Hi @scaryB Good to hear from you and @blenkinsopthebrave over in icy cold Canada. Mid thirties here and the upstairs air-con isn’t working so the boys are sweltering at the mo. @Thane16 I hope you Mum is better soon. Not fun being ill over Christmas. Please pass on my regards to her and I hope you all get to watch the special…[Read more]

*waves back* at @Thane16 and your mum. Hope you get the big screen working, it’s worth it. Look forward to hearing your thoughts. (Have another jelly baby (and some more glitter, heehee) to keep you going).

And to @Blenkinsopthebrave, my fellow original, veteran (ie ancient and crumbly… but we were there at the beginning!) Whovian! Hope all’s…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave

” the significance of the Christmas truce of 1914.”

If newer viewers don’t know about it, what better way to tell them about it – such an important, unique moment of real life hope, a small glimmer of light in the darknes of war – than through Doctor Who?

@blenkinsopthebrave

Me and Mum are waving hello to you all the way over and above in Canada. After Dad and I visited Adelaide which didn’t have humidity and even when it was 35 it felt like 25 Celsius, made me seriously think of living in South Australia or going somewhere colder. Dad used to walk the ‘beat’ in the London Met and says “get orf…[Read more]

@Serahni

I don’t think the ring was ever specifically defined as the Doctor’s wedding ring. It was designed to hide Peter Capaldi’s wedding ring, because he didn’t really want to be constantly taking it off.

I took it as a moment like Matt Smith removing the bow tie. The ring was the only part of the Capaldi Doctor’s costume that stayed…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave:

Thank you for this, loved to see all the the different introductions. I hope all goes well with you.

@janetteb:

Yes, my feelings exactly.

Missy

@blenkinsopthebrave

I really enjoyed that clip. Gawd, yes, the JNT ‘disco Who’ theme. And that bloody wink, which I believe even McCoy himself disliked.

Hope life gets better for you.

@blenkinsopthebrave I hope life is not being too unkind to you.

Thank you for sharing the clip. Really enjoyed it. Will inflict that one on the rest of the family later tonight. Interesting how the opening credits reflect the trajectory of the show, classic, dire, exciting, the “dire” being the JNT years. The most recent is definitely my…[Read more]

@JanetteB

Yes, I hadn’t watched this before, either, apart from episode 2. I have no idea why I saw episode 2 but not the rest. I really enjoyed it – for a ‘filler’, emergency story it was a really good one.

The ending felt like Terry Nation had realised he couldn’t do his detective story in one episode, so had to take over half of part 6 -…[Read more]

I really must watch the other five. As @blenkinsopthebrave says, real life gets in the way.

Missy

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@blenkinsopthebrave Good to have you back. As you say, after your excitement for a Hartnell retrospective I was kinda worried when we hadn’t seen you for 5 weeks. Hope all is well. The good news is that you’re back just in time for the finale next week!

@thane15 Yes I live in S.A. We really are spread across the continent, us Oz Who fans aren’t we? Good to hear from you again btw. I was hoping all was ok as I had not seen you posting of late but then I have not been posting either, just lurking, partly because of the weather, (in the grips of a very dreary S.A. winter) and partly just busy with…[Read more]

Hi @blenkinsopthebrave @bluesqueakpip yes, I’ll hopefully have time to set something up on Saturday. Keys of Marinus all right with everyone, if possible? I’ll check what is easily available and easy to purchase.

@blenkinsopthebrave @whisht @bluesqueakpip   You can count me in! I have watched very little BG and even less 1st Doctor episodes. It would be quite interesting.

@blenkinsopthebrave, @whisht

I was thinking along the lines of the rewatches we’ve done before. That is, we pick two or three stories and ‘watch’ as-it-happened, on Saturdays. I suppose we could binge watch if there were votes for more than three stories.

My preference is for Tenth Planet (4 parts, part 4 animated), The Aztecs (four parts) and…[Read more]

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@blenkinsopthebrave    I think your idea of a look back on the early years of BG Who is good one. I for one do not know as much as I should  about the early Doctors and would love to learn more. I have a few episodes of the 1st Doctor that I could rewatch and comment on and any information on the 1st Doctors life might be good before Christmas.

@blenkinsopthebrave @jimthefish @cathannabel I agree also that this thread has probably run it’s course, though not necessarily that it’s having a negative impact. I don’t think opinions are going to change or solidify very much until we actually see episodes with the new Doctor and showrunner, which is further off than I’d like.

We should keep…[Read more]