Activity

@dentarthurdent @whohar

‘Macho’… even pre Chib Nuwho had Timelord Invictus, Good Man C*cks It Up Good and Proper, Epic Sulks, Confession Dials and Other Idiocies.

I’ve no quarrel with the ‘tone’ of RTD2, more the execution, which again may be down to the story. But will we ever know? Will a big break demolish the precious continuity?…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u   I think the reason for 15’s regeneration was to use some of the regeneration energy to disturb the universe sufficiently to being into existence Poppy, a virtual kid of which he had no memory and only existed in Conrad’s dream world.   (Or something like that).

@whohar    Jodie Whittaker’s appearance wasn’t cringe, but it did seem a…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @ps1l0v3y0u

Who *was* one of the least macho sci-fi’s, once. The last few eps, the Doc has been getting increasingly macho, shooting things with his enhanced sonic gun – I mean screwdriver, posing with macho orchestral music blaring – kind of the opposite of what RTD said.

100% agree. The messaging coming out of the show conti…[Read more]

@whohar @dentarthurdent

The ending… it did seem like a bolt on. To the extent that, though there was supposedly a ‘reason’ to regenerate I just know, if I check it out, I’ll think it was nonsense.

It’s a pity because the rest of the series built up quite a head of steam, even if the ratings were in the basement. The worst regeneration story sin…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u   I pretty much agree with your ranking of RTD  Who season enders.

@whohar   Who *was* one of the least macho sci-fi’s, once.   The last few eps, the Doc has been getting increasingly macho, shooting things with his enhanced sonic gun – I mean screwdriver, posing with macho orchestral music blaring – kind of the opposite of what RTD said.   Maybe Disney got at him – the Star Wars influence.

I did find the sudde…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

as if the ending had been grafted on when it became known that Ncuti was going to leave the show. I could be wrong about that, of course.

That was my take too. It was very jarring to watch.

Side note: apparently Gatwa has been saying the reason he left was because he was too old. He’s 32 btw. He said the physical side was…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u @translatorcircuit

Yes, this is real. They put a call out for pitches for a Prod company to produce a Cbeebies version of Who about a month ago.

The pitch said that it should be aimed at pre-school and therefore stepping back from the scarier aspects and focus on the Doc solving problems and overcoming “villains” who were more…[Read more]

@translatorcircuit

WOW! It really IS for pre-schoolers! Urghhh. I DO apologise. I GENUINELY thought that was a mistake/joke.

Embarrassing. Kids Show! Official.

So, the Venn Diagram HAS become THAT small. I don’t like it, and some noise might just help, but this COULD be the end. Though to be fair HE mentioned US, I mean us, the weirdos. In the…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

for the record, can I just say I have Nothing to do with Deep Thought… more like Roosta or maybe Zarniwoop.

Seriously, can someone string up the non sci fi focus groups and actually do research and writing?

Russ season enders? MHO:

Good (but not that good);Bad Wolf plus, Army of Ghosts/Doomsday; Utopia plus

Indifferent; Stole…[Read more]

The BBC have finally made a statement about Doctor Who! Unfortunately, I don’t know what it means. Can anyone translate?

https://www.tvzoneuk.com/post/doctorwho-bbcstudiosceo-commentsrep1

@Translatorcircuit   If that was a kilt, why didn’t it have tartan on it?   And why would this Doctor wear one?   I could understand it if 12 (Capaldi) wore one, he was Scottish, as a number of jokes testified.   (And number 9 was from ‘the North’.   I don’t know if 10 (Tennant) was Scottish too?)    Of course we know they weren’t Scottish or…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

I think the BBC should be forced to give a licence to anyone wanting to produce a new series of Doctor Who, as it looks like they want to kill it off. The licence should be free so that the group producing the new series can have more money to produce it.

I also think the TV licensing law should be updated to apply only to people…[Read more]

Having just read all the comments –

I agree with @ps1l0v3y0u that the middle of the series was stronger than the start/end. But then, as far as endings go, RTD has a habit of throwing everything but the kitchen sink at it. I don’t think that works particularly well with Doctor Who, it tends to distract us with the minutiae of UNIT which…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

The Doctor is wearing a kilt, as he has done many times before. It has tartan, but a kilt doesn’t even have to have tartan on it to be a kilt. It’s a kilt because it wraps around itself and is fastened with a few straps, as well as having small pleats near the straps. As for the Doctor or anyone else wearing skirts, why not?

I…[Read more]

Great to see Anita again! I like the return of the Time Hotel.

Okay, so it was Omega – as theorised in various posts on this site, I think.

Why is the Doctor wearing a skirt?

All this Unit personnel starting off to save the world with the stirring music is a bit – bombastic. Can’t say I like it. RTD has a tendency to go OTT on these things.
It…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u   Was that Lunkwill or Fook?    (Weird the random bits of information lurking under the piles of debris and broken typewriter bits in my memory).     – and (looks it up)  it was actually Vroomfondel.   Bugger!

@Translatorcircuit   Who is actually going to ‘remove’ the rights to Doctor Who from the BBC?   It’s not like some magical li…[Read more]

@translatorcircuit

I think you mean CBBC not Cbeebies. If DW IS indeed being pitched at pre-schoolers then, yes, the end has come.

And perhaps… the end has come. Can you square the iconoclastic demands of the frothing anti-woke brigade with trimming critiques of beancounters and filmschool script neuterers who would much rather be talking a…[Read more]

Classic Era Who on YouTube:

https://www.instagram.com/p/DL-kU16hziC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Not sure if it’s still live…