@blenkinsopthebrave

They were all different, but they were all Who.

Indeed they were and continue to be.

As already indicated, I rate this episode pretty highly and I’m not sure what my further musings are worth, but here goes anyway.

The Giggle had a nice mix of who-ish ingredients. There was plenty of action with an occasional joke, and the…[Read more]

@scaryB

Binary, doppelgangers, bi-generation – I’m sensing a theme here

Exactly the same thought had occurred to me 🙂

Your mention of The Magic Shop sent me this morning to my overstuffed bookshelves and to a hefty tome – 1148 pages – containing the collected short stories of H G Wells. It belonged to my father originally, and for once  I mana…[Read more]

@devilishrobby  @phaseshift

Thanks .  Lord Voldemort’s Book of Resurrection Spells it is, then – that is, if I can find it on my double-stacked book shelves. 😉

This is an episode that I definitely want to watch again before attempting to comment at any length, and in any case it’s getting late and time I finished my glass of wine and started thinking about cocoa and bed.  I get the impression that RTD has reined in the tendency he had before of going OTT with the pyrotechnics to just the right amount…[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

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

Ooh, like it 🙂

@jimthefish

On the subject of The Celestial Toymaker which came up in the discussion of The Wild Blue Yonder, it has been confirmed that animated versions of the lost episodes are to be made.

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-the-celestial-toymaker-animation-confirmed-newsupdate

ps1l0v3y0u  Yes, plagiarism is not the least of Geoffrey’s sins, and where other sources failed him he shamelessly filled in the blanks by inventing his own ‘facts’ out of the whole cloth. The result is a racy narrative of its kind, but woe betide they who take it at face value.

@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]

@whohar @ps1l0v3y0u

Irish lore, including sources such as The Tain, would certainly be a rich vein to mine.

Where RTD is concerned the sources would be more likely Welsh, but at any rate it seems as if he will be straying in the general direction of folk tales next season. The interview in the dead trees version of the Radio Times provides a…[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]

@devilishrobby

As I recall the most recent deployment of the HADS function prior to this was in The Magicians Apprentice, when the Tardis was fired on by Daleks. Missy, with Clara in tow, employed a different sneaky system to exit the scene

@phaseshift

I’m actually finding myself weirdly disconnected from the episodes to the extent that I’m wondering what they are for exactly.

This question set me pondering in the early hours. I came to the tentative conclusion that, because these three episodes are intended to mark the 60th anniversary, the return of a generally popular Doctor and c…[Read more]

@jimthefish  Yes, the last episode of The Celestial Toymaker is also available on BBC i player, along with all the other surviving and reconstructed BG episodes

Sorry about the multiple posts, but I just wanted to add that, like @jimthefish , I very much like @devilishrobby ‘s suggestion that this and the previous episode might be part of a scenario devised by the Toymaker, thus providing a link between the three specials. I’m not entirely convinced about The Star Beast, since it was based closely on an…[Read more]

As for the fuss about the casting of the young Isaac Newton, I really can’t see the problem. I wasn’t previously familiar with Nathaniel Curtis and on first viewing I truly didn’t notice the colour of his skin, and it’s not even as if his features are markedly un-european, so why the fuss? Granted he bears little resemblance to the portraits of…[Read more]

Finally, space and time to put some of my thoughts into writing.

Once again, there was nothing complicated about this episode, it was just a good Doctor Who story, well executed in all respects, and with Tennant and Tate in top form, the double act all the more effective in what was essentially a two hander. As @jimthefish noted, it recalled…[Read more]

It looks as if the Doctor was right; it’s all wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff

‘Wobbly spacetime’ may help resolve contradictory physics theories | Physics | The Guardian

Will post my reactions to The Wide Blue Yonder as soon as I have the space and time.  Problems with plumbers, problems with my Tivo box and overseas Christmas correspondence pending.

@whohar

Granted, and I will allow that, his mind distracted by the urgency of the moment, he can be forgiven some confusion between old London, or even modern central London,  and the whole of Greater London with it’s vastly larger population.

Under no circumstances should this be taken as evidence that age = senility 🙂

@blenkinsopthebrave

….  “mavity”. Surely, that joke/word is first uttered by Newton after they have flown off, so why are they playing with it on the spaceship?

My assumption was that their encounter with Newton and Donna’s joke (Boom Boom!) had altered history, with consequences yet to be seen. Otherwise it would have been pointless.

As for…[Read more]