@stitchintime @kharis Yes I think once you’ve met Adric you won’t forget him in a hurry!

@blenkinsopthebrave Great choice and fantastic reason as well though I do have one question! Did you by any chance get to watch The Power of the Daleks? And if so what were your thoughts at the time as I imagine it must have been very confusing and possibly…[Read more]

Hello everyone and thanks for all your answers! Someone mentioned having the engineer as a companion I think it was @ichabod and I thought that’s a great idea as I really liked his character and really like Frank Skinner and I’m pretty sure if Skinner was offered it he’d take it as I heard when he got the call to star in Doctor Who he was in the…[Read more]

@kharis

Osgood would be a fun companion. I hope they give us lots of companions in the new series and she is one of them.

Not much chance of that I fear – Osgood I mean.

Cheers,

Missy

@kharis

Me too, but it won’t happen – *sigh*

I’ve just watched some clips from “Forty Something” with PC playing Ronny Pilfrey.

What a laugh! He is hilarious, thank goodness I’ve got the series.

Anyone else seen this?

Cheers,

Missy

@arbutus Is it any particular Romana or just the character in general as I always thought they were both very good though I haven’t watched Lalla Ward Romana for a while now

@kharis The eleventh doctor is brilliant for bringing out the best in people even the guest characters he seems to have chemistry with everyone!

@kharis @ichabod @arbutus @winston

Hear, hear to all of you.

Cheers,

Missy

@ichabod @kharis       I love your Doctor descriptions, very eloquent. Matt Smith “dancing through his time as the Doctor”, and Tom Baker’s “larger than life flare”. Bang on! Regarding Capaldi, he has absolutely cemented his place for me as my favourite of the AG Doctors. Cranky but loveable!

@kharis   He is like someone with Aspergers who is somehow concealing he is an Empath, or protecting that side, almost burying it. He is complex and lovable.

Yep, that puts it very well.  I had a couple of teachers like this, in high school and college, strict and often really tired but caring, and they were the best.  As for Asperger’s — wel…[Read more]

@kharis I have to admit I do not really understand who the watcher is only that he is some version of The Doctor but I do know something and that is that The Watcher is one of the scariest things in Doctor Who. I’m not sure if I’m alone here but does anyone else feel very uneasy or slightly unnerved when you see the watcher on the other side of…[Read more]

@kharis

I have a strange sort of unformed idea that it is a part of himself,

That was definitely the impression that I got, when I watched it on first broadcast. The Watcher was a projection of his future self. What I never worked out was WHY it was necessary for a projection of the Doctor’s future self to come along and, y’know, watch.

But…[Read more]

@kharis @arbutus Yes I too have rewatched both scenes and I have to agree that it is definitely similar and obviously a hint of some sort. Great spot there kharis.

@Kharis    I’ve finally had a listen to the music at the spot you mentioned, and I agree. The use of electronic sound at that point and the rather angular melodic shape definitely sounds like early eighties DW. They used to be fond of a kind of synthesized sound that sounded to me like recorders, and a sort of triadic melody line, and this bit re…[Read more]

@Missy @puroandson @Kharis         Replying here rather than Before the Flood so as not to get modded (although I think the Mods must have all popped off to warmer climates as it is so quiet around here lately!).

I couldn’t agree more with the love for Murray Gold’s work on the show, it has been stellar. While there have been occasions when I…[Read more]

@kharis  Not that bit, but a rendering of “Breaking the Wall” that lays out the basic architecture of that part:

Might help in identifying?

@kharis  @TheDentistofDavros     Oh. I’ve just reread your post and you said “classical Who music”, not “classical music”.   Red face.  I don’t know about the other. I wouldn’t have thought so as my memory of the AG soundtracks is of a very different type of sound. But there was a lot buried in there, so who nose? Plus music is made up of repea…[Read more]

@kharis  @TheDentistofDavros     Definitely, there was Beethoven. I forget now exactly what it was as I haven’t seen it in awhile, but it was hugely affecting. I remember being stunned in general by the soundtrack of that episode, it was so unusual for DW and just gorgeous!

@pedant, @Kharis—

RE. fantasy casting. I’m afraid you’re never going to stop it. It’s just a rampant interwebs past-time and it’s not helped by actors and their agents jumping on a bit of free publicity by insinuating that they might be in line for the part.

However, as it’s now been more or less confirmed that Steven Moffat will be in the hot…[Read more]

(and puroandson @Missy @janetteb)

(moved to new news thread)

@Kharis

I find it disrespectful of these bloggers to be burying him before the body is even pronounced dead.

People on the internet being disrespectful, you say? I for one am shocked! But really, fantasy casting is rumour making.

yin/yang

:shrug: I’m not a big fan of dualism, nor of…[Read more]

@kharis As far as I know there wasn’t but i’d have to rewatch to confirm. It did have a classic vibe though and I have to say it was the best use of music in the new series. Absolutely beautiful honestly it stunned me how good it was.

@Puroandson @Kharis and @Missy. It has often been talked of P.J directing an episode given that he and S.M are friends “an’ all”. Not so long ago, and I know there is a link somewhere up thread or in spoilers he posted a video on his Facebook where he pretended to be fending off call from S.M. Peter might be a great director but he cannot act, at…[Read more]