- I gather that they caught a certain amount of heat for casting a non-white guy as Sir Isaac Newton.
- The "mavity" joke was perhaps not as uproariously funny as RTD thought it was.
- "There's something on this ship so bad the TARDIS ran away?" The HADS system goes back to the Troughton Era, I believe.
- "No one ever has. Not ever." How does he know that no one's ever been to the edge of the universe? I mean, for aught he knows, the Master used to go there for lunch every Thursday.
- I like the slow reveal that there are duplicates. "My arms are too long."
- "We came from the nothing." "We are not-things." OK.
- "You don't know where you're from." So it looks like the Timeless Child stuff is still in play.
- "Why does he trouble with someone as stupid as you?" Donna's an interesting character, because a lot of the time you want to strangle her, but every so often she comes up with some deep insights.
- "I invoked a superstition at the edge of the universe..." That's a set-up for something.
- "Hello, me old soldier!" So good seeing Mr. Cribbins again, mixed with sadness because I know that this is the last time we'll see him.
- "In loving memory of Bernard Cribbins, 1928-2022" Sad. Wilf is my favorite character that was created for the new show, and a lot of that was due to the performance of Bernard Cribbins.
Overall: A pretty good episode. I don't usually go for "who's really who" stories, but I enjoyed this.
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We should have our DVD of these episodes on Friday.
Having watched this one a second time, I'm ready to upgrade it from "pretty good" to "very good".