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@dentarthurdent @nerys

Mitchell and Webb: Many favourites. The post apocalyptic game show, Sir Digby Chicken Caesar… most all ‘Get Me Hennimore’… just a bog standard parody of 70’s sitcoms and then one week they utterly subverted it… something to do with the Klan… I can’t remember now. It’s up there with the Shaun The Sheep when Shirley ate the I…[Read more]

@janetteb @winston

Series 1: up until The Slitheen.

Actually, there are plenty of parallels here with RTD2: the occasional and very deliberate bad taste, the ludicrous and self-serving nature of government, the cartoony humour (Rose, the Slitheen stories, End of The World), the seeding of the Time War arc (Unquiet Dead), the occasional…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I love “Brain Surgeon”, along with many of their other sketches. We saved a handful of Mitchell & Webb videos and, when we’re looking for comedic relief, we turn to them. Other favorites include “Moon Landing” and “Homeopathic A&E”.

(Sorry, back to the episode topic.)

@ps1l0v3y0u     The Toymaker’s pseudo-German was really annoying at first.   I think he dropped it later in the episode (thankfully).      What made the Toymaker so hard to combat, I think, was that he didn’t have plans for world domination or any particular motive, he was just having malicious fun.

Mitchell & Webb had some classics, my favouri…[Read more]

@winston.I agree with on the disconnect between farting aliens and their murderous nature. RTD shows his strength and weakness as a writer in these episodes. He can write with depth and political bite but he does not know when to reign in the silly school boy humour. And these are the stories which introduce the wonderful Harriet Jones and,…[Read more]

I finally got to watch this 2 parter again and found I still liked the good parts and still think the Slitheen are a bit silly. Not that they aren’t menacing and scary at times but the farting was silly and after awhile ,annoying. The older I get the more I feel for Jackie who has no idea where her  daughter is for a whole year and Mickey who was…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Yes… I have started it.

This IS a harder watch than I remember first time.

1. Good points…

the sense of foreboding over the Toymaker.

The CGI… you couldn’t do that 10 years ago.

The ‘net’ madness… everyone has to be right and no-one is an expert. I have talked about ‘noises off’; it is unbearable. My impression is, ne…[Read more]

@janetteb    I thoroughly agree about the ‘small’ episodes being some of the best.   (Blink, Moonlight, Listen, the Van Gogh one, The Doctor’s Wife, Boom, even Fugitive of the Judoon).   There were many ho-hum small episodes too, of course (The Wire, Dinosaurs on a Spaceship).   But I think being small gives more opportunity to make the characte…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u   Did you get to re-watch this as you threatened?   🙂

I just managed it.   Not a lot of comments.   The Toymaker is so annoying I want to slap him.

The Vlinx is absurd, a Disney creature?   Never satisfactorily explained.

The Toymaker talked of doubling the Doctor again and again.   Reminds me of a Farscape ep where the villain-of-…[Read more]

@whohar @winston @janetteb

Doctor Who… new directions.

What are we dealing with?

Culture Wars: there is a lot of noise. Is it it real? I prefer continuity in terms of the show’s development and its tradition. I don’t like to feel we (the fans) are being dictated to. Trouble is everyone points at the ratings. A new showrunner won’t necessa…[Read more]

@winston There were many good moments in the past two series and it surprises me that they did not get better ratings. I also really liked Gatwa as the Doctor. I always have mixed feelings about RTD. He can be brilliant and he did bring Dr Who back but at times he needs someone to tell him that bigger is not always better and the universe does not…[Read more]

@janetteb  @whohar       I am not sure how I feel about this.  There was such high hopes for RTD’s  return and everything seemed to go wrong. There are so many reasons and I am not sure it was all his fault but I guess like the captain of a ship…

There was a lot of really good stuff  in the last couple of series and the 15th Doctor was excelle…[Read more]

@WhoHar Interesting names both. I had to research McTighe. I liked his remark that he entire career has been aimed at getting to work on Dr Who. Thorne has done some sterling work but not sure he has the flair required for Dr Who. Also he does seem to have a lot on his plate at the moment.

I have suspected that the 26 Yule special is RTD and Bad…[Read more]

Some rumours circulating that RTD and Bad Wolf will be out once the 2026 special is done.

Rumours also that Pete McTighe and Jack Thorne are in the frame for next showrunner.

@dentarthurdent

Image of the Fendahl.

Reference points: The Stone Tape; Lovecraft; Quatermass and The Pit; it’s horror.

And it’s well done. It’s Chris Boucher. A loss to Who. He went to Blake’s 7 and The Corp wouldn’t allow writers on two simultaneous broadcasts/productions.

They like making things hard for themselves don’t they? I am reminded…[Read more]

My husband was traveling on business, and the remnants of Hurricane Melissa had blown through earlier in the day, so I didn’t feel up to doing Halloween. We get very few trick-or-treaters in our neighborhood, anyway, so it’s hard to feel like it’s worth putting out the effort.

When we lived in Ontario, we averaged between 80 and 100…[Read more]

@janetteb When I was six or seven I used to walk a mile to school, half of it on a path across a ‘common’ – a patch of uncultivated land covered in bushes and trees. (I went back last year and it’s all still there). From about ten I used to bike across a different common to the station to catch the school train. Once I rode to Salisbury – about 30…[Read more]

@winston Halloween is a rather recent U.S. import here so door knocking has not really become widespread. We have only once had kids come to the door and we did not have “lollies”. for a few years after that we did buy some, “just in case” but they were never needed. Ours is an entirely child free street however, Plenty of dogs and cats, possums,…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Yeah time for us to bury PotD not damn it with faint praise.

BUT… things DID get slightly better. My current theory is that Chib was initially under quite heavy manners from head of drama, especially over continuity. He may or may not have blamed Moffat for this but, nonetheless, mortal damage was done to ‘the original one mig…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u   That Winter Palace / 1916 scenario could have been developed into quite a good episode all on its own.   They certainly spent enough on the impressive and elegant set ( /CGI?)    But as it turned out, it was just a convenient location for the Doctor’s involvement to happen.   None of the (historical) events of 1916 even got a mentio…[Read more]