• HTPBDET commented on the post, Running the Show – RTD v SM

    @Shazzbot

    HTPBDETย sort of nailed the โ€˜arcโ€™ differences between the two eras, but there are plenty more themes to tease out between these two very different showrunners.

    I have been meaning to say for a while […]

  • @ScaryB

    I was chanelling SM…and so changed the rules… ๐Ÿ™‚

    I personally don’t see the introduction of companions’ familes as defining for Doctor Who although obviously it is defining for RTD’s era.

    If […]

  • HTPBDET replied to the topic On the Sofa (part 2)

    If it matters, I would watch Ghostlight in preference to Greatest Show in the Galaxy

  • HTPBDET replied to the topic On the Sofa (part 2)

    @Arkleseizure

    I think the thing about Invasion setting up the Pertwee is simply that it introduces UNIT and the notion of the Doctor working together with UNIT to repel alien threats.

    War Machines is […]

  • HTPBDET replied to the topic Spoilers

    SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

  • WENG: Give me that key and I will spare her life.
    DOCTOR: Never trust a man with dirty fingernails.
    WENG: You can trust me to kill her if you do not immediately put it down! Now obey me at once!
    DOCTOR: I […]

  • @JimTheFish

    Yes, the Time War is not in-your-face that often in the Moffat era, but I do feel its shadow, particularly in the Doctor’s desire to not be so in the spotlight, his feeling he has “got too […]

  • HTPBDET replied to the topic Website comments

    Everyone – many thanks, again, for your well wishes. I appreciate the support – enormously.

    x

  • HTPBDET replied to the topic The Rose & Crown

    @TardisBlue – many thanks for your kind words.

  • HTPBDET replied to the topic On the Sofa (part 2)

    @JimTheFish

    Totally agree.

    Cusick really is the unsung champion. The Daleks would be nothing without him.

    In my view it is closer to 98% Cusick and 2% Nation…

    ๐Ÿ™‚

  • @ScaryB and I were discussing the moments/things/concepts/characters that that have changed the course of Doctor Who since Unearthly Child . At the command of @Shazzbot, I have converted that discussion into a […]

  • HTPBDET replied to the topic On the Sofa (part 2)

    @JimTheFish

    They look like Cusick designs – there is a real feel of Chumblies and Mechanoids about them.

    Very interesting.

  • HTPBDET commented on the post, Running the Show – RTD v SM

    @Shazzbot

    I am so bored, I have created a blog post if you decide that is the way to go.

    I await your commands!

    And please delete this post either way.

     

    ๐Ÿ™‚

  • HTPBDET commented on the post, Running the Show – RTD v SM

    @ScaryB

    Well, the Time Lords are not a kindly race – so the idea that lower beings were used a receptacles for new bodies, when required, while ghastly, seemed like a possibility for a race that would sit back […]

  • HTPBDET replied to the topic On the Sofa (part 2)

    @Craig

    No problem – feel free to delete my posts.

    I just wasn’t sure if he/she was a young ‘un that’s all…but you are much better at this stuff than me.

    @wolfweed

    Thanks for those links!

  • HTPBDET commented on the post, Running the Show – RTD v SM

    @JimTheFish

    Yes, BBC Worldwide insisted on the remake of the Daleks for Victory – and I think that was such a disaster they have largely kept out of it since…

    But from JNT onwards this reverence to the […]

  • HTPBDET replied to the topic On the Sofa (part 2)

    @doctor4

    Ah…well, that explains a lot.

    Its probably quite hard to understand the magic of regeneration without at least watching the final episode of each Doctor, to get a good idea of context. I’d […]

  • HTPBDET replied to the topic On the Sofa (part 2)

    @doctor4

    Actually, the second Doctor is not in the TARDIS when he regenerates. The Time Lords force his regeneration on Gallifrey as a punishment. So his is a very different process from the first or the one […]

  • HTPBDET replied to the topic On the Sofa (part 2)

    @doctor4

    Well, its good that you recognise that the other regenerations we have seen make it unlikely that Tennant’s was the cause of the TARDIS crashing.

    Indeed, when the first regeneration occurred, when […]

  • HTPBDET replied to the topic On the Sofa (part 2)

    @doctor4

    Hello.

    Why do you think that Tennant’s regeneration was what “full out wrecked the TARDIS”?

    Its an interesting thought – but we might all be better off if you tell us why you think it was the […]

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