@dentarthurdent @janetteb @winston @nerys

I particularly like Bill Pott’s comment: ‘it’s a kitchen!’ shortly after she observed ‘you’ve had a knock-through!’

The kitchen was a reoccurring Moffat joke… remember Clara cooking the turkey? Also referenced by RTD with the coffee incident.

I also liked the actual library from Journey to the Heart of…[Read more]

@nerys  @dentarthurdent  I will have to wait until the new series comes to the library unless my lovely Whovian children get the DVDs for me. I watched the 3 specials but not the Xmas episode so I haven’t met Ruby Sunday yet but the actress was great on Coronation Street.

The Tardis looks very futuristic and huge! I don’t know if I like it or n…[Read more]

@winston @dentarthurdent I also find myself liking what I see of the Doctor’s companion. She reminds me of a (bottle) blonde Clara. I say that without having seen “The Church on Ruby Street” yet. The trailers are all I have to go by. As of now my public library only has DVDs up through the 13th season, so it may be a while before I get caught up.

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I’d kind of forgotten about the Peter Davison aspect. Point is if some said to Georgia ‘hmm too much Who’ you can see why she might agree.

and maybe it was an RTD/Alice Troughton pitch for a spinoff, or character to feature in some of their existing spinoffs.

No conspiracy; just connections, synch…[Read more]

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well… I would say ‘same difference.’ In the case of Jenny, her disappearance probably has something to with becoming Mrs Tennant. Don’t ask me who exactly made what decision, but you can see how it might work.

Real events leave marks in the narrative, like Shona being lined up for a companion hand over in Last Christmas before…[Read more]

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it worked!

this whole Orson thing as well The Girl Who Died makes me wonder about abandoned arcs. Maybe its as simple as the execs looked at the drafts and thought ‘what is that going to cost?’

with a little bit of kickback against the loons.

That’s you and me that is…

@dentarthurdent @janetteb

after ps digits alternate with letters.

Orson Pink… I think Mr Spock would say ‘insufficient data, Captain.’

Most likely explanation is that Danny had a previous relationship, and the Tardis mined that through Clara being distracted. Except there was s female relative who was a time traveller?? Maybe th

@dentarthurdent. I will try that. I confess I used to have trouble with your name too, until you pointed out that it was Dent, Arthur Dent. How did not not see that at once?

I enjoyed trying to work out an explanation for Danny?Orson. I love a narrative puzzle, the word equivalent of Mr Squiggle, a reference that probably only Australians of my…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @janetteb

Bill’s Mondassisn conversion is particularly powerful. The early cybermen, like the Ice Warriors seem at first sight ridiculous, and dismissed as classic examples of the shortcomings of early Who. Of course there were far worse designs, who never returned, but actually both Mondassian Cybermen and Ice Warriors were s…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I agree that Bill’s fate was the most tragic. Clara’s fate happened as a result of her own choices, sad yes but Bill’s was as a result of trust betrayed. The Doctor should know better than to promise that he can keep his companions safe. He cannot. The scenes of Bill in the barn are heartbreaking. Nardole in his handling of the…[Read more]

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Azimov’s Psychohistory is kind of the final word on determinism within sociology and economics.

He also explored it in a short story set in the C20th: a sociological experiment designed to make a small unimportant organisation grow (and then collapse when it can’t grow anymore) accidentally becomes a populist pol…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent The first time I saw Quantum of Solace in the cinema, I was so disappointed … but only because I felt it didn’t measure up to Casino Royale. However, on second and subsequent viewings, I came to love it.

I think it’s incredible that they achieved what they did, given the fact that the writers’ strike meant they had to work with…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @nerys

Well… is it genetic heritage that makes you a Timelord? Or in vitro exposure to the Time Vortex? As per River, immediately following the Roman kissogram party in volving two humans (presumably in the room with bunk beds)?

Surely, the Mondassians specialise in human conversion because, as Dalek Sec pointed out, we get e…[Read more]

@nerys @dentarthurdent

Yes. Amy says something like that. The Doctor is the ‘damsel’ in ‘the husbands of…’ Donna introduces the idea… by her absence. “Things went wrong…” (The End of Time)

The point being… I think… is that The Doctor benefits from interaction (even with Rusty?) whereas The Master, in his thirst for power, never considers it……[Read more]

@dentarthurdent As to why the Doctor’s doing this (‘adopting’ Bill), I’d hypothesise that he needs the companionship. Who was it who said the Doctor shouldn’t be alone, it wasn’t good for him. River?

I seem to recall both Amy and River telling the Doctor he should never travel alone. And then in “Listen” (after the Doctor goes on a tangent abo…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

I’ll leave Eaters of Light for you then.

In hindsight the development of Bill through the series was disappointing. It got squeezed out by the Missy redemption subplot which I frankly didn’t care that much about. So more no Moira, no Penny. They were fun. But maybe that might a bit ZChib????!

There again no further Ira…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent Yes, Silva was the one with the island and “mommy issues” with M. Bardem played him beautifully!

I didn’t much care for the Brosnan era (though I do respect the fact that he helped to bring Bond back from the brink of extinction). As I recall, Tomorrow Never Dies is the Bond film of his I liked best.

Before Craig, I didn’t really…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent Oh, right, thanks for the correction! Quantum of Solace is one I tend to forget. At first I was disappointed in it, then on subsequent viewings came to appreciate it. It was marred by a couple of things: the writers’ strike and disjointed editing of the chase sequences. Apparently Marc Forster was aiming to put the audience into…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I loved No Time To Die. It’s a natural culmination of the Daniel Craig era, though I admit I was surprised that they ended it the way they did. Having watched all four of his Bond films (Casino Royale was the one that hooked me), I felt that there was a tragic trajectory. I think giving Bond a daughter, only to have him sacrifice…[Read more]

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Empress of Mars!

oh well, there I was, doing Terror of the Zygons. Not all that good actually…

Have to watch EoM tonight I suppose. I remember it quite fondly. Let’s see.