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25 August 2014 at 19:28 #30226
@arbutus – yes, it’s a character based episode. The central ‘mystery’ is actually the B plot. In a not dissimilar way to Day of the Doctor, it’s a subplot designed to get us to reflect on what might turn out to be the central theme of this series.
Namely – is a man who’s changed his body so many times, still the same man?
The other point that might run through is the after-effects from The Day of The Doctor. The Doctor might have found a way out of destroying Gallifrey, but he’s still the man who was prepared to murder 2 billion children.
Why has he got that face? It’s appeared two times in the Whoniverse. Once it appeared as a face of a man that the Doctor was prepared to leave to die – until Donna stopped him. The second time it appeared as the face of a man who ended up killing his own children rather than hand them over to become a drug supply for aliens.
And you could well say that ‘Children of Earth’ is the story of what happened when the Doctor didn’t intervene. When he, presumably, followed the rules about not interfering. I don’t know if he knows about John Frobisher, but I wonder if he’s somehow going to find out.
So he’s wearing the face of a man he saved – and a man he didn’t save.
25 August 2014 at 19:05 #3021725 August 2014 at 18:05 #3020625 August 2014 at 16:51 #30200@wolfweed – or the tramp was so terrified of this lunatic by that point, he just gave him the coat.
I admit I did wonder how he had the watch, given that he was wearing that nightgown and the Doctor’s traditional long johns. Surely the watch would have stayed in the waistcoat pocket? But I think I really read it as a ‘no, the fob watch isn’t important’ message. There was an awful lot of speculation about it.
Some of which I was responsible for. 😉
25 August 2014 at 14:32 #30183@okies – yes, he did say he’d invented a boyfriend before
and it’s really hard to get rid of an android.
Good spot. So, probably not a throw away line, then. 😉
At the time, didn’t we all think it was a jokey reference to Scream of the Shalka?
25 August 2014 at 11:15 #30170@whisht – only once. But you have to project it, as if to the back of an auditorium, while walking about and waving your arms in approved Victorian style.
Closest I can get to ‘fleeing crazed organ-harvesting droids’. 😀
25 August 2014 at 10:38 #30167@janetteb Other possible connections with Missy and Clara. As well as the Mary Poppins = Governess that you spot in #30141, both ‘Master’ and ‘Mistress’ are old terms for a schoolteacher.
Clara and Danny Pink are obviously positioned to be reminiscent of Barbara and Ian – both teachers at Coal Hill School. But between them they are both school ‘Mistress’ and school ‘Master’.
@fatmaninabox – the Master has made temporary alliance with the Cybermen before, in The Five Doctors.
25 August 2014 at 02:27 #30132@juniperfish – in favour of your ‘Clara is related’ bonkers theory, I did note that the description of ‘An egomaniac needy game-player sort of person’ was considered a good description of the Doctor by Clara and a good description of Clara by the Doctor.
Then there’s the ‘You’ve redecorated. I don’t like it.’
They are, in other words, still being played as extremely alike. To the extent that Clara knows, absolutely knows, when the Doctor is coming back for her. It’s like they’ve got some kind of telepathic link.
[Going into bonkers theorydum – if they have, did the Doctor’s rebooting temporarily disrupt it? Was that why Clara couldn’t accept him at first? It wasn’t the physical change, it was that she couldn’t ‘see’ him through her mind, the way a Time Lord can recognise another Time Lord.]
The argument against is that we, again, got a ‘no, Clara is definitely a perfectly ordinary human’ confirmation. How many have we had now? Anyone want to make a count? I don’t think we’ve ever seen a companion whose had their human status so emphasised.
Get well soon, btw. Allergic reactions are the pits.
25 August 2014 at 02:16 #30130@jimthefish – his reuse of the organ-stealing droids isn’t as lazy as it looks. He makes it look lazy by the Doctor’s constant ‘this reminds me of something’. But in fact, the Girl in the Fireplace droids are after one human part (only) and we don’t see the other ones they’ve murdered. They’re clockwork in appearance. They’re based on a ship that still has time windows.
