@JimtheFish Would love to read your blog, but can’t see a link… can you make it live?

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On the subject of The Celestial Toymaker which came up in the discussion of The Wild Blue Yonder, it has been confirmed that animated versions of the lost episodes are to be made.

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-the-celestial-toymaker-animation-confirmed-newsupdate

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I guess regeneration is plastic only within core Shobogan DNA variations.

That’s exactly on point, I think. If Time Lords were capable of taking on on the appearance of any and every  life form they encountered they would be only a few steps removed from zygons, whose ability to morph has a very different biological b…[Read more]

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I think what I am anxious about is summed up in a word: Marvel

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I love both of those ideas – “the imprinting” in particular.

Body-snatcher wise, you might wonder why the Time Lords only pick humanoids to copy, with the whole of time and space and alien forms to choose from. But I guess regeneration is plastic only within core Shobogan DNA variations.

The revivification of the Timeless Child is…[Read more]

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Why do I feel more nervous than exhilarated about that announcement?

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I would hope that’s not true, and would be a bit shocked if it were. Hopefully next time they will get it right. It would be nice to see Louisa Harland (Orla from Derry Girls) in the TARDIS…

But I’m getting off-topic. Any further Chibnall rambling by me will go under @JimTheFish Chibnall retrospective blog.

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Yes!

Not your standard Hollywood fare…

I’ll search out the DVD version for the extras. Thanks

@jimthefish When you catch up with the final episode of the Hartnell era “Celestial Toymaker” be prepared for the fact that the first 15 minutes or so are pretty feeble, but it is the last 10 minutes that makes one think about what might potentially happen on Saturday, when the Toymaker returns.

And @Phaseshift, I suspect RTD2 may continue to…[Read more]

@ScaryB – lovely to see you and @Whisht back in the DJ box!

I’d missed the detail that it was the TARDIS that clocked Clone-Donna’s long arm at the last – clever old thing.  And yes, definitely a play on AI and its current weirdnesses with the human body. AI is terrifying frankly, so a very modern form of body horror.

I had forgotten ARSE – I’m…[Read more]

@juniperfish and @jimthefish Many thanks for your contributions. Very kind. They will be put to good use.

Cheers.

@mudlark That is incredibly cool – just read the article on wobbly spacetime.

They haven’t done the experiment suggested yet (re tiny mass fluctuations) to prove or disprove it – so the galactic jury is still out!

@jimthefish I feel your “Controversies in Dr. Woke” article should also be posted here!

@jimthefish  Yes, the last episode of The Celestial Toymaker is also available on BBC i player, along with all the other surviving and reconstructed BG episodes

@jimthefish Part of the reason I am attracted to the suggestion of @devilishrobby is that there is more than a few isolated clips and photos of the Gough Toymaker. The entire last episode still exists, and is available on the DVD “Lost in Time” which contains a series of Hartnell and Troughton episodes that survived the ’60s cull. The DVD is still…[Read more]

Sorry about the multiple posts, but I just wanted to add that, like @jimthefish , I very much like @devilishrobby ‘s suggestion that this and the previous episode might be part of a scenario devised by the Toymaker, thus providing a link between the three specials. I’m not entirely convinced about The Star Beast, since it was based closely on an…[Read more]

Finally, space and time to put some of my thoughts into writing.

Once again, there was nothing complicated about this episode, it was just a good Doctor Who story, well executed in all respects, and with Tennant and Tate in top form, the double act all the more effective in what was essentially a two hander. As @jimthefish noted, it recalled…[Read more]

@robertcaligari it’s interesting that ‘what if a white man was cast to play Martin Luther King’ is the example so often used, because it’s a really, really bad example. Unless Newton was campaigning against racist laws and politics applied against white people by people of Indian heritage.

@jimthefish plus there is the largely under explored debt…[Read more]