@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

@Jimthefish

I was put in mind of Oxygen too, and The Almost People – where people are expendible, and profit is priority.

@Juniperfish

I am a huge fan of RTD’s full-chest Doctor Woke.

I read in an interview with RTD (around the time of It’s A Sin) that he’d got to a point in life and career where he doesn’t intend to pull his punches. Fart jok…[Read more]

The other thing I really really liked was RTD’s deployment of the lampshade.

”What are you doing? Do you usually grab rope ladders descending from the sky?” (I may not have that word for word)

Reality of the situation… quite correct

Get the Doc to say it… and it has been said. No going back now. Cut!

He saved the show twice. And he’s gett…[Read more]

@jimthefish

If what I have read is correct, I doubt we need spend time fretting about this Doctor’s costume. It will be like the British weather; if we don’t care much for what he is wearing this week, just wait a while and it will change.

On another tack, is the name Flood significant? It has reminded me that when I was aged around 11-12, way…[Read more]

@jimthefish   Wow! That is really excellent from the story to the art work. I am blown away. I love the Doctors screwdriver, the costumes and the Tardis. It is very good and I want to congratulate you. Can’t wait to read the next one.

stay safe

@scaryb @jimthefish @craig @phaseshift

just to add my thoughts on the sad loss of Ian Gibson.
And to echo Jim’s plea that we put Mick McMahon into some sort of protective space.

(but not an iso cube)

Gibson’s flowing lyrical lines were so powerful for me when I saw them in 2000AD.
It created an environment and characterisation that couldn’t…[Read more]

@phaseshift

That’s a really interesting, informative, and well written piece. Thanks.

Lots of gems of info in there; the Jasper Carrott – Doctor Who link seems like it should be an obscure pub quiz question (or perhaps a Q in T’Other place’s Thursday Quiz – run, if you weren’t aware, by the G’s #1 Doctor Who fan Martin Belam.)

The point you…[Read more]

Why adapt The Star Beast?

The story was written in the first year of Doctor Who Weekly in 1980. Very different times. I was 10 for a start! Living in the industrial Midlands in a mining town.

Obviously @jimthefish has talked enthusiastically about the production transition from comic to screen and I share his awe. 10 year old me would have been…[Read more]

@JimtheFish

Really enjoyed reading your Cathode Rave article.

And yet, it would be wrong to say that the Baker era, for all its metatextual playfulness is wholly apolitical. The lack of seriousness in the Fourth Doctor is a political play in itself and, like his predecessor, there is always an edge of mocking disdain in any of the Doctor’s d…

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@scaryb @jimthefish @craig

Gutted to hear that myself. If anyone doesn’t know about the impact Halo Jones had on Andrew Cartmel’s run on Doctor Who can I post this link to the blog on 2000AD I wrote back when we were doing retrospectives?

2000AD Doctor Who (Gridlock edition)

@scaryb and @jimthefish

That is indeed very sad news. I was a little bit in love with Halo Jones when I was young. He also did fine work on other characters – making Judge Dredd a skinny boy is bold but he pulled it off (and something I appreciate, being a skinny boy).

I just grabbed this off my shelf – think I’ll read it again tonight.

the BBC has just released…the Goblin Song from the Christmas Special

@jimthefish – If you thought the trailer screamed Harry Potter, this screams pure and utter fantasy. I will try and reserve judgement until Christmas.

Not quite sure where to post this – @Craig, @JimtheFish, @Phaseshift feel free to relocate it.

I know there are a good few Ballad of Halo Jones and 2000 AD fans in our little group, and I just wanted to mark the sad news today of the passing of artist Ian Gibson, after a long battle with cancer. Pat Mills tweeted it out earlier, but it’s now been…[Read more]

@jimthefish

The only thing I really want to see is Tennant saying ‘I want to go’,

Allons-y is close enough I guess….

Great comments as always, thanks everyone.

A “pet Tennant” 😀 Who wouldn’t want one of those?!

That’s interesting @Phaseshift about the bi-generation reverberating back through all the incarnations. I think Ncuti-Doc says something about he can only go on unencumbered by the PTSD if Tennant-Doc takes his retirement/rehabilitation seriously, so…[Read more]

@jimthefish

are you suggesting that there’s a link between the Fendahl and the Great Vampires — maybe relates species or sub-species? Cos I like that idea a lot.

Yes, although I blame Steven Moffat who had Missy musing that maybe all lifeforms may hit a technological point that they think “let’s give cybermen a go! What could go wro…[Read more]