@blenkinsopthebrave—

Now, back to the link with “A Matter of Life and Death”. The final image we are given in “World Enough and Time” is of Bill’s teardrop. In “A Matter of Life and Death” the heavenly court decides to allow the David Niven character to live, and the deciding factor is the teardrop that drops onto a rose from the girl who love…

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If Marc Platt hadn’t already given the show Ghostlight — which along with Curse of Fenric, I think, provided much of the template for the show’s future post-cancellation — then he would definitely earn his place in Who lore with Spare Parts which has the distinction of being the only audio story that has been liberally, um, borrowed for the AG…[Read more]

I did mod one comment by last night, but just give me the heads up if people feel that there are others that need attention….

And in a week when we’re about to get some double Mastery action, this might be of interest…

http://www.doctorwho.tv/whats-new/article/phil-collins-sting-and-8-other-actors-who-were-nearly-the-master/

Certainly it will make you look on Eric Roberts a lot more kindly….

I think Dracula is a great choice of project for Moffat and Gattiss and I’ll definitely look forward to it though. I imagine they’ll do something interesting with the part of Dracula and think Capaldi would be great but I also can’t help but feel he’d be a better fit for Van Helsing.

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@nick—

Alternatively, it means ‘we’re too chicken to go for anything other than a white, male vanilla Doc but we’ll make up for it in other ways, honest guv’.

But agree that CC should be given every benefit of the doubt in the meantime. I’m hoping to be pleasantly surprised and noshing down on some humble pie next year….

@nick—

re. a full-series story. Even if Chibnall wrote them all, which I suspect is an impossible task for a Who showrunner, I still don’t think it would work. Unlike Moffat’s stories under RTD, which were pretty tight, Chibnall’s stories have always seemed to contain one or two fundamental flaws in my view. The danger is that his attention to…[Read more]

@missrori — I think if the Monks Trilogy proved anything it’s that a whole-series storyline would be an absolutely terrible idea.

But I agree that there are many reasons for the show’s diminished profile at the moment and few of them are the fault of the current production team. It’s odd that the RT seem to be running two versions of essentially…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip — I wonder if what SM is doing this series is essentially revisiting the Doctor/Master dynamic from Curse of Fatal Death, only this time seriously (or at least with fewer bellylaughs)….

On another note, it’s Glasgow Comic Con at the end of the month. Any of the Scottish contingent planning on going?

@mudlark — glad to hear you’re OK after your episode

@nick and @bluesqueakpip — I think Corbyn’s been doing very well at widening his appeal over the last few months. There’s no sign that he won’t be able to continue doing this I reckon. His immediate challenge is the tricky job of forming a shadow cabinet that looks like a Government in…[Read more]

Not a bad episode at all and possibly Gatiss’s best, certainly his best since The Unquiet Dead. I agree with @arbutus et al that it very much had a BG feel — you can get much more BG than a tunnel-based romp with lumbering monsters and a factional dispute. Even the set design for much of the stories this year seems to be deliberately retro,…[Read more]

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No doubt most will have seen this already. Contains some strong language obvs…

Agree with pretty much all of the above. Some kind of Norway-like situation seems likely, which won’t placate the hardcore kipper wing of the Tory party and will end up toppling May. But I don’t think she’ll get anywhere near that stage anyway. True, there are no obvious unity candidates to lead the party but Boris is reckless and ambitious enough…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave — yes, the power-sharing arrangements are still in a state of flux and had been put on hold for the general election. And yes, some form of formal alliance between the Tories and the DUP does skew the nature of the talks somewhat. Certainly I don’t imagine Sinn Fein will be at all happy about it — and I wouldn’t be at all…[Read more]