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I’m afraid not, it seems. Russell T Davies just mentioned on social media that that was the only scene they were able to film with him, but that the next episode will mention that his character is safe.

It’s nice that it’s on a service I have vs a channel I don’t. It’s usually the other way around for me.

I stand corrected on the exact nature of the relationship but my general point remains - there has been family dysfunction on this show since the very first episode.

It’s been a dysfunctional family drama since day one - in the pilot, the First Doctor essentially kidnaps his niece and takes her to the Stone Age, where they get trapped.

It’s a 60 year old phenomenon returning with a beloved writer and actor. I think any “brand damage” has been vastly overestimated.

The New Year’s special earlier this year with the time loop in the warehouse was easily my favorite Chibnall-era story. I watched the final two specials last night - the Easter special with the sea monster did nothing for me. I had better luck with the finale, though I tend to agree with...

I’ve never seen him before but my wife had and her response was that he’s young, but he has eyes that look old and wise, which seems perfect for the Doctor.

I mean I think not liking Flux means that she’s not enjoying Chris Chibnall’s tenure as the showrunner, not necessarily that all Doctor Who forever onwards will be as disagreeable to her. If she enjoyed the years with Eccleston and Tennant as the Doctor, then it may be worth her checking out the...

“Exterminate!” doesn’t count as an explanation? :D

For Doctor Who, I don’t look for real science answers of course. The show works best when it does what Walt Disney coined “the plausible impossible” - that’s gonna be a different threshold for different people when it comes to made up gobbledygook, but happily, this episode passed that test for me.

The issue was, how did the doctor know the loop would end at midnight after the last go around? Before that even happened, I just kinda guessed that that was how it would work. And then there was the line from the Dalek that it was the TARDIS resetting that caused the loop. That was enough for...

Watched Eve of the Daleks last night. Wow, what a difference. This is the first episode of the Chibnall era that I enjoyed from start to finish without a single nit to pick. I had been wary about yet another Dalek adventure but I thought they were used perfectly here. I think some of my...

My wife and I finally got around to watching Flux. Like all of the Chibnall era stories, we were very underwhelmed by this one. Whitaker continues to do great work as the Doctor (although in my opinion, and my wife disagrees with me here, I think they asked her to play too much of “Flux” in an...

I really hate Chibnall’s retcon of time lords and the first doctor not being the first doctor - that to me adds a particularly unseemly stench that I don’t know how they can undo but wish they could.

I lost interest in the show under Chibnall’s leadership. I think Whitaker is perfectly fine in the role. I think the writing has been mediocre at best, abysmal at worst, and that’s what’s turned the show from a “much watch as soon as possible” to “ill get around to it whenever I get around to...

They even made a plot point out of the 11th doctor being out of regenerations in Matt Smith’s finale and spell out how many a time lord gets and what counts as using one, before the time lords intervene to give the Doctor another set - so if you add that to the equation, it really doesn’t add up...

I really loved how Moffat found space in the timeline to create a mystery in-between Doctor, and how that served to pay tribute to the show on its 50th anniversary while filling in the gap between the original iteration of the show and the revival. But I don’t think that’s a trick that should...

I had no interest in this season but hearing that it produced one of the most abysmal episodes ever kinda has me wanting to see that particular trainwreck. But if I’m gonna waste time on an abomination, I think I’ll see “Cats” first :D

I thought she was well cast (and I liked the supporting characters too), but I found the writing to be such a massive step down from the Moffet era (which I enjoyed more than the Davies era), that I’m not planning on watching the next series, at least not as any kind of priority. If I see it, I...

I had that thought too - I haven't really enjoyed any of his episodes. I like the casting for the companions, they're fun characters from different walks of life, and those different characterizations make for a more varied and more fun experience. I think that's one clear improvement over the...

I think Whittaker has made a great doctor so far. I’ve warmed up to her faster than I usually do with a new doctor. But I think the writing has been terrible. There’s no subtlety, no nuance in how these stories are being told. It feels at time that the show is lecturing rather than...

Oh I guess that makes sense, better to air on Sunday and take the hit vs letting the mothership air on Sunday and then sit on the episode for six days til the following Saturday. But I don't love it. Sunday is overcrowded; Saturday is dead.

Sunday is far too crowded, and as much as I hate to say it, Doctor Who will lose to each and every prestige and premium TV offering in a head-to-head matchup. That's not a reflection on the quality of Doctor Who (or those other programs), but their viewership will decrease going head-to-head...

Lets take a quick moment to acknowledge how awesome Murray Gold’s theme for Matt Smith (“I Am The Doctor”) was - puts a smile on my face every time.

I so agree. I'd love for a McGann one-off or mini-series. He was so good in the webisode, and to me, bringing him back would be viable (they just need to throw in a line about it being a different time period or something). For Eleven... I think the writing failed Matt Smith in that final...

I think pants that are too long to be shorts but that don't go all the way down are weird, but I never understood fashion anyway. :D My feelings remain the same: I think she'll be a good doctor and I'm looking forward to her run, but I think it's to soon for Capaldi's departure and I wish he...

I get all of that - when I say "powers that be" I'm talking more to the BBC brass than the Who brass. It's just bad business - they're a nonprofit but they do use the revenue from their most popular shows and ancillary sales like international rights and disc sales to bring money back in...

Oh boy, an exceptionally long delay and then an even shorter short season. The powers that be running this show really suck. They are already coming off a season that was a year late because they didn't feel like making any Doctor Who, and they're gonna follow that up with the shortest season...

The few "Who" people I know offline basically seem to share my opinion: that it was too soon for a Capaldi departure. The casting of the new doctor is not the issue and we'll continue watching. But watching the ends of both 11 and 12, it feels to me as if both of those incarnations were...

That's certainly true, and a major part of why I watch less new TV than ever.