@blenkinsopthebrave – Nat King Cole is a classic.
and Teen Angel @winston reminds me that I think there’s a whole genre of teenager-dying songs.
Just not sure I want to look them up, but maybe a connection with motorcycles etc etc.

But fun sharing!

@craig What @blenkinsopthebrave said! Don’t go. Many of us are the ones who never quite gave up on Who, through multiple regenerations, through multiple writers and showrunners, through the glorious, the pedestrian and the downright rubbish stories. We’ve probably all fallen out of love with the show at certain times.

I am actually enjoying this…[Read more]

I find myself with @blenkinsopthebrave on this. I have been surprised at how much I have enjoyed these episodes, considering how underwhelmed I have felt by much of what has preceded them. I can’t explain exactly why I feel this way, except that at least there seems to be some direction in the story arc. Previous Chibnall-helmed episodes have felt…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave agree re authority, and it rather irritates me that the first female doctor appears to have been chosen for this lessening of authority – somewhat mitigated, of course, by the other female doctor of her past, who oozes easy authority.

@blenkinsopthebrave  It did work, thanks.  I am soooo old!

Your song is a great one. Nat King Cole is one of my faves and he is very cool.

Stay safe.

<span class=”useratname”>@blenkinsopthebrave I read Lungbarrow some years ago. It’s near impossible to get hold of a paper copy and they haven’t made it available as an ebook but you can find it online.</span>

It is a 7th Doctor stories and picks up on some of the hints of a more mysterious and unique origin for the Doctor as well as expanding on…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave Actually, as I think about it, I suppose that could be a resolution to Yaz’s story–i.e. the Doctor discovers her reality, while Yaz either goes off to explore the universe in her reality or returns to Earth (again, her reality), hopefully with the memories of her adventures with the Doctor intact.

Oh I like that idea!  Othe…[Read more]

@devilishrobby lol. Isn’t bonkers theorising what we do here.

Heh, yep.  But I was afraid I was out of practice.

@blenkinsopthebrave Now that is a bonkers theory. I like it!

I particularly like the idea that the Doctor is the real Doctor, but everything we have seen over the last three years has taken place in an alternate reality.

Thanks.  I co…[Read more]

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Definitely meant ‘knowingly’. This is Chapter 2 – if a Deus Ex Machina turns up in Chapter 2, I expect to find out why by the end of the story. 😀

Dan’s parents 1) turn up without being mentioned previously. 2) Have the precise skills needed to save Dan as well as the precise information he needs and finally (this is the…[Read more]

Hi all – hope you’re all well.
You’ve said much of what I was thinking, but said it far more cogently.
You’ve also said things that I didn’t think but which gives me a lot to consider!

I’m guessing that someone has already mentioned a feeling of Doctor Who: Endgame from this.
Something about people disintegrating into dust in a seemingly…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave     I love the little ones in their costumes! Spiderman was so shy he clutched his goodie bag and hid behind his Mom. Too cute.

@blenkinsopthebrave  I know that SciFi is on Bell satellite but also on Crave (owned by Bell) which I think is a streaming Netflix type thing. Maybe Crave has a free trial?  I am really hopeless with this stuff. Sorry.

Stay safe.

@blenkinsopthebrave

Oh I agree the Monk as played by Peter Butterworth (famous for his appearances in the Carry On series of films) as you say was more of a lightweight villain than the Master ever was ( I actually managed to watch  the story on Brit Box after posting earlier) as you said the story appears to be about the dangers of…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave given that this thread was started many a year ago and there are no threads for subsequent episodes I think it would be safe to waive the spoilers restrictions. Maybe, from these posts down with a warning at the top of the post.

Cheers

Janette

@blenkinsopthebrave We watched it recently and it is a good story. It helps that it is a period of history that I have a particular interest in though there were plenty of flaws in the history which were irritating.

Cheers

Janette

@blenkinsopthebrave       “Chibnall wrote the latter. And I loved it. Why did Chibnall fail to deliver (in my opinion) when he became show runner?”

I’m always a sucker to try and answer these questions. I’ll try not to start any fires 🙂

The Silurian episodes were competently-written enemy-alien stories. But if you take ‘The Power of Three…[Read more]

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@devilishrobby Was ‘starting from scratch’ with JW and her all-new companions a mistake? I don’t know that it was, after all Eleven (Smith) started out with a brand-new Amy, and that worked fine. I must admit I found the change from Ten disconcerting at first, but within an episode I was hooked on the story.

@winston I think just one principal…[Read more]

I think I have to say that JW is the real Doctor whether some like it or not. She regenerated right in front of our eyes. and then fell to earth. For many people including my granddaughter she is their doctor.

@dentarthurdent  There have been many great companion doctor combos through the years and that relationship is the most important in the…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave its not on the official site but randomly on the BBC1 channel usually immediately at the end of programs and in the evenings. I think I’ve seen it 3 times now the first time I wasn’t sure it’d actually seen it . Its almost like when they are showing a brief teaser clip for a series in the weeks  prior to a new shows start but…[Read more]