@dentarthurdent

I did mention Russ… perhaps I should have said RTD2.

The main point being, those two season closers were not just messed up by the arc – the key element presumably being VR – but by slow development: UNIT; non vital personnel old and new; they have a TIME WINDOW, which requires an exorbitant amount of explanation to no eff…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Smith’s early debut left me cold. So I lost touch with watching it on TV

I too, had some reservation with Smith’s early portrayal, finding it a bit too manic at times and with a bit too much posturing (I Am the DOCTOR), and it spoilt some eps for me (yes, even Vincent). I often take time to adjust to a new Doc though.

Once I had a…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @thane16 @winston @blenkinsopthebrave @whohar

it’s easier to find duff eps pre twice upon a time than good ones after (up until RTD2 anyway)

9 eps per season does seem a bit mean, with not a lot of scope for additional writers. I would say the only real clunkers were Russ’ Legend and Empire. But did they clunker. I keep lookin…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

I think the scene of Amy & the Doctor on the hill was because at the end of that episode Rory was excised from memory due to the crack in time.

The Doctor keeps the engagement ring hidden from Amy. Her meeting with Vincent, in the next episode, shows her sadness as I think Vincent says she seems happy & yet still cries. 2…[Read more]

@whohar @blenkinsopthebrave @dentarthurdent
11th hour. Olivia Coleman does creepy

special mention for Amy’s choice. Toby Jones does creepy.
And Big Bang was totally off the wall yet elegant. Better season ender than Wedding or Time of the Doctor.
I wasn’t overly fond of the return of The Angels at first. Especially Angel Bob. Or the Silurian stor…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @ps1l0v3y0u @dentarthurdent

As a bit of a palette cleanser, I’ve just been watching a few eps from Smith’s first season (aka Series 5):

The Eleventh Hour (still the best regen story imo)

Pandorica / Big Bang

Plus a couple of other eps: the Angels two-parter, and Vincent.

It’s like watching a different (and much better)…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @blenkinsopthebrave

Sorry, posting under time pressure. Of course, I meant ‘Twice Upon a Time,’ NOT ‘World Enough…’

I haven’t studied Chib’s Dalek stories. I really will have to check out the post TTC arc and specials. Albeit reluctantly. But Moff drilled right down into Dalekdom, whereas Chib just wheeled them around, didn’…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @dentarthurdent

what I meant was, John Hurt was credited as ‘The War Doctor’ in Name of the Doctor but, apparently, Billie didn’t get anything like that this time. So, I assumed she’s The Doctor… but, if she is another version, you have Ruth, The Watcher or The Valeyard. Mind you Valeyard is french for Old Man. Don’t kno…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Ohila/12… great example. But! Ohila… would the actor be there for the read? She might be. I dunno.

Hypothesis:

1. Lots of modern drama relies on semi improv work. You get better thesps on board too.

2. Moff is genius with dialogue. With dialogue (like wings) you can fly! Not to be confused with pointless  worthy dialogue that…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

perhaps ‘the idea, that a Ladydoc shouldn’t be blokey, might work’ would be better.

Different docs? ie Docs that ‘work’… If 1&2 defined the character, 3 was the first ‘constructed’ doc: stuck on Earth, gimmicky, comes with private army and bete noir. 4 is iconic but he was actually made by Holmes/Hinchcliffe… and he went on to…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @nerys

the behaviour of Byron and his associates was slanted

There was a part where Byron hid in fear behind one of the other, female(?), characters and it really jarred with me. IRL Byron (Mad, Bad and Dangerous to know, per the famous quote) saw some military service in the Greek war of independence from the Ottoman Empire, so…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Sometimes bigger is not better. It gets too apocalyptic and actually diffuses the threat

100% agree. Think back to last season’s denouement. All that death and destruction, the whole world gone. And the one heartstring pulled was when we saw that one woman in the desert.

@mudlark @dentarthurdent @janetteb

The theory that a Ladydoc shouldn’t in anyway ape a ‘blokedoc’ is not necessarily unsound. You might say it was an act of faith by both actor and writer.

But then the Faye Marsay resemblance is down to either:

1. er… ’kookdoc’ – which is a bit insulting isn’t it? On many levels. I wouldn’t put it past Moffat.…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u  @janetteb  @dentarthurdent

Throughout Chib’s tenure I tried when commenting to seize on anything positive and downplay the rest, but by the end I felt it was wasted effort – and it was often an effort. The Timeless Child concept does smack of a Cartnell type plan and I have no particular problem with it as such, if only it had been i…[Read more]

@mudlark @janetteb @juniperfish @ps1l0v3y0u @blenkinsopthebrave @cathannabel @scaryb @devilishrobby @dentarthurdent @krathoon @miapatrick @cookgroom @bunface @orionhunt @fozzyb @bobbyfatv2 @spacedmunkee @thane16 @Craig @whisht @winston @dwnerdfrommars @translatorcircuit

See above

Apologies to anyone I’ve missed off the list.

As to what’s goi…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I think his posting of that image of himself as the pope was done deliberately, to drive anyone who opposes him out of our minds. And, of course, he is succeeding. He cares about nothing more than further bloating his own wealth and power, and destroying those he sees as enemies. So when we protest something he’s done, he’s happy…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

apparently the original vinyl release of DSotM included 2 posters. One was an infrared photo of the great pyramids of Giza.

I’m not sure what the ‘space pyramid’ inspiration may have been. Was it Von Daniken, and both the Floyd poster and Doctor Who went with that general idea? Or was one triangular structure as good as any other…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Zing! The secret ingredient.

RTD1 had it; series 2 was a little flat… though it did give us the outrageous Love and Monsters.

Moff has the upper hand on story telling, though not script edding. More duff eps. Less quality control. But mostly top notch in all the right categories.

The production values of Classic Who ARE d…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent   I love a good dog story. We live on a creek and all my dogs have loved to swim in it just for the fun of it. Are there sharks or other bitey things swimming about down there? It just sounds so wonderful to be swimming in a lagoon with the fish and a dog.

I hope your house and garden are safe and sound when you get home.Have f…[Read more]

@thane16 “waves back”

@dentarthurdent Haha. Not jealous at all of you lazing about in tropical lagoons. It’s a tough life 😛