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@whohar Thank you for the update. I did worry that they might be the people that decided on the infamous i-daleks.

cheers

Janette

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@dentarthurdent, @ps1l0v3y0u and @whohar

I am reading the T.P books from the beginning. Half way through now. Death is one of the best characters but htey are all gold. I think if I have a preference, and it is only by a smidgen, it would be for the witches. Granny Weatherwax, Nanny Ogg and of course the fabulous Greebo.

The tv adaptation of Hogfather was my introduction to Pratchett. I rewatch it most Decembers. Going Postal is also very good. I enjoyed the animation of Maurice. Apparently there is a second film in production.

And back to Who.. the Clara light episodes are a classic case of necessity combined with imaginative brilliance resulting in excellence. (akin to the coconuts in Holy Grail. It would not have been such a memorable movie had they been able to afford horses.)

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Janette

 

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@dentarthurdent I am still working through my first read of Pratchett. I recently picked up more books so now have only three to go to complete the series. I am currently on Jingo. Pratchett has that english style of writing, a tradition that really seems unique to the U.K and certainly influences Dr Who, especially Moffat.

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Janette

 

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@ps1l0v3y0u I really enjoyed The Other Bennet Sister too. there were some jarring modern lines and sensibilities and costumes were hit and miss but overall it was a delight.

I have only watched one series of Slow Horses as yet. The remainder is on my “too watch” list. I am not sure I will get around to Silo. too much to catch up on. I have the same problem with “For all Mankind” though I am going to give the spin off series a try. Anna Maxwell Martin is always excellent.

I will look for the Chris Packham series. Sounds promising.

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Janette

 

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thank you for the link @whohar I was just thinking earlier about how universally loved Dr Who is. I was in a shop yesterday when the s.o rang to find where I was and the assistant immediately smiled at the ring tone and we started talking about Dr Who. Prior to the reboot that would not have happened, not in Australia anyway.

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Janette

 

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@whohar Right now I am not watching anything because the laptop I watch stuff on in the mornings is out of order and at night I am too busy working, writing and editing podcasts. Earlier this year I caught up with Ludwig which I really enjoyed and Derry Girls which was entertaining. (Took a while I know.) followed by How to Get to Heaven from Belfast which was ok but did not enjoy as much. With the S.O we watched Night of the Seven Kingdoms which was good in a GOT kind of way. (was never a fan of GOT) the best thing we watched this year has been Small Prophets. (currently on ABC i view) I am editing a podcast with a friend who just watched it and she immediately mentioned the buckets.

I want to watch Widow’s Bay but not sure if I should wait to watch it with the S.O or watch it alone. He is very particular about what he watches.

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Janette

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@winston and all Canadians, I most humbly apologise. The American movie.

@nerys and @dentarthurdent. Not all fans are talented but those that are usually have the feel for the show which non fans might miss. There are of course exceptions. One problem I think with recent Who is the developers were trying to be more “american” to compete with the U.S. market but they were forgetting what makes Who unique and most likely what makes it appealing in the U.S. as elsewhere. Keeping the feel of the show, it’s warmth, humour and a quality that comes from low budget that so many British productions have will make it far more successful than all the glitzy special effects and action. The best episodes in the last few series were not those with the big budget on show. I hope the BBC are now of the same mind. After all it was on good scripts, acting and production that they built their reputation in the first place. (though Old Who might only have ticked two of those and then only some of the time.)

Maybe they need Mackenzie Crook to take over as show-runner, once he has done another series or two of Small Prophets of course.

cheers

Janette

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@winston @nerys @blenskinsopthebrave Happy Canada Day. I think the world could be ruled by many worse countries. (and probably currently is)

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Janette

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@dentarthurdent & @whohar I disliked the movie when I watched it back in the 90s but rewatching it, I found it even worse than expected. yes it was very 90s American TV but it wasn’t even good at being that. The script was woeful, the directing was woeful and the acting was woeful. McGann is a good actor, was a good actor then but that is not evident in the movie. We showed “Night of the Doctor” immediately after and that got reactions. He IS the Doctor from the first line. It shows what a difference good scripts and directing makes to an actor.

My eldest listens to a lot of Big Finish and agrees that McGann and Colin B are both excellent in the audio adventures. I too should listen to more.

