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Let me know what questions you would like me to answer in this month's Q&A! 

Episodes I will be covering: 

Fear the Walking Dead: 5x12-5x15

Vikings: 5x10-5x13

Torchwood: 2x04-2x07

Classic Who: "The Chase" & "The Time Meddler" 

*The Monthly Chat will be recorded on Wednesday Sept 25th* 



Comments

Paul Hayes

A Doctor Who question – and it contains some spoilers for elements of stories you won’t be watching between The Time Meddler and The Ark, so you might not want to read the below until you've read summaries of those serials… So… As The Time Meddler is your farewell to Vicky, I wondered whether you might like to give some thoughts on what you made of her as a character? I’m also interested to know what you think of her eventual exit – deciding to stay in ancient Troy at the end of The Myth Makers. I’ve never been very satisfied with this. Yes, perhaps she was in love, but I don’t believe she could ever really be happy in such a primitive society. And a follow-up question: as you may know by now, Vicky was briefly replaced by a character called Katarina, a Trojan handmaiden. Katarina is then killed off in the very next story, The Daleks’ Master Plan. She is being held hostage in the airlock of a spacecraft and sacrifices herself by opening the airlock door, ejecting herself and her captor into space. This saves the Doctor from being forced to turn the spacecraft around and return to the clutches of the Daleks. It’s a very moving scene, but I wonder how much more moving it might have been if Vicky had stayed on for a few more episodes, and it had been her in that airlock instead? I do appreciate, however, that this would have been very upsetting for the viewers. What do you think?

Shaun Houghton

Doctor Who: Now that you have made it through two seasons of Classic Who, what have you found most surprising or interesting of the show so far? Has it been pointed out that the actor who played Steven, appeared earlier during The Chase as the guy on top of The Empire State Building?

Ian Smith

Torchwood: Is Martha Jones' character better served in Torchwood than in Who? Does she come across stronger without the Doctor?

George Teed

Classic Who: 1) What did you think of how Ian and Barbara were written out of the story? Are you happy with their final story? And where would you rank them among the rest of the companions (that you've seen so far)? 2) How do you feel moving forward now we've officially lost all the original companions 3) Do you think it's a shame that they never got to develop them into an actual 'official' couple in the show? I suppose it was just a restriction of sixties British TV. Though, if you'll remember at the end of The Death of The Doctor, Sarah Jane recounts various companions and mentions that "Ian and Barbara Chesterton" are happily together and teaching at Cambridge, which I think is very sweet. (There's also a comic story where the 11th Doctor met them and also attended Ian and Barbara's wedding as Ian's best man) Torchwood: 1) What do you think about Rhys finally being in the know about Torchwood and what Gwen is really doing with her days? 2) How do you feel about the development/progression of Tosh and Owen's relationship in this season? 3) Thoughts on Owen coming back from the dead at the beginning of the last episode? What do you think about him 'dying' in the first place? Side-note, I'm sorry you had to grieve for him, I hope that wasn't too distressing for you FTWD: Do you have an opinion on the seemingly general unhappiness within the fan community in response to 5B right now? Seems like unfortunately a lot of fans are turning off the show, I wonder if you share any sentiments? I mean I think it's a shame because I do really like the characters and want the show to do well, but I also admit I can't help questioning the logic behind the characters' motivations or decisions sometimes. Like, for example, with the end of the last episode for, don't you think it seemed like the group gave up pretty quickly - and then when you compare that to how Rick + crew stormed the prison in S3... I mean, you get what I'm saying? Anyways I'm just curious how you're feeling about the state of the show at this stage of the season and moving forward. Vikings: 1) What did you think of the unique way episode 10 was edited together - flashing between specific characters and their visions during the battle? 2) Thoughts on Rollo's brief visit? Would you have liked to see more of him or would you be okay if we didn't touch back in with him or Paris for the rest of the show? And now a few weeks have passed, how do you feel about the whole thing of Rollo possibly being Bjorn's father? Or even just the reveal that Rollo and Lagertha had, after all, done stuff together before. Do you think it affects how she handled the Aslaug situation? 3) What do you make of the forming alliance between Ubbe and Alfred? On a level it makes me quite emotional because both of the actors seem to really emulate their characters' fathers, and I just get a wave of Ragnar/Athelstan feels by watching them bond 4) Thoughts on how Floki is developing on his Iceland storyline? My heart broke when he feared he'd imagined the Gods being there and that he thought of himself as mad. He deserves more support I think. 5) Are you happy Margrethe has bit the bullet lmao

Dave Ford

Quick question about movies, if I'm not too late - Just watched your Interstella reaction - and that was great - I think you've seen the Dark Knight movies - (I thought you'd reacted to them, or am I imagining that? ) - what other Nolan movies have you seen? And which are your favourites?