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@blenkinsopthebrave. That is very Red Dwarf. The Ouroboros episode where Lister becomes his own father.

Another random speculation, is Ruby the Doctor’s mother. Now that I would hate. In some way Ruby is the opposite of Clara who is a “perfectly normal girl”, with parents, anchored in reality, who does something to make her extraordinary. Ruby appears to be just a very standard, “normal” girl, but the mystery of her birth suggests something very different.  I tend to favour the suggestion that she is more “sister” to the doctor, if it turns out she is not human as @ps1l0v3y0u suggests. I think the “last of his kind” may be about to be overturned. That was the defining line of RTD’s first run and carried through the Moffat years even though he did manage to save Gallifrey, he did so in a way that meant he was still the only one of his kind in the known universe with the exception of Missy who is always the exception. Everything seems to be implying that there is another time lord like intelligence at work in the universe akin to the Mind Robber, or the Meddling Monk.

Cheers

Janette

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@devilishrobby Best wishes for a speedy recovery and I hope that you get lots of time to watch Who.

@craig. Thank you for sharing that. Your wife was indeed inspiring.

@mudlark. I loved your description of the ring. An example of how “provenance” gives meaning to an object. The S/O and I didn’t bother with rings, not having bothered with the ceremonies they symobilise but his aunt gave me her engagement ring and her grandmother’s wedding ring, (probably so I looked respectable) and they mean a lot to me.

@juniperfish, @mudlark and @thane16 Yes Dark is a superb series. It had a bit of a MOffat feel to it. So much complex timey wimey, but the plot is so perfectly resolved.  I recommend it highly.

Cheers

Janette.

 

 

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Greetings all. Finally watched the ep and able join the party.

A few random thoughts. Lots of questions, lots and lots of questions. We have talked about it for at least as long as we were watching. Was the woman in white Ruby? What was it she said to people? My theory is she sort of mesmerised them with some kind of mind power. Very 70s. Very Omega Factor actually. I loved that kind of supernatural mystery story, especially those that leave things open to interpretation.

Funnily enough it reminds me a little of something I saw as a child that may have been Doctor Who though I have not identified the episode and given I was very young, was watching on a snowy 59s black and white tv and must have “re written” the memory a thousand times since it might by very different to how I think I remember. It involved a white man who had a mesmerising influence over a group of people in some kind of space station with plants in it. I am certain about the plants, and the fear that lasted for years after. I stopped watching tv for a long time after that.

Mrs Flood is still a presence and I think will have some significance. Susan Twist. I still suspect that her only relevance is the name. I keep picturing RTD seeing the name on IMDB and saying, “oh that is perfect. I’m going to use that. It strikes me that she is a clue of hte same kind as the portrait of Lady Hamilton on the wall of the Doctor’s Study when he meets Bill. (the famous Mistress as a clue that Missy is about)

Again the Doctor steps on a butterfly, or the equivalent thereof and history is changed. Ruby aging and in hospital reminds me of Billy in Blink and Clara in Last Christmas.

Minor quibble. We are still getting to know the Doctor and I would prefer the Doctor/Lite episode to be later in the series. I would have liked more Doctor in this one.

I loved the ending, leaving a bit of mystery, because it is magic/supernatural and there are things that a normal human cannot understand. It is all outside our comprehension. We might go mad otherwise, like Ruby’s Mum and Kate.

Cheers

Janette

 

 

 

 

 

 

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@juniperfish. I think there was a hint during the Capdoc era that the master had once had a child, and it seemed then to imply that might have also been the Doctor’s so you might be “one the money” with that theory.

@mudlark. Weather conditions are one of the hardest things I find to research though old papers are full of references to the weather. As soon as I need to know if a particular summer was especially hot and dry or when the rains started in a particular year it gets tricky, not helped by the human propensity to always grumble about the weather, so i give the writers some lee way on this.

Cheers

Janette

 

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First I must confess, I have read all the comments before watching the episode. I have been really looking forward to this, the return of Moffat to Dr Who and it did not disappoint. it was so good, tense, political, and with emotional depth. Ncuti really “aced” it. This is the first time we have seen the depth of his Doctor.  He has so much energy and in this that is all focussed simply on keeping still. Ruby is shaping up to be a very good companion. She reminds me of Clara but I daren’t say that too loudly as some members of the household didn’t like Clara. Also I love Sky Boat Song, and the context was perfect. (only good thing about Outlander was the use of the music at the beginning and that it was inspired by Dr Who.)

