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@dentarthurdent

well… I would say ‘same difference.’ In the case of Jenny, her disappearance probably has something to with becoming Mrs Tennant. Don’t ask me who exactly made what decision, but you can see how it might work.

Real events leave marks in the narrative, like Shona being lined up for a companion hand over in Last Christmas before…[Read more]

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@ps1l0v3y0u I think maybe it was just the writer and/or showrunner leaving an opening for future development that never actually materialised.

A bit like The Doctor’s Daughter (Jenny). That was just begging for a semi-regular part for Jenny. She’s still out there (along with Clara, Me, Bill and Heather)

I guess sometimes these threads…[Read more]

A historical… and this alien intervention is interesting if internally derivative.

So, the Eaters have similarities to The Boneless, and Leandro’s fire breathers, and the flying metal horseshoe crabs of Planet of the Dead, and The Gelth. Though none of those wanted to switch the sun off which, as Akhenaten knew, would be proper lethal. Though the…[Read more]

Here’s what I think the problem is: Managing DW has become too much of a “closed-off” business, with the job only available to a very small elite of men and women. Everybody just <i>knows</i> everyone too much. If not BFFs, Davies, Moffat, and Chibnall are clearly good chums with each other, and while they elbow themselves in the ribs and giggle a…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  That news makes me feel sad. Maybe I just don’t like change. I am getting used to having to wait for many of my favourite shows to come to the library or DVDs because I can’t afford the many streaming services I need to watch them. Still Doctor Who and the BBC go together like tea and biscuits. I must be getting old.

Stay safe

@dentarthurdent

it worked!

this whole Orson thing as well The Girl Who Died makes me wonder about abandoned arcs. Maybe its as simple as the execs looked at the drafts and thought ‘what is that going to cost?’

with a little bit of kickback against the loons.

That’s you and me that is…

@ps1l0v3y0u I’ve tried that before and it didn’t seem to work. Maybe it will this time. I’ll know when I hit Submit.

I had my own theory about Danny/Orson, but I’ve long forgotten what it was.

Duh… except there was a female relative who was a time traveller?? Maybe the doctors ‘dad skills’ weren’t up to much and Danny remembered Clara under the bed?

@dentarthurdent @janetteb

after ps digits alternate with letters.

Orson Pink… I think Mr Spock would say ‘insufficient data, Captain.’

Most likely explanation is that Danny had a previous relationship, and the Tardis mined that through Clara being distracted. Except there was s female relative who was a time traveller?? Maybe th

@janetteb I think it was Slartibartfast (what a name!) who called Arthur Dent Dentarthurdent. It was of course Doug Adams’ satirical take on Bond, James Bond.

@dentarthurdent. I will try that. I confess I used to have trouble with your name too, until you pointed out that it was Dent, Arthur Dent. How did not not see that at once?

I enjoyed trying to work out an explanation for Danny?Orson. I love a narrative puzzle, the word equivalent of Mr Squiggle, a reference that probably only Australians of my…[Read more]

@janetteb The only way to get ps1l0v3y0u right is to copy & paste. Some of those characters in his name aren’t even on a terrestrial keyboard, at least they never work when I type them, I suspect he’s an alien. 🙂

Danny, Orson and that toy soldier caused me much headscratching trying to explain it. But I could never make it fit. I’d…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

ow! What do I know?

Kinda written in stone then…

On the question of whether Doctor Who moves to Disney+

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/mar/27/russell-t-davies-says-end-of-bbc-is-undoubtedly-on-its-way

@ps1l0v3y0u I’d hate to misquote Moff, so I stuck the DVD in again and in the extra on Disc 5, ‘The Finale Falls’, at 0:41, Moff says “I thought oh my god those are cheap rubbish ones, I hope they never bring those ones back”. Or more fully, at 3:24, “I remember getting the very first Doctor Who magazine of any kind I’ve ever seen, and it had…[Read more]

@ps1lOv3yOu (I tried..)

I once came up with a very complicated theory to explain Orson, not as a descendant of Danny’s but his twin brother. There are a few hints that Danny has no family, the orphanage having trouble finding family etc, So my theory, which i have now mostly forgotten was that Danny had time travelled in infancy. He and Orson…[Read more]

@ dentarthurdent

After Santa drops everyone off there’s a complex interlocked series of dream crab incidents, one of which occurs to the doctor outside the tardis seemingly in a volcanic landscape like the tardis key incident from Dark Water.

Now I remember that was actually a set up/test of the doctor’s… I need to look at it again. Maybe it wa…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u @janetteb I had the impression that Moff liked the original Mondassian Cybermen. I was wrong, according to a comment by him on the DVD extras for The Doctor Falls, he thought they were pretty naff. Apparently Peter Capaldi loved cybermen, which is why the Moff humoured him by incorporating cybermen (and not Daleks or Weeping…[Read more]