@devilishrobby @jimthefish @juniperfish

Valeyard… Villengard (and therefor their ‘Shell Company’ Harmony Shoal?) Vlinx:

We have limited knowledge of The Valeyard incarnation… basically he’s incarnation 12+

We have limited knowledge of The Master’s incarnations because Who Narrative follows The Doctor’s timeline. So:

? > Delgado > ?

? > Dar…[Read more]

@jimthefish one of the problems I have with BP being the Valeyard is I’m unfortunately old enough (and plenty more) to remember the travesty that was Trialof a Timelord season (ok maybe some of the stories weren’t that bad) but if memory serves me correctly the Master stated that the Valeyard was the distillation of all that is dark and bad abo…[Read more]

@ScaryB – dammit! I now have the song, and the expression “What a load of dugga-doo” stuck in my head 🙂

On yours and @Whohar ‘s mention of “hasty rewrites” – yes, when you think about the first Gatwa series and how much it focussed on the Doctor and Ruby both being abandoned and adopted children, I wonder if Poppy was planned out, at the…[Read more]

@scaryb

My theory about Billie is that she may be a temporary interim Doctor till the future becomes clearer.

I make that 3 theories now:

1. @jimthefish ‘s Interface theory

2. Your interim Doc theory

3. My she’s The Moment theory.

To which I’d add something I briefly saw online:

4. She’s a version of Bad Wolf.

and another thought:

5. She’s…[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]

@jimthefish

Welcome back.

The return of Billie P. Think it’s probably a given that she’s almost certainly not the next Doctor

I tend to agree, although all bets are off. If she’s not the next Doctor, then what else? As you say maybe an interface between 15 and 16 (RuthDoc? She was again seen in the montage).

The vibes I got off Piper’s, very sho…[Read more]

@craig, @jimthefish, @ps1l0v3y0u, and everyone else on the forum from the UK,

I hope all goes well.

It just so happened that I was watching “Inferno” where the Pertwee Doctor is transported to an alternative fascist Britain. It seemed like science fiction back in the ’70s. I really hope tolerance wins the day tomorrow.

@whohar @jimthefish @craig @blenkinsopthebrave

‘No religion or politics in Ulster pubs.’ Sounds like sound advice.

My political philosophy probably doesn’t bear writing down but it’s probably something along the lines of ‘if you poke someone long enough about religion or politics long enough, they’ll probably tell you to get lost.’ (That’s the…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @jimthefish @ps1l0v3y0u

As my mother used to say

Never quote your parents

No, wait. It was

When you’re in the pub never talk religion or politics

But, she had Northern Irish heritage and we know how sensitive both those topics were in that region. The point being,  I think, that you are unlikely to change anyone’s mind on…[Read more]

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Bringing my Susan/Flood musings from the Boom pages, to get things in their proper place.

Not sure about Mrs Flood (…) but I wouldn’t be surprised if she ends up just being an indomitable elderly side character a la Wilf. (Unless, of course, she is the series 1 main villain — in which case, she might be Bad Wilf. Arf.…[Read more]

@jimthefish

The moon and the president’s wife. As @juniperfish noted above, this references something that Missy said in The Magicians Apprentice, when she was telling Clara how long she had known the Doctor, ‘… since he stole the moon and the President’s wife …’  I seem to remember that the Doctor later disputed this, saying that he didn’t…[Read more]

@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

As so often, I’m late to the party, but for what it’s worth I thought this episode an improvement on the Space Babies and on the whole I enjoyed it. The basic concept had a lot of potential, but it was as if RTD, having seized on a good idea, never developed it so far as to explore all the implications. As @cookgroom   @miapatrick and @juniperfish…[Read more]

@Bunface @Craig @ScaryB – loving the Chris Waites and the Carollers spot and Easter egg pointing to Susan again.

@Blenkinsopthebrave

I seem to recall the Doctor telling Ruby that they are in London at the same time as The Hartnell Doctor and Susan. (Or words to that effect.) And at some point a bit later he stares wistfully across at where his…

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@scaryb and @jimthefish

Thanks for those excellent links. Love it when Ian points out that Aubrey Waites’ original stage name was John Smith. And, well, of course…

I will watch again, but I seem to recall the Doctor telling Ruby that they are in London at the same time as The Hartnell Doctor and Susan. (Or words to that effect.) And at some…[Read more]

@jimthefish I suspect that the drag aspect of the episode is another example of RTD going in hard. There are parts of the US I believe where there is a tremendous fuss about letting children see drag queens, whereas that’s just part of Christmas and often the first theatre they see for UK children. As signs go re: Disneyfication etc, the selling…[Read more]