These droids are using any parts they can find and we see them killing people. They look like corpses. They’re based on Earth, and they’re time travelling by the long road. Basically, Moffat’s just reusing a monster (and we tend to not complain that reusing, say, the Ice Warriors is really lazy).
Did you notice that when the Capaldi Doctor was trying to remember where he’d met these droids before, he picked up a bunch of roses? Then he threw them away.
That ship has sailed. 😉
25 August 2014 at 02:04 #30127You’ve got to laugh.
First Deus Ex Machina claim – from Digital Spy – is somebody BTL insisting that the phone call was a DEM. 🙄
Now, let me see. Was it a previously un-revealed character? Why no – I think I’ve seen Matt Smith in the show once or twice.
Was it an un-revealed ability? Nope. We’ve seen that the TARDIS phone can make phone calls through time and we’ve also seen that the TARDIS is quite capable of diverting the call. So the point that the call arrives when Clara’s thinking of leaving is almost certainly no coincidence.
Did it come out of nowhere? Nope. As the flashback helpfully reminds us, we saw the phone out of its box in Time of The Doctor.
Grrr….
25 August 2014 at 01:38 #30124One of the things I noticed on a rewatch was that Madame Vastra tells everyone ‘this is not a day to jump to conclusions’. Now, the Doctor does jump to one bloody great conclusion – when the Half Faced Man says ‘We will reach the Promised Land’, he presumes the Droid’s talking in metaphors (further encouraged by a mention of ‘Paradise’).
The biblical nerd in me would point out that the Promised Land is and always has been somewhere you can find on a map. Likewise, there are several extremely physical towns called Paradise. And finally, a Droid who can’t manage ‘don’t’ after a couple of million years isn’t exactly the type of being you’d expect to launch into flowery metaphors about the afterlife.
So yeah, I go with the people who say ‘The Promised Land’ is like ‘Utopia’. It’s a place.
As well as The Library and The Land of Fiction, there is another rather well-documented Virtual Reality Environment in the Whoniverse. Anyone mentioned the Matrix yet? From The Deadly Assassin.
The Matrix is where the memories of dead Time Lords are uploaded. Or, it’s where Time Lords go to when they die. 😉
24 August 2014 at 23:42 #30112@whisht – Clara can beat me by about a second if I start walking about, but I suspect that – if I was surrounded by insane organ-harvesting droids – I could manage the extra second with few problems. 😉
Giving you a test back: can you say
Dry clashed his harness in the icy caves
And barren chasms, and all to left and right
The bare black cliff clanged round him, as he based
His feet on juts of slippery crag that rang
Sharp-smitten with the dint of armed heelsWithout taking a breath? That’s a standard speech training exercise. 😀
24 August 2014 at 23:11 #3010224 August 2014 at 21:20 #30096I still, however, don’t like the new theme arrangement
That is something that is definitely growing on me as I re-listen. It’s got a very light sound, but it’s quite a complicated mix. @Purofilion would probably do a better job of description, but what I can hear is that the drum beats have been overlaid by clock chimes. The electronic ‘wah WAH’ has also got an overlay – to me, it hints vaguely at bagpipes. Electronic bagpipes. Yes, they do exist. 😉
I think my initial reaction (I didn’t like it) was largely sheer shock; it’s so very different from any previous AG theme.
The Capaldi Doctor’s theme sounds to me as if it’s using the bodrhan rather than a Scottish drum – but Capaldi’s mother was Irish.
24 August 2014 at 20:10 #30089@timeloop – function of the Paternoster Gang. I think they’ve replaced 1970’s/1980’s UNIT as ‘home’.
The 21st Century may be Clara’s home, but the Doctor’s current ‘home’ time zone is Victorian England and the Paternoster Gang. Like the poem by Robert Frost, it’s his: ‘Home is the place where, when you have to go there, / They have to take you in.’
