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From: The Last Doctor <mike@xenocyte.com>
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Subject: Re: Doctor Who: S1 Ep.8 Empire of Death
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 2024 07:13:40 -0000 (UTC)
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solar penguin <solar.penguin@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> The idiot informed us:
> 
>> In article <v5a5ri$hddi$1@dont-email.me>,
>> solar penguin  <solar.penguin@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> The idiot insisted:
>>> 
>>>> 
>>>> Still looking for the SP score and MM score.
>>> 
>>> I don’t normally do marks out of 10. If I did, I would probably give
>>> it something around 7/10. But I don’t, so I’ll just say that it’s
>>> more like a guilty pleasure than a genuinely great episode.
>>> 
>> 
>> More towards 5 for the radw average.
>> 
> 
> I guess I’m just more tolerant of episodes that have lots of
> good moments that don’t come together to make a good plot.
> Like I said, they’re my guilty pleasure.

That’s where my 6 was coming from as well. I found a fair bit to like in
the episode despite its flaws and my own head canon made it better for me.



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