@dentarthurdent

Huge fan of Oxygen… to paraphrase 4 in City of Death, ‘I love your high threat space horror. It’s so scary.’

If Mary Whitehouse had still been with us she’d have been frothing at the mouth.

Awesome. Curiously quite difficult to rewatch. I tried and maybe I was depressed about Chib and the damage done. Maybe I was genuinely…[Read more]

@winston I feel your pain. I had to get my tech support, (otherwise referred to as the S/O) to re install Windows on my aging laptop in the hope that it might actually work. It had started corrupting files. It has taken the better part of two week, copying everything off the hard-drive and then reinstalling it all and setting up slide shows etc.…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I haven’t had a chance to watch them either but there are many episodes that need a re watch especially the CapDocs era. My trusty old PC has died on me so I am using my tiny tablet until I get a new one.I turned it off before bed and it died in it’s sleep. No response at all and not worth repairing. Thank goodness I keep most…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @vickymallard

No. The jump from Vinvocci ship wasn’t great. I suppose the glass ceiling slowed him up, and he’s been around so long that by then, like Ashildr, he’s become brilliant at Crazy Stuff that should kill you. And we know he’ll regenerate soon.

One Vinvocci is a very funny man from the Horrible Histories team. The oth…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Just a theory… application of The Razor of Occam; do not duplicate broken chamelion circuits unnecessarily.

As far as we know only the Doctor has a sentient tardis. But maybe not. Maybe chamelion circuits are always prone to failure. Like the legendary British Leyland fully detachable door handles…

Not even saying that it’…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

well… actually I SPECULATE there could be just ONE police box/diner/sexyidris tardis

My bonkers flow chart looks like this:

Hell Bent: 12 steals tardis

> taken by ‘frozen’ Clara and Ashildr, who reunite mindwiped 12 with his tardis and tour the cosmos in an American Diner

> in due course one or t’other or both realise 11 has…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent It is all so timey-wimey! The Tardis is a living growing entity that is capable of choosing who she steals and she likes being called sexy.The Tardis could have her own show.

Stay safe

@dentarthurdent : thanks, I’ll go and find out more there. Regaring the bus not pulling over etc.: well, I wasn’t really unduly worried either – it IS a heist movie and if he does pull over it would be a very short and rather boring episode – but I can’t help wondering about such little “errors”.

@dentarthurdent

The doctor lies. The writers mislead.

but apologies for spoilery…

We think Clara stopped The Doctor from stealing the ‘wrong’ Tardis because…

1. That was the point of the episode

2. Clara said ‘I’m the impossible girl!’ So the event must be a case in point (??)

BUT

in Hell Bent, the Doctor also stole a tardis which ended u…[Read more]

@vickymallard  @dentarthurdent

Planet of The Dead got a lot of stick when it came out. Cracking adventure, I thought, with lots of interesting angles: no Tardis; interesting alien species – maybe reminiscent of the swarm in Invisible Enemy and the Formasi in Leisure Hive – but there a finite number of tropes; antagonistic prospective companion;…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent   I agree that the things that scare us make no sense at all. I like butterflies and bees but I am terrified of wasps and I have a full on phobia of moths.Of course wasps sting and one attacked me this summer and stung me under my eye 3 times before I swatted it off my face. I looked like a boxer for a week.On the other hand m…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

The McGann conundrum deserves a bit more research… the one quote that keeps coming up is that Moffat couldn’t ‘envisage 8 as the Doctor that ended the time war.’ On Reddit someone quotes ‘DW & the end of the Time War’ where RTD seemed to show he definitely thought 8 burned Gallifrey. I suppose it was a complex creative decision…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @vickymallard

Re my comment about RTD’s choice of villains, I meant of course David HAREWOOD (not Haywood) in The End of Time. Doh

@dentarthurdent

I thought John Hurt was great as the War Doctor, and I suppose Moffat may have come up with the idea some time before: 10 regenerating his hand and the Trenzalore shenanigans rescuing a decrepit old doc who’d run out of regenerations (even though it turned out he/she/they had a free pass anyway… I think I got that right). BUT…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent Oh dear – well spotted! Good old Grauniad 🙂

For anyone feeling stressed by the New Year (and aren’t we all) here is an oldie but a goodie (particularly if you are not a fan of the “mindfulness” trend):

@dentarthurdent  This as a good episode for a dark and stormy night. David Suchet was pleasantly creepy as was the house. This rental proves the saying “you get what you pay for”. It reminds me of a place a friend rented in college , it was the top floor of a huge building that had a garage a metal workshop and a couple other businesses like…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Anthony Stevens’ story was the infamous ‘Twin Dilemma.’ And the quote was his typewriter exploded ‘literally’ NOT ‘liberally.’ Fortunately neither Anthony nor Eric had to contend with predictive text.

When it comes good science, I would like someone to try making explosions in space silent.

@dentarthurdent

Ok, agree to disagree then. But some historicals are better than others.

As far as science is concerned Kill the Moon is as bad as almost anything CE, though I’ve not watched Flux. Spyfall made me want to scream. And not in a good way.

Forest of the Night was just an unhappy collision of interesting ideas. There was also the p…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

I didn’t think we disagreed exactly. My point is, if you’re not prepared to do the past honestly, then why go there? To plaster a monster or alien over an events kids and adults should know or be informed about can be potentially dubious.

Mind you science stories can also suffer from this. Earth’s large satellite would seem to be…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent     Don’t you just hate when that happens? We Whovians just have very active imaginations I guess! I am a grown women who is terrified of the dark to this day.

stay safe