I am hopeful that the people who were talking about reviving Blake’s Seven might put their hands up to take on Who. As you say whohar, it was fans who revived Who last time. Other franchises work the same way, it is fans taking over who breathe fresh life in while maintaining the integrity of the show etc. However it was supposedly a fan who directed the Canadian film and that was a fiasco. So maybe not always…

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Janette

 

 

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@nerys I smiled too when I saw that heading. It is a reminder of just how embedded in U.K. culture the Doctor now is. As the companion in Curse of Fatal Death says, the Doctor can’t die, they are too iconic. (we recently watched CoFD for a podcast, and it was generally well received. Yesterday we did the 90s movie which went down like a lead balloon as as the youngest member of the group observed, like a soft drink that has been left open for a year.

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Janette

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@dentarthurdent. Have not rewatched any of this series so commenting from memory but I recall this episode as being rather confused. I agree that the UNIT stories have not been great which is a shame as I liked Kate L-S and the early UNIt stories were very good. I think perhaps UNIT have got too big, too well funded and not so well written, rather like the series itself.

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Janette

 

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@ps1l0v3y0u I do like arcs but they have not always “landed” well. I am perhaps thinking mostly of the two most recent series. RTD’s promise to make it “bigger and better” always made me groan. In trying to outdo himself he often “overdid” the drama, ramped it up to the point of silliness. There were too many universe ending threats. Moffat did sensibly step back on that a little but sometimes his arc were overly tangled, Name of the Doctor for instance. Still I would watch Name of the Doctor again (every December in fact) but doubt I will ever watch the recent two series enders again. I would not like to see the series return to “the good old days” of stand alone stories. The lack of arc or continuity was one of, perhaps only, real objection to old Who. I would like to see more continuity. Moffat and RTD both have demonstrated how to pick up on old story elements and use them to advantage, to enrich present stories. One does not need to have watched old Who to appreciate references to the older stories if it is well written.

I feel that the BBC is currently walking through a mine field and don’t know where to tread. Being too timid however won’t save them though I don’t know what will. these are perilous times indeed.

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Janette

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@nerys Story arcs in Dr Who have been a mixed blessing. I like a story arc but I think they made them too important, some small narratives threads linking episodes, the odd little mystery to keep fans, (like us), guessing and theorising are fun and add depth but they had to make the end reveal too big, to noisy to flashy and that always fell flat. Even Moffat’s arc endings were often a bit disappointing. Maybe we were having too much fun theorising beforehand. It is a delicate balancing act and I don’t think RTD ever pulled it off, well maybe not after his first series with Eccleston which did deliver at the end. Both RTD and Moffat were best at the one off episodes, the “little” stories, and in the most recent two series it has been the single episodes that have worked.

As for the tender, I keep thinking of those guys who were talking about reviving Blake’s 7. they said some very sound things about Dr Who. I hope that they put their hands up for the job.

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Janette

 

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and the reason I came to this page was to share this  An insightful article by Martin Belam

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Janette

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@whohar I like that idea. I did write a draft of a story about J.W Doctor meeting up with Ian and introducing Alfred Enoch as Ian and Barbara’s grandson and potentially a new companion some years ago. I also had some convoluted theories to explain the Danny/Orson conundrum. I think though the challenge now is to explain who Billie Piper is and to develop a new story that unties some of the narrative knots that RTD has left behind. (unwillingly I am certain.) (I might work on it while I am on holidays in two months time.)

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Janette

 

 

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@whohar it does sound like RTD bravado. I do suspect a falling out.”Creative differences” is the euphemism generally used I think. I hope that, whoever takes over, the fine work done by AG writers is not forgotten and RTD and Moffat get to pen the odd episode. they were both at their best when writing one offs. It was the big bang series endings that were always their undoing. New ideas could save the show, or sink it entirely. I just hope the BBC chose well. I hope they know what to look for.

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Janette

 

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@ubik beat me too it.. (And welcome.) It isn’t too much of a surprise. I hope that the emphasis going forward will be on good writing rather than expensive flashy special effects. I would prefer wobbly sets and bubble wrap monsters if the stories are good. (Well maybe not bubble wrap. that looked silly back in the day.) I just hope that the BBC have learnt that bigger is not always better.

fingers crossed for the future, a fresh start, fresh ideas but our Doctor at the heart of it all, and that ridiculous blue box, taking us on adventures, giving us hope, or at least some respite from despair.