Probably digging too deep but Larkin also has a link to 1963. (Claiming it was the year that sex began in Britain)

As with all Moffat episodes, I really need to watch it again.

Was it Villenguard or just a similar name that is mentioned in Doctor Dances or Empty Child? The one that is now a banana plantation?

cheers

Janette

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@whohar just my misreading and perhaps a little dash of wishful thinking. I am not such a fan of 3 either.

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Janette

 

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@mudlark

I guess RTD just thought ‘talking babies running a space station would be a cute idea for an episode’, and wasn’t bothered about the rationale

I am afraid that is probably correct. It is something that always annoys me. A throwaway line is not enough. One has to at least work out how a plot device is possible even if that doesn’t fully make it into the script. If the writer can justify it the reader/viewer should be able to do so too. I have a very critical son who questions every story idea i run past him. and has led to many re-writes. It is a useful process as a writer and one I often suspect that Doctor Who script writers do not subject themselves too. I need to send them Patrick. (who incidentally hated these two episodes because of plot holes.) I am hoping that the next episode will restore his faith.

Cheers

Janette.

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@thane16 Hi. Nice to see you here..

@scaryb I wonder if RTD had that song in mind when he wrote the script. He might have looked into getting rights to it and as that wasn’t viable went with the twist song instead. Possibly the reference at the end, which is the basis of so much of our theorising, is simply a reference to this song.

Cheers

Janette

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@ps1i0v3y0u I agree that Moff did the best Christmas Specials. RTD’s were good but they were very good episodes that happened to take place over Christmas. Moffat’s were “christmassy”.

Thanks @blenkinsopthebrave for the link. @whohar I like the sound of the episodes with UNIT and the second Doctor reference. It might be the Mind Robber who would certainly fit into the general themes of this series thus far.

Cheers

Janette

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@jimthefish

oh, and never mind the methane, the sheer incandescent rage of the NMD broflakes on Twitter/YouTube could probably propel a space station on a five-year voyage….

Yes it makes one suspect that one of the trickster’s brigade has been unleashed on earth and is wrecking havoc and we don’t have the Doctor to save us.

Cheers

Janette

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@mudlark and @ps1l0v3y0u Yes I realised after I posted that the Margaret Lockwood reference was probably a link to the bandit character she played, ie Me. Probably just a nod for fans but may hint that she knows “things” about the Doctor.

cheers

Janette

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@blenkinsopthebrave. I thought that Years and Years was Turn Left without the Doctor. Great series btw. The “something wicked this way comes to remake a caring civilisation in its own wicked image” could be/is a reflection of our world. Only I am not convinced that we have ever been a caring civilisation, but that is me being a cynic. The Doctor shows us what we should be..

IT seems to me that this is an alternative universe, but is it from 1925 or even earlier, do they have gravity or mavity? I have not heard either mentioned in the past two episodes.

Imperfect these first two episodes might have been but they have given us plenty to talk about  and theorise over. Feels like old times.

cheers

Janette

 

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@jimthefish and @scaryb. Thanks for the info. Another reference to Susan. Significant or just RTD throwing us some red herrings and having a laugh at our expense. (I have fingers crossed that this time it really is going to be Susan.)

Cheers

Janette

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@mudlark Agree the babies were creepy. I don’t think the cgi on the faces worked. I would have preferred if they talked a kind of baby language that only the Doctor could understand, given he speaks baby. I didn’t hate the bogeyman as much as I thought I would.

@vickymallard. Bill also panicked about stepping on butterflies so that was a nice touch I thought. I also liked the beginning. The interaction between the Doctor and Ruby really carries the episode. (Makes up for those plot holes pointed out by Mudlark)

cheers

Janette

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@juniperfish. I was thinking that but I also thought that Danny and Orson were Susan’s grandchildren so I tend to look for Susan descendants everywhere.

@scaryb. It was such a good post that I read half the repeat one before I realised.

As to “woke crap” well I welcome a return to the sincere politics of RTDs writing. His writing for Who at least, has a tendency to be “bombastic” but his character development is excellent. I disliked aspects of both episodes, the creepy cgi babies, the music notes, but the characters and dialogue carried me through. It was still enjoyable and the family are all still talking about it today.

