Hi @DenValdron
Just in case you missed it, some Cushing love on the Guardian (because of the DVD and Blue Ray reissues of the […]

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Peter Cushing – Brilliant!

I once had the pleasure of going to a talk by Freddie Francis who at the time (may still be, I’m not sure) the only cinematographer to have won […]

@DenValdron – well, I’ve mentioned Horror Express a couple of times (I’d wager Mr Gatiss has a copy at home!!) so thanks for mentioning it up-thread.

If its Peter Cushing’s birthday, then I have a slightly […]

@DenValdron – Peter Cushing was born 100 years ago today!

Hi @DenValdron,

I was replying to you here via an iPad – there the greatest thing according to some, but I still haven’t managed to turn off the bloody auto-correct so my reply didn’t link to you.

as I was […]

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Personally, I like the notion of the Cushing Doctor as a real rather than fictional entity in the Doctor Who universe.Ergo, for these reasons, I think that my theory of the Cushing Doctor as a […]

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Thanks for responding to my ramblings earlier on. A bit of the lawyer about your response, in terms of the flow of logic. This is a good thing.

I also like @BadWulf‘s suggestion and look forward […]

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I always imagined that the Cushing Doctor was a construct of the Daleks early in their history, using information that they had actually gleaned from their two early interactions with the Hartnell […]

@DenValdron –

I’m with you @WhoHar – the more I read of @denvaldron the more I’m convinced!

However that last phrase “Let me think about it for a while” makes me think of Deep Thought.

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And I’m scared.

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The more you write, the more considered it becomes. You should definitely combine all these forum posts into a blog post.

What about this as another option – the Cushing Doctor is human but the […]

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woah! – tall order to reply properly to your original post, which was obviously well thought through.

However, never let an outrageous request go unanswered.

So….

[ahem]

1) Chameleon […]

Hi @DenValdron – I love your retcon of Cushing! For me it works.

And its not like I’ve been tossing and turning about whether he’s been misunderstood or that his films were terrible.

They exist, I saw them […]

@DenValdron Feel free to repeat, or rewrite if you feel it necessary or if you think it will provoke more debate. People worry about duplicate content on websites for SEO reasons. Not me 😀

@DenValdron I have made you an author. Look forward to your thoughts.

You can make a blog post by hovering over the +New button in the top bar and clicking on Post. You just have to give it a Title and post […]

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No problem at all.

your consistent underlying thesis is that the movies suck and  you don’t care about them.

Spot on! But please don’t take it personally, if you hadn’t raised a bit of interest […]

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On the contrary, I loved the whole Chameleon Arch plot, thought it was handled really well and Human Nature in particular is very strong. But it plays with the idea of the Dr being human, it doesn’t […]

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I don’t know that the Doctor was even established as an alien or non-human until the encounter with the Meddling Monk,

There are probably only 2 things that were established about the Dr in Ep 1 (An […]

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In contrast, the Cushing Doctor was designed as a movie, and followed conventional movie narrative structures.  So it just doesn’t have that quality of complexity and depth, except to the extent it […]

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PS Sorry if the above post sounded snarky, wasn’t intended. (just think of me as bitter and twisted 🙂 )