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for the record, can I just say I have Nothing to do with Deep Thought… more like Roosta or maybe Zarniwoop.

Seriously, can someone string up the non sci fi focus groups and actually do research and writing?

Russ season enders? MHO:

Good (but not that good);Bad Wolf plus, Army of Ghosts/Doomsday; Utopia plus

Indifferent; Stole…[Read more]

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I think the BBC should be forced to give a licence to anyone wanting to produce a new series of Doctor Who, as it looks like they want to kill it off. The licence should be free so that the group producing the new series can have more money to produce it.

I also think the TV licensing law should be updated to apply only to people…[Read more]

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The Doctor is wearing a kilt, as he has done many times before. It has tartan, but a kilt doesn’t even have to have tartan on it to be a kilt. It’s a kilt because it wraps around itself and is fastened with a few straps, as well as having small pleats near the straps. As for the Doctor or anyone else wearing skirts, why not?

I…[Read more]

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You may not have registered certain recent UK government climb-downs; Trump does tend to drown everything else out but the ableist/disableist debate is extraordinarily relevant to the UK. Certainly not merely ideological. Spot on Russ. That wad the best bit.

Not only is Dobson channeling Briers, Conrad is an echo of Pex from…[Read more]

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Key take-aways…

NOT that someone thinks Omega is coming through, why you would want that? But:

Poppy was in Space Babies… maybe she’s Russ’ fav child actress.

Poppy Honey is farmed on Hellias by Harmony Shoal.

It’s The Ranii’s VR, with Conrad utilising Male Supremacist Fantasy to keep it ticking… a bit like the ‘minor master…[Read more]

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I’ve seen Danger Man, but I don’t remember the dialogue in various languages.

I don’t think I’ll bother to watch any more Bond films.

My native language is English.

I’ve seen various episodes of Star Trek: DS9 and Star Trek: VOY in German first of all on the channel SAT.1, because at the time that was the easiest way for me to…[Read more]

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I meant that James Bond’s friends and allies spoke English as their native language, but could have been from anywhere, such as the USA, Canada, or Australia. There were only 14 Bond books written by Ian Fleming, but I’m not sure how many stories there were. Two of the books were published after his death in 1964.  Only two or 3…[Read more]

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I really liked ISC. It could have been a nondescript Chibesque Fam outing but this was done with a certain panache.

The blown into space section was of course problematic, though it looked a million dollars. Mavity is apparently at hand so maybe none of it was real…?

The glitter gun was surely a tribute to the McCoy opening c…[Read more]

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List compiled in haste. I missed out The Mindrobber. And included Voyage of the Damned twice. Though it is fantastic. Yes, I like Russell having camp fun; it explains Love and Monsters.

Really, for 5&6 it is so tough to pick worthy eps but. Apart from the Mara stories and Androzani, very few were remotely acceptable. And then t…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent Yes we do indeed have fun, too much fun sometimes.Everyone talks at once making it very difficult to edit. We do a Dr Who episode every year, (just to bring it back to topic), one for each Doctor. this year will be McCoy.

cheers

Janette

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Doctor Who wouldn’t even exist without the First Doctor and wouldn’t have continued for so long without the Second Doctor and regeneration. I suppose the BBC could have replaced William Hartnell with a lookalike, followed by another lookalike, ad infinitum, but they would have had to be good actors as well.…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I think RTD puts “rule of cool” over logic in his approach to story writing. I wasn’t a massive fan of this episode. It was a little too “fantastic” for my taste, but I did love the scene with the “fans” so that redeemed it quite a lot.

cheers

Janette

@dentarthurdent. Well said.

We are all free to watch what we like. After all we watch Dr Who and Red Dwarf for pleasure and because we find enrichment in it. Our tastes do indeed vary to a degree. i love Tolkien for instance though I fully agree, it has some problems. It is of its time. Nothing is perfect and Old Who certainly is not.

Enjoy Red…[Read more]

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Your lack of knowledge of classic Who is disgusting! You need a viewing plan of various really important episodes to watch for your homework. I think you should start with “An Unearthly Child”, “The Daleks”, “The Dalek Invasion of Earth”, and “The Web Planet”. After that, watch “The Chase” and “The Time Meddler”. These are all…[Read more]

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Yes, Who runs on meta: the Trial of Timelord; the Time War; perhaps t’floox was about linear tv’s competition from streaming?

The Sunmakers riffs on Holme’s tax arrangements, The Two Doctors on his discovery of vegetarianism. The Carnival of Monsters must be Who itself (and the mandarins who never understood the show). On the ot…[Read more]

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Is there a real philologist in the room? I’m sure they’d tell me I’m talking rubbish. I think Finnish is the closest thing to a genuine agglutinative European if not Indo-European language.

In Boom, 15 is told it’s Oct 5th. For no reason. The show wasn’t broadcast on Oct 5th. So I checked out previous stories broadcast on…[Read more]

@janetteb  @dentarthurdent   @ps1l0v3y0u         The fear and menace was as thick as butter in this one. There is something behind you, no don’t turn around ,don’t look! Wait, what? What is behind me? We don’t know but don’t try to find out or it gets angry. I wouldn’t last a minute.

While Midnight was a study in group behaviour under extreme…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent   This had a very fairy tale feel to it. Stories that feed a ship on top of a giant spider. The barbershop setting was so normal and everyday, you go in ,sit down and get your hair cut.What could be more normal? Except now you are trapped in an never ending circle of hair cuts and story telling and then your hair grows back so y…[Read more]

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re German… almost an agglutinative langauge (ie you can almost shake and go any idea you like, but not quite).

Richard Briars was The Chief Caretaker/Great Architect in Paradise Towers. This is the era of casting the likes of Beryl Reid and Ken Dodd. A comic thesp giant whose stock was falling in the 80s perhaps. But i…[Read more]

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My last bid, thanks to google translate is

düsterbegründerfreude

= darklyjustifiedjoy

Conrad’s actor was brilliant. I’m sure most thesps relish dark scenery chewing. And they’re not all Richard Briars.

The central 5 of this series were as good as the ‘filling’ from the previous one.