jayembee
Senior HTF Member
So, this evening my wife and I watched "Boom" and "73 Yards". As I said before, I was at the point of passing on watching any more of the current episodes, but my wife wanted to get caught up, and I felt I should at least give Moffat's episode a shot.
Both episodes were among the best episodes of DW I've seen in years.
We're wondering if the Anglican Marines are connected to the Church military force headed by Iain Glen in the Moffat/Smith 2-parter "The Time of Angels"/"Flesh and Stone". I did a cursory look around, but found nothing to indicate any explicit connection, though I did find a mention that the Villengard company was mentioned (but didn't appear) in one of Moffat's earliest DW scripts, "The Doctor Dances". And apparently, Varada Sethu, who plays Mundy in this episode has already been cast to be a companion next series. But not Mundy, which is a shame: I liked her.
I was really pulled into "73 Yards", wondering what the hell was going on, and impressed with how damn spooky it was. It felt like a Whovian twist on Davies' mini-series from a few years back, Years and Years, with its story of the rise of a populist, and dangerous, politician. [On edit: I guess Davies hadn't gotten it out of his system.
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Both episodes were among the best episodes of DW I've seen in years.
We're wondering if the Anglican Marines are connected to the Church military force headed by Iain Glen in the Moffat/Smith 2-parter "The Time of Angels"/"Flesh and Stone". I did a cursory look around, but found nothing to indicate any explicit connection, though I did find a mention that the Villengard company was mentioned (but didn't appear) in one of Moffat's earliest DW scripts, "The Doctor Dances". And apparently, Varada Sethu, who plays Mundy in this episode has already been cast to be a companion next series. But not Mundy, which is a shame: I liked her.
I was really pulled into "73 Yards", wondering what the hell was going on, and impressed with how damn spooky it was. It felt like a Whovian twist on Davies' mini-series from a few years back, Years and Years, with its story of the rise of a populist, and dangerous, politician. [On edit: I guess Davies hadn't gotten it out of his system.
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