On writing that I realised that both episodes are about story and “created realities”. The swirling music notes are very reminiscent of the original magic toymaker or the story teller in The Mind Robber. The snot monster is reminiscent of the creations in Mind Robber.

cheers

Janette

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Just regarding the cost of playing Beatles songs I guess things have changed in the last thirty years because I am sure that Goodnight Sweetheart would not have been paying huge royalties in the 90s.

Wondering if the Margaret Lockwood reference was meaningful but can’t see anything on her IMDB that would suggest any link. The Lady Vanishes?

@miapatrick. Hi nice to see you back. Hope all is well with you. I agree the “music makes us better” concept is questionable. Armies march to music. Ride of the Valkyries springs to mind. Music can be and frequently is misused to manipulate. Buy at least we didn’t have to endure five minutes of moralising about it, so that is a plus.

Family members liked my suggestion that Ruby might be linked to Susan. It is a stretch but it is more than time that we found out what became of Susan and a lot is being made of him being the last timelord. Last time RTD did that it signalled the return of the Master so I am think this time it is signalling either the Rani or Susan..

Cheers

Janette

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@scaryb Thanks for the link to the Radio Times article. Did they chose the actor because of her name, Susan Twist? is the song at the end a sneaky reference to her?

Reference to the Rani and to Susan. I know that I have a bad track record here, always looking for a possible return of Susan but I am theorising again that Susan might be going to make a reappearance finally.

Likewise we might finally have a return to the Rani or is RTD simply teasing, throwing in random references just to fuel our bonkers theorising?

Cheers

Janette

 

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Hi @scaryb Nice to hear from you..and @whohar too.

I am totally not supposed to be here because I have yet to watch the episode. (I like spoilers)We are planning to watch tomorrow.

The snow incident you refer to is at the end of Christmas Invasion. In the following Christmas Special or at last a later one the Doctor sonics fake snow saying one day there really will be snow.

Cheers

Janette

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@dentarthurdent

You must be in a mellow mood indeed. There are good aspects to this episode, speaking from memory as it isn’t one I re watch. I like Yaz’ family and think it a great shame that they were recurring characters. the rest was meh, very meh and not one to appeal to Australians.  I also found the moralising not just heavy handed, Chibs style, but also a bit confused but maybe that is just because I wasn’t paying enough attention or not sympathising with the spiders or relating to the “don’t kill poor harmless spiders” message. (Far too many redbacks and white tails around here for that.)

cheers

Janette.

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@ps1i0v3y0u

I agree with most of your summary of the episodes. I did like Demons of the Punjab in part because it reminded me of a novel which I studied in Post Colonial lit and like that novel I did not feel it needed to comment on the Raj. It was telling a different story. However it wasn’t really Dr Who. It was good but something else. It Takes You Away is probably my favourite episode in the series, despite the weird frog which lets it all down a bit.

@dentarthurdent I also liked Yaz’s family. IT was a shame we never met them again. RTD would have kept them as recurring characters. So would Moffat. It was a missed opportunity. Hated every other aspect of the episode especially the spiders. (Australian.)

Witchfinders was fun and I liked the use of shadow puppetry. It is also one of hte few episodes I remember from series 1 alone with Rosa, Punjab and it takes you.. The rest I have erased from memory. The stories were below par.

Of the following series I think the only ones I would re watch would be Villa Diadati and the one with Jo only her TArdis being in the shape of a police box annoyed me because it stomps on established lore which is that it takes that shape after Doc1 steals it. A little continuity in Dr Who would not go amiss.

@winston I hope the recovery is on track and you are able to make the most of the rest time.

Cheers

Janette

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@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 that I did not miss much. I was biased against C.B because of other roles I had seen him in. He was really good at portraying unpleasant characters. I think he was poorly cast as the Doctor and certainly the production design, direction and script writing did not do him any favours. I considerably softened my view of him after watching The Five-ish Doctors Reboot but I have not gone back and watched those episodes however,,.. however, this year I am introducing a C.B. story to the podcast team and would appreciate advice on which I should pick. I don’t know as yet as to whether I should chose one of the best or the worst.