Another signal that the Capaldi Doctor is the same man as the Smith Doctor; he automatically flies the TARDIS to the same ‘home’.
24 August 2014 at 18:27 #30084Dealt with in the episode. Madame Vastra says dinosaurs were mostly this big. Jenny points out that she knows dinosaurs were NOT this size – she’s seen the fossils. As have we.
But Madame Vastra caps Jenny’s evidence with ‘I was there’.
In other words, if you’re happy to accept the Lizard Woman From The Dawn of Time, just go with the giant dinosaur big enough to swallow a TARDIS… 😀
24 August 2014 at 17:18 #30078@wolfweed – yes, that bit was funny. 🙂 You could tell the argument had been running throughout the making of Series 8, especially when Moffat said ‘Don’t fall asleep, Jenna’.
24 August 2014 at 14:55 #30065Like @jimthefish, I am in many ways still cogitating. But I will say one thing about the Matt Smith insert.
Remember that charming little YouTube video published, where Peter Capaldi reassured that little girl by showing her a photo of himself with Matt and Jenna? And saying ‘Well, look, they’re fine with me being the Doctor.’
That was, I think, the main target of the phone call. All the very small fans for whom this is their first regeneration and for whom Matt Smith is their one and only Doctor. And since this new Doctor is very different, they got Matt Smith’s Doctor reassuring them that ‘this new man – is still me’.
The secondary target was all of us still in mourning for Matt. Too my surprise, I found I was one of them – and he wasn’t ‘my’ Doctor. But I think he grabbed a place in my heart.
24 August 2014 at 09:32 #30034At the moment I’m tending towards ‘Missy is The Master, regenerated as female’.
Firstly there’s the name – a female Master would be a Mistress, so Missy (especially since it avoids the connotations of ‘The Mistress’ for the kids, while bringing it front and centre for the adults).
Secondly, the Master/Mistress is the only character from the Doctor’s past who fits the bill of ‘ex-boyfriend who turns out to be psycho stalker’.
Thirdly, of all the Doctor’s enemies, the Master/Mistress is the only one who genuinely doesn’t want to kill him. To the extent of saving his life on-screen. And is very prone to convoluted plans, and has the power to change time. I’ve said before that Clara was a suspiciously perfect Companion (she even stays put when told to) – while we saw in Deep Breath that she is definitely human, I do wonder if her role as ‘The Girl Who Saves The Doctor’ is a designed role within the story as well as in the scripts.
And finally, a meta-reason. Moffat’s put everything in place for a female Doctor except a female Doctor. 🙂 If the BBC is terrified that a female Doctor would ruin their highly successful brand, you’re going to need to do a dry run. Gender switching the second most iconic male Time Lord would be one way to do that.
If the audience likes ‘Missy’ as much as they do ‘The Master’, then the producer who wants to cast a woman is going to have evidence to point to when arguing that a gender switch will work.
22 August 2014 at 23:56 #29912@timeloop – I’m going to watch Deep Breath in the cinema. Today I’ve been updating my blog on Loncon3 (World Science Fiction Convention).
In the best tradition of ‘What I did on my holidays’, I’ve added some pictures and details of Days Three, Four and Five. @wolfweed – some of the pictures may be candidates for Crazy Captions. 😉 Feel free.
22 August 2014 at 12:18 #29873@scaryb is hopefully being very busy at the Edinburgh Festival, which is running until the 25th August.
21 August 2014 at 22:34 #29865How will the Doctor be able to leave Christmas now?
I suspect it’s going to be as simple as the Timelords saying ‘Sod this for a game of soldiers, we’re off to find another crack’.
21 August 2014 at 19:58 #29858Welcome back @chickenelly. How’s the Scottish granny?
You have to compare the pre-bookings for Who with the pre-bookings for other showings. My local is about half full – which certainly doesn’t compare with the 50th Anniversary. But when you look at other screenings on Saturday night, it’s positively packed.
