@janetteb @scaryb re music – I think it is a part of the best of us. Though I’m reminded how, just to really drive home her psychopath status, when Villanelle in Killing Eve was asked was kind of music she liked she said ‘national anthems’ ;). I think it’s just tat – not only is it appropriated for war-like purposes, this, pretty universal aspect,…[Read more]

@juniperfish. I was thinking that but I also thought that Danny and Orson were Susan’s grandchildren so I tend to look for Susan descendants everywhere.

@ScaryB. It was such a good post that I read half the repeat one before I realised.

As to “woke crap” well I welcome a return to the sincere politics of RTDs writing. His writing for Who at…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

Perhaps Susan is Ruby’s birth grandmother

Now you’ve got me! So where does Mrs Flood fit in? 😉

Maybe Susan is actually the Rani – went wrong as a result of being abandoned by the Doctor.

@JanetteB @Miapatrick – I take your point about martial music but I think music is actually the best of us; and it’s inbuilt – babies respond t…[Read more]

@Blenkinsopthebrave

I think you (and Mrs B) are spot on with 1925. That’s exactly the year the Toymaker sneaked in (and I think it’s related to the Doctor blowing the salt superstition in Wild Blue Yonder (he says something then about having made it up, and that he’ll pay for it, now that it’s out there that it’s a fallacy.).

@juniperfish…[Read more]

Mrs Blenkinsop and I just finished watching it. And my response? Well…there were no babies!

Beyond that, I don’t think we can accuse RTD of subtlety. Or perhaps that is unfair. His basic point about the need for music to live is, obviously, one that no-one should disagree with. I suppose my reservation was that I think he could have made that…[Read more]

@Jimthefish

I was put in mind of Oxygen too, and The Almost People – where people are expendible, and profit is priority.

@Juniperfish

I am a huge fan of RTD’s full-chest Doctor Woke.

I read in an interview with RTD (around the time of It’s A Sin) that he’d got to a point in life and career where he doesn’t intend to pull his punches. Fart jok…[Read more]

<waves back at @Juniperfish >

Good catch on Lady Madonna, and yes indeedy – the Doctor’s and Ruby’s outfits looked fab gear 😉 (although  maybe a little too Motown inspired for ’63 (I would’ve killed for Ruby’s boots back then!!)).

Talking of costumes, a little Easter egg – the old lady who got unceremoniously murdered by Maestro was played by…[Read more]

@juniperfish   I am still giggling while I write this. I am definitely not relaxed but I am a little happier. Thanks for that.

stay safe

@juniperfish

That made my day!

Brilliant.

@juniperfish

As it happens we’ve been listening to a lot of ‘Night Tracks’ on Radio 3.

Who this raised a chuckle!

@juniperfish Good one! Though I can’t help noticing Tom Lamont confuses Heaven Sent with Heaven’s Gate – which became famous as a disaster of a movie. And then there was the American cult that ended with them all committing mass suicide. What a mistake-a to make-a.

Thoroughly enjoyable and lots of mysteries for future untangling.

@juniperfish agree about the jewellery, there was a lingering shot of the Doctor’s hand on the bannister which seemed deliberate to show off his rings…

Mrs Flood made me think of River / Pond as did the baby and parent mystery for Ruby but not sure RTD would parallel a Moff sto…[Read more]

@oochillyo

Hi Declan,

Not much to add to the advice and support offered by the lovely people here (@ps1l0v3y0u, @juniperfish, @craig, and of course Grandma @winston ).

However, it does seem like we are online at the same time quite alot, (Maybe even same time zone), so feel free to reach out if you need a chat, and I’ll try to respond in a…[Read more]

@juniperfish @ps1l0v3y0u

A Gouda Man Goes to War

The Parting of the Wheys

Captain Colby Jack Harkness

@Juniperfish @WhoHar

Androgum chef prepared succulent half dressed nubile human companion Thermidor

Eric Seward’s cheesy Dalek surprise ala ‘Soylent Green’

Oi! You’re Scottish! Fry me some cheese!

Cardiff Bay Monterey Jack Welsh Rarebit

Cheese and Purple Celery

Carrot Juice

Hi all,
No real thoughts to add that others haven’t said better (and many many thoughts I’d not even considered!).
@juniperfish (catnip!) not only dissected the cards they merely cut, she stitched a whole wormhole to be lost down!
I’d just thought “ah, he lost” and “is 8 meant to be infinity?”

The only thing I can add that I haven’t seen…[Read more]

@juniperfish

“…Sheer campery”

from Eccleston. I’m definitely using that.

Great video – they are still obviously very fond of each other.

Loving Chris’s fondness / nostalgia for his Northern, working-class roots. I’d love to have a couple of pints and a chat with him – not about DW per se, but I bet he’s fascinating to talk with.

I’ve read…[Read more]

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Why adapt The Star Beast?

The story was written in the first year of Doctor Who Weekly in 1980. Very different times. I was 10 for a start! Living in the industrial Midlands in a mining town.

Obviously @jimthefish has talked enthusiastically about the production transition from comic to screen and I share his awe. 10 year old me would have been…[Read more]

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