It is about my turn to bring something really bad to the table. Every year we have one “dud” that we review. Last year it was the Star War’s Holiday Special and I don’t think we will ever do worse than that..

cheers

Janette

 

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@dentarthurdent and @winston I second the MP3 player suggestion. When I was in icu I had four cd’s and listened to them over and over. The music really helped but I also read a lot, all books I was familiar with starting with Pride and Prejudice which made me laugh, I think I owe my life to Mrs Bennett aka Alison Steadman, followed by Lord of the Rings. Audio books would also be good and radio plays if you can get hold of them. Might be a good time to listen to some Big Finish productions.

cheers

Janette

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@winston. Sorry to hear about that. I am wishing you all the luck possible and hope you will be back on your feet soon and in the meantime that you have lots of books to read and Dr Who to watch.

Best wishes

Janette

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@mudlark thanks for sharing that.  Always excited about any scrap of information. I don’t recall just who Sethu’s character was in Andor. All these Star Wars spin offs tend to blur into each other though Andor was the stand out of the pack.

Cheers

Janette.

 

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@winston the “Victorian Library” was my favourite Tardis interior. I do like this one but I certainly wouldn’t want to live in it or record in it. It would be very echoey. A messy house is great for recording. (I have an excuse..) The whiteness does have a kind of 70 futuristic look and the colours improve it a lot. I would like to see a few bookcases though and I do miss the old hatstand.

Cheers

Janette

 

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@dentarthurdent. I will try that. I confess I used to have trouble with your name too, until you pointed out that it was Dent, Arthur Dent. How did not not see that at once?

I enjoyed trying to work out an explanation for Danny?Orson. I love a narrative puzzle, the word equivalent of Mr Squiggle, a reference that probably only Australians of my generation will get. It was a kids tv show where the puppet with a pencil nose would be given a canvas with random “squiggles” on it and they would connect them to make a picture. The trouble is that my explanation for Danny/Orson was so convoluted that I don’t really remember it all now. Must be buried somewhere probably on the Listen thread. Must hunt it down. Something useful to do when I am procrastinating.

cheers

Janette.

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@ps1lOv3yOu (I tried..)

I once came up with a very complicated theory to explain Orson, not as a descendant of Danny’s but his twin brother. There are a few hints that Danny has no family, the orphanage having trouble finding family etc, So my theory, which i have now mostly forgotten was that Danny had time travelled in infancy. He and Orson were descendants of one of the Doctor’s former companions, possibly Susan who is another loose thread. She left the toy solider with Danny and Clara returns it to the Doctor so it is circular.

cheers

Janette

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@dentarthurdent I agree that Bill’s fate was the most tragic. Clara’s fate happened as a result of her own choices, sad yes but Bill’s was as a result of trust betrayed. The Doctor should know better than to promise that he can keep his companions safe. He cannot. The scenes of Bill in the barn are heartbreaking. Nardole in his handling of the situation also acquires a noble dimension. He is so much more than just comic relief.

cheers

Janette

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@blenkinsopthebrave. Now that made my day. I am very happy indeed. Was hoping for just this.

cheers

Janette

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Hi @dentarthurdent. Your swimming sounds lovely. We are a long drive from any good beaches. Mostly to the west of us is mangroves though I believe there are some ok ones heading up the coast a bit. Nothing compared to the magistic wonder of Piha beach however. I loved the beaches we visited on Eyre Peninsula last winter. Too cold for swimming but I took some nice photos which make me happy.

I have not watched any “Who” for a while. We are currently re watching Blackadder. I have to choose an episode for a podcast and as it has been years since we last watched it I thought some research was required. The “monks’ trilogy is one that improves on re watching I find, often the case with Moffat’s scripts. there is always so much to unpick, so many layers that one doesn’t always appreciate on first viewing.

Cheers

Janette

 

 

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@winston thank you the concern. We are thankfully safe from fires here. We have had a relatively cool summer which is odd though I guess we are not getting the cool nights which brings up the average temperature. Weather patterns have changed. It is very dry though. I am getting tired of watering and  I fear we have a long wait for rain.

It sounds as though you have had a very dry winter which does not bode well. Hopefully it will be like our summer, cooler than feared.

We replaced the hard-drive on my laptop and it is working again. This time we bought a ssd which hopefully will less prone to being damaged as there is clearly some problem with the laptop itself. It is so disruptive having to move between machines. it put me behind with so many things.(like posting on here )

Hope everyone is well and enjoying the Spring/Autumn

cheers

Janette

 

 

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@ps1iOv3yOu

You sum up old Who well. Yet I at least, loved it for all that.

