• Juniperfish replied to the topic On the Sofa 11

    @dentarthurdent Oh dear – well spotted! Good old Grauniad 🙂

    For anyone feeling stressed by the New Year (and aren’t we all) here is an oldie but a goodie (particularly if you are not a fan of the “mindfulness” trend):

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic The Church on Ruby Road

    @ps1l0v3y0u

    So, are we looking at an exploration of the Doctor’s origin prior to Tecteun and The Division, do you think?

    I think there’s a lot which could be done with this theme, even without the plan being that the Doctor actively goes looking for his origins pre-adoption by Gallifrey, or finds them.

    Gatwa’s Doctor has already been drawn to a…[Read more]

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic The Church on Ruby Road

    Well I loved it – Gremlins meets It’s a Wonderful Life.

    It’s fresh, it’s a little bit timey wimey, and the Doctor is a huge dandy who enjoys eating up the dancefloor in a kilt!

    Just how many times did he change fabulous outfits in that episode?

    Intrigued by all his jewellery and what meanings it might hold.

    And who is the mystery lady…[Read more]

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic On the Sofa 11

    Merry Mid-Winter Solstice to all!

    Thought you might enjoy this naughty clip with Tom Baker and Mary Tamm (Romana 1)

    It’s from the “for cast and crew” outtakes/ blooper 1978 White Powder Christmas

    You can find out more about it here:

    https://archive.org/details/WhitePowderChristmas

     

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic The Winchester

    @oochillyo Sorry to hear you and your family are not well. Sounds like a nasty flu or Covid to me, with cough and a fever.

    Get some rest. Once you feel better, I think you might enjoy Kurt Vonnegut’s writing (if you haven’t already read him).

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic On the Sofa 11

    Sneaking out of work briefly to wonder whether a 6oth Anniversary “What’s Your Favourite Who Series/ Story/ Episode from 60 years of Who” topic might be nice @craig for Yuletide? Seeing as the BBC has kindly made so much of the back catalogue available on iplayer at present…

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic The Giggle

    @WhoHar

    “Eight” sounding like “Ate” and a Club looking a bit like a Brassica, my suspicions were confirmed right at the end, when Cauliflower Cheese was served up at the meal. Expect this dish to turn out to be the Big Bad of 15’s first season.

    The Cheese Wheel of Time?

    Planet of the Cheesey Wotsits?

     

     

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic The Star Beast

    @Phaseshift – Oh that’s lovely background on the comic story of the Star Beast (I’ve never read it).

    The new version of Doctor Who Confidential is called Doctor Who Unleashed, available on IPlayer, one episode of “behind the scenes” for each of the specials. In The Star Beast associated one, David Tennant meets Dave Gibbons and Pat Mills on set…[Read more]

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic BBC Approved Spoilers

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  • Juniperfish replied to the topic On the Sofa 11

    @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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  • Juniperfish replied to the topic The Giggle

    @Whohar

    Definitely need a full and thorough analysis of the potential meaning behind the cards chosen. And I’m sure we’re in the right place for that…

    Oh you know that is just catnip…

    The Doctor picks the Eight of Clubs. Cartomancy (fortune telling with a deck of cards) equates clubs with the Tarot suit Wands. Eight of Wands in the classic…[Read more]

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic The Giggle

    @ps1l0v3y0u Red was the Rani’s signature colour; she was given to wearing red gloves as I recall, to go with the rest of her red sparkly outfit. But as @PhaseShift and @Mudlark point out, the red nails might be a reference to the more recent “Cult of Saxon” which recalls RTD1 era’s John Simm Master.

    I rather hope we’re not getting a retro-rei…[Read more]

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic The Giggle

    Martin Belam on T’Other Place suggests that the red-nailed hand picking up the Master’s gold-tooth compression-prison is the Rani.

    I do wonder if it is indeed, she.

    If Ncuti-Doc has tried to heal his past selves’ traumas through “bi-generation”, giving Fourteen a family to rest with, it begs the question as to whether the new Doctor has really…[Read more]

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic The Giggle

    Bi-generation? In his knickers?

    Ncuti’s Doctor is as charmingly full of charisma as I knew he would be. He’s going to eat up the role.

    I suppose the bifurcated regeneration is the Marvel-isation some were worried about, in that, should Tennant-Doc want to get back in his bi-generated TARDIS (and take Marvel’s money) there’s no reason why paralle…[Read more]

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic Wild Blue Yonder

    @Whisht

    … there’s an entire comment of yours on this thread I should link to as I want to hug it.

    Awww shucks 🙂  I’ve been enjoying having you and @ScaryB back in the DJing box, and actually some of the lyrics to that Tom Waits song you posted, Who Are You, combined with @Phaseshift ‘s musing on the “Celestial” element of the Celestial T…[Read more]

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic On the Sofa 11

    Hello Sofa denizens,

    I stumbled on this “A Life in the Day of Tom Baker” from the Sunday Times 1978

    A Life in the Day of Tom Baker, 1978

    Utterly charming and utterly neurotic, and far too many drinks in one day.

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic Wild Blue Yonder

    @jimthefish

    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]

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic Wild Blue Yonder

    @Mudlark

    The outrage it would cause in the ARSE brigade and beyond would be delightful to witness

    It really would 🙂

    Yes, you’re right that Gethenian and Time Lord physiology are clearly somewhat different, but I suppose I think of Gethenians as “gender fluid” in their own way too because, as you say, at the time of kemmer, they either…[Read more]

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic Wild Blue Yonder

    @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]

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