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I do need to watch these 2 eps before the xmas special. Been putting it off. The finale, as I remember it, was pretty unsatisfactory, even compared with those two rather odd opening eps. Will attempt it however.

The middle of the series was first rate. Even Rogue was very entertaining. Strange about the rest…

@dentarthurdent the Red Dwarf quotes made me laugh aloud and I have seen that episode so many times, “everybody is dead Dave”. It is the droll way he says it. We quote that often, along with, “there’s an emergency going on” in that same flat voice.

I really need to do a re watch of the last two episodes. As usual I think my reaction to the ending…[Read more]

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I was wrong; there are 2 Tennants in there…

The Scan… we have: Tennant 1, Whittaker, Hartnell, Grant, T Baker, Hurt, Capaldi, Ecclestone, Smith, Martin, Tennant 2, Pertwee, C Baker, Davison, McGann, Troughton, McCoy… are there more? Cut away… I doubt it.

My hypothesis is just a hypothesis… 2 Tennants is fine. No Evan McCabe bu…[Read more]

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I initially thought this story the weakish link in the strong middle four of the series… in fact I dismissed it as ‘a romp’. I don’t go for Regency costume drama… colour blind casting is what is, but oh for the AU where Britain makes a strategic alliance with Toussaint L’ouveture.

All that aside Rogue is actually very entertainin…[Read more]

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there ARE titles of course… just after Lindy starts to irradiate her teeth to ‘incey wincey teeny blah’… with just a hint of man-eating gastropod/worm on the pan-out.

Characters who grow… dunno. Adam Michell, briefly a companion, but no cardboard cut out; Elton Pope; Lucy Saxon even; the parapsychic researchers in Hide; Perkins;…[Read more]

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ok… finished it… there is a contrast in this Who reboot… RTD2 if you like… and previous nuwho, certainly the quite four square exposition of series 1-4.

How much of the information is there to throw us off I’m not sure but, until the strange and apparently unsatisfactory resurrection of Sutekh, each story echoed Ru…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent yeah metric for short distances, imperial for long distances! Petrol in litres and gallons. It’s bonkers!

My theory is The Woman is the Doctor. The perception filter is working in reverse, so as well as Ruby being conspicuous, things appear warped to Ruby. So the Tardis, which she sees as full of life, excitement and escape,…[Read more]

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The considered opinion seems to be it’s neither BSL nor ASL. You mentioned Python starting on 5th October, could be semaphore??? Though without the flags. As in the Wuthering Heights sketch. Or the cover of HELP (The Beatles)…

nearly finished 73 yards. Keep getting interrupted. Still no insight as to what the woman means… could…[Read more]

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oh… so the perception filter is mentioned in Sound of Drums and that’s also where we first realise who Saxon is… the man who’s moniker (and behaviour) is reflected in Rog Williamson.

Makes me wonder who Alien Life Form Garnett might be.

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according to Perkins in Mummy on the Orient Express, 66 seconds is ‘about’ as long as it takes to change the phase of matter. So a meter per second means… what? Dunno.

73 yards cropped up again in the ‘time window’ and was one of my least favourite things in Legend of Ruby Sunday which, after all, was not a terribly impressiv…[Read more]

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Fair point on political discourse. Though I don’t buy that this is a very different scenario anymore than Dylan’s insistence that his hard rain wasn’t atomic (been watching Don’t Look Back dontcha know)

October 5th… The Doctor, free from the DNA landmine declares the day as October 5th… presumably 23 something something A…[Read more]

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US Election/Ukraine/Gaza…?

Moffat reworks his favourite themes… of course he does… but while this was being written it was Ukraine that was hot. What does the west contribute to the Ukraine war: tech. When it was broadcast, Gaza made the story particularly erm… poignant. More relevant than ever. Especially the faith element…[Read more]

@janetteb  @dentarthurdent      I finally got to watch this episode and my first impression was that it was good and silly. I like silly most of the time and RTD is good at it. But… maybe a bit too silly. The babies were all cute but if you are counting on them to be main characters at least get the voices right. They are babies and the one l…[Read more]

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This is a difficult watch… for the right reasons. And that sounds a bit trite. I commented at the time that the story was ‘timely’ and I put that in quotation marks, not because I’m quoting myself or anyone else but you wonder why a soft sci fi show should be our conscience. For today. At the time, I thought/hoped certain on-goin…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent. I was looking forward to reading your review on this. We had to persuade some family member to keep watching after “babies” and “chord” and this was the payoff. After this episode they were back. It has everything I want from Dr Who, good story, good acting and a dash of politics thrown in.  It is the kind of story Moffat does so…[Read more]

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Ok tonight I rewatch Boom. I have been studying Smiley’s People, wondering where Lacon got the General’s keys, but tis the season to get Whoish.

Couldn’t really be bothered with Babies or Chord. They weren’t THAT bad. Maybe I’ll get back into it. And the 14 Specials.

Boom of course hearkens back to Empty Child/Doctor Dances an…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent  We did not choose to drive a Merc. I think that was the only car available that was large enough for our needs. We were a family of five and had bought up on toys in Germany so had more baggage than was sensible by then.

I think our worst experience was getting stuck in Sunday afternoon traffic at Heathrow. It was when I…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent It wasn’t a good first episode and I fear it turned away viewers which is a shame.

I agree with your comments, like the new Tardis interior. it gives lots of space for the Doctor to run about in and this Doctor is very physically expressive and that works. It is a little too minimalist though so not my favourite which will…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent   @ps1l0v3y0u   In 2005 we took a road trip to British Columbia that would take us 6 days. I planned for months and remember thinking how great the internet was when I ordered maps from every province along with other tourist info. I planned every step of the trip and spent a lot of my drive with maps spread out on my lap. The tri…[Read more]

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To tell the truth I need to rewatch The Blind Banker. But, as I remember, Sherlock grabs an A-Z off a couple in the street. Isn’t that the point? The Mind Palace is a concentration and abstract of reality, while the book is something anyone might possess (before the days of google maps and satnav). The medium should be e…[Read more]