@vickymallard

Who scrips definitely have to work for the first time viewer as well as the aged fan. (like myself.) A friend is currently introducing the new stories to her daughter, who refers to them as “old Who”. She is loving it. I don’t think she will ever watch the old stories. The ones she has seen have failed to catch her attention.

Cheers

Janette

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@dentarthurdent. Jackie and Mickey definitely deserve credit for elevating every episode they were in. (Sadly Noel Clarke has somewhat soured things by his behaviour off screen so I am talking of Mickey the character.) Camille Coduri was excellent bringing warmth and humour to the role of Jackie. RTD did so  well with the family background for both Rose and Donna and I think that contributed to the success of both characters. He did not do so well with Martha, maybe because her family had to serve a narrative function but they always felt quite two dimensional in comparison.

It will soon be twenty years since Rose aired. I recall my joy on watching it. After the movie in the nineties I had very low expectations but after watching Rose I knew that Dr Who had been given a new lease of life. It was different from old Who too but in good ways. IT was clear from the start that RTD understood what Dr Who needed to be.

Cheers

Janette

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@translatorcircuit Most of RTD’s companions have only done one series, ie, Martha and Donna so I would not be too concerned. I think the return of RTD heralds a new era for Who or at least that is what BBC is thinking.

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Janette

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Our youngest member of ‘cult Tv Club, (9yrs old) is currently watching through AGWho essentially for the first time and was awed by Blink. I think she was both terrified and loving it. We did a podcast on what we all watched last year and she talked about Dr Who which was great, it it wasn’t me for a change. It was generally agreed that Moffat’s early episodes were his best though others in the group are not such fans of his work as show-runner. I loved his complex twisty plotting but other prefer the simpler narrative style of RTD. Either way I think we are all hoping that he will write some scripts for RTD. I hope that Matheison also comes back to the Who camp.

@dentarthurdent. Yes that sounds like something that Nigel Kneale would write.

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Janette

 

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@dentarthurdent I would agree with Jamie Mathieson with that ranking. Mummy on th Orient Express is a fantastic episode and Flatline is also flawless in terns of plotting and scripting. Girl who Died was by far and away the weakest but I suspect he was writing to specification rather than his own concept.

Cheers

Janette

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@winston I feel your pain. I had to get my tech support, (otherwise referred to as the S/O) to re install Windows on my aging laptop in the hope that it might actually work. It had started corrupting files. It has taken the better part of two week, copying everything off the hard-drive and then reinstalling it all and setting up slide shows etc. Not sure the Laptop is working any better.

I hope you are able to either get the computer fixed or find a replacement soon. The internal hard-drive should probably be fine. It is probably either motherboard or power supply that has failed.

@dentarthurdent. Really should rewatch Oxygen. For no reason at all it is not an episode that we tend to re watch. I will have a look at your review. I suspect I have a lot of posts to catch up on.

Cheers

Janette

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Well finally got all the recalcitrant cats together, (including the actual feline one) to watch this episode. We have been waiting since Christmas and one or other is either out or asleep or busy..

It was a lot of fun, not one of the best Christmas Specials but not one of the worst either. Very Labyrinth, which isn’t a bad thing, though not sure I would enjoy that so much in a standard episode. The rules are always a little more relaxed in Christmas Specials.

There were a few questions, who is Ruby Sunday? when is “mavity” going to be corrected, and who is the neighbour.

This episode is clearly setting up the series arc.

Now to go and read the comments above,

Cheers

Janette

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@vickymallard. Welcome btw. I envy you a little, watching these episodes for the first time. There is an episode of Red Dwarf where Kryten asks Dave to wipe his memory of Agatha Christie books so he can read them again for the first time. There are a few books and tv series, and Dr Who episodes I would chose to have wiped from memory so I can watch again, “for the first time”. This two parter would be high on that list.

At the same time watching the Doctor’s first meeting with River is a pure pleasure, knowing what is to come.

cheers

Janette

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@blenkinsopthebrave. Thank you for sharing the new trailer. IT looks promising, a refreshing change for a trailer.

Really looking forward now to the new series having watched the specials.

Cheers

Janette

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A bit belated by Happy Christmas everyone.

We have been very busy, as always. I always try to do about ten times as much as humanly possible, much to the annoyance of the s/o. We have now celebrated “second Christmas”, which to all involved including extra household members if the Christmas Day that really counts. Now that it is all done I don’t quite know what to do with myself. Relax? What is that??

