I've not watched DW for years, but did pick up that this week's in the Crimean War. So is your forgotten woman Mary Seacole by any chance? Cos she's not forgotten over here, she's on the school syllabus.
Though even over here, I think she was pretty much forgotten back when I went to school, which is now over 50 years ago. Admittedly I had to drop history at a point where I think we'd only reached the end of the Georgian era.
I gave up history back in the mid 60s just as we were getting to the French revolution, so probably a similar time to you. I think Mary Seacole came into the syllabus with Black History Month. I seem to remember my daughter learning about her in a module on the history of medicine in the early/mid 90s.
It was! I apologize to her for underestimating her fame. I'd certainly never heard of her, though, as far as I remember. I don't think the Crimean War is something that shows up on the syllabus at all here in the US.
Yes, that was a huge improvement over last week's episode, and a lot of fun. I confess that I couldn't help feeling a little sympathetic towards the General towards the end though, when the Doctor hauled him over the coals. After all, it was clear that the Sontarans intended to return in the very near future, and they would have almost certainly done so had the Liverpool operation not been a success - and I don't think anybody knew that it would be at that point. But of course her speech was intended more for the audience's benefit than for his.
One other thought: it wasn't very clever of the Sontarans to have everyone's seven and a half minutes of down-time synchronised!
All I could think in that scene with the general was that it was just the end of "The Christmas Invasion" all over again. Some part of my brain was half expecting her to tell someone the general looked tired.
And this is also one of my biggest problems with the Sontarans. They're too often written as ridiculously stupid even at war, which is supposed to be the one thing they're good at. It often makes them impossible to take seriously as an enemy.
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One other thought: it wasn't very clever of the Sontarans to have everyone's seven and a half minutes of down-time synchronised!
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And this is also one of my biggest problems with the Sontarans. They're too often written as ridiculously stupid even at war, which is supposed to be the one thing they're good at. It often makes them impossible to take seriously as an enemy.
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The WWTDD was daft as Yaz didn't need to write it down, its not like it was hard to forget!
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