@dwnerdfrommars  @blenkinsopthebrave

Is Conrad the Master ?  If he is he must have regenerated as a child and been adopted by a human mother. His encounter with the Doctor and Belinda on New Years Eve 2007 suggests otherwise, though.  This doesn’t mean that he isn’t being co-opted by who or whatever Mrs Flood represents. As I said in a pr…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

I agree. The Master seems to  betray a lot, and the way Conrad betrays Ruby is pretty similar…

But here’s why I think Mrs. Flood has to be the Rani.

Remember how last season, they had the S. Triad anagram for Tardis? That’s when they tricked us into thinking Susan Foreman was coming back. But Flood…Rani….

Flip…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave    Do you sometimes feel like you are in that movie? It looks funny, I will look for it.Thanks.

stay sane

@whohar @blenkinsopthebrave

enjoyable? It was a hefty continuation, or prequel as it turns out, of a season that is shaping up very nicely.

Worrying? Well, it seems like we’ve been warned about this for years. We thought, yeah that’s just stuff on computers, it’s not real. Data? Hrrrppp! What can they do with data? Get real.

It is real.…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

Did I enjoy it? Not really. It highlighted the ugly side of the world we inhabit in 2025. And frankly, I get more than I need of that from the news each day.

I stopped watching Years and Years for the same reason. Too bleak. Perhaps this version of Who reflects RTDs latter-years mindset.

@janetteb @blenkinsopthebrave @winston

Thankfully the results seem to indicate a shift in voters preferences towards more progressive policies. And, given the Coalition leader also lost his seat, I like to think this may signal that all parties will move away from their more divisive pronouncements. Given the bile already being spewed on Sky…[Read more]

@whohar  @blenkinsopthebrave

Thank you. It certainly ranks as my worst Christmas ever, and that includes the one when I had measles (aged 6 – no vaccine available in them days), the one when I had chickenpox (aged 10), and the one where I was felled by a migraine on Christmas morning – although on the latter occasion I recovered sufficiently by…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave. you make a good point. When Moffat recommended keeping Jenny, the Doctor’s Daughter alive it was because the more characters, villains and locations that you have tucked up in the canon the more there is for future writers to draw upon. RTD is drawing on past stories to enrich his current writing in the latest episode for…[Read more]

@whohar

Surely Stupid Sutekh was too stupid to actually be Sutekh? A case of Artificial Unintelligence.

@blenkinsopthebrave @janetteb

Gallifrey was hidden CLOSE to end of The Universe because of Infamy… apparently The Universe had it in for them. I have days like that. But it wasn’t the ACTUAL end, presumably because the heating bill was too…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u

But Sutekh had supposedly perished in PoM, so anything is in play I think.

@blenkinsopthebrave

The Blinovich Limitation Effect?

@janetteb

Erm…

@blenkinsopthebrave Yes. Indeed. And when was Gallifrey destroyed and how does that fit with previous Who canon because we saw Gallfirey at the end of time.

cheers

Janette

@whohar @blenkinsopthebrave @janetteb

If Mrs Flood turns up with a gold tooth, then she is Missy Master. I surrender. Thing is, last time I saw it, gnasher in question was last seen in Max Capricorn’s gob while he plummeted into the Titanic’s Storm Drive with Kylie. Explain.

Safe to say, Moff was pro Gallifrey; RTD and Duff Chris were anti. Is…[Read more]

@janetteb @blenkinsopthebrave

I was thinking more of Omega (S10) than the Master (S8) but, if my observation about RTDs thought process has any legs, then either one works.

Another old-Who TL that is rarely mentioned is the Meddling Monk. I don’t know all that much about him except that he was a Monk, and he meddled. I vaguely remember something…[Read more]

@juniperfish @mudlark @ps1l0v3y0u

@blenkinsopthebrave

Some intetesting points here. I tend to agree that the optics of a black Doc being “bad” would tend to rule it out. It would be interesting though to have the Doc turn to the dark side as it were. And it ties into the idea of the bi-generation splitting the Doc into two (this sounds a bit…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

noted

@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]