Doctor Who: The Library of Carsus discussion

Better.

This felt like a New Who episode. You could drop this into any season and it would fit beautifully.
Looks great and solid acting.

Spoilers to follow

To me it felt like a classic Emmy winning episode of the Twilight
Zone. Put two of the greatest actors of their generation into a locked puzzle box/room/spaceship and let them illustrate how good they are at what they do.

Greatest actors of the generation…Melissa McCarthy wasn’t in this episode…?
😏

Really solid story and the last five minutes got me to forgive a lot of my grumbles so far

Travis wrote: "Greatest actors of the generation…Melissa McCarthy wasn’t in this episode…?
😏"

What I wrote was “… two of the greatest …”, which is an important distinction. 😼

Travis wrote: "Really solid story and the last five minutes got me to forgive a lot of my grumbles so far"

My grumble was the absurd opening sequence with Isaac Newton. It seemed gratuitous and far below RTD’s usual puns. The whole mavity thing will likely become an ongoing joke. Which feels like a dumb stunt kind of thing to me.

It was the crap/ obvious cgi that bugged me

That and you know how well the internet will cope with a brownish Issac newton

Rick wrote: "Travis wrote: "Greatest actors of the generation…Melissa McCarthy wasn’t in this episode…?
😏"

What I wrote was “… two of the greatest …”, which is an important distinction. 😼"

Sorry, forgot to mention Jared Leto...!

Travis wrote: "Sorry, forgot to mention Jared Leto...!"

🤦🏻‍♂️

I enjoyed the special, interesting concept with the edge of the universe and the nothing and something coming from the nothing. Plus DT and CT have such great on screen chemistry as these two characters they play off each other so well!

I also like the “edge of the universe” bit. It really helped build the sense of isolation, dread and suspense. The No-things were an interesting new monster as well.

Rick wrote: "I also like the “edge of the universe” bit. It really helped build the sense of isolation, dread and suspense. The No-things were an interesting new monster as well."

Hoping the 'we just caught the attention of the things that live beyond' is a plot thread that RTD does more with.

Also, who's betting they use the 'Doctor is dramatically separated from someone by a sliding glass door' bit in the finale...?

Come on, RTD, three for three!

It would be hilarious if that happens and someone (likely Donna or The Doctor) makes a comment about “why does this keep happening?”

Someone described it as a trope and what it represents and I pointed out that it represents that rtd owns wrath of Kahn on blu-ray

Actually it’s been used a lot longer than that, prison films have been using the notion of a window divider keeping people physically separated while talking for decades.

Travis wrote: "Hoping the 'we just caught the attention of the things that live beyond' is a plot thread that RTD does more with."

Like that season with Tom Baker when the series became obsessed with Lovecraftian inspired narrative elements. It did get all kinds of ridiculous, similar to when the Master was introduced in the Jon Pertwee years and he was behind every single story, it got old really quick.