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Janette

 

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@dentarthurdent

You did not include the food in your list of uncool things from the fifties, the boil it until it is reduced to mush cooking style. I grew up in the 60s but it was still the 50s culturally and so I fully concur. The 50s look cool now, to those who were not there.

Funny reading my previous post on this thread. I had forgotten that there was anything good about this episode. I might rewatch bits of it but the comic come to life aspect I dislike and that is all I am left with one year on.

A Dr Who episode addressing McCarthyism, that could be good, depending of course on how it was handled.

cheers

Janette

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@dentarthurdent

I had forgotten this story. It was well written and very tense. I must rewatch it. thank you for doing these reviews. Always good to revisit these threads.

I agree with you re’ Star Trek. I felt very much the same way about it.

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Janette

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@whohar Sounds promising. He is surely busy right now with a new series out so maybe Dr Who has been pushed to the back burner for a bit. Fingers crossed for news.

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Janette

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@whohar now that sounds unfair to the Doctor…  and as you say he is already in an alt universe. Though that seems to be hit and miss story wise. ie not sure all the writers got the memo.

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Janette

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@whohar It makes sense because I feel as though there is a currently a fundamental problem with a story about an alien who saves earth over and over; where are they? Why isn’t the Doctor stopping Global Warming, doing something about inequality, about the hideous wars, the abuses of human rights, the undermining of democracy, the whole damned mess He isn’t addressing any of it. I think this became more apparent in stories located in the “here and now”. It made the Doctor seem a bit pointless. They can fix big problems, why aren’t they? Slipping off into an alternative universe avoids that trap. After all we do need the Doctor, to give us hope, or at least, the illusion of it.

cheers

Janette

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@dentarthurdent I think the less knowledge one has of being in ICU the better. I unfortunately spent almost three weeks in one and that episodes did bring back memories for me, of the sense of being incapacitated, of being utterly trapped and isolated from the the world and the loneliness. It was fairly nightmarish especially given the various wires and tubes and throbbing machines, Our eldest fainted when he first came to visit. Certainly the awareness that one is being cared for helps but take that knowledge away and leave only the nightmare elements and you have the basis of a good horror setting, add a layer of callous brutality and cruelty and you have a deeply disturbing story. Moffat does it very very well.

I think to be trapped in a hospital, as Bill was, would be nightmarish too.

On a different note  I always wonder if the resemblance of the Master in the hospital to the character, Zathras in B.5. was accidental or deliberate. Either way it worked very well.

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Janette

 

 

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That scene in the hospital so perfectly captured the horror of being an ICU patient, the sense of being trapped in a nightmare world, of not knowing if you ever going to walk out again, and being entirely isolated from the real world and one’s old life. Even the best are frightening alienating places. Moffat captures that and adds another level of horror to it. One of the great episodes of AGWho.

Cheers

Janette

(apologies for not adding names. there were too many and it is late here. Been a long day but @everyone. Have been enjoying the discussion. )

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@whohar I thought also that the anniversary of the screening of New Earth is hardly celebration worthy so here must be something more going on. I would be very happy if it is an announcement regarding more lost episodes.

I don’t recall New Earth being a particularly good episode but then I was not a fan of most of that series.

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Janette

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I read somewhere a week or so ago that  there is going to be an anniversary special screening tomorrow night, on BBC 4 I think. It is to mark the 20th Anniversary of the first screening of New Earth which seems rather odd to me. I wonder if that is just a cover for an announcement?

@ps1l0v3y0u We got lucky with our last state election. there was an alarming surge of votes for the far right party which is essentially the Gina Rinehart party but fortunately they only actually got four seats, still four too many but it does not bode well for the future or do much for one’s faith in humanity.

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Janette

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@winston the maple syrup sounds lovely. I always think of you when I buy it in a little bottle from the supermarket. so much nicer to make one’s own. I miss snow. I think that is why I like to watch tv series set in the Arctic or Antarctic.

@dentarthurdent fingers crossed for you here too.

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Janette

 

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@dentarthurdent talking of weather, I just saw that a cyclone is heading your way. Hope you are all ok.

We have been getting a lot of rain here, unusual for April. Our river, which cuts through the centre of town, has started flowing which is always lovely to see.

cheers

Janette

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@winston I loved spring when we were in Sweden. Crocuses were the first sign of life to emerge from the frozen soil. I have photos of them peeking through snow. We were renting and the garden was deeply buried in snow when we moved in and so it was a daily discovery of new flowers and plants all through the spring. Maria, the owner, who had just moved out, clearly had similar taste in plants and colours to me. I felt a little guilty, enjoying the garden that she had clearly put so much work and love into.

