@thane16 Hello Puro and son!

There’s just been a really good exhibition on the Pre-Raphaelites at Tate Britain in London – notable for exploring Christina Rossetti’s work and Elizabeth Siddal’s work, and for bringing the class dynamics of the so-called “brotherhood” to the fore in a way earlier exhibitions of this kind would not have done (middle…[Read more]

@mudlark That is incredibly cool – just read the article on wobbly spacetime.

They haven’t done the experiment suggested yet (re tiny mass fluctuations) to prove or disprove it – so the galactic jury is still out!

@jimthefish I feel your “Controversies in Dr. Woke” article should also be posted here!

@craig That’s brilliant – times are indeed horrendous – the Doctor would be proud of you 🙂 (donated)

Nipping back to say, that seeing your doppelganger was considered an ill omen and a harbinger of your death, in Gothic literature, as in Poe’s poem Silence (1833) here:

There are some qualities—some incorporate things,
That have a double life, which thus is made
A type of that twin entity which springs
From matter and light, evinced in solid an…[Read more]

@robertcaligari  Well, representation, casting and identity are certainly complicated contemporary questions, on several fronts, so, having a discussion about it is perfectly acceptable!  The people I have contempt for on this question are those with no interest in thoughtful debate, who just want to scream that some cultural artefact or other i…[Read more]

Back for breakfast…

@blenkinsopthebrave and @miapatrick <waves>  I’m guessing “mavity” isn’t just there for fun, but it’s going to be a butterfly effect, which will come back to haunt them in the next episode?

Newton uttered the word after Donna left in the TARDIS, but although she didn’t hear it, it would have been written down as such by…[Read more]

Dopplegangers are unfailing scary, as gothic fiction knows, and these double-walkers from the universe’s edge with their too long arms, were certainly that.

And why not, when you’ve got two great actors, with great chemistry, and only three episodes, stick them in the black emptiness at the edge of everything and watch them spark together.

I…[Read more]

@craig  – I know absolutely nothing about back-end web design, but please let us know if we can help e.g. a crowdfunder if funds are needed? Sounds like a good idea to do it in the fallow period between the specials and before the start of Ncuti’s run proper.

I suppose I’d say – keep the archived threads of old, if possible, and keep the tag…[Read more]

Den of Geek has a nice article identifying as many as possible of the Who aliens fashioned in Rose 2’s Toys:

Which Doctor Who Monsters Were Hidden Among Rose’s Toys and Childhood Drawings?

I think they missed one though – top left in the dark corner, The Face of Boe, right?

https://images.app.goo.gl/mKd8kgWupvp6TMm2A

@Craig I…[Read more]

It’s great to see the band getting back together , old and new, to our delightfully over-analysing space!

@ScaryB <waves>

I enjoyed Pat Mills’ review of The Star Beast – many thanks for that.

@JimtheFish <likewise waves>

RTD2 is indeed a perfect moniker, and all power to the hive-mind of the interwebs for creating it. I am interested to see…[Read more]

The password the Doctor created to Donna’s mind-wipe:

Westerly, Pelican, Dreams, Tornado, Clifftops, Andante, Grief, Fingerprint, Susurration, Sparrow, Dance, Mexico, Binary, Binary, Binary,

I suspect, knowing RTD’s mischevious side, that he can’t wait to watch its hyper-analysis by fandom, trying to “crack” said code, when it’s probably the…[Read more]

Hello Everyone <waves, wearing a big scarf>

Ooh I’ll have a jelly baby @Craig. It’s been a minute, but here we are – sixty years – what a wonderful Whovian life.

I’ve just watched the new behind-the-scenes show Doctor Who Unleashed on I-Player and it was lovely to see RTD back in the saddle and supporting Yasmin Finney, talking about trans rep…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip <waves>

But I agree that, when we look back, we will see this as a great ‘opening up’ era

Yes, and I am really grateful for it. The seeds were sown in The Doctor’s Wife, with the off-screen appearance of the Time Lord, the Corsair, described as sometimes regenerating male-embodied and sometimes female-embodied. And Missy and Whi…[Read more]

Hello Everyone!

I got absolutely soaked in a really wild thunderstorm on my way to the pub at tea time, so had to come home and try to dry the chill off my bones in time to settle in for The Power of the Doctor.

I was watching the incredible special effects and thinking, you know, I really wish we had lower production values and more frequent…[Read more]

Hope you’re feeling better @scaryb , and @winston that the rest of your family stay Covid free. It’s everywhere right now – bloomin’ Covid Christmas, as Raymond Briggs would say. I’ve been indoors for the last ten days with my sis, as she tested + on Christmas eve. So far I’ve escaped – lots of open windows! We are out of Covid-gaol…[Read more]

HNY everyone.

I was delighted that Yaz’s romantic feelings for the Doc were acknowledged in text.

It’s really, deeply meaningful for gender non-conforming and LGBTQ+ fans to have watched the Doctor become gender-fluid by way of regenerations and now, in the Doc’s awkward fashion, perhaps romantically, fond of certain humans regardless of…[Read more]

@ichabod – your characterisation and frustration did make me smile 🙂

I do appreciate feeling slightly crazed (as above) by the kitchen-sinkyness of it all. Some of the mystery I liked, however, because the universe is mysterious, after all.

I mean yes, totally, what was The Grand Serpent’s motivation? He seems to have been a dictator on…[Read more]

Hi Everyone,

I only managed to watch yesterday and did get a vertiginous sense of kitchen sink. I’m still digesting.

There are elements I’ve appreciated very much about this “mini-series”. I feel Whittaker now fully inhabits the role of the Doctor. Her relationship with Yaz has developed an emotional meaning which anchors relations on board the…[Read more]

@Miapatrick “I think we have seen the Doctor’s parents, and they’re human”

Yes, I’ve seen the spec elsewhere on the interwebs that Bel and Vinder are the Doctor’s parents.

I mean certainly, the fact that Bel is pregnant, does seem pregnant with meaning.

In terms of timey-wimeyness, there would be a time paradox going on though?

Bel and Vin…[Read more]

Hi Everyone,

Like you, @Oochillyo , I enjoyed this episode.

The Doctor’s new origin story is a bit galactic fairytale isn’t it?

A foundling, she confronts the Evil Step-Mother who experimented on her as a child. A mother who stole her genetics to create her (adoptive) species, recruited her to meddle in and control Time, and mind-wiped her when…[Read more]