20 August 2014 at 17:22 #29840@craig – minimalist spoilers from @danmartinuk, I think, especially if you’ve been following the official BBC site or bought this week’s Radio Times.
If you can get hold of a copy of the Radio Times, that is: there is no firmer evidence of Who’s now-mainstream status than the ‘Peter Capaldi cover’ RT being nearly sold out by Wednesday. 😀
20 August 2014 at 13:10 #29833@Purofilion – given that the entire arc of Series 7 ended up being about the Question ‘Doctor Who?’, the character name may well currently be ‘Doctor Who’.
It’s entirely up to the actor: the character was credited during the BG series under both versions of the name, though not at the same time. To misquote the Smith Doctor: ‘New body. New rules.’ 😉
[Actually, if Capaldi is going for ‘Doctor Who’ on the cast list, that would be fun if he meets up with the Tennant or Smith versions. Doctor Who: Peter Capaldi. The Doctor: Matt Smith and David Tennant. ]
19 August 2014 at 21:24 #29826@jimthefish – looking at Jenna Coleman’s interview on the official page – and it’s on the official page, so this is a planned release of information – there is a definite ‘possible exit line’.
Fairly similar to Susan’s exit line, which may not be coincidental. 😉 Whatever’s going on, this isn’t a sudden ‘by mutual agreement’; they’re either drip feeding information to make the audience think that the possibility of Clara leaving the TARDIS is a real one …
… or she’s leaving the TARDIS. Either way, this ain’t some unexpected event – it’s been planned long enough for Moffat to have written it into the whole of Series 8.
(I’ll be interested to see if we can spot a ‘Peter Capaldi in-case-of-emergency’ exit point for the end of Series 8, in the same way that you can spot a ‘Matt Smith in-case-of-emergency’ exit point for Series 5.)
19 August 2014 at 16:13 #29815Silence from the BBC suggests it’s still ‘under negotiation’ rather than a done deal. The only reason for them to remain silent if it is a done deal is that the deal includes the point at which it will be made public.
I would imagine that her contract always went up to the 2014 Christmas Special in case Peter Capaldi didn’t work out and they had to use the final episode of Series 8 for another regeneration and needed Clara to be cross-over companion again. Moffat certainly planned all the exit-points for his previous cast.
Post Christmas Special, assuming Capaldi is staying, she either leaves or they re-negotiate the contracts. So it could be this is a planned exit, or still-ongoing negotiations are being blown up into ‘definitely leaving’.
12 August 2014 at 07:43 #29708However I can’t help but think it was rather unfair to expect Peter and Jenna to suffer a long haul flight the morning after finishing shooting.
That would rather depend on whether it was originally supposed to be the morning after finishing shooting. 😉
11 August 2014 at 22:19 #29702@whisht Yes, I liked the Tolkein and WW1 one. I agree that there are indeed Accessibility concerns when you have either lots and lots of bright white, or are trying to read text on top of a photo.
[I recently got asked to give feedback on the Graun’s beta site. I said its acres of bright white made it bloody awful to read, that I invariably found myself using the old site where possible, and had they bothered to ask anyone about Accessibility?]
But @danmartinuk‘s excellent article had the main text nicely presented on grey backgrounds. It was a very ‘easy’ read as well as being a very interesting one. 😀
10 August 2014 at 00:14 #29670Again, this is fun. But nothing but fun. I can see why @craig was a bit underwhelmed; the production team decided that this was the last opportunity for their Doctor to have a bit of fun, but didn’t go beyond that. So you’ve got an exciting, very enjoyable episode – which had a very high approval rating – but it didn’t carry the long term story on beyond a few lines about ‘your song is ending’. It looks great, it’s enormous fun – but it could be dropped into any series of the After Gap Who.
