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“Could RTD2’s long-term plan be to bring the Timelords back? In fact, could he have decided to accept Chibnall’s eradication of the Timelords  in order to bring them back?”

Hmmm how do we know that Gnutidoc hasn’t already done it the impression I got from the beginning of the Xmas Special was that the Doctor had already…[Read more]

Quick thoughts – I really enjoyed that – fluffy and silly, but really well done. And lots of fun.

Loved the Doctor and Rogue’s rivalry with gadgets and their spaceships. The Doctor waiting confidently outside as Rogue goes into his “shed”! (I noticed the console on Rogue’s ship also had a hexagonal design – coincidence?).

I like the TARDIS’s new…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave Yes The entire household were shocked when I told them that Feathers McGraw is getting out of prison. Our boys grew up with Wallace and Gromit. We have Wallace and Gromit soft toys and numerous penguin toys so we are all quite excited by the news.

Cheers

Janette

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@Janetteb @blenkinsopthebrave @mudlark (and everyone) –

I think the hugging/not hugging in this is indicative of how isolated these kids are – socially and physically. It’s also a wee throwback to Capaldi’s Doc who hated hugging, and Ncuti’s fist appearance in the bigeneration where he hugs his previous self (“I’ve got you”). They’ve been…[Read more]

@janetteB    re the no hugging: I knew of the policy regarding teachers and the like – not that I recall teachers ever hugging pupils when I was small, but it’s surely not taboo for parents and close relatives ?  Perhaps this was a society in which wealthy people mistook over indulgence in material things as the best way of demonstrating par…[Read more]

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@mudlark The “no hugging” I thought, reflects the growing tendency to view all tactile signs of affection as suspect. Teachers for instance cannot do anything but talk to a distressed child. Hugs however are natural and release positive endorphins that we need. Fear of paedophilia is blurring the distinction between positive and harmful contact.…[Read more]

@scaryB Thank you for sharing that news. Very sad. I am glad he made one last appearance but I feel that he deserved a better episode for that.  Yes I agree with @blenkinsopthebrave He would have been a lovely teacher. It must have thrilled him though to see Dr Who still going strong after all these years and he certainly played his part in…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave interesting comments about HG Wells Time Machine: as a child, it was fascinating.

@blenkinsopthebrave I had not noticed that Ruby is found in 2005. It does not seem that long ago. I think it is more RTD’s meta nod to the series reboot, the kind of thing a writer does, (I would totally do that if I was writing the scripts) and may not signify beyond that. Nice catch though and it is echoed by the Doctor re visiting London in…[Read more]

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The meta has it! 2005! Of course.

Actually, is this series shaping up a bit like The Long Game/Badwolf/Parting of the Ways? History distorted. People subsumed by the media. A big bad waiting in the wings…? What then takes the place of Dalek? S Twist? Mad Jack? Max Capricorn’s twinkly tooth?

But is the show itself, Rub…[Read more]

<span class=”useratname”>@blenkinsopthebrave Yup. Pains me to say this but the space babies were better than that. </span>

Well, that was a savage satire on our times, and I loved it.

Dot and bubble – the dot-com bubble – a metaphor for the way ‘civilisations’ fall through myopia, and the how the rich, despite their supremacist fantasy beliefs, simply cannot insulate themselves from such civilisational collapse.

It immediately put me in mind of Douglas Rushkof…[Read more]

I really think RTD has given us another excellent episode, and one of the darkest in the history of  Who.
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Hahaha. Seems like we didn’t agree after all!

Okay, that was both both powerful and utterly depressing.

@blenkinsopthebrave Yes I agree, though not sure whether for the same reasons, except perhaps it’s left me slightly nonplussed too.

My feeling at end was that I’d been hit with a hammer, or two. I went with the whole social media satire but was quickly bored of it. There’s making the…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  @juniperfish

I have been twisting myself into a pretzel trying to get my head around the logic of Ruby being her own mother in the manner suggested, but any way I look at the paradox it seems to end in a completely closed loop with no beginning and no end – not even Ouroboros, because the ring has no head or tail.  If there w…[Read more]

@pufferfish <waves at fellow fish!>

@thane16 @blenkinsopthebrave @mudlark  – loving the speculation that Ruby could be her own mother.

However, whilst I can see someone being their own father as theoretically possible (Back to the Future gone full Oedipus) wouldn’t being your own mother create an immediate temporal paradox of the kind that, in…[Read more]

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So, the question then becomes “save herself from what?” The “what” must be bad given she’ll end up in re-occurring time loop.

I feel like I’m missing some key bit of information, but at the same time already have enough information to be able to piece together what is happening.  It’s maddening.