@jimthefish

‘It’s not something that’s ever likely to happen but what with regeneration ever present in our minds this series what would it be like if the Doctor’s regeneration was actually triggered by something other than self-sacrifice this time (say, suicide)?’

Reminds me of the other Frobisher (John)…

‘Who frowned me this face?’

Great comments! Some thoughts back:

@Miapatrick     Yes. No new stories. Only new, interesting versions of the old ones. And what is good to one person is boring to another, and so on. We’ve had this discussion around here many times. Science vs. fantasy, action vs. emotion, plot vs. character, and all the positions along the spectrum between tho…[Read more]

I’ve only just watched Oxygen, and pretty much loved it. It’s strange to say, perhaps, but can anyone think of an episode of Doctor Who in recent times being this ‘hard sci-fi’ in approach?

I think there are an astonishing number of references to other works (including Who history) in this but, unlike Smile a few weeks ago, I thought it produce…[Read more]

@jimthefish  Watched the first Peladon story recently, produced when Britain was entering the EU and it felt very pertinent to the moment. Definitely time to revisit. To the BTL moaners “political” translates as anything they don’t agree with, ie left leaning. They would not consider Downtown Abbey with the benevolent nobs taking such care of…[Read more]

@jimthefish – Coming Soon?

‘The Ambassador will be the next person to discover that I’m a bloody difficult Hermaphrodite Hexapod…’

@JimTheFish

over-reading is kind of what we’re here for

GP,WM.

@tardigrade  The Doctor may be vulnerable right now, but he was still able to save the day without his sight in this story.  Perhaps he will find a way to work with/around his disability, however long it lasts.  But yes, this would also be a good reason to team up with the Master/Missy…especially since the next few episodes (possibly until the…[Read more]

@jimthefish  and others, the early reviews for Alien: Covenant have been dreadful, alas.

As for the trend you mention Jim the Fish, this is all too true, and not just with belated sequels.  The Beauty and the Beast remake was, in many ways, slavishly faithful to the original film even as it translated the look of a cel-animated feature into a dif…[Read more]

@kharis  So, enjoy my latest craziest “person in the vault playing Fur Elise” theory and please come up theories even more insane then this one.

Trying, really trying, but — love it just the way you put it!  Ah, there we are — Alan Moore!

@arbutus  . . . villains who aren’t really villains. I confess it’s a theme that resonates with me.

M…[Read more]

OK, I am will to assume @jimthefish and @pedant are correct and the whole focus on the vault is a distraction. If so, then it will probably be Missy in the vault, if she appears in episode 6. (But, @jimthefish, has it actually been established that we will learn what’s inside the vault in episode 6?)

If the vault is a distraction, what is he…[Read more]

@jimthefish

As mentioned on tonight’s aftershow:

friend from the future meets the pilot

@thane15  @janetteB  The paintings I’ve used for various purposes I can spot, but once outside that realm it’s another matter! I very much agree that the Coalbookdale image is striking indeed.

@mudlark  Paintings can matter, witness the 50th Anniversary episode. But I’m also inclined to agree that by this point the paintings in this series are th…[Read more]

@Jimthefish

re assistants and companions

I wouldn’t like to analyse very much of what some people post on the basis that there may not be any thought given except to wind (some supposedly PC) people up.

That said, can we not try to find a new descriptive term as I don’t feel either should be used any more. How about “Friend” ?

Jo Grant was…[Read more]

@jimthefish  (of Clara hate) . . . individuals who I strongly suspect hate any deviation from patrician, superior Doc and a breathless, deferential companion. (In other words they prefer ‘assistants’ to ‘companions’.) During Clara’s run these oafs became more and more vocal (witness all the ‘it’s more like The Clara Show now’ drivelish). And t…[Read more]

@mersey

If you are going to be wilfully blind to the crass sexism that spewed across the Graun’s BTL comments, then I – and I suspect @jimthefish – can’t help you.

@thane15

Please show me a companion who wasn’t slim and pretty? There’s one, only one, Donna Noble. And I think that’s why she’s perceived as one of the best companions ever. She’s average everywoman but at the same time very unique. Clara was slim, pretty, intelligent, sweet, educated with job and flat, independent, without ties (they tried to…[Read more]