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I slightly think this should have been called Thinking Outside The Blue Box 😬. I haven’t watched (or tried to) this series; as a programme it feels like it occasionally throws up brilliant stories (Blink and The Girl Who Was Left Behind, and one or two others from the Tennant era) but is mostly chum. Which is fine - Sturgeon’s Law applies.

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I'll be honest, I stopped watching some time during the Capaldi era (I have a recollection of him playing an electric guitar, and thinking it felt very shark-jumpy). But parts of the latest Christmas special were filmed about 200 metres away from my office, so I thought I'd give it a go - not sure how long that will last though!

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May 21Liked by Oliver Johnson

Caveat - I've not watched the series at all. However, the sentence "Thoughts and Prayers" has been used by many Western governments in a way that seems *extremely* hollow. It's like "We could do something to help with this horrendous situation, but let's use the standard line for now, and leave it up to whatever god (intended lower case) each of you believe in. Essentially it is then not our fault. So let's send the message 'Thoughts and Prayers' whilst we continue to look more deeply at our party's [not even nation's] economic impact"

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