>@blenkinsopthebrave: Love the video – thank you!

@lisa: Interesting and could explain why he wears his glasses a lot.

>@janetteb:  Agree with @mudlark that the Doctor does not appear to be telling Nardole the truth about anything and may well be exaggerating his blindness. I wonder how much Nardole really knows about the Doctor.
>Good point.…[Read more]

@thane15

Soon all will be revealed.

To quote Futurama, “That’s not soon enough!”  😉  And somehow I don’t think all will be revealed right away.

@blenkinsopthebrave  I agree that the Valeyard is a rather obscure villain to be referenced in the new series.  Kind of like how there were people theorizing/hoping that Missy was the Rani back in Ser…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  I was wondering about that myself.  Your theory seems sound.  🙂

I’m definitely going to be in a lather of nerves these next few weeks as this ball of wool starts unspooling!  My autistic brain is happy for distractions from the woes of the real world, but sometimes it’s one kind of stress traded for another.  Let me be brave…   😉

@idiotsavon and @blenkinsopthebrave   That was probably my first ever theory, at least one I had the nerve to post so thank you so much for replying. I was pretty chuffed , probably wrong but still….

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

The trailer looks promising and (to echo the above) Arrival was excellent. I do worry that it might fall into the current trend of movies brilliantly recreating the style and look of the originals but failing to to pay due attention to the substance. The Force Awakens was guilty of this (and by the looks of it Alien Covenant is too).

I agree with…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave I’ve read it, but thanks. And when the DVD was realeased in the UK they gave away a free copy of the book of his short stories. All of them are really good.

Yes, I’ve heard the rumour Villeneuve is doing Dune next. I have to say, he doesn’t do things by half! I’d be petrified by a Blade Runner sequel and probably rather die…[Read more]

@craig @blenkinsopthebrave

And it comes out the day before my birthday.

Arrival is a work of genius. If it has only essence of that invention, it will be fine. But I suspect it will have more.

I always feel that Sean Young never quite gets the credit she should for Rachael. A study in prissy condescension gradual dismantled. Also, best…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @mudlark I should’ve added that I think Villeneuve is one of the most high profile ambiguous film makers around today. Arrival has confused a lot of people (although I think I get it, he says, probably overly smugly), and Sicario is a bit like No Country For Old Men, in which the main character isn’t really the main character…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @mudlark I have to admit that Prometheus left me feeling that Scott may have lost his way (like you am not that keen on the next Alien movie either). What gives me hope is that he has handed over to Villeneuve.

I had this conversation last night on Twitter with a huge Blade Runner fan in L.A. who was a little disappointed in…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

I wonder if we really need a sequel, if you know what I mean.

My first reaction also.  The original set the standard by which I judge all subsequent SF films and it isn’t often that sequels live up to the original.  On the other hand @Craig is right: with the people involved it is unlikely to be a complete dud, and judging by t…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave It could be bad, but Villeneuve has shown he can direct well in multiple genres, and Ridley Scott is involved too. Like you I hope it doesn’t tarnish the original. But if they found a story that works, why not? And we get Roger Deakins photography, just for that it may almost be worth it. It’s like an update on the Eighties…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

Oh, go on, you’re among friends!

If you insist…

The idea I’m fondest of is that Moffat will do something new with the regeneration story- it’s something that’s been done fairly similarly many times. So perhaps it’s a future version of the Doctor who is in the vault. Hints suggest that the vault-dweller may not be quite a pri…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave— hopefully it’s not a spoiler to reveal (in DWM I think) that SM has said that we’ll see inside the vault in ep6. I think you’re right that regeneration is going to be the key and also caught in Knock Knock that significant beat about regeneration at the start of the episode. My personal theory is that the Doctor’s…[Read more]

Who is in the vault? So far, I’m leaning toward the Master, except that it seems too obvious to be a fun reveal. @blenkinsopthebrave, I thought all through Series 8 that “Missy as Master” was way too obvious for Moffat!  🙂   But I suppose the surprise could be more in the line of “how/why” rather than “who”. The Doctor doesn’t fear whomever it i…[Read more]

Very much enjoying the feel of all these episodes. I’m thinking that emotionally, this is the lowest key doctor since Tom Baker. Like @CountScarlioni, I like the scope of the threats as well. We’re definitely seeing a thread of villains who aren’t really villains. I confess it’s a theme that resonates with me. Increasingly in the world as it has…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave – ‘In show piano player extraordinaire’ – It’s Dodo! (#Dodo’s in the vault)

@blenkinsopthebrave

how did a six-year old survive on his own, while caring for his mother? Oh, probably not supposed to ask that.

i was wondering that, too. perhaps they were already living off an inheritance, and he’s really, really, really frugal in spending that money? i wondered, as well, why he wouldn’t know the current prime minister,…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave and @pedant

Don’t forget that this was the Doctor and Bill’s imaginative reconstruction. It’s entirely possible there was a (now deceased) Junior Parent to take care of the six year old and Wooden Mama, and then the boy took over when he was older.

@blenkinsopthebrave

Much the same way that Kitty and co (and Nancy and co, from The Empty Child) did?