@janetteb and @blenkinsopthebrave  First to my fellow Canucks “Happy Canada Day!”

I loved the original Star Trek when I was young.  I joke that I learned everything I needed to know

about life from  Star Trek. Life lessons like “the needs of the many out weigh the needs of the few” and that cruelty and injustice should be fought against. I le…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  the great science fiction series of all time is Doctor Who.

WHAT?  My God, I had no idea — Harlan said that?  Wow.  If I’d known before, I’d have called him up for a natter about it.  He was a very — ah — volatile party, who often did amazing favors for other writers and/or insulted, alienated, and occasionally punch…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave Thanks I will use that too. I am perhaps being too harsh about original Star Trek. I have only seen the odd episode having been introduced into Trekdom through Next Generation so my impression is of N.G. not original. I enjoyed watching N.G only to predict how the story was going to resolve knowing that every episode would…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave That is an excellent quote and I might have to borrow it. I am involved in a Cult Tv blog for community broadcasting and next month we are discussing original Star Trek. That quote so eloquently expresses my view of S.T.

We will get to Dr Who. The “Club” did a first recording last Thursday and it was cut short by a fake…[Read more]

@janetteB you should include some of those posts in your newsletter! Thing is, a lot of what we cook does come from other countries originally. Her Greek dish, the vegetarian curry (which was Grandma’s invention and won a prize 20 years ago in some magazine) and the spicy pumpkin curry.

We’re not really a meat and 3 vege family. But the doctor…[Read more]

@cathannabel

How are you?!  I read your post and so did Mum and she did say to me “watch for Cath’s work at the university.”

And I DID forget so I’m really glad for the reminder. Mum and I were really interested in the lectures and how fascinating they were -when you showed us where to find the topics that were around and advertised last…[Read more]

Okay, a mere one-and-a-half weeks late. Blame Holy Week and Easter. 😀

Great episode – this is such a well written story. Within the limitations of time and budget it’s so well done.

For example, last week’s cliffhanger isn’t resolved easily. Ian really has to work at escaping from the rapidly rising water. I also note that what the scriptwriter…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @janetteb @missy

Fun factette: some the scenes were filmed in Pasta Food’s factory in St Albans (they also provided research to “sell” the joke), which I went past on the bus from school every day. We were implausibly proud of its role in fake history (the factory moved to Norfolk in the late 80s).

And yes, that is Richard…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

Very funny.   I have to say that our meals were not like yours. My mum would dish up whale steak  (cheaper than beef)with mashed potatoes,  fresh peas or spinach and gravy made from the juice of the meat and vegetables and thickened with flour.(yum)

She never over cooked anything. Mind you, our puddings (not dessert in the UK…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave I think Australian cooks of the fifties inherited all that was bad about English cooking with none of the redeeming qualities. Everything boiled to a pulp, no garnishes. Researching into S.A. history I am beginning to understand why. Mutton was the only meat available and it would have gone off so quickly that options were…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave Amusing indeed and so of its time. Spag” was an alien food to most Australians in the fifties and no doubt to most Brits as well. My parents never cooked or ate spaghetti. Indeed the limitations of Australian fifties cuisine, (if you could even call it that) is a theme of a cooking column I write for a friend’s newsletter. (I…[Read more]

@craig and @blenkinsopthebrave    I have enjoyed watching this for the first time. It was a lovely history tale and an enjoyable story to watch. I have been viewing as many BG Who episodes  as I can find and this one was a good 1st Doctor story. I only wish I was 13 again and watching Who for the first time, but I have to settle for watching as…[Read more]

@ddoherty95

@janetteB @winston and @JimTheFish have pretty much summed it up. Every actor has brought something different to the role and that fact, along with the vision of successive show runners and writers,  is how the show has managed to survive for so long – because it has evolved and expanded in scop0e.  There can be no universal ‘best’ D…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip Hey The Gang!

Thank you SO much. That is SUCH a help. I’m already motivated to think Jack is the same Jack  -and by that I don’t mean my facts are changed to suit the theory -but that other philosophers have already indicated jack is jack.

I don’t think we’re supposed to mention Kant or Freud/Jung yet which I’d like to do. Kant…[Read more]

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

@blenkinsopthebrave:

That’s what my husband always says. “You aren’t supposed to think about that, it’s in the script.”

I still wish Mr. M could have let The Doctor know that Missy was going to stand with him after all, instead

of remembering Clara.

Missy

@blenkinsopthebrave and @whisht

Yes, you can see why some of the actors have decided to go for flat-out RSC style. ::cough:: Tlotoxl ::cough::

And you can’t help wondering whether Team TARDIS’ competence with weapons has been developed in the previous five stories; at least, I hope Barbara didn’t pick up that facility with knives during her…[Read more]

Bit late in watching this one: it’s full of derring do, excitement, and the Doctor getting things wrong. 🙂
Given that the scriptwriters had an ‘educational’ remit, they’ve done really well in portraying the Aztecs as ‘people like us’. Good, bad, nosy, wise, foolish. Set in their ways, and open to new thoughts.

Susan learning the ‘Good Housewife…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave I first watched Aztecs when I was in my forties and had a history degree “under my belt” and so no doubt was not “woowed” by the episode as a 12 year old would be but I still enjoyed it. It is one of the better of the extant First Doctor series in my view. It raises the moral question of what to do when confronted with cultural…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @thewatcher

It has been established that Doctors lose memories of future Doctors (ref: Day of the Doctor) and that even future doctors can bury the memory of entire regenerations (ref: War Doctor). This is canon.

@bluesqueakpip @tardis123

They have Clara’s memories of him, including when, how and why he lost his memories of…[Read more]