@mudlark  Thanks for that. Totally appropriate for this episode and a kick-ass song besides. Way ahead of it’s time.

Sorry to see you were ill and glad you are better. Your poor neighbour  had such a horrible time.She must be very tough indeed, as we say here “good on her”. We have a lovely lady neighbour who made it through 8 days with no h…[Read more]

@Mudlark and @WhoHar – I also  realised that the yellow and blue of the Doctor and Bel’s outfits in this episode look like Disney’s Beauty and the Beast (1991):

https://people.com/movies/disneys-1991-beauty-and-the-beast-fun-facts/

Could the fact Belinda Chandra is called “Bel” for short, and Belle is the name of the heroine in Beauty and the…[Read more]

@mudlark

I don’t presume to speak on behalf of the forum. But…

No apology necessary. All forum’s members insights are welcomed at any time. Personally speaking, your posts are much appreciated.

Sorry to hear about your and your neighbour’s recent travails. Hard at any time, but Christmas makes it especially poignant. Hope all is well for you…[Read more]

@scaryb

Great to see you back! Am responding on this forum as it is just general “hi!”

As we are of a similar vintage (and like good wine, improve with