@miapatrick

Evil of the Daleks was supposed to be Terry Nation’s last Dalek story before he found an American buyer for the pepperpots.

How meta can you go?

@miapatrick

Evil of the Daleks was supposed to be Terry Nation’s last Dalek story before he found an American buyer for the pepperpots.

How meta can you go?

@miapatrick

It’s happened before. Evil of The Daleks, doc 2, 1967. The Daleks get imbued with ‘the human factor’, start questioning orders and become very childlike.

‘Why?’

’Dizzy Daleks.’

@miapatrick

Bigger budgets, but yet, I don’t think it’s affected the contents

In a recent interview Moffat talked about budgetary constraints for this season, so it seems the writers’ ideas are outstripping the accountants’ ability to pay for them. As it ever was.

Interestingly, the first Doctor story The Edge of Destruction was a bottle ep, onl…[Read more]

@miapatrick  @cookgroom

The inability of the ambulance AI to identify Ruby’s next of kin was clearly supposed to be significant, and not simply down to the fact that she had just arrived on the planet and the information was lacking in their records. In fact, since the ambulance  was  able to identify her date of birth and calculate the years th…[Read more]

@miapatrick @scaryb

I do wonder if all these little apparent errors and anachronisms are deliberate. Maybe the world we are watching is not our world but another. And not in an alternative universe type way. I am thinking back to what @janetteb said on one of the other forums in a discussion about the 2nd Doc ep The Mind Robber.

In that ep the…[Read more]

@Miapatrick I thought he said “run” but then also went to hide – which is what Ruby commented on. “Run” is definitely the Dr’s thing, as you said. Need to watch again, as I may (very well) be wrong..

@ps1l0v3y0u I wasn’t having a go at you, your comment just brought back vivid memories of how snowy that year was. (Maybe it’s the alternate…[Read more]

As so often, I’m late to the party, but for what it’s worth I thought this episode an improvement on the Space Babies and on the whole I enjoyed it. The basic concept had a lot of potential, but it was as if RTD, having seized on a good idea, never developed it so far as to explore all the implications. As @cookgroom   @miapatrick and @juniperfish…[Read more]

@ScaryB

I’m also a huge fan of the fishes in this Forum!

Awww, right back at ya, Scary.

@Miapatrick

Yes to your point about the episode’s commentary on reproductive rights, parenting and refugee rights. And all perfectly in keeping with Doctor Who’s long tradition of being political science fiction, from the Daleks-as-Nazis-metaphor to the c…[Read more]

@gotthejam there are oh so many places on the internet for you to rant about ‘woke crap’ and make weird comments about consequences and impressions from drag queens. This just isn’t one of them.

wow @miapatrick, well said, well said.

@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]

Just regarding the cost of playing Beatles songs I guess things have changed in the last thirty years because I am sure that Goodnight Sweetheart would not have been paying huge royalties in the 90s.

Wondering if the Margaret Lockwood reference was meaningful but can’t see anything on her IMDB that would suggest any link. The Lady…[Read more]

@miapatrick

I noticed this line from The Toymaker: ‘I made a jigsaw puzzle of your past – did you like it?’

We know the flux stands, revelations about The Doctor’s origins and the genesis of the Timelords stand. But I wonder about this. Is this a little seed that can be used when needed?

This is a good spot. There was also the Toymaker’s comment…[Read more]

@miapatrick

Sarcasm

Definitely. It called back also to Davros’s rant (that word again) at 10 about the Children of Time, and how the Doctor made them his weapons.

@miapatrick

He might become the Curator.

This is interesting. Someone else said this to me, and I went away and thought about this for far longer than is healthy. That would mean that 14 at some point regenerates at least once and can – potentially – choose his new face.

My assumption was that 14 wouldn’t be able to regenerate again, but maybe…[Read more]

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]

@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 See, my concern with a show like Bridgerton is the fact that it basically exists in a utopian alternate history where racism was never a problem. I would give almost anything to live in such a world, but sadly, we don’t. On the other hand, what exactly is preventing our children and our children’s children from getting the idea in…[Read more]

Ah, sorry so late to the discussion, had to be out of town on Sat, Sun and just caught up. Lots of interesting discussion above which I’ll get back to (and great to see everyone including @WhoHar @thane16 @miapatrick @phaseshift again)

The episode – WOW! I really loved it. But then I’ve loved weird Who since way back to Edge of Destruction! Not…[Read more]

@juniperfish @miapatrick

Did anyone else think about E-space from Tom Baker’s day, and the Great Vampires?

Actually your musings on salt and mythology reminded me of something else from Tom’s era. If you fancy looking at it on i-player, it’s in season 15 and called ‘Image of the Fendahl‘. It shares a link with ‘State of Decay‘ in that the F…[Read more]