They did indeed have a ton of logistics problems – if you have the DVD and haven’t watched the Confidential, go watch it. It’s almost as entertaining as the episode; the production team explain about the bus (destroyed by an errant crane) and the sandstorm (David Tennant gets so much sand in his hair, he goes blond, they can’t see the scenery they’ve gone to Dubai to film, and to add insult to injury – the wind buggers up the sound). Then, back in Wales, there was the UNIT lab. Where a metre of extra in-studio space made the lab look so much bigger inside than its location outside, UNIT appeared to have found one of the Master’s old Tardii.
But the script is a bit of a mish-mash. First we have a jewel thief – crime caper? Then we have a planet (pop. 100 billion) entirely destroyed by an alien lifeform – Russell, this is your idea of a comedy? Then we have a psychic prophet who seems to be playing Greek Chorus, and finally we’ve got UNIT and an eccentric scientist. I’d ask where the kitchen sink is, but it’s almost certainly in the lab set. 🙂
I found Lee Evans one of the highlights – his Malcolm is utterly ridiculous, and utterly endearing. I gave a small cheer when Malcolm got a little shout-out in The Day of The Doctor; I hope that means they’re trying to get Lee Evans back. An Honourable Mention, for making the most of a difficult-to-act part, goes to Ellen Thomas (Carmen) for managing to inject some life into ‘I will now forbode with a side of forboding and a little extra on the forebode. Oh, and some more foreboding, please.’ 😉
But, if you haven’t seen this episode, don’t let all these caveats put you off. It’s a not-very-serious story which is simply meant to be enjoyed – and when it was first broadcast, that’s exactly what most of the audience did.
7 August 2014 at 18:32 #29612Congrats on passing your first two assessments. But when d’you get to diggy diggy hole?
[well, you introduced me to this particular earworm 😈 ]
7 August 2014 at 11:42 #29607@whisht – “Is there a vacancy in the TARDIS?” would be mine – though, given the death rate of people who want to travel with the Doctor, “Should I notify my next-of-kin?” might be the subtext. 😉
7 August 2014 at 09:25 #29600@whisht – the real Doctor? Or Peter Capaldi?
5 August 2014 at 00:05 #29568They really do have that carefully applied look of poverty and grime though don’t they?
@phaseshift – agreed. I don’t know whether they just had too many kids and not enough make up artists, or the kids were getting the less experienced make-up artists, but there was an awful lot of the ‘artistically applied dirt’ look.
Plus the poor little lad playing Frederick looked like his mascara had run. 😉
4 August 2014 at 00:08 #29554I remember this being fun at the time, but it doesn’t stand up very well to a rewatch. I’d agree with @phaseshift that David Morrissey and Velile Tshabalala give very good performances, and Dervla Kirwin makes the most of the early scenes, before the script goes a bit pear shaped. The Cyberpunk Cyberman was quite good value, though. I like cyberpunk. 🙂
@wolfweed – I think the Tennant Doctor actually only goes ‘the next one or the one after that’, which at the time RTD was writing this was correct. Even with the extra regeneration, there were at least two Doctors left – and if they hadn’t decided to count the extra in, maybe three.
Re: the Info Stamp – yeah, and it’s a Dalek data base, as well. Oops. 🙂
There are, of course, several ways round this. Possibly the Daleks also regarded the War Doctor as Top Secret. Or, this was a identification database and The War Doctor was known to be time locked; so not included. Or, every Dalek had the War Doctor burned into their memory as ‘The’ Doctor; the database was to aid in identifying other incarnations of The War Doctor.
The most likely explanation is that The Moment had got at the database. 😉
The child actors look and sound like they’ve stepped out a school production of Oliver.
Phaseshift – We’re not allowed to starve child actors, okay? Adult actors can and do go on crash diets to look appropriately poverty-stricken, but you can’t do that to the kids – there are Rules. You just have to do the best you can with artistically placed ‘dirt’ make-up and costume. Which probably were recycled from a stage production of Oliver!; no costume hire company worth its salt would throw away perfectly re-usable ‘Victorian Urchin’ costumes. 😀
The Cybershades come under the heading of ‘special effects disaster’ as far as I’m concerned; they simply don’t work. They just look like actors inside some kind of extra-furry rug. With a cyberman mask. Still, we’ve never seen them since (for which we can all feel profoundly grateful – the cybermat Mark III and the cybermites are much better).
