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@dentarthurdent

Would like to know how Star Beast was chosen as an intro to the Mouse era… but, we’ll probably never know. It entertained enormously, almost effortlessly, in a manner Chib could only ever dream. What I shall do is watch the transition from Chib back to Russ together I think…

1. there must have been some Russ input into Chib’s…[Read more]

Oh well, here I am, back again in the age of RTD2.

And here we go, retconning Donna. I guess if we can retcon Rose, we can retcon Donna. Way back when I watched ‘Xena’, it was a standing joke that nobody ever stayed dead in that series. I guess modern Who is pretty much the same. I don’t mind.

I guess Donna was never actually dead, just lost her…[Read more]

@whohar

continuity… may well alienate more new fans than it attracts. But it is a 60+ year show; 50 years active. It’s more of a question of what you do with it: Cartmel wanted it to be less ‘roll out a classic monster’ and more about The Doctor himself: man of mystery revealed, not mad man in a box, that phrase itself being Moff’s deflection…[Read more]

And some potentially positive news about one (some) missing episodes, in this podcast:

https://missingepisodes.podbean.com/

Light on details but seems to suggest there is at least one Classic Who ep out there, ready for restoration.

@ps1l0v3y0u

That’s an interesting link and it echoes some of one of my earlier posts on this subject.

It looks like Sherman is saying that there can be no new media with Piper as the Doc because we don’t know for sure that is what she is. And, in that respect, the broader narrative around the Doctor has come to the “full stop” because there is…[Read more]

Hope I’ve done this right:

Shearman wants to write more books/audio/big finish?? Cos he didn’t get another gig on the actual show.

Does someone actually know something?? Has Billie said any…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent
Yes, Inferno, Caves of Androzani, Fires of Pompei… magma has Who-form.

Perhaps it’s doctor evil/panicked hero hyperbole. You only need a certain amount of flooding/volcanic activity to wipe us out, but never knowingly undersell it.

Looking at the next ep – Power of the Doctor – the Daleks were going to flood the Earth with lava, and even more improbable scenario.   They had a big drill in a volcano and were going to let the lava out   🙂     Of course, if they *had* managed to cause a few massive volcanic eruptions, it’s possible the dust clouds in the atmosphere might h…[Read more]

@whohar   World Enough and Time was a genius move from Moff as far as Cybermen went.  As far as I was concerned , the earliest Cybermen (way back in old Who) were the lamest most unconvincing monsters ever – all too painfully obviously just extras in suits.   It took Moff’s genius to turn that liability into a horrific ‘reality’ – that the earl…[Read more]

@whohar @dentarthurdent @janetteb

Time paradoxes and how to avoid them.

Timelords are time sensitive… Girl who Died… ‘ripples not tidal waves.’ Obviously no one is going for the abandoned arc/plot seeding theory… but the implication is, this IS a tidal wave and The Doctor knows it. Therefor he’s there because the Tardis done it. Malfunctioni…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

if the hero walks into an ambush ‘now’, WHY doesn’t he just hop into his time machine and go back to yesterday and warn himself.

Classic Who had two main ways of dealing with this – the aforementioned Blinovich and also the fact that the Doc was not able to control the Tardis well enough to allow him to just go back a few hours…[Read more]

@whohar   @janetteb    Acutely observed, Whohar.   Usually the Tardis has just been transport to where (or when!)  the story is going to happen.   It’s a lot simpler to write that way.   (More conventional stories occasionally have ‘flashbacks’ to show us what happened previously, but of course the characters in ‘then’ have no foreknowled…[Read more]

@janetteb @dentarthurdent @ps1l0v3y0u

 I think Moffat just can not resist a time paradox, his favourite narrative toy.

I think what’s interesting about Moffat-era Who in this regard was the way he used time to drive the plot. Time became almost like another character in the story. Whereas in most Who stories, time was a narrative device to get…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent Agree the relationship is subtle. Much is left to the reader to construe which is pitch perfect.

@ps1l0v3y0u Maybe the Doctor and Martha followed the spawning critters to Western Drumlins and got zapped. He was still holding the file which he had not had time to read. Or he put the file in his bigger on the inside pockets and…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

fantasy science. Yes, it’s part of the show but they flaunt the worst possible examples so often you have to wonder if we’re being baited.

Flooding the entire Earth didn’t ought to be possible. Perhaps The Chief Sea Devil meant he would flood low lying continental margins. That might well cause the collapse of human civil…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

fantasy science. They flaunt it so often you have to wonder if we’re being baited.

Flooding the entire Earth didn’t ought to be possible. Perhaps The Sea Devils meant he would flood low lying continental margins. That might well cause the collapse of human civilisation. Couldn’t The Doctor babble about that?

Otherwise, the known…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u      Just noticed your comment in the  ‘Sea Devils’ thread, re Larry and Sally.   I think their relationship was handled very well and subtly.   It was obvious they got on well together, there was a good chance they were a couple, but that’s all it needed.   I can quite happily imagine a romantic attraction there without needing it…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u    Well, the story has so many plot holes it would sink faster than a rowing boat in a hurricane.   (And yes I’d picked up on the magnetic poles thing.   The Earth has had the poles flip within recent (geological) times, and I don’t think there’s any geological evidence of the entire Earth being flooded.   Why am I more tolerant…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u    Of course!   Billy got her phone number when he was young and cheeky.   Calling her ‘Gorgeous girl’ evidently worked.    As he said, “It was raining when I met you” and she said “It’s the same rain.”  (And she was quite literally correct).

For some reason I always choke up when I hear that line.

@dentarthurdent

Legend of The Sea Devils

LotSD is not Eve but it’s not most of the dross from series 11 & 12 neither. Which probably means it’s there with T’floox, neither boring us to death nor making very much sense.

There is a jewel which the Sea Devils need, so they can wipe out the land crawlers, somehow. And they get it during some runni…[Read more]