@dwnerdfrommars I don’t entirely blame you skipping all of Thirteen’s episodes. However there were some that weren’t too bad. I think the best was the third from last special, Eve of the Daleks. The Power of the Doctor was also okay, as I recall.

The special at the end of Season Chib 1 (aka Season 11), Resolution, was okay. As it…[Read more]

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George Lucas a Whovian?? I had a friend who was an (American) Professor of Anthropology, a huge sci fi fan, and he confessed he didn’t get Who at all. Denis Waterman was famously dismissive. Perhaps he wanted write the them tune/sing the theme tune ala Little Britain.

The most obvious parallel for Star Wars is D…[Read more]

@winston. glad to hear you are recovering. Do take it easy and make the most of the rest. It is a wonderful opportunity to read and watch things. (and eat pizza 🙂 even listen to some podcasts.

& @dentarthurdent and @ps1l0v3y0u (see if I get it right this time..) and @dwnerdfrommars

I had stopped watching Dr Who by the Baker2 years and feel…[Read more]

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6 (and Nichola Bryant) undoubtedly copped the worst excesses of Nathan Turner and Saward. Not that 5 didn’t also suffer: The Myrka; Turlough going crazy; Anthony Ainley going crazy; the correct way to milk a giant bat…

But Nathan Turner’s sartorial sensibilities were as nothing compared to Sawar…[Read more]

@dwnerdfrommars Thank you for the well wishes. I am doing Ok although I don’t like sitting or lying around all the time. I feel like Jabba the Hut lying around waiting for someone to come feed me. Maybe they will bring me a pizza with pineapple on it. (I love it)

I do agree with you and @ps1l0v3y0u about the 6th Doctor. The silly costume didn’t…[Read more]

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Pineapple? Hmmm.

NOT mmmm!

Colin Baker… pretty much the same. Hilarity was there to be had: Varos, 2 Doctors (controversial I know), Revelation, even the weird and not that wonderful Timelash. Also the mindboggling Mindwarp.

You have to remember the welcome contrast between the second Baker and the Davison ‘surrender mon…[Read more]

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<p style=”text-align: left;”>Do you mean The Giggler or Church on Ruby Road?</p>
Go to ‘forums’; it’s all there.

Either way… THE HAND gets many mentions. Waiting for the meme with said HAND and the spoken words: ‘that’s the spirit Thing, lend a hand…’

Otherwise… the Goblin Song got a lot of thum…[Read more]

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THE HAND… reference to Last of The Time Lords… the means via which John Simm resurrected himself. I hope RTD doesn’t revisit that… it was in the worst possible taste, if not quite as bad as Anthony Ainley’s most extreme scenery chewing.

You will notice there is no wheelchair evident in the preceding shots…

T…[Read more]

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When I was growing up in the 70s I listened to the Carpenters and I think Karen had a beautiful mellow voice and could sing anything and everything. They were not popular with my Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and Alice Cooper loving friends because they were far too cool for “silly love songs” but they didn’t know…[Read more]

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To say the 70’s was the decade that taste forgot is ridiculous. But, musically, there was dross of the direst ilk. Was there more dross inflicted in the eighties? Could be. Did the sixties struggle against tinpan ally and an audience of old gits whose only desire was to shove Englebert Humperdink where The Beatles a…[Read more]

@dwnerdfrommars Karen and Richard suffered from an image problem, especially in the United States. The image was largely manufactured by their record company, A&M, who recognized a cash cow when they saw it and wanted to keep the middle class money rolling in. So the PR department really laid it on thick, when it came to describing the “wholesome”…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @dwnerdfrommars

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]

@dwnerdfrommars That brief scene was a visual nod to the ‘butterfly effect’ – the concept that (originally) a butterfly flapping its wings could lead to a tornado some time later. This was coined by Edward Lorenz, a meteorologist who was trying to model the weather mathematically and found that, for some determinate systems, a minute change in…[Read more]