I haven't seen any diaries about Game of Thrones in a while, which I presume means the show is not airing new episodes at the moment. I wouldn't know. I don't have a TV. But I do follow what is happening in the TARDIS. (Never mind how; this is the 21st century, when "everything changes". We don't need no stinkin' TVs to follow the Doctor and Clara.)
I'm amazed that nobody on DKos diaries the rubbish controversial scripts we sometimes get these days for Dr Who, such as last week's Kill the Moon, which was Right-to-Life propaganda. And a scientific embarrassment.
OK, it's Dr Who. It's always a scientific embarrassment. But there are limits. The moon is an egg which is gaining mass because the embryo (a dragon) is growing. It hatches -- because Right-to-Life wins out -- and immediately lays an egg equal in mass to the original moon. Everybody is happy. As I said, a scientific embarrassment.
Everybody is happy except Clara, who has had enough of the Doctor's detached attitude toward humanity and tells him she is taking a walk -- for good.
This week's episode Mummy on the Orient Express was much more classic Whovian "science".
(Spoilers!) There was a Mummy, which was really a techno-mummified soldier from a war in the distant past. He was killing passengers on a (replicated, in space) Orient Express. The Doctor and Clara arrive for "one last hurrah" before Clara leaves the TARDIS for good. There is champagne and crystal and the mummy immediately starts to kill. The Doctor investigates. The train's computer "Gus" turns out to be a baddie who has arranged all this. Gus, like Missy, seems to have the Doctor's phone number and has previously tried to entice him onto the Orient Express. The Doctor foils the mummy by discovering its nature and decommissioning it as a soldier. Then Gus tries to kill everybody anyway, and the Doctor (apparently) foils that, too.
In the end, Clara is about to leave the Doctor for Danny... and then she suddenly changes her mind and decides she wants to see "planets". The Doctor is delighted and the TARDIS takes off.
Weird, huh?
For most people the high point was when the Doctor takes the place of the mummy's next victim, establishing that he is still a Good Guy. I never doubted that, because Dr Who is a huge money maker for the Beeb. They are not going to kill it off. The last time they had an unlikeable Doctor there were forces in the Beeb who really did want to kill it off.
For me, the high point was when the Doctor opened his cigarette case and offered an esteemed historian of mythology -- a jelly baby. I do love a Doctor who offers people jelly babies.
So... Whovians on DKos (I know you are hiding out there!). What did you think?