@jimthefish & @blenkinsopthebrave

Hi and Seasons Greetings!

Yeah, I really enjoyed the trailer and was delighted to see the comic characters you mentioned Jim. If you’d told 10 year old me that we’d have this 42 years later … well, I would have probably dropped my Curly Wurly!

It’s fascinating really – on the one hand it’s a big statement of i…[Read more]

@jimthefish

Great to hear from our resident Time Lord. Yes, I confess that I was also less than rapturous about the Donna Noble/ Tennant pairing back in the day, but RTD obviously loved it, hence my bonkers theory.

I wish I could say I remember the 70s Doctor Who weekly comic strip, but alas I do not (of course, I have reached that stage of life…[Read more]

@translatorcircuit I think everyone should take care of their appearance. As for the Classic Doctors who appeared in this episode, I think that at least they should have been wearing wigs that looked like their hair when they played The Doctor.

Have you considered how absurd wigs would have looked? Nothing screams “fake” like a wig. Especially,…[Read more]

@jimthefish, @mudlark, @craig, @bluesqueakpip, and all the other UK Whovians I am forgetting, my message above was principally meant for you. For those of us in the rest of the world, he is mainly a buffoon, and a sad reflection of what democracy has come to. Also, most of us are fortunate enough to live in societies without a House of Lords open…[Read more]

I seem to be one of the few these days who post on old Hartnell stories which in this case, was “The Romans”, from 1965.

SPOILER ALERT: I am going to give away some of the plot details, but I do so in the belief that so few people will ever get to see it. (Nonetheless, I am cutting in our wise time lord @jimthefish, who can make a decision on…[Read more]

@jimthefish   Yes I recall how how well Billie Piper did, against initial prognostications, that’s why I’d hate to see her performance retrospectively clouded by a less-than-stellar ‘Rose 2’ (if Rose 2 is supposed to be the ‘same’ character, which I note she may not be).     (Understand, I have absolutely no knowledge of Yasmin Finney, I hope…[Read more]

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@jimthefish Thanks for the new page. It is true that the old one was getting rather full, and at the rate that news stories about the next RTD incarnation are emerging, this page will fill up quickly, I suspect. Indeed, I have been reading so much about it in the last couple of days (but not from the BBC, so not for this page) I am actually…[Read more]

Hi all,
Bad me – I wrote this and dithered and then a new Doctor was announced.
That’ll learn me! 😀

… anyway, this is what I wrote a few days ago that has nothing to do with the great new casting…

Lots of new people since last i was here which is really great.
Sorry I’ve been missing for a while.
I’ll probably do a bit of name checking but…[Read more]

@jimthefish. I suspect Ncuti will opt for something a lot my stylish. We could be about to get the first fashion forward Doctor. (I am hoping for a really interesting, iconic costume)

cheers

Janette

Another article about Ncuti Gatwa in the Guardian.

@jimthefish Never late for the party, it goes on all night, and as it is always night somewhere in the world,, Agree re’ the Tardis design. I did not like the recent design at all but then neither did I particularly like the Tennant grunge look. Hopefully RTD will go for something a bit ore…[Read more]

@jimthefish    I’ve just rewatched Woman Who Fell to Earth and Ghost Monument  and I emphatically agree about Jodie’s costume and the Tardis.   Now I’d be the first to admit that my fashion knowledge is zero, but when the Doctor triumphantly appeared in her ‘new’ duds I thought she looked like something out of a pantomime.   The current equival…[Read more]

I’m with @jimthefish. For me this was an underwhelming episode. It carried the “flash and action, but thin on substance” story style that has plagued much of Chris Chibnall’s run on Doctor Who.

And the CGI? Don’t get me started. I felt like we were back in the Tennant era, which had its share of dodgy special effects.

This was a disappointing…[Read more]

@jimthefish Yeah, I can see where you are coming from, and it was a slight episode. But, for me, it was still a fun (albeit) slight episode. Regarding the Doctor telling Yaz how great she was, this was someone trying to break bad news to someone she cared for. Should she have said that on a sliding scale of truly great figures from human history…[Read more]

Has everyone deserted the site? Where is @jimthefish ? Where is @bluesqueakpip ?

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@juniperfish yes there was, behind the exuberance, a kind of cold pragmatism behind the Doctors actions. Rather than prevent two genosides, make it three. a heartfelt sorry to Karavanista and the realisation that the Doctor abandoned him (there was a double meaning I think when he said ‘if I talk about it I’ll die’, literally, I have no doubt,…[Read more]