@juniperfish

Glad you’re enjoying the blog.

Baker’s Who often really reflected on questions of power. It was just, very often, rather more implicit than explicit about it.

Yep, I think that’s totally hitting the nail on the head. His era (or at least pre-s18) is about the destructive arrogance of power rather than the social structures of that p…[Read more]

@juniperfish wow! Not expecting that level of analysis. Really thought it just signified McGann. If hearts/cups signifies a change, might it be a return to four’s more subversive methods?

@WhoHar … is it that we’re enthused by these new stories, to pick at these details, or is this another example of Chibnall’s inability to spin a yarn?…[Read more]

@scaryb @juniperfish “you get a prize, honey” was just so beautifully delivered.

@Juniperfish

I have STILL not seen Time and The Rani. Truth be told I have avoided it and not just because I didn’t like ‘Mark of’ much either. As I remember, the best thing was the disdain the character showed for The Master. But I’m not very excited by her potential return; as Timelords can change gender, I’d rather welcome back The Monk or T…[Read more]

As requested by @ScaryB and @juniperfish (it’s very long, so I wouldn’t blame anyone who gave up halfway through…

https://open.substack.com/pub/cathode/p/doctor-who-and-the-warriors-of-culture?r=e49nm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

Couple of thoughts – if all the Doctors have bi-regenerated (bi-generated?) is that RTD doing a call back to The Curator in The Day of the Doctor? (And as I think @Phaseshift mentioned, it explains how they can come back looking older in The TARDIS Tales, or indeed any cameo appearances from now on).  The more I think about it the more impressed…[Read more]

Great comments as always, thanks everyone.

A “pet Tennant” 😀 Who wouldn’t want one of those?!

That’s interesting @Phaseshift about the bi-generation reverberating back through all the incarnations. I think Ncuti-Doc says something about he can only go on unencumbered by the PTSD if Tennant-Doc takes his retirement/rehabilitation seriously, so…[Read more]

@juniperfish @blenkinsopthebrave

The hand with the red painted fingernails picking up the tooth is an almost exact and obviously intentional parallel to the final scene in Last of the Time Lords, where we see the Master’s funeral pyre and then a close up of his signet ring lying on the beach, and a hand with red painted fingernails reaching to…[Read more]

@juniperfish

Oh, really like the suggestion that the red fingernail that picks up the gold tooth could imply the Rani!

@craig

It’s almost like RTD can never let David Tennant go

@juniperfish

I think you’re right @craig, that RTD can’t quite ever let Tennant go. But honestly, what’s not to love about that?

I honestly don’t think it’s that controversial to be honest but I think it’s bound to be read by some as a lack of faith in N’Cuti. They have Tennant in rese…[Read more]

@juniperfish

Perhaps The Celestial Toymaker is back to do battle with a member of his(her) own species…

Ooh, like it 🙂

@jimthefish

are you suggesting that there’s a link between the Fendahl and the Great Vampires — maybe relates species or sub-species? Cos I like that idea a lot.

Yes, although I blame Steven Moffat who had Missy musing that maybe all lifeforms may hit a technological point that they think “let’s give cybermen a go! What could go wro…[Read more]

Wow.

Just wow.

Not the episode. I enjoyed it, was happy to see Tennant and Tate again and sparring off each other.

But wow – it’s great to hear/see so many people being… erudite and bonkers and engaged again.
And that includes (newer) people saying “who the hell are you and do you mean me?”
:¬)

@juniperfish – there’s an entire comment of…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

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

haha, it is that, and another time (and place) altogether. Thanks for sharing

@juniperfish  @jimthefish

I guess regeneration is plastic only within core Shobogan DNA variations.

That’s exactly on point, I think. If Time Lords were capable of taking on on the appearance of any and every  life form they encountered they would be only a few steps removed from zygons, whose ability to morph has a very different biological b…[Read more]

@juniperfish

A whole other interesting concept we haven’t really discussed yet is the fact that, by human standards, Time Lords are also “race fluid”

That is an interesting point and has loads of implications — primarily to my mind whether there’s an aspect of regeneration that uses a kind of social camouflage or ‘imprinting’, as I think has b…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

All shiny and clean too!

Nice to be back somewhere civilised…

My recent post on the WBY forum about Louisa Harland, got me to a-thinking about Irish Folk Tales. I’m sure there is some mileage for Who in a “Celtic season” leaning on the traditional Irish Fairy and Folk tales. There be Fairies / Fae, Giants, Ghosts, Gods and…[Read more]

@juniperfish

Your suggestion of LeGuin’s Gethenians as a lens through which to view the Time Lords of Gallifrey is interesting and illuminating but, though the term gender fluid may apply to the people of Gallifrey, unless I have misunderstood the term I’m not sure that it describes the people of Gethen.

As currently established, Time Lords have…[Read more]

Well, if these last couple of forums have proved anything is that one of Chibs’ major failings was the ability to inspire any kind of significant speculation. Have to say I’ve missed this level of bonkerising.

@phaseshift

Interesting convergences you mention there. If entities in this story were proto-Eternals and the Toymaker is definitely one…[Read more]

@juniperfish and @jimthefish Many thanks for your contributions. Very kind. They will be put to good use.

Cheers.