• Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Doctor Falls

    @ps1l0v3y0u I’ve tried that before and it didn’t seem to work. Maybe it will this time. I’ll know when I hit Submit.

    I had my own theory about Danny/Orson, but I’ve long forgotten what it was.

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Doctor Falls

    @janetteb I think it was Slartibartfast (what a name!) who called Arthur Dent Dentarthurdent. It was of course Doug Adams’ satirical take on Bond, James Bond.

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Doctor Falls

    @janetteb The only way to get ps1l0v3y0u right is to copy & paste. Some of those characters in his name aren’t even on a terrestrial keyboard, at least they never work when I type them, I suspect he’s an alien. 🙂

    Danny, Orson and that toy soldier caused me much headscratching trying to explain it. But I could never make it fit. I’d…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Doctor Falls

    @ps1l0v3y0u I’d hate to misquote Moff, so I stuck the DVD in again and in the extra on Disc 5, ‘The Finale Falls’, at 0:41, Moff says “I thought oh my god those are cheap rubbish ones, I hope they never bring those ones back”. Or more fully, at 3:24, “I remember getting the very first Doctor Who magazine of any kind I’ve ever seen, and it had…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Doctor Falls

    @ps1l0v3y0u @janetteb I had the impression that Moff liked the original Mondassian Cybermen. I was wrong, according to a comment by him on the DVD extras for The Doctor Falls, he thought they were pretty naff. Apparently Peter Capaldi loved cybermen, which is why the Moff humoured him by incorporating cybermen (and not Daleks or Weeping…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Doctor Falls

    @janetteb Entirely concur. The betrayal was more figurative than actual – by which I mean that it was not deliberate on the Doctor’s part, just a rash promise – which he did his utmost to keep in rescuing Bill. If he’d said “I can’t guarantee that” would Bill have gone with him anyway? – almost certainly. That doesn’t change Bill’s…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Dr Who News (5)

    @dwnerdfrommars That brief scene was a visual nod to the ‘butterfly effect’ – the concept that (originally) a butterfly flapping its wings could lead to a tornado some time later. This was coined by Edward Lorenz, a meteorologist who was trying to model the weather mathematically and found that, for some determinate systems, a minute change in…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Doctor Falls

    I’ve just re-watched it. I don’t think I can add anything to what I said last time.

    This time round, though, I can follow the plot precisely, and the way the time difference is handled now makes complete sense to me. I even get the precise timing of how Missy was able to kill the Master and he was able to kill her, almost simultaneously but…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Dr Who News (5)

    Hey, I like it!

    (I trust the little Disney+ logo won’t be stuck in the corner of the screen the whole time)

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic World Enough and Time

    I see the last post on this was – me. But my brief comments below are slightly different this time so I’ll post them anyway.

    A unique mixture of horror and comedy. The exchanges between the Doctor, Missy, Bill and Nardole are genuinely funny.
    In fact the episode is shaping up to be a comedy classic right up to the point where Bill suddenly…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Dr Who News (5)

    Me too! Might make it worth my while to catch up to date with Who… 🙂

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys I actually like it better than Casino Royale. Possibly because I’m not a card player so the casino sequences in that didn’t really engage me. Possibly because Bond’s nice new Aston Martin didn’t do anything much except run off the road and roll. The opera sequence was good, by the way – loved the ingenious way Bond got the various…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys I just watched Quantum of Solace and wow! It’s bloody good! The action sequences were a bit disjointed but the character drama was top-notch. As you found, it gets better on subsequent viewings, particularly with the events of Casino Royale fresh in mind. It had some intriguing nuances – the ‘Bond girl’ hanging around the villain,…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Empress of Mars

    @ps1l0v3y0u Well I assumed the Mondassians were humanoid enough to be interchangeable. A bit like humans and Sebaceans in Farscape. As for Timeless Children, I’m afraid I’m unfamiliar with that. I’m afraid most of Chibs’ reign has failed to register on my consciousness, or been forgotten, at least partly involuntarily.

    The…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Empress of Mars

    @ps1l0v3y0u @nerys Interesting point about the High Council lady. Is it possible that Bill is an orphaned Time Lady? And the Doctor ‘stole the President’s wife’. Is the Moff hinting that Bill might be the Doctor’s (other) daughter? (But if so, shouldn’t she have regenerative powers? Maybe not, if they were a technological feature…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Empress of Mars

    @ps1l0v3y0u Well Bill did have only the one series to develop in. Some might say getting turned into a Cyberman was rather too much ‘development’ 🙂
    Although the professor-student relationship can be entertaining when the Moff writes it, in small doses, it isn’t really what Doctor Who is about, at least for me. ‘Who’ is relatively…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys I really liked the first one, Goldeneye. Natalya Simonova is one of my favourite Bond heroines, and Robbie Coltrane as the Russian gangster is one of my favourite Bond allies. And the second, Tomorrow Never Dies, as I said, Jonathan Price as Elliot Carver is the best villain (IMO). And Michelle Yeoh was great as an action heroine…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Empress of Mars

    @ps1l0v3y0u Well much of that I would agree with (having just watched it) though I found it all a bit Indiana Jones. (Or did I say Edgar Rice Burroughs? One or the other). I much preferred Cold War (and I did like David Warner’s character). I didn’t really notice any dreadful inconsistencies such as in Kill The Moon or even the…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys Silva? Was he the guy with the private island? (Reminds me a bit of Blofeld’s ‘suicide garden’ in You Only Live Twice (the book version). As does Malek’s garden in No Time to Die, of course). He was good, as I recall. But I need to re-watch the arc.
    My favourite arch-villain (straying from the Craig arc) is Jonathan Price as…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester

    @nerys I’m going to have to do a mini-rewatch of all the Daniel Craig Bond films, since I’m quite hazy about them (in contrast to the Pierce Brosnan ones that I know quite well). The mention of an arc intrigues me. No Time to Die certainly linked back to Vesper Lynd who was in Casino Royale I think.

    I didn’t find Malek particularly…[Read more]

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