That was an OK finale.

I’m of two minds about the resolution with Ruby’s mum. On one hand, there being no significance at all is a bit of a let down, but on the other hand when dealing with gods, the whole point of the power is the belief, and that explanation does tie everything up fairly neatly. (not sure why ruby kept snowing though). Seeing her get back together with her mum was a nice send off.

Getting rid of sutek by throwing him off into the vortex, and having that undo everything was a bit iffy for me. There’s not been an established precedent that throwing someone into the time vortex undoes every action they ever did, and surely if that were the case that leads to a paradox?

Lots of call backs to past DW. Including the trend that at the end of the season every single person in the universe dies. But I guess that is the risk when you have a show that’s gone on for so long, once you’ve pushed the limits of danger to the max, there’s not really any way to escalate the tension further.

Not a fan of the anagram stuff, but i can imagine myself as a kid really enjoying that. Looking forward to the finale, I hope it delivers.

I’m not a bidgerton fan, I prefer my period dramas to be of the star trek variety. But this was still a good episode, I was getting echoes of “family of blood”.

Rogue is interesting, we’re given basically no back story but I was convinced they were going to tie the character somehow to Jack Harkness. I’m glad they actually followed through on the kiss and didn’t just leave it teased, that would have been very 2005.

The marriage proposal scene got me thinking - the doctor is already married to river song. We know that she has had interactions with doctors other than 11, so the marriage seems to go beyond regens. How does marriage even work. Is that polygamy? Parallel monogamy?

I like the inclusion of nerd terminology like cosplay and dnd - Get the kids watching radicalised early :)

Ruby was good in this - clearly a competent companion that can think on her feet. I was kind of hoping we’d make more progress on the twist by now, I guess we’re keeping all of that for the very end.

Lesson to take away - always build a backdoor into your deadlock seals.

I had not made that connection - there are definitely a lot of parallels. good catch. Compared with this current episode, I think the peril on the ship was a bit better set up, and there were more characters in that episode that I genuinely cared about.

Alright, I have some feelings on this one.

First, I’m not a fan of when TV shows and movies use hones to have characters talk to each other. Texting is just awful (if I wanted to read, I’d read a book) and video chats often seem incredibly limiting and boring to me. Having a whole episode of that… ew.

The characters themselves, they’re obviously meant to embody the worst of vapid superficial influencer types. But my god, but the end I was 100% on side with the rogue AI here. Finish them all off and spare me having to listen to them speak. Pity about that Ricky guy, he died an unexpectedly brutal death.

It felt a bit black mirrory, with the way it was shot, with the makeup and costumes, with the way the actors were just overly smiley and oblivious. But even with the theme of over-reliance on tech, I found the “I can’t walk without the bubble” bit a bit of a stretch.

Morals: Don’t walk staring at your phone, you’ll walk right into traffic and die. Also felt a bit of environmentalism at the end - “I’m an expert, I can help, listen to me”, and of course everyone thought they knew best so now they’re all going to die.

We’re no closer to figuring out the mysterious woman, and I’m struggling to find what the connection could be.

Best part of the episode: The 2 factor authentication from hell. Loved that.

I really don’t know what to make of this episode. It was very creepy, and had time travel, but I don’t really know what it means. Is there a moral here? Is it literally just “don’t mess with sacred monuments you find on a walk in the countryside”?

And yes, as said above, if it was Ruby all along (somehow?) what made people scared?

Still, not a bad episode, but somehow a bit unsatisfying.

What option do I need to use to get support for Heptapod B?

That was a fantastic episode. It spares no punches on the military industrial complex, healthcare, acting purely on belief, and ai, all of which are incredibly timely topics. It’s an episode rooted in concept science fiction and yet this one felt realistic which only adds to the horror.

I would contest that it would be so easy to take over an entire organisations AI, but then again even here and now it seems any company that taints itself with ai tends to put good practice to the wayside,so maybe it’s not quite deus ex.

Not loving the gory bits though, doctor basically kissed a mutilated dead body at the end there…

I could not get into the baby episode. The talking babies just put me off. Might have been scarier than the actual monster.

But the devil’s cord was better. Great concept. Good mix of fun and serious and a nice follow up to the toy maker. I didn’t feel it really made the most use of the beatles though, the maestro could have been in any time period with any musician. I was pleasantly surprised by the twist at the end.

RTD likes his recurring threads, so I guess the pantheon is going to anchor this series. So far we’ve had masters (gods?) of toys and music. What next - the different parts of what makes being human? Love? Food? And how does Ruby fit into it.

So far ncuti and millie are fitting in well. A bit different, bringing their own flair, but still capturing the right feel.

100% online games in the past were perfectly playable even after developers / publishers ended support. Online only games dying is a relatively recent invention. This petition is asking for consumer protection to return to the norm where a purchaser of an online game always has the choice of being able to play it in some fashion.

A game developer could do this by releasing a server application. They could even do this at the barest minimum by releasing documentation describing how the server ought to work, to allow for reverse engineering.

The Stop Killing Games campaign as a whole isn’t asking for perpetual server access, just to ensure that games stay in some sort of playable state.

England really needs to get right to roam legislation like Scotland. It would make it more difficult for companies to make claims like this and make it clear that everyone has a responsibility to keep nature clean as its a shared resource

I was using it, but because it periodically did load fine I assumed I was just having network trouble. Thanks for fixing!

Instead of arguing about 0Mg vs 0mg - use the best of both and upset everyone: 0ᴍg

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Begs the question - can the shed skin still change shape?

It does matter. It’s safer for everyone if cyclists travel side by side in one lane because then the car driver has to spend less time in the oncoming lane to complete the overtake. A long string of bikes takes more time to safely pass.

At this point the web is about as complex as an operating system in terms of complexity. That needs really strong specific standards in order for it to work, and in turn projects like web browsers are huge and complex.

If someone wanted to build a web browser that only followed the simpler parts of the specifications, it wouldn’t work for many websites* and people would not use that browser.

*Whether or not sites need to be so complex is another question entirely, but the reality right now is that they are

Answer wrong. The more of us humans that answer wrong, the less accurate we need to be to get past these stupid things. If google want me to do work for them, they can pay me.

Knife Rain? Wasn’t expecting an adventure time reference on star trek, but I’ll take it!

There’s a lot of references linking back to nova squadron here, but I’ve got no idea how it all fits together. Looking forward to the finale.

More ascension stuff this episode. I wonder if that’s ever going to be explored, or if it will only ever be left as a gag. It seems like the kind of thing that would be difficult to dig into in a satisfying way.