Spring here is nice because everything is still green and the weather is kind but it is not magical like Spring in colder climates.

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Janette

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@dentarthurdent, I agree with you, the cloud is giving someone else your stuff to mind or otherwise. I also like to manage my own back ups. I have several, one on a desktop hard-drive, one on a portable that I carry everywhere with me, and a few old back ups in the sideboard.

I also have doubled up on my op shop dvd purchases. I keep thinking I should go through my collection and donate the duplicates back but they are on the top shelf of the bookcase and I require a chair to reach them.

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Janette

 

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@ps1l0v3y0u and @dentarthurdent Oh damn. Torchwood is now twenty years old. I am part of a podcast that reviews cult tv from 20 years ago and before. I have been bringing an episode of Dr Who to the table every year, one from each Doctor and this year we are doing the film, (yuck) and to make up for it I am going to introduce “Curse of Fatal Death” in November. Which means next year I am going to have to do Torchwood. I never liked Torchwood. I liked the concept, liked the characters, though I agree, Barrowman is best in small doses, but the rest of the team had potential. it did not work out. Maybe in part due to RTD trying to be too “adult” and not getting what that means, and Chibnell.

On the plus side Sarah Jane Adventures hits the 20 year anniversary next year so we can do that the following year.

dentarthurdent I think the idea that people can own their own media is fast disappearing. We are supposed to just consume but not to have any kind of agency over how and what we consume. I am always buying DVDs from opp shops, even if I have a version of the tv series/film because I like to own them, just as I like to own books. I don’t borrow books so guess streaming to me is the same. I appreciate that it exists just as I actively support our local library but I prefer to own my own library.

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Janette

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@dentarthurdent Yes It does seem like they are throwing all the old companions into UNIT as a way of bringing them back. It feels very contrived. I also don’t like the corporate feel of UNIT> the office under the tower of London was real style. Not the shiny Marvel style glass towers. there seems to be an inverse relationship between budget and character.

Joy the the World was a delightful episode with emphasis on story as one would expect from Moffat. Joy (Nicola Coglan) was also delightful

and thank you for breaking the silence. I check every day but don’t have much to post about. the possums are still eating my garden. I have seen that they are a problem in N.Z. like any invasive species.I can’t imagine why anyone ever thought it was a good idea to take them there in the first place.

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Janette.

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A story about watching Dr Who this time which made me smile.

@blenkinsopthebrave. I have not heard of that one. Will have to look it up. there is something magical about old cinemas. Are there any extant episodes?

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Janette

 

 

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Talking of Possums I thought this might bring a much needed smile to the face.

Hope everyone is getting by. I do sometimes wonder, where the hell is the Doctor Why aren’t they here right now.

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Janette

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I just googled to see if there was any news about Dr Who and found this just “breaking”. Not what I was looking for but a very nice surprise. Hopefully it will be possible to see these two episodes at some future time.

@ps1l0v3y0u I think of it more as “possum” noises. (Maybe because we hear of a lot of the latter. Had one snarling at the cat the other night, through the font door. they sound demonic.

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Janette

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@winston wonderful news. You are very fortunate and I hope that the future for the wee lad will be a happy one. We do all need to keep up the fight to make it better, hard though it is.

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Janette

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@nerys there are some pretty ropey special effects though good for their time, some woeful filler stories and dodgy acting from minor characters but the main arc and man characters are so good. It certainly has its faults but when is is good it really is “good”. JMS was also a Who fan and apparently wanted to get Tom Baker to do a “guest” appearance. He really pioneered the story arc in U.S. television. It just wasn’t done before the 90s especially in si fi.

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Janette

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@nerys I hope you are enjoying it. Our eldest started showing it to his gf. She was not initially impressed but it has grown on her. I watched it when it first aired. would sit up to late to record it on VHS and cut out the adds. It is part of the family culture, as much as Who and Blake’s 7.

@dentarthurdent. I don’t think I have even watched the later series. I certainly don’t remember seeing the Liberator destroyed. I suspect I ditched out shortly after Gareth Thomas did. I felt the show lost direction after that so I guess I am only half a fan.

