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I don't know how they got it to sound like Wild Cherry were actually singing the words of the Rammstein song.

I think 500+ MPs of any one party is...not great for democracy. The thing about a Tory rout, though, is that it might show voters that they have other options besides endlessly see-sawing between the same two parties. My worry is that opposition is easy, particularly when you have a government as unpopular as this one. But the public has never really warmed to Starmer, and many of the electorate have memories like goldfish. Look at America, where the forthcoming election is neck-and-neck, despite one of the candidates being the guy they threw out last time. If the Tories just become a regular opposition party, instead of a fringe group with like a dozen MPs, then that could set the stage for them to come back again in five years as if nothing had happened.

I do like the idea of the Tories being pushed into 4th or 5th place

I don't see it happening.

There are polls that show it happening, though. I've seen a couple that predict more Lib Dem and SNP MPs than Tories in the next parliament. This was before the SNP's recent troubles, though. It would be bitterly ironic if the Tories turned out to be the main beneficiaries of that, becoming the official opposition due to a collapse in the SNP vote.

If you don't like Regened, it will be a lot easier to skip as part of the Meg than it was when it took up an entire prog 4 times a year.

I want the Tories gone as well, but I'm a little perturbed by polls that show Labour getting such a huge majority that they are effectively without opposition. That doesn't seem likely to end well. Though I do like the idea of the Tories being pushed into 4th or 5th place, with the opposition, such as it is, coming from some combination of Lib Dem, Green, SNP and Plaid MPs.

Nice to see from the Thrills of the Future ad that Honor Vincent is getting a regular strip in the prog. And about time too.

Also is it me or did the containment device look very similar to shall we say, a marital aid, just without the helmet end?

So...tell me about your childhood...

I totally heard that in the voice of the psychiatrist from Hyperactive.

Good grief. That was like a totally different show tonight. Fortunately, it was a much better one. But the tonal whiplash is quite something. Back to RTD next week, though, and so I'll set my expectations accordingly. Nicely done by Moffat this week though.

Looks like they're going for a Hinchcliffian folk horror vibe next week. Hooray for tonal whiplash, I was worried that the whole series was going to be like the first two, and the two episodes before that.

Then again do little kids like babies?

They like bogey and fart jokes.

I don't know what deal Disney have with Who, but they were pretty brutal with Willow

Two seasons minimum, I believe.

We won't know how well it is doing until the +7 figures come in, maybe even the +28, though the biggest boost seems to be within the week after broadcast, with fewer people being added after that.

its always been for kids

its just the kids grew up and just kept watching it

I think it's fluctuated over the years, from a kids' programme that adults enjoy to an adult programme that kids enjoy. depending on who is in charge. There were definitely periods starting quite early on when it aroused the ire of Mary Whitehouse et al for being too horrific for kids.

But motivated to do what, exactly?

Motivated...(music swells)...to...sing!

Sorry, last night's Doctor Who has fried my brain.

I think we just have to accept that Doctor Who is firmly for kids again, and put up or shut up.

It was bad, but not bad enough for me to stop watching. The frenetic pacing annoyed me, but Ncuti and Millie were great, and there were some good bits mixed among the panto stuff. I can do without the musical numbers, though.