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Gabe

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Thinking about it a bit more, the whole thing was even more pointless because as Clara said, they'd seen the future and we were told in Kill the Moon that that was a fixed point (in 2049 or whenever it was), so the Earth had to survive the incident.

Very much felt like an episode purely for the kids, rather than for kids and adults alike to enjoy.

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Jamin

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It was utter bollocks and the worst episode by a mile. And that's saying something, when we have to stomach a dragon living inside the Moon in one of the contending episodes for the title.

I don’t think the new Who is really aimed at middle-aged nerds like me - there are the occasional episodes that cross over into stuff that I can enjoy, but it seems unreasonable to expect a show that’s massively popular with children to consistently entertain me.

I wish that they'd split the Doctor's stories into two different slots. The Saturday night episodes aimed at the more kiddie audience, and perhaps some Sunday night post 9pm slot which are aimed only at adults. I'd be all over that and it would surely make economic sense for the BBC.

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Lag

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This episode wasn't shit because it was aimed at children, it was shit because it's a shit story, for the reasons K and others pointed out:

no-one need have done anything

no-one seemed to be inconvenienced except one mother looking for her child.

apparently no-one will remember what happened - I mean, really? No-one will argue about the trees on social media, no scientists will investigate, no historians will record the event...? Come off it.

London, with 13m inhabitants, or over 4,700 people per square kilometre, seemed devoid of human life

no need to detail the crap/farfetched science.

Don't excuse it by saying it's for children - children deserve good stories too.

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Hideous Kojima

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I liked the episode, but:

- Child actors playing kids with snarky attitudes, fuck off

- I'm still not buying the teacher chap. Too much of a callback to the "Eastenders lite" of Rose's family etc for me. Okay, not that bad, but they know a fucking alien with a fucking time machines, stop pissing and moaning about missed dates and marking homework.

At least the Doctor lampshaded it with "the world's about to end and you're worried about..."

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NecroMorrius

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You would deny the populace the immortality granting giant kebab/fanny that lives at the centre of the earth?

Do you remember the time John Barrowman spent two or three episodes of that one about the children trying to get into the alien fishtank place, and it turned out his plan was to shout at it?

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Harsin

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Yeah Children of Earth was shit, don't know why it's so highly lauded.

It's like two separate shows going on at once. You've got this decent drama starring Peter Capaldi about the British government reacting to an impossible situation. Then at the same time you have this terrible action adventure with scenes like John Barrowman trying to make a high-speed getaway on JCB, like something out of Austin Powers.

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NecroMorrius

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It's like two separate shows going on at once. You've got this decent drama starring Peter Capaldi about the British government reacting to an impossible situation. Then at the same time you have this terrible action adventure with scenes like John Barrowman trying to make a high-speed getaway on JCB, like something out of Austin Powers.

It's like flicking between CBeebies and Syfy :lol:

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