I sure do miss…
…Pete. The best companion yet IMHO.
Meh. Pete was an asshole.
I hope that they don’t bring him back.
I hate re-Petes.
Refresh my memory, wasn’t Pete hit with Rose/Bad Wolf’s wave of time energy so that, like Captain Jack, he has…
Per-Pete-ual life? 
I thought Pete was a reference to Peter Capaldi himself. They needed a random name, he chose his own.
Yeah, well they mentioned it in the course of the TV series, so it’s canon now. There was a Pete. He was the best.
Obviously, it’s a reference to Peter Davison. Just one more classic series callback for the long-time fans! 
Pete is the name of Rose Tyler’s father by the way.
Me neither. I think she and Capaldi play well off each other, but that’s it. I don’t have any feelings for her either way. Ditto Clara. I don’t know if it’s the writing or the actors or a combination of both or…??? I just don’t find them as engaging as I did the earlier companions.
For both Smith and Capaldi, I didn’t really glom onto Clara until the Doctor showed that he cared for her, although she did intrigue me some because of her initial appearance as a Dalek. The Doctor this season has not yet expressed any emotion toward Bill at all that I can recall. It seems that he could take her or leave her at this point, and I feel the same way.
One interesting thing (I think) about the recent Doctor/companion dynamic, which may not be intentional.
The relationship between 11 and Clara was that she was the steady, grounding influence and he was the agent of chaos. While Clara held down a steady job and a normal relationship with a man determined to have a normal life, Doctor 11 was the irascible and tactless adventurer constantly tempting her into dangerous situations. He encouraged her to be impulsive, take risks, and live spontaneously. She acted as his moral compass and prevented him from getting too out of control.
As it is shaping up now, the Doctor 11/Bill relationship seems to be the reversed. The Doctor 11 has apparently spent several decades as a lecturer at the school (what school is this again?), being chided by Nardole, after having promised unknown persons that he would stand watch over whatever (whoever) is in that vault, and generally behaving himself. Bill is the one who is really going around unraveling mysteries and seeking out adventures and drawing the Doctor into them. (Bill told the Doctor about the weird puddle; the Doctor broke his promise to Nardole to stay at the school because he wanted to show off the TARDIS to Bill; Bill and her friends moving into the house was the inciting event of the most recent adventure.) Seems like Bill is tempting the Doctor into adventures, rather than the other way around.
Coal Hill Junior College? He’s been razzed before about going young, but Bill is younger yet. I think.
That was excellent. Quite intense, but excellent.
Very good episode. Felt a little rushed at times, and I think it could have worked even better as a two parter, but it was excellent nonetheless.
This felt old-school classic Who, at least at first when it was just the Doctor, with two companions, on an abandoned space station.
It’s the (fictional) St. Luke’s University, Bristol. Filmed in and around Cardiff University, apparently.
I haven’t said this in awhile, but this has been a really good season. Huh.
Just watched the episode.
So the Doctor is blind now? I guess this revvs up for his regeneration.
Also, we’re continuing the theme of picking up motifs from previous episodes, with the spacesuits with the dead people in them recalling Silence in the Library/*Forest of the Dead *.
I really liked the empty Suits, who would kill you or save you depending on which was more cost-effective: it’s a more interesting motive than the generically evil Cybermen, and it made for some great visuals. A really satisfying resolution, as well: you could save yourself if you were too expensive to destroy. Nice tight writing, and I’d like to see more of them. It will be interesting to see what they do with an injured Doctor, too, which is something we haven’t really seen. This is the most I’ve enjoyed Who since Rory left.