What’s this in reference to? I couldn’t find anything online.
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Berkoff was completely uncooperative and they had to effectively remove him from the story.
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Same reason we often delineate other Doctor incarnations in title despite being the same person. Destiny of the Doctors, as opposed to Destiny of the Doctor. (Though, of course, sometimes titles do go the other way - Day, Name, Power)
For TTC, it also works that way because The Master himself ‘births’ his own new frankenstein-ed species, amidst insecurity and identity crisis issues, in the CyberMasters.
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Give me another decade or two, and I’ll explain in detail.
For now, I shall simply quote what Dougie MacKinnon said to SFX at the time: “The experience of working with [Steven Berkoff] on Doctor Who was something that’ll never be repeated; you could ask anyone on the cast or crew and they’ll agree that his participation was extraordinary.”
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Interesting, I think it’s quite a good episode.
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And it’s a shame too, I think it’s rather an interesting story otherwise, but because of those reasons the ending is so rushed and unsatisfying. The Writers Room podcast recently pointed out some more flaws with it that are a product of Chibnall’s writing, and I guess they’re not exactly wrong, but I liked the Ponds living their lives stuff, and the slow invasion was a neat concept.
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Thanks for explaining it. It’s an interesting episode and I very much enjoyed the Pond life stuff too but yeah, it doesn’t quite come together overall.
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You know how to make us interested! Now I really want to know what you know!
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I actually started this topic after the last time I saw it. I really like the concept of it.
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As for the stats. I’m going to let the poll go a bit longer to give a bit more time for people to respond, but I think the general thoughts on it are pretty clear, and I’ll probably be doing away with K/A tallies. I think there’s a definite case of eliminating for the sake of eliminating, which I have to say I rather agree with being against the spirit of the game, and I think those stats had an unintended effect of encouraging that. It was an idea that I thought may have been fun, but I think its effects have been contrary to that for a significant proportion of EG participants. I even see fewer turns being taken in the overnight than either of the past two would have, which maybe could be that it’s Chibnall, and fewer are as interested considering how unpopular his era was, but maybe the stats are a contributing factor as well. I’ll still do the line graphs at the end, and if anyone has ideas for other, non-competitive stats that may be fun to track, let me know.
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RandomJoke, I’ll do you one better. I think Spyfall overall is pretty good and underappreciated, not just the first part.
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Spyfall still has one of the best titles of any Doctor Who story ever, and the fact that it’s Doctor Who doing James Bond makes this fan of both franchises very happy.
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I remember people dunking on the name at the time, and I thought it was neat. Also as a fan of both franchises. Is it Akinola’s best score?
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It’s definitely up there.
I think I prefer his work on “Resolution” 
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Certainly way up there as well.
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This is either a sign that I am a writer, or I am Rowan Atkinson in a trenchcoat & a wig!
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Hmm… I can get behind it, I don’t think the second Part is bad, but it’s a bit weaker, then again I think I grow fonder on it as time goes on. Maybe on rewatch I see both of those Parts equally, for now I shall try my best if my Curse continues it might survive for a while 
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I like that @JayPea tried to remove two episodes this round. But I saw you! The Power of the Doctor is back on the list!
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Cheers for fixing, my bad on not copying the full list
…uh… I mean… CURSE YOU TIAN, I WOULD’VE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT TOO IF IT WEREN’T FOR YOU MEDDLING KIDS
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