Oops!  @winston @ScaryB @juniperfish

@ps1l0v3y0u @devilishrobby

The overall effect may also become quite silly.

That’s my concern, and that the whole thing will be clumsily preachy about the environment (rather than cleverly showing us the ways the planet is being destroyed.

@juniperfish

You just know she comes from a family with an aga and the smell of wet dog in the kitchen in the…

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@blenkinsopthebrave ‘Planet of the Incels’ – I like that, though there was only one Incel in evidence and he was running the show.
I agree with your comment on the tone of the episode. The storyline was pretty heavy in places but somehow the deaths didn’t really register with full weight.

@ps1l0v3y0u @whohar It’s quite definitely Eiffel Tower, it…[Read more]

@devilishrobby @jimthefish @juniperfish

Valeyard… Villengard (and therefor their ‘Shell Company’ Harmony Shoal?) Vlinx:

We have limited knowledge of The Valeyard incarnation… basically he’s incarnation 12+

We have limited knowledge of The Master’s incarnations because Who Narrative follows The Doctor’s timeline. So:

? > Delgado > ?

? > Dar…[Read more]

@juniperfish —

Billie as Valeyard — yeah I wouldn’t be surprised if this is what happens. It strikes me that they’ve wanted to the Valeyard story for a while but the essential problem with it is that if you do it in terms of the rough A to B to C Doctor chronology then you essentially have to take the Doctor out of the equation as a character.…[Read more]

@juniperfish

Billie as Valeyard. Hmmm

I have been predicting the V man for a while, on the back of:

Vlinx

Villengard

REG in the scan; Simeon is still in The Doctors timeline.

And The Great Library (with its own nifty and inhabited VR) might be a super Data Slice to get it all off the ground

Because it’s all weird, isn’t it? It ain’t real.…[Read more]

I have to agree somewhat with @Juniperfish‘s comment about the Doctor apparently zapping Omega with something that looks like a big gun, but I accommodated this into my head canon as it not being an actual gun but a force-generator, so its intent isn’t to kill Omega, just force him back into the Underverse! But it’s important that the Doctor fixes…[Read more]

@devilishrobby Agree with you on hoping Ncuti would only give up a bit of regen energy but I think in real life he’s an an actor going places (hope so) and probably only signed up for a short time. I loved him as the Doctor, felt like a very fresh take on the character.

@juniperfish Agree with you (and I think @WhoHar and others made the point…[Read more]

Well, by and large, I thought it was pretty enjoyable. I am sorry I did not get to see it at the cinema, as it had a real cinematic feel to it. As it went on-and it did go on for quite some time, I was starting to wonder if it was going to compete with Wagner’s Ring cycle in both length and operatic delivery.

There were some things I had…[Read more]

Thanks to @Mudlark and @Juniperfish for spots and explanations about Blodeuwedd. Which fits with this season’s theme of myths, fairy tales, and the power of stories. In fact all of Ncuti’s/RTD2’s run.

And to @geoffers for clarifying my muddled thinking. Of course the Rani timetravelled from 1865 to 2025. Similarly, we (and the world’s…[Read more]

Hey @juniperfish – [waves] great spot on the Baba Yaga reference for the bone house/palace.
And her flying was very Wicked Witch (or Green Goblin!).
Maybe Poppy will ease the pain of hurt people, who hurt people?

;¬)

@thane16 – hellooo!
Thanks for the Gundry – he and that song is new to me!
Lovely thoughts on ‘choice’ and Conrad’s world.
As…[Read more]

Hallooo everyone. An exciting but short series!
Love the theories and the characters within the  the rich Blodeuwedd tale. @whisht A shout out to a QLD minimalist composer, Peter Gundry and his Blodeuwedd fantasy composition (available on YouTube).
@whohar you’re definitely one of the gods of prophecy (aren’t they all?)! Perhaps Apol…[Read more]

@mudlark @janetteb @juniperfish @ps1l0v3y0u @blenkinsopthebrave @cathannabel @scaryb @devilishrobby @dentarthurdent @krathoon @miapatrick @cookgroom @bunface @orionhunt @fozzyb @bobbyfatv2 @spacedmunkee @thane16 @Craig @whisht @winston @dwnerdfrommars @translatorcircuit

See above

Apologies to anyone I’ve missed off the list.

As to what’s goi…[Read more]

oooh a random thought.

@juniperfish [waves] mentioned in this post above
‘Bel(inda)’s a name may have meanings.

Also as @Whohar [another wave but I’ll stop after this] says in this post above
The character’s name was changed when they cast Sethu.

But they only changed the surname.

They kept ‘Belinda’.

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Knowing in advance that the writer was responsible for Kerblam and Praxis, I wasn’t particularly optimistic about this episode. And what about alien predators named Shreek … who shriek?  But the Shreek were of course just the mcguffin in this story and in the event I enjoyed it, if enjoyed is the right word. In fact the more I have reflected on…[Read more]

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@blenkinsopthebrave

Some intetesting points here. I tend to agree that the optics of a black Doc being “bad” would tend to rule it out. It would be interesting though to have the Doc turn to the dark side as it were. And it ties into the idea of the bi-generation splitting the Doc into two (this sounds a bit…[Read more]

@juniperfish

A couple of thoughts from Mrs Blenkinsop:

1. Would RTD2 really want anybody to think of the first Black Doctor, as the “Beast”?

2. The Doctor’s tears: When this Doctor bi-generated, he was full of positivity, whereas the Tennant  Doctor was completely devastated. Indeed, the new Doctor had to hold and comfort the Tennant Doctor.…[Read more]

@juniperfish

The 50’s generally in nuwho:

Remembrance of The Daleks (strictly 1963 but see below), The Idiot’s Lantern, Rosa, The Devil’s Chord (on the basis of the quote about the sixties really starting with the release of Please Please Me): it’s NOT a big sample.

Yes I think RTD may be attracted by preppy/mod stylings… he may think it appeal…[Read more]

@juniperfish

I was also struck by the similarity between Bel’s yellow 1950s dress and the pink 1950s dress worn by Rose in The Idiot’s Lantern, which was set in London in 1953 (and this episode is set in 1952 in the US).

Also I was struck by the similarity between the red-bodied robots in the first episode of this season, The Robot Revol…

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@ScaryB

I loved it, but my brain is completely tied in knots with all the meta bits! 😛 (In a good way).

The Doctor and Mr Ring A Ding have lots of visual (and other) parallels – bow ties anyone? Blue suit? Picking up a (simpering, Betty Boop-alike) female companion (in a yellow dress!) as he starts an adventure…

I think I n…

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