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@lisa – you are welcome, and if you’ve never seen it I would heartily recommend checking out all 3 series of The League of Gentlemen.

Just wanted to say that the discussions on here have prompted me to start re-watching Buffy, too, though I’m not keeping up the same rapid pace as you all are! (Currently part way into season 2).
I’ve been reading the site for a long time, on and off, and did post a few times back before Day of the Doctor first aired but don’t always find myself with much to say.

I’ve noted a few comments regarding Babylon 5 in the past, which has always been one of my favourites, and just wanted to echo the recommendations for that. I’d agree with previous comments that it, alongside Buffy (and perhaps even The X-Files?) really started the movement from episode-of-the-week shows towards the story arc structure we have these days. Plus, B5 has stacks of character development and it’s really interesting to see how things turn out over the long haul. The fact that the underlying plan for the show was always there right from the beginning, even if it did change a little bit along the way, really shines through. Unlike some other shows (like Lost, for example – which I do rather like but really does have more than a whiff of making it up as they went along).

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@lisa
The show you are looking for is Psychoville, I believe, from the gloriously twisted minds of Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith.
If you liked that, you should also check out The League of Gentlemen, a previous series from the same creative minds plus Who and Sherlock’s own Mark Gatiss as well as Jeremy Dyson (who didn’t appear on screen unlike the other three)

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He wears a wig now.

 

Wigs are cool.

 

Even Amy was rocking one……

 

Still formulating my thoughts on it, really enjoyed it, it turns out things were somewhat more straightforward than we had thought?

Or did it….?

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Hi all, first post so apologies if I’m rehashing. (I’ve been lurking intermittently for a while).

Recently rewatching the first Matt Smith series I’ve been struck by a repeated phrase, used by Prisoner Zero and others (the Angels, the Saturnine mother in Vampires, maybe others I missed) in connection with the cracks in the skin of the universe.

“The Doctor in the TARDIS doesn’t know…”

Seems like an odd qualifier to me – is the TARDIS referenced to set him apart from other doctors in the universe? (Dr. Martha Jones, Dr. River Song and others)

Or might it be an oblique reference to another Doctor, one who isn’t in the TARDIS?

Might fit in with the theories on doubling etc. Apologies I’ve not been able to flesh this out any further yet.

 

 

 

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