@mudlark After watching the two extant episodes, I was reading about the audience reception.  Apparently a significant number of television sets had been purchased at the time of the coronation. But there was little experience of actually watching a thriller on TV. On the basis of the two episodes I watched last night I can only imagine the…[Read more]

@mudlark I share your nervousness at dark spooky places. (I’m not as bad as I was). But movie directors know, it’s not what you *can* see that’s frightening, it’s what you can’t. The noises in the future base at the end of time in ‘Listen’ for example, scare the daylights out of me.

As a University student I had a holiday job with the…[Read more]

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The 1958 version of “Quatermass and the Pit with Andre Morell is brilliant, and still very creepy. I have it on DVD, and a quick check reveals it is still available for purchase in the UK and North America. Surely a new year’s treat is in order…

Another TV adaptation of a distinctly British version of “end of the world” fiction that…[Read more]

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Robert Holmes… I meant ‘animal exploitation’ of course! How I hate spell check. I only looked up the other Lulubelles because I couldn’t believe it was down to Floyd + Geesin!

River could be prior to ‘Mel’ in ‘Let’s kill Hitler’… if the Silence and Long Joan Evil Cow had vortex manipulators. Cos it looks like that tech had got everyw…[Read more]

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Mrs Flood–not sure how she could be Susan (even if the age gap works) as the Doctor left his granddaughter in a future, devastated, London at the end of “The Dalek Invasion of Earth”. No?

Like you, I think RTD will surprise us with something entirely different.

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@mudlark The BBC seems to be flooding the airwaves with clips at the moment, encouraging all to see, but yes, perhaps I should err on the side of caution with future clips.

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]

@ps1l0v3y0u Red was the Rani’s signature colour; she was given to wearing red gloves as I recall, to go with the rest of her red sparkly outfit. But as @PhaseShift and @Mudlark point out, the red nails might be a reference to the more recent “Cult of Saxon” which recalls RTD1 era’s John Simm Master.

I rather hope we’re not getting a retro-rei…[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]

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@devilishrobby beat me to it, but the start of End of Time Part one has flashbacks to the scene indicating it was ‘The Cult Of Saxon’.

Time to break out that copy of Lord Voldermorts Bumper Book of Resurrection Spells again!

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* But if I failed to notice on first viewing that Nathaniel Curtis’s skin tone and facial features differed slightly from the North European norm, maybe my powers of observation are not particularly reliable

Ha! Me too 😉

But I think you’re spot on with the class thing (which @Jimthefish pointed out in a blog post many moons ago, and i…[Read more]

Hi, @mudlark, yes, saw that. I see also that there’s a rumble of ARSE about the animation style but I have to admit that I rather like it. (Oh, and @blenkinsopthebrave, Celestial Toymaker, such as it is, duly watched. Lots of fun, despite having two of the most annoying companions ever on board and Hartnell being just a bit too pixie-ish for my…[Read more]

@Mudlark I noticed that Graun article too, and thought exactly the same thing. Thanks for posting.

Wibbly wobbly timey wimey… Who’d a thunk it, eh?! 😉

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plagiarising yourself though?! I suggest this makes Geoff the David Bowie of the Middle Ages.

I love the bit in the HotKoB where Ambrosius favourite hangout is a holy place named after… himself?? (Cloister of Ambrius). Must have inspired Burroughs (and so Bowies’) cut-up lyric method.

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twas none other than The Black Adder that labelled Geoff one of the great liars of history (Henry vii being almost as bad). My use of the adjective ‘kind’ is very relative here. Barbieri thought it was mostly nonsense too.

Miles Russell in ‘Arthur and the Kings of Britain’ shows that Geoff copies and pastes biographical details…[Read more]

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The outrage it would cause in the ARSE brigade and beyond would be delightful to witness

It really would 🙂

Yes, you’re right that Gethenian and Time Lord physiology are clearly somewhat different, but I suppose I think of Gethenians as “gender fluid” in their own way too because, as you say, at the time of kemmer, they either…[Read more]

@BobbyFatv2 –

Oh, that’s interesting. I never thought of that and it’s starting to make me think of the episode in a whole different light now.

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I was wondering if the various bits and pieces were on there as well as the full stories. Right then, I’ll check out the lone episode of The Celestial Toymaker before the weekend.

@mudlark That is incredibly cool – just read the article on wobbly spacetime.

They haven’t done the experiment suggested yet (re tiny mass fluctuations) to prove or disprove it – so the galactic jury is still out!

@jimthefish I feel your “Controversies in Dr. Woke” article should also be posted here!

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Ha!

 I rest my case.

The Doctor’s old too. Just sayin’  🙂