I agree that the cemetery scene is the highlight of the show – beautifully shot, with contrasting white, scarlet, and Cybermen looming out of snow.
Wolfweed – she’s being offered a job as Jackson’s Companion. 😉 The only respectable way of doing that in Victorian England is for her to be Frederick’s nursemaid.
2 August 2014 at 08:22 #29504As @janetteb says, the big problem for Paul was that he gave a good performance in a terrible film. The other Doctors all had equally awful scripts for single stories – but for them, the single story awful script wasn’t their only appearance on television.
For me, the moment of acceptance wasn’t the minisode itself – it was that moment in the minisode when his Doctor named his companions. Because he’d always had TV acceptance as a Doctor; his image had appeared as one of the Doctor’s previous incarnations from Eccleston onwards. But whether it was for contractual reasons or not, including the audio companions as companions signalled his acceptance as the ‘audio Doctor’. The Eighth Doctor was the Doctor whose adventures were on radio, instead of television.
And those audio adventures were as canonical as anything ever is, on Doctor Who.
1 August 2014 at 10:30 #29489I gave up on Leicester Square, especially when I discovered that my local cinema has put the tickets on-sale early and already appears to have sold half that screen…
So that’s me for the cinema on the 23rd. Anyone for popcorn?
1 August 2014 at 10:12 #29487Re: Leicester Square tickets – I think we’ve crashed the server again. 🙁
Doctor Who fans – crashing servers through time and space. 😉
31 July 2014 at 21:27 #29484@fatmaninabox – owww!
Plasters, especially since they’ve burst. If they’re weeping, hydrocolloid plasters are supposed to be really good. The plaster turns the weeping ooze into a sort of gel thing and you leave them on for three to five days. Make sure the plaster selected is big enough to cover the whole oozy bit.
This being a Doctor Who site I expect an alien will burst out of the plaster on the fifth day – but your blisters will have healed. 🙂
31 July 2014 at 21:00 #29483@wolfweed – hmm. So they’ve gone for ‘value added’ for the cinemagoers. See it in the cinema and you get a Q & A which the audience at home won’t get.
Leicester Square is sufficiently easy to get to for me that I’ll probably try and buy a ticket. It’ll be interesting to see if there’s a box office meltdown. 🙂
28 July 2014 at 21:56 #29431@juniperfish – not only have I noticed, I have made comments.
I’m fine with this regeneration being uninterested. As I’ve said before, Gallifreyans must have regenerations where they’re basically asexual – otherwise the universe would be knee deep in Time Lords. 😉
28 July 2014 at 20:04 #29428@fatmaninabox – and offer to correct their misplaced apostrophe on the front page. Or possibly don’t – depends whether you want an early reputation as a grammar pedant. 🙂
The only one of its kind, not the only one of it’s kind.
Its is the possessive, it’s is only ever a contraction for ‘it is’.
[Blame Michael Gove for my now near obsessive knowledge of the finer points of English grammar]
27 July 2014 at 19:49 #29412After careful consideration …
… I found some Algesal in the medicine cabinet. Red hot poker it is! 😯
26 July 2014 at 19:58 #29388I’d agree that The Awakening could easily fit into AG Who. The Tennant Doctor and Donna, perhaps, visiting her Great Uncle in the countryside. Or something nasty in Leadworth.
@blenkinsopthebrave – yes, the MiniMalus inside the TARDIS was particularly creepy. And, like @phaseshift, I don’t think they needed that video effect. Moving stone gargoyles are quite creepy enough.