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Janette

 

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@ps1l0v3y0u Avon was a “crook”. they were all convicts being sent to a penal colony only Blake was falsely accused. don’t remember Avon’s crime. It was something corporate I suspect.

@dentarthurdent I agree that a “re-imagining” would be preferable to a remake, or a sequel. Blake’s daughter or son take up the rebel mantel. get a gang together, find the liberator. Have to have the liberator it was character in its own right, with Orac and Zen. Or maybe just Orac. Zen was a but painful.

A few years ago now, J.M.S. tried to do a re-imagining of Babylon 5. ( B.5 was originally inspired in part by Blake’s 7 incidentally.) It did not get off the ground. He recognised however that any attempt to ‘re do” the series needed new characters for new actors and a fresh take on the story. He wasn’t going far enough with that however, trying to just do a time reset and I don’t think it would have worked.

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Janette

 

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@whohar And who would play Servalan? That’s key. I’d go with Ruth Wilson (who’d also make a great Doc btw)

 

Excellent suggestions.

Reading the article I have hopes that if they do get funding etc they will do a good job. It won’t, can’t should not be the same but as you say the reboot of DR Who kept the important elements while giving it a contemporary feel. I was also thinking while reading the article that they might just have the right approach to DR Who as well.  Hoar did direct some Dr Who episodes.
I also liked that they compared Blakes 7 to Andor. There are similiar themes but I felt that Blake’s 7 lost the original vision a little. Andor followed that through to deliver a message that was accidentally well timed. (given that writing and production would have happened before TrumpII era.) Blake’s 7 started out with a political concept that would certainly chime well today. (before it became Avon’s gang in space)
And I love the models even if at times they are very wobbly. We watch a lot of old sci fi for Cult TV Club and it is generally agreed that the shows using models have aged better than early use of cgi. It is the same with the original Star Wars movies. The special effects hold up much better than the dodgy but expensive cgi of the following prequel trilogy.
And lastly, this is a long post but,, I loved Blake’s 7 when I was a teen. Watched it when it first aired on ABC. Bought the novelisations. Even have a couple of sci fi mags that featured it. (never let it be said that I am not a sucker for merchandise) We of course introduced it to our sons when they were growing up as well. I would love to see a good “reboot”. fingers crossed.
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Janette

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@mudlark. Good to hear from you but sorry to hear about your friend, (and the health issues. I hope they are all in hand.) Your story about the kettle made me smile. Back in 1983 my friend and I, newly arrived in London, bought a kettle. We had no idea of how to attach the plug. In Australia appliances always came with plugs attached. We were sitting down in the basement kitchen in the guest house where we worked trying to put it together. the Polish porter/doorman, who had not spoken a word in our hearing since we started working there was watching. fortunately, for he took the kettle from us in silence and fixed the wiring otherwise we might have shorted out Bloomsbury. We later found out that he spoke very fluent English having studied at London University and had many an interesting discussion with him.

The dig sounds interesting and that must be quite a report. I would love to re-visit Winchester. When I was last there was prior to my interest in the Anglo Saxon period.

@thane16 we have been spared bushfires this time around. I hope that @whohar is also ok in that regard. We did have one 46c day but remarkably the garden survived the heat, maybe not the possoms however.

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Janette

 

 

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Happy New Year all. Best wishes for the year ahead.

@thane16 Lovely to hear from you.

@nerys and @dentarthurdent I share your distrust of cloud storage. I have multiple hard drives, one backup I carry with me, one is in a sideboard. I once had two backup hard-drives in my laptop bag which was stolen. Have also lost hard drives so I no longer rely upon a single back up.

My camera is now a bit antique. A canon eos 60 D from 2012. I would like to get a Sony as I still have my old Minolta lens’s and would love to be able to use them as they are good quality. Second son just bought himself a Olympus OM5 mirror-less for christmas. It is a nice little camera and very portable. I am quite envious but also happy that finally one of the family has caught the photography bug.

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Janette

 

 

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@dentarthurdent that is impressive and requires dedication. My filing system is more akin to @nerys. I store all my images in folders roughly dated. No details attached. I have photos of places which I have forgotten the name of. Recently I made up a slide show for our eldest as a 30th gift. (it was started as an 18th gift so has taken a fair while and is still “a work in progress”, but his party got deferred so I have a short reprieve. Getting the photos in order has been bit of a nightmare especially those taken from film. At least the digital shots have dates but I did not “go digital” until 2004 so a lot of guess work was involved. At least it will be easier for the younger sons.