We finally caught up with the second and third specials and I have lots of thoughts brewing and tomorrow when I have caught up on sleep will hop onto the relevant threads. We are yet to watch the Christmas Special, perhaps Friday when everyone is around. It took a lot of persuasion but we finally got the entire family to sit down and watch the specials together yesterday.

There were plenty of Dr Who related gifts this year. The eldest got a Dr Who Magic the Gathering card pack. Which reminds me a sad note for fans of old Who. Richard Franklin, (Captain Yates, third Doctor era) passed away on Christmas Day. There were a couple of Tardis pen holders, and a Dr Who book.

Cheers

Janette

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We are currently watching Voyage of the Damned and Mr Copper says they are visiting “Old London Town” so it is a Dr Who reference. And of course it is on the visit to Old London Town the Doctor meets Wilf for the first time.

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Janette

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@dentarthurdent Back to the great Terry Pratchett. the S/O and I were discussing Hogfather last night, it (ie the tv adaptation) being one of my standard pre Christmas watches, and he made the point that Death’s granddaughter is called Susan and it struck me that indeed this could be a nod to Dr Who. Death is very Doctorish after all which is perhaps why he is such an appealing character.

It would hardly be surprising if T.P was influenced by Dr Who given the time he was writing.

We still haven’t watched the new episode so are keeping you company with that, though we are planning to watch tomorrow night and I have a tin of home made Jammy Dodgers ready and waiting and a bag of English Jelly Babies in the pantry, not to mention the fishfingers in the freezer. All is set. We just cannot manage to get the household together at the same time.

Cheers

Janette

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@craig I would just add to @juniperfish (and welcome back too) request to keep the old threads, to ensure that the episode discussion threads especially remain accessible for future comments. Another site I visit recently did a big upgrade and now all the older posts are locked which is a great shame.

Cheers

Janette

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@mudlark that sounds interesting. I have yet to witness the return of the “round things” but like the doctor, I do like them and using them as portals sounds like a promising concept. I always feel that the Tardis has great narrative potential rarely utilised. Ruth Madeley was so goon in Years and Years. The character was re’written for her too because she impressed RTD so much in the audition.

@translatorcircuit  I don’t mind less episodes if it the quality of the remaining nine is of the highest standard so they had better all be good episodes…

Cheers

Janette

 

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@mudlark I think it is an old English or British term found as you note in ballads and songs. Early colonists in Oz would refer to Sydney as “Sydney Town” so maybe it originates in the home counties and London. (Origin of many original convicts sent to N.S.W.)  I am certain that I have encountered that usage in older Australian literature.

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Janette

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@blenkinsopthebrave.Sadly Dr Who and the ABC have parted company. End of an era. We will be able to watch it. we are waiting to gather the family which is far more difficult than herding cats. The cat is here all the time pestering us for attention. The offspring are far more recalcitrant. They are excited to watch the episode together however and keen to make an ‘event” of it. It is not often that the entire household gathers around the tv these days.

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Janette

 

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@dentarthurdent We have not watched the new story either though we are planning to do so later in the week. (Son and his gf have Disney + so we don’t need the eye patches to do so)

We are going to watch it as a household, something we stopped during half way through the first Chibnell/J.W. series. They drifted off one by one then but are all keen again now that RTD is at the helm again and there will be jelly babies, jammy dodgers, (home made) and fish fingers and custard, just like old times.

I have a couple more pages to read of Reaper Man. It is my “handbag book” which means i am mostly reading it while waiting in supermarket car parks for family members to do their shopping which feels remarkably apt. Also a month or so ago while I was part way through the book a shopping trolley turned up on our street and ended up in our house. It felt as though the story was real and happening here. (I believe the trolley is now back where it belongs)

cheers

Janette

 

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@mudlark. Glad you put up pt 4  and good to see you. Last few days have been very hectic here with the usual Thursday Friday stuff and family at the weekend but finally getting a bit of time and a lot to catch up on.

@scaryb. Lovely to hear from you again. So nice to see all the “old faces” on the forum again (@craig and @jimthefish and more). Old times, good times. Have not felt this excited about Dr Who for a long time.

and Part Five

also on the same theme Reader’s comments

 

cheers

Janette.

 

[janetteB @replies]

And we just watched the Comic Relief short and it is so good.

But where is everyone? It is lonely in here and today is Who Day. Hope everyone is ok and will be back for the big night..

Cheers

Janette

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