@janetteb  @dentarthurdent   @ps1l0v3y0u         The fear and menace was as thick as butter in this one. There is something behind you, no don’t turn around ,don’t look! Wait, what? What is behind me? We don’t know but don’t try to find out or it gets angry. I wouldn’t last a minute.

While Midnight was a study in group behaviour under extreme…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u   @janetteb    Definitely my favourite episode since, um, Boom or Wild Blue Yonder.

I’ve just noticed another similarity to Aliens in the plot, in the ‘dropping down to scout a base which has been massacred by some unknown enemy’.  Though I guess it’s a common enough scenario.

Quite aside from ‘let’s take off and nuke the site from…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Then I got to renaming the files and of course, the very last file was – Joy to the World. I hate it when that happens!

Annoying. You could rename it Episode 0, after all it worked with the Laws of Thermodynamics 🙂

And adding @janetteb

Continuity? Main approach seems to be not to bother / ignore past events if you have a (…[Read more]

@janetteb Agreed. Yes, ensuring continuity would be a full-time job (or a nightmare, depending how you look at it) with a long-running series with dozens of writers like Dr Who. I suspect the timeline is so convoluted by now that I’m not sure any writer could be expected to know it all, even absent inconsistencies. (And Chibs’ cavalier attitude to…[Read more]

@whohar @janetteb

I’m 4 eps in series on 1. The ratings are stellar, especially for the ‘repetitive’ series 2. I really do prefer Severance though… so far.

Apparently they were working on a film treatment for Wool but then streaming came along. There are obvious and maybe superficial echoes of Doctor Strangelove, THX 1138, Boy and His Dog, Lo…[Read more]

@janetteb

I could be wrong but I think the Rani implied the infertility was caused by the Death Particle Event  when it was released as some kind of secondary effect thus ensuring the supposed death of the Timelord race so the continuity was actually preserved as up until that point they could have children it’s just that any Timelord that ma…[Read more]

@janetteb

I’m also watching Andor – about 2 eps in (similarly slow in watching things). Apparently, there are three lots of three eps, each representing a year, so three years in total. It does pick up from where Season 1 left off.

Would recommend watching this season and then Rogue One afterwards (if you’ve not already seen it).

@dentarthurdent @whohar @nerys @translatorcircuit @janetteb

Midnight… you can call it a bottle episode or whatever. It was well done. Love a bit of paranoia. The only problem might be the stewardess’ sacrifice.  Hope the blue ray’s work @dentarthurdent !

RTD best ep? Turn Left and Love and Monsters (ha ha), the Dalek/Cyberman face-off in Doomsda…[Read more]

@nerys I agree with your observations on Midnight. Possibly the best episode RTD wrote, or at least up there with his best.

@ps1l0v3y0u I’d agree that Season 4 was generally pretty good. I wouldn’t rate it the best season, I reckon 6 or 7 would beat it, but not by a lot, and most seasons have a range of quality. How does one rate seasons anyway,…[Read more]

@TranslatorCircuit Just shows how radically opinions can differ. You call Midnight crap, I think it was one of RTD’s best, and all the better for being a bottle episode. Being stuck in the ‘bus’ with unknown noises going on where nothing should be alive, really made for tension and suspense. And I loved the irony that the stewardess, who…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave     I also think it could be awhile before we see the Doctor back on TV. I really hope that doesn’t happen because I’m not getting any younger.  If there is one thing I know about Who fans is that they/me have a lot of patience when it comes to Doctor Who. Some people will move on and maybe never return to the show but I wil…[Read more]

@janetteb I heartily agree about big-budget overkill. I actually felt that about the UNIT tower in the finale of the previous season (Legend of Ruby Sunday / Empire of Death). In fact UNIT should be a businesslike, unobtrusive, un-ostentatious organisation (in my opinion), not trying to look like some mad dictator’s vanity project.
(I must admit I…[Read more]

@janetteb     You are so right. RTD could get so many great story ideas from us. I love Rose, she is the first companion in the first Who I ever watched and I was gutted when she left although happy that she got her own Doctor. Billie Piper could be anyone and I would be pleased.

I just felt that she seemed so happy and saying hello to who? It…[Read more]

@thane16 Hi, thank you! and ish.

Yes the ‘hello’ really struck me. There’s usually a moment of confusion – though not so much I think with Fifteen? But at least, maybe a sense of being newborn. She was more as though she’d stepped through something.

@blenkinsopthebrave – yup, when I thought it, I thought I knew the lot that would appreciate…[Read more]

@janetteb

Agree with your analysis, I think that is exactly what’s happened.

@miapatrick <hello, welcome back> @blenkinsopthebrave

I suggested in an earlier post that Piper might be another version of Idris from The Doctor’s Wife, so similar to your Tardis idea.  I hope this is what pans out on screen as it’s the most palatable option, for me…[Read more]

@janetteb

and it It still doesn’t fully make sense I will watch again, and again

I’d recommend watching The Reality War, as they are basically one story split over two parts; it might provide context (or it might leave you more confused).

@thane16

they didn’t address how the Doctor tortured Kid

I think this was a massive mis-step tbh. I found it…[Read more]

@janetteB “why?”

that’s a great question & an interesting set of ideas, Janette.  I felt the same.

For me, the brilliant colourising of the set & cinematography didn’t leave me with a feeling of disquiet?  Had this world of doubt, created by Conrad’s Wish, used a different tone where everything was still 2025 but without the ‘50s particular co…[Read more]

@devilishrobby

please tell me that this article is not serious

If in doubt, google The Onion 😉

@janetteb

I proposed that it might be time to set up a kind of Writers Room rather than leaving the creative decisions entirely with one show runner

I can see your point, and I know that this method has produced many highly successful American shows,…[Read more]

@everybody 🙂 Well we all seem to be broadly unanimous about Chibs’s tenure.

Re @ps1l0v3y0u ‘s comment ‘The theory that a Ladydoc shouldn’t in anyway ape a ‘blokedoc’ is not necessarily unsound.’ Decoding that (with respect, sometimes your comments are a little – cryptic or convoluted) – I agree – as far as that goes. Going further, each Docto…[Read more]

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