@devilishrobby @whisht

If it is another old Who callback, and one of the Guardians, I’d be a bit surprised. But…

1. I’ve been wrong before, pretty much everytime actually.

2. I’d reckon she would be the Black Guardian, given her previous statement about “bringing terror”.

What is interesting is that she’s been the neighbour of both of Doc…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave
I will check the rest of The Mind Robber, having watched it about 10 years back, but had a peek at episode 4… first broadcast Oct 5th 1968.

Key elements: fictional characters, Gulliver – first sci fi protagonist?; The Karkus – comic strip cartoon, Medusa – nice design; the ‘Master’ (pre Delgado) a human writer of pot-b…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

The Mind Robber… Wasn’t Fraser Hines stricken with Chicken Pox?

Just as well it was such a warped out weirdo story really. And Cold Turkey was sliding down the charts. And Mick had put the Stones’ Rock n Roll Circus on ice. And Roy Wood had managed to grow a tache.

@Blenkinsopthebrave

Thanks for sharing the news about Jean Marsh. Very talented woman. I was a big fan of Upstairs Downstairs in the 70s (my next door neighbour was a cook in a similarly big house in the 1920s. She found it very authentic for the most part).

I was gobsmacked when I realised Rose was the same actor as the wonderful Sara Kingdom.…[Read more]

I love you guys!! (Waves at everyone).

I nip off for a couple of days and I come back to a whole bunch of bonkers theories! (Puppies, doors, maybe – but it’s still great fun).

@ps1l0v3y0u – Mrs Flood is actually the Vlinx…?!

I’m liking the whole Mind Robber/Land of Fiction ideas. And there’s still the loose ends of mavity and 14’s letting in…[Read more]

@bobbyfatv2 @ps1l0v3y0u @blenkinsopthebrave

 the Land of Fiction

This was mentioned during in the last season’s comments (somewhere…maybe even by me), so it might have some legs. I wonder if RTD will go back to the well of old Who for a second season on the run.

Mrs Flood was obviously the Doctor’s original Nanny

That would be a really in…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

I think you may have struggled to find any extant Who with her in it. Aside from The Daleks Master Plan (lost) The Crusades is also lost I think. McCoy ep Battlefield your best (only) option there.

I’m not familiar with that version of Holmes or that story, but glad you managed to get a tribute watch in.

I do like a good…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u @blenkinsopthebrave

“History Doesn’t Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”
Samuel Langhorne Clemens

You are right in that we are no where near Twin Dilemma levels of storytelling. Or that we have a showrunner actively trying to kill the show. The way contemporary televisin works, I don’t think those levels of Who will be plumbed again. H…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @whohar

RTD2 = JNT?? One fried cat does not an unfortunate partnership of an overpromoted showrunner and a script editor with a penchant for violence make.

It’s the presence of all those obvious construction lines that concerns me. Cartmel also made his construction lines very obvious and I’m not sure that always worked but…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

Yes, hopefully there’s another explanation for the set, or its simply not true.

I saw your post on the other thread about Jean Marsh. I’d not linked her with Who, as she’s best known for Upstairs Downstairs.

What are you watching? Sara Kingdom from The Daleks Master Plan? Most of it is missing, although I recently listened…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

When RTD brought back Who after the show was cancelled, in large part because of the excesses of John Nathan-Turner in the late ’80s, RTD’s revival of Who really felt like Doctor Who, but this feels like the cartoon excesses of JNT on speed.

Oh the irony if RTD is both the person who brought Who back and the one to overs…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u

Nice linking of Romana there. I know there’s a lot of talk re Mrs Flood, but I’m hoping she’s a new character (or Omega!), rather than an old favourite. And, as @blenkinsopthebrave alluded to, she really needs a bit more agency – the 4th wall breaking monologue is looking somewhat old now.

@blenkinsopthebrave

I didn’t have an issue…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u @blenkinsopthebrave @devilishrobby @scaryb @craig

Eiffel Tower? I thought it was Blackpool Tower 🙂

I think the schwup is something to do with the reason that they can’t get back to Earth on 24th May – incidentally that’s the air date of the penultimate episode (“penultimate” from the old Latin meaning “the ep we all get excited…[Read more]

Waves at @Blenkinsopthebrave

Good to be back, my old friend, as we prepare to jump into another new (and hopefully not the last) season of Dr Who 🙂 🙂 And yes indeed, times were very different back then. Not least if you missed an episode (or couldn’t get the aerial adjusted 😛 ) it was gone forever. None of this…”Hmm, will I watch it at…[Read more]

Happy to go with the consensus. I actually decided to wait for once!! And congrats on the new job… go our mighty emperor!

PS And what @Blenkinsopthebrave said!

@blenkinsopthebrave   @nerys  @dentarthurdent   @janetteb     Thank you all for your kind words and encouragement. Yesterday was a sad one and I guess I had a wobble or a wibble? We went to our town and were shocked all over again by the damage we saw. So depressing if you are a tree lover. Many of the trees we lost were planted by me, some up…[Read more]

Hi all @nerys @janetteb @blenkinsopthebrave and @thane16
Just de-lurking from Rarotonga where I’ve been for 4 days; another 3 weeks to go. (Weather’s been OK, typical Raro which is to say unpredictable but generally warm. Lagoon’s great for swimming and snorkling and bothering the fish, not that they seem to be very bothered.) I’m watching a DVD…[Read more]

@nerys @janetteB @Blenkinsopthebrave lol. Yes, there are so many differing docos & series/movies on Henry & Wives, it’s flooded. But, yes, WH is quite lovely. The medieval wind & brass are a nice touch.

To all, Severance on Apple+ is terrific- a lot of the visuals are perfectly executed; office styles from a photographic book* inspired the dir…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave @winston @ nerys @JanetteB an’ all. Thank you, yes, all well. I didn’t receive any notifications for awhile so thanks again.

I guess, afterwards, I did have a sense of humour but the week before? @winston crying in a ball, on the floor, was tempting. Basically I was doom scrolling for 7 days listening to every weather report &am…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

That’s interesting, I’d not heard of The Captain’s Paradise. I’ll check it out.

Apparently there were two thoughts re the Delgado Master: either the Docs brother, or that they were two halves of the same person. Id and Ego if you like. There was something called the Final Game which was going to set all this…[Read more]