In Which We Finally Get An Episode Not Written By Chris Chibnall

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New Who! And my DVR seems to have stopped glitching out on me at random the way it did in the last few episodes, so that's nice.

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I know nothing about Vinay Patel, but judging from the name, yes, I'd definitely guess there's a reason why they were the person to write this one!

And if most British people know very little about the history of that part of the world, I might suspect that we in America know even less...

Yes, I thought that too. With both episodes, it seemed to me that the episodes only had monsters/aliens because it was Doctor Who and that the stories might have been better if they hadn't been shoehorned in as a distraction from the real subject.

I sometimes wonder if we'll ever get a pure historical with no aliens or monters (or alien monsters) in it ever again. Surely there's still room in the show for that sort of thing.

They clearly didn't worry enough about continuity to ensure that the same weirdness would be caused this time as on that occasion.

Well, there wasn't the kind of interference in this ep that there was in that one. Still, it's interesting how the whole thing with the "Reapers" that was so important in that ep got dropped and never brought up again, even though they'd seem relevant in situations like this. Just one of those bits of series lore that never quite caught on.