SUMMARY: that wasn't a clever or carefully-thought-out story. It was a great pop-culture-circa-2020 story. With some lovely one-liner dialogue that makes me think it's as close to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" as this series will get. ("I didn't know it was their mating season...")

Yeah, I know. He's superb at making things happen fast (I looked at the clock during this episode and thought "bloody Hell, we're not even halfway through?"), but his speed-efficiency makes him throw too many things into the script. Some slow respites from Ed Hime would be nice.

"Thanks to you, man can blow up the world, and he probably will. He can poison the water and the very air he breathes. He's already started." Strange that the possible-future set-up of "Orphan 55" seems such a contradiction to us when it's been implicit for so long.

Is it...? And yet "your descendants will be a bunch of mutants" was always seen as a perfectly reasonable way to talk about nuclear war. If "Orphan 55" changes anything, it's that telly-SF is finally describing the eco-holocaust in terms that used to be reserved for World War 3.

There's been a boiler leak in my flat and there's a chance I'll have to turn off all the electrics. I may not get there with you. But I want you to know tonight, that we - as a people - will get to see a weird "Doctor Who" story about Nikola Tesla -

Whitaker may justifiably be remembered as the worst Doctor, not because of her performance (she does well with what she's given) but because she's been set up by Chibnall to be EXCITED all the TIME and there's NO LET-UP and it's based on a MEMORY of TENNANT and there's NO OPTION.

Aw, no. #DoctorWho

That... wasn't a story. A story is *about* something. That was a haemorrhage of continuity. The "Doomsday Clock" of Doctor Who. You people who criticised the lack of story-arcs in the *last* series, because "well, this is the HBO era of TV"...? Yeah, this is why you were wrong.

Ahh, balls, it's overwhelmingly popular. I bloody hate the modern world. I'm just going to suggest that... the common factor in all media which promise *future* excitement is the way the future always disappoints. No story-arc TV has ever delivered. And this one's guided by Ch-