@Phaseshift

Thanks.

I always thought that Mike Yates character suffered for two reasons:

a) It was just never quite that well written, probably because they wanted/needed someone who ranked between the Brig and the troops and they didn’t really know how to handle it given the budgetary constraints (A captain would most likely have several…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

This is definitely one of the stories where he sometimes seems to have a bit of the Dame Margaret Rutherfords about him.

I love this phrase, and, with your permission, may use it in the future. 😀

On Louis Marx, he was actually a real person. He was a history academic who moved into TV part time. I’ve heard Terrance Dicks talk a…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Mike Yates is still a bit of an poltroon though. He’s like the David Cameron of UNIT, I think.

I agree that he’s still a bit of a Rupert, but he’s hardly hiding under the bed when it comes to fight various alien nasties.

I did find it interesting that Mike Yates’ RHIP with Sergeant Benton – where he takes the food – is almost i…[Read more]

@JimTheFish – yes could be a bit of a cul de sac Moffat’s left for the team (‘the Doctor’s Going Home’) but I guess he’s just thinking (in a similar way to how Adama in BSG says) “they need some overarching focus/goal or we’ll just be aimless and we’ll lose momentum”.

Though in 3-4 seasons the frustration will be terrible and maybe fall apart as…[Read more]

ah, cheers @jimthefish – deliberately didn’t ‘link’ to you in case it was someone else who’d been talking about it.

yep – it is great telly! and even better to know I’ve a coupla seasons yet before it wanes.

And though I’ve not thought of this before or for more than 10 seconds, its interesting that shows that have an overarching arc (eg “going…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

It’s one of those funny Who quirks.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Marks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Marx

And I can confirm that Steven Moffax makes wooden toys and has never scripted or produced Dr Who, whereas Steven Moffat is just a pen-name to shield someone who’s  universally infamous.

@TheKrynoidMan @FatManinabox

Done and done. All other nominations gratefully received.

I think I made an error in my last post, because I think I should have put @bluesqueakpip as a tentative for Day of the Daleks. I don’t think the choice was that clear in the posts, so I’ll leave it until I receive instructions.

Inferno
@TheKrynoidMan

The…[Read more]

Evening all. Woo-who, final part of Mind Robber tonight. Which makes me consider where we are with our next choice, which would be for Pertwee.

After flirting with Inferno (which I suggested may take the latest retrospective into new series with Peter Capaldi territory), my count of votes is something like this:

The Daemons
@Jimthefish @wolfwe…[Read more]

@JimTheFish I probably should have known that. (hangs head in shame at being found wanting in “Who lore”)  🙂

Cheers

Janette

its a fair point @jimthefish – I was wondering if it would be a good or terrible idea to suggest creating a Crazy Captions using that photo.

I mean, fun for us but would it be gutting if someone not on the forum used the same caption to win?

I mean, if “Are you Soufflé Girl?” won, would I shake my fist at the stars*?

(* for me, no, I can’t…[Read more]

Sorry if someone posted this at the beginning of Apr when it was published – but has anyone picked up on this   http://www.kasterborous.com/2014/04/moffat-explains-tardis-dislikes-clara/

We’ve had a fair bit of speculation on this subject, and it looks like it’s not done-with yet. So why does the TARDIS dislike Clara?

Other than that I mostly…[Read more]

@JimTheFish It’s not that I think that he’s a bad writer, it’s just that, as @PhaseShift suggested, I don’t particularly like him as a writer. I can’t speak for his non-who work as I haven’t watched any of it, but there are very few of his Who episodes that I would call good.

By the way the RTD2 thing is a Star Wars reference. Not that I think…[Read more]

@FatManInABox @JimTheFish

That song’s put me in the mood for some NewRo.

I saw Hunting Venus again last month and it did the same to me. I ended up listening to a load of the old stuff. I didn’t realise, until my last viewing, that Starburst was written by Jools Holland.

Spot on with Danny Webb – that was the one I thought would be the tricky one…[Read more]

@JimTheFish – All comers for nominations really, even if you’re not sure you’ll be commentating. I know Pertwee’s not your favourite, but you may get to a point in a month when you feel like jumping in, so it may as well be something you fancy watching.

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