It’d probably be interesting to check how many times the young pretty AG companion has needed rescuing versus how often she’s done the rescuing. But while it’s true that the young and pretty have most often been the regular companion in AG Who, both RTD and Moffat have managed older women companions – Donna Noble for RTD, the semi-regular River Song for Moffat. Plus both have had older women as the Christmas Special companion (RTD also managed an older male companion).
I think both of you have made pretty much the comments I’d make, so I’ll just add a word for That Horse (the one pulling the May Queen cart). That Horse plays a starring role in many a Doctor Who out-take compilation, together with his Special Appearances in BBC Safety Videos.
Alas, I couldn’t find a clip on YouTube (he’s on the DVD), but he’s a proper star. First take he veers to one side for a quick snack off the verge, second take he decides to follow the entire cast through the lychgate, complete with cart.
Fortunately the lychgate was a piece of BBC scenery, not something four hundred years old and listed. 😀
26 July 2014 at 13:56 #29379Of course, we then have absolutely nothing effing happening!
Agreed. I think I let rip a bit more in the discussion of Episode 2, because by Episode 2 you can make a reasonable assumption that you haven’t put anyone off. But this story is full of scenes where nothing happens, and it didn’t need to be.
If you look at another self-indulgent scene, the football scene in The Lodger, you can see how they moved it from being merely a display of Matt Smith’s footballing skills to an essential part of the plot. It’s part of the Doctor’s general weirdness (he doesn’t know which game football is, which is in turn part of the ‘trying to forget’ arc), it’s part of the episode subplot – The Doctor effortlessly outclasses Craig in all areas of his life – and they include a bit of the episode mainplot with the post-match scene.
But the cricket scene in Black Orchid is just a cricket scene. The only purpose it serves is to give the Doctor entry to the house – it’s a very long version of the psychic paper. It could have been integrated into the main plot – a row between Charles and his mother, perhaps, over whether they ought to discuss a mysterious something with the Doctor? Anne applauding the Doctor and Charles looking jealous? George escaping to try and watch the cricket? Anything?
The fancy dress party is a complete rip off of a Lord Peter Wimsey story – except D.L. Sayers includes a better twist to the ‘only one costume’ red herring. Again, it adds very little beyond ‘background’. Anne expecting Charles to recognise her? Being jealous that he doesn’t? Anne hinting that she was always a bit scared of the other brother? Anne being the one to chide Adric? George in costume spending a bit longer at the main party? Hiding the fact that it isn’t the Doctor in the costume, until we get a shot in the last few seconds of the episode? So we’re going, omg, has the Doctor just strangled the servant?
Again, anything beyond ‘I can dance the Charleston’. 🙄
26 July 2014 at 01:16 #29340@juniperfish – just take the extremely distinctive wrapping paper off and have him call it a teacake. Branding sorted.
The fact that the entire Interweb will be identifying it as a Tunnock’s teacake is, of course, not the Beeb’s fault. After all, other teacakes are available. 🙂
25 July 2014 at 17:59 #29308Hmmm… can I cast a sort of anti-vote?
I saw Mark of the Rani on first broadcast. And if offered a choice between Mark of the Rani and @jimthefish‘s red hot poker up the rectum, I’ll be giving the red hot poker some serious consideration…
25 July 2014 at 12:24 #29300Further to @wolfweed‘s #29257, the BBC Shop has sent me an email to say that the Limited Edition of the 50th Anniversary Collection is selling like Tunnock’s Tea Cakes just after the Glasgow Opening Ceremony. 😉
As far as I’m aware, it’s only on sale through the BBC Shop – and if they are selling that fast, it may not make it through to other suppliers. They might keep it exclusive.
24 July 2014 at 12:23 #29283@jimthefish – you mean the incredible purple tartan? 😉
Personally, I was thinking of Catherine Tate’s ‘does that man never sit down?’
24 July 2014 at 12:00 #29281Alas, no luck in the ballot for the London preview screening. 🙁
There will, apparently, be a returns queue – but I have a funny feeling that might be an overnight affair.
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