I am envious of your Trans Siberean photos. The partner and I did the trip in 1991, in the last two weeks of the Soviet Union so remarkable time to be there, as history was happening and it really felt like it too, but I had a brought a second hand SLR for the holiday and it rather let me down but even worse we had our baggage stolen from Prague Station and I lost all my photos from the train journey. I have some photos from Moscow onwards.

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Janette

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Every year, despite my best intentions I just never get time to sit down at my laptop and wish everyone here a wonderful yuletide. So this year I thought I would get in early and, as our tech has failed again and we cannot watch The Snowman< I am taking the time to wish everyone a wonderful season, (despite the lack of a Christmas Special).

And now the tech maestro has got the computer working and we have the Snowman starting ..

Merry Yuletide/winter solstice/summer solstice/Christmas/holiday season to all

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Janette

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@ps1l0v3y0u I suspect the writers left because they were under paid, under appreciated and better jobs were on offer. also back in teh old days there wasn’t the love for the show that there is now and keeps writers like Moff and RTD on the hook. they grew up loving the show.

speaking of RTD, I was wondering if anyone has watched The War Between the Land and the Sea yet? Guardian gave it three stars but not a great review.

Meanwhile we are not doing our annual seasonal re watch of the Christmas Specials.Just watched what I refer to as “the giant stompy robot story”. I will be skipping the End of Time specials. Found them pretty unwatchable so now to some Moff christmassy goodness.

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Janette

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@nerys. We have or had the video of Curse of Fatal Death. I am going to be bringing it to our Cult TV podcast next year. I really enjoyed it and it is interesting to watch now post Moffat because there are so many of his ideas in there. At the end of our original recording there was an interview with Moffat and he was asked if he would work on Dr Who were it ever to be revived and his eyes lit up. You could see the love in his face. It made me very happy when Dr Who was revived and he was such a big part of it.  (that reminds me that I have a podcast about McCoy to edit. So much to do, so little time.I wish I could borrow a time machine right now.)

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Janette

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@nerys and @dentarthurdent Agreed it is a very well written episode that plays very effectively with the contrast between the light and bubbly surface and underlying darkness.  RTD at his best. I also feel that he was establishing something here or attempting to; the Doctor’s sense of betrayal and anger with human flaws.

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Janette

 

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@ps1l0v3y0u In Oz the public broadcaster, (ABC) is purely government funded which I guess is a mixed blessing. Not dependant upon a drying up license fee but instead are subject to government whims and the malice of one side of politics who dislike anyone who dares criticise them and equate truth to bias. (it is universal sadly)

Back in the day the ABC were a force to be reckoned with, despite having a very small budget compared to the BBC. They nurtured original talent, had government changing current affairs, excellent docos and managed make some good tv series not to mention showing the cream of BBC and ITV and giving us a winter of Doctor Who including endless repeats every year. We were fortunate. They are teetering on the perch now sadly. Like libraries public broadcasters need to change to survive but they are just as essential to a robust culture.

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@ps1l0v3y0u re the corset, women did wear corsets in the Regency period but not the tight lacing variety that most people think of when they think corsets. In fact tight lacing only became a thing after the introduction of metal grommets in the mid 19th century. Before that a corset was basically the female undergarment/support. It was the bra of the time. there was a degree of body shaping involved but not requiring the kind of gruesome lacing that we see in films like Pirates of the Caribbean. that simply could not have happened then (on historical costume sites there are frequent discussions about corsets, how they changed over time and how they should be worn. According to some costume people a properly fitted corset is not uncomfortable to wear.)

& @nerys What did annoy me was when the Doctor was in a historical setting and nobody commented on the way she was dressed. Companions certainly got comments. WE have just watched Ghost Light where Ace’s attire is remarked upon and she has to dress according to the period. N.G. Doctor did dress for the time and his appearance was remarked upon. The Tardis conveys a language translation filter but not a perception one as far as I know. The chibnell era implied that it did without ever saying so.

J.W. also could have done with better companions. I just hope that we will see more female doctors in the future.

Cheers

Janette

 

[janetteB @replies]

@ps1l0v3y0u that is an interesting theory and digs deep into the vault of Who canon. Image of the Fendahl is another episode I should rewatch. those were really golden years for Old Who.

Cheers

Janette

 

 

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