or at least they are still very much connected somehow and the Tennant doctor's lifetime is technically before the Gatwa doctor's. The Gatwa doctor says at one point in the Tardis: "I'm fine because you fix yourself. We are timelords. We are doing rehab out of order." So the Tennant doctor fixing himself explains why the Gatwa doctor is fine now. That answers my question from above and makes me like the ending more. Also a nice way to shake off the very, very heavy last few years and start something a bit more light hearted. Actually I was wondering why the Tardis now has a wheelchair ramp. That would certainly explain that.

If we are bringing old actors back anyway, can we just bring back Michelle Gomez? I loved her as the master and would love to see more of her. I think her dynamic with Gatwa could be really fun. The doctor has never been a completely different person after a regneration. However, regeneration changes their personality drastically, to the point where they are almost a different person, it's not just the experiences. We had a whole long, drawn out spiel about it in Tennants victory tour of death, where he whined about it for 4 specials straight and then at the end whined "I don't want to go". Nice, btw. that they changed it this time to "it's time". Of course very much undercut by him not actually regenerating. Tennant had the weirdest undershirt I've ever seen, even with long sleeves. Who would wear that, unless maybe it's the deepest of winter? But I guess it technically was an undershirt. But it's pretty obvious that this shirt was chosen because they wanted to keep the look of the doctor consistent, even without a real shirt.

Hmm I don't know about this episode. I think with the return of the toymaker and NPH in the role, I would have wished for something less bombastic and more intimate. Start with the world ripping itself apart, if you have to, but then go to some smaller (mind)games. There was a short sequence of that, but I'd have prefered it if it was most of the episode. Speaking of, so the doctor remembers Clara again? When did that happen? I'm not sure the ending is much of a solution. Wouldn't the Gatwa doctor also need time to decompress from all his recent tragedies? I can only see that working if him and the Tennant doctor fuse again at some point. But it was nice that Donna and the 10th doctor got a happy ending with a big happy family.

Phil also said the locals can't agree on how it got that name. So it's a local name and nobody knows why it is what it is. The editors didn't blur them, they highlighted them, because otherwise you wouldn't have been able to see them at all.