@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]

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]

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]

@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]

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.

@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]

@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]

@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]

@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]