@lisa   Oh, I like your take on the youthful Doctor/Master connection — very nice!

@bluesqueakpip Yes, there was not a new haircut or a new suit, he was wearing a tux.

@lisa loving the Tom Baker theory

@lisa, @purofilion, @bluesqueakpip et al–

The press releases suggested that in order to preserve continuity the Doc and River as the Doc is going to be essentially kept in ignorance of River’s identity, so they may not even have that many scenes together, depending on how they do it. But however they do, it’s clear the dynamic between McGann and…[Read more]

@purofilion and @lisa

There is indeed a minisode (First Night, Last Night), and it’s certainly when the Smith Doctor thinks it’s the last night ever.

However, he doesn’t have the ‘new haircut’. Possibly they couldn’t manage a wig on the minimal budget for a minisode. Or possibly Moffat did it on purpose – to give himself leeway in case he wants…[Read more]

@lisa  I have a feeling that the wording of my last post may have misled you.  It is only the first, 1953 Quatermass serial for which episodes are missing.  Quatermass II and Q and the Pit survive in their entirety and are available in digitally remastered form.  The visual quality of QII is not all that great, and I suspect that it is mainly of…[Read more]

@lisa  I was referring to the original BBC  television dramas – The Quatermass Experiment (1953), Quatermass II (1955) and Quatermass and the Pit, starring Andre Morell as Quatermass (1958/1959), each broadcast weekly in 6 half hour episodes – rather than the films which followed them (and which I have never seen).  Quatermass and the Pit was ‘mus…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip   Re Rock Follies, seconded!  I remember watching Widows and enjoying it, but it is Rock Follies which resonates in my memory, no doubt in part because of the innovative format, but also because of Julie Covington’s performance.

@lisa  Verity Lambert was involved in the last Quatermass serial in 1979 but, for me, that did not have…[Read more]

@nick @jimthefish @lisa @purofilion

Ha! Many thanks for the kind words on the Gallifrey theory. I’m guessing this is an undercurrent of SMs arc about where Gallifrey is, and I do like the thought.

@nick – especially glad to see you about. Hope you have resolved the medical issues.

@JimtheFish – Oh, I agree an explanation isn’t really…[Read more]

Crikey, everybody, I feel as if I’m watching Advanced Acrobatics (any contortion sufficiently advanced — ) at a Cirque du Soleil performance!  Love it.  And now I want that snow globe, please.  Best of all, the reminder — always welcome and always needed, IMO — that yes, this DW is science *fantasy* and will always be too far into fantasy fo…[Read more]

@ScaryB Waves. Nice to hear from our favourite Yeti. Hope life is treating you well.

@lisa. Good news or at least, good rumour. I hope this time it does get off the ground.

cheers

Janette

@lisa  Thanks for the link, above; I looked a bit deeper, and found that this man did in fact go and study Buddhism in situ pretty extensively, so I wouldn’t lump him in with the California-style New Age dabblers and cherry-pickers who emerged from the hippie movement in the US to become “spiritual leaders” by peddling pared down and cobbled up v…[Read more]

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Nice tracks from everyone. @lisa, I have to agree with @Whisht that the Dave Thomas piece is amazing. I have tried the accordion and simply can’t do it (too opposing actions at once, just couldn’t coordinate it), so the notion of playing accordion and something else simultaneously is mind blowing.

@TheKrynoidMan   Congratulations, enjoy your s…[Read more]

@Mudlark   @todeledo

I guess “invasive species” would be a more correct term. It does die back in the winter even when it doesn’t freeze, but it comes back and spreads massively in both wet and dry weather. And the one that has taken over where I live (in Vancouver, Canada) is a white flowered one that isn’t especially pretty, and if you dare g…[Read more]