@Craig @Jimthefish @Bluesqueakpip

Apologies all for not replying a month or so ago – I’ve had a sojourn in hospital (very boring) followed by some R&R with a op to look forward to in the next few weeks.

Hopefully I’ll get around to catching up over the next few weeks.

Thanks

Nick

@FatManInABox @PhaseShift @JimTheFish @Blenkinsopthebrave @Wolfweed @Bluesqueakpip @JanetteB @Purofilion

Many thanks to you all. Loved the tunes and the pics. Today I’m now 44 + 1 day. Normal service is resumed 😕

@JimTheFish

The show is starting with the blankest slate that it has done for years (which suggests to me that Moffatt can put a nice big ‘job done’ tick over the 50th anniversary)

I agree. A big thing for many older fans (I think) is that the Doctor is somewhat shorn of the angst of the Time War. After the confusion, it seemed there was a col…[Read more]

@wolfweed @JimTheFish

That is sad news about Steve Moore. He was a great one for a twist/shock ending. Must have been all those Thargs Future Shocks for 2000AD. I think he created two of the most compelling support characters in the comic that transcended the medium – with Abslom Daak and Kroton going onto appearances in BF audio (the only o…[Read more]

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

@Bluesqueakpip @Wolfweed

Crazy Captions – great idea  (pretty please Mr Ww!)

@JimtheFish @FatmaninaBox @BlenkinsoptheBrave  Pah! Some of us know where our loyalties lie (tho I must admin McGoohan gave my cursor a sharp tug!)

@Blenkinsopthebrave @JanetteB @MonochromeDimension
An Ian cameo would certainly get my vote also.
But I’m also wondering where they’re going with the Coal Hill school refs. Is it a callback to Unearthly Child days? Could we perhaps see a return to adult male and female companions plus a grandchild/grandchild substitute?? And the Doctor’s been back…[Read more]

@Phaseshift and @JimtheFish <waves> Yes, very sorry to see BBC3 go – The Fades and In the Flesh were the best new BBC sci fi I’ve seen in aeons.

@tomsscarf Capaldi would indeed have made a great Master – perhaps we will get a body swap story to allow him to Master-it-up for an episode or two 🙂

@ScaryB Oopsy – the glitter is still getting all…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

That was an odd one about BF. It was a comment on one of their forums which was indulging in some gratuitous schadenfreude against the BBC, effectively congratulating Big Finish for getting one over on them in the contract (which was set up in the late 90s when Who was most definitively off-air with little hope of returning). The…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

I like the thought of seeing a bit more McGann if possible. I’m not sure if we have anybody who is more familiar with these issues, but I read a suggestion a while ago that to use the Eighth Doctor in the minisode, the BBC had to approach Big Finish, which has an exclusive contract to produce “broadcastable content” featuring the…[Read more]

Blimey there’s a lot been going on here today!

@MissShannonKent: I’d rather like to see Capaldi in the role for a good while before considering his successor – at the moment I can’t think of anyone I’d rather see as The Doctor than him.

@JimTheFish; @PhaseShift: I recall Adrian Hodges saying right after the announcement that if a second series…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

Probably renegotiating their pay (upwards) each time, as well.

And quite right too 😉 I think both Tennant and Smith were reported as being on a payment escalator series by series. It’s actually a pretty good low risk model for both them and the BBC really. The BBC doesn’t particularly have to worry about waving a huge amount of…[Read more]

@JimtheFish I can’t remember if it was @Juniperfish or @Bluesqueakpip, but one of them pointed out ages ago that there usually seems to be a plan B for all new Doctors (certainly AG) so that they can be written out at the end of 1 series if it’s not working out (on either side). But the hope is that Capaldi will see it as his dream job and pension…[Read more]

@Craig, @FatManInABox, @PhaseShift and @JimTheFish

So, so, so (she says, bouncing up and down excitedly), what are we having for our retrospective? RTD part one, or Gattis? Because today is Quatermass’s last episode.

And the BG Series? It was suggested that we could run both – we did before the 50th.

Congratulations on the spot @JimTheFish. I must admit I didn’t even notice he was the TV cameraman. Foiled again by @bluesqueakpip.

@PhaseShift and @JimTheFish

Jim The Fish gets the bonus – the inverted comma’s around ‘appear’ was meant to hint at John Scott Martin. Edward Burnham is too easy – he’s got such a recognisable face. 🙂

I think the fact that I always feel the Wild Hunt scene is too short is a huge compliment. I want to see more. And yet, it gives us all the…[Read more]

Loads of good stuff in this penultimate episode. I’m not sure if the “Wild Hunt” scenes would have been more effective if longer @bluesqueakpip. I think at this point they make a virtue out of the technical limitations they had. The images are disjointed, somewhat confused and for that reason, quite unsettling as @JimTheFish said.

Qua…[Read more]

@JimtheFish

Actually I can’t take credit for this one (but I was in favour). Looking at my notes it was suggested we cover Quatermass by @TardisBlue and @bluesqueakpip initially, so I hope this mention will bring the series to @TardisBlue s attention.

@JimTheFish I can’t help but see some cohesive functionality to the whole Trek meets Who motif. I mean, sure… The Enterprise and her crew tend to focus on more sociological morals, but come on. The idea of Picard encountering the very thing he’s not accustomed to — the ludricous, mad-as-a-hatter nature of The Doctor and his eccentricities –…[Read more]

@ZoobyDow – As a concept, it’s  not really to my taste but each to their own. But I prefer the look of this issue of ‘Insurrection Squared’ to ‘Assimilation’. I prefer the art and the retro Cybermen. Not seen a copy of this one locally yet to fully judge it though.

Find some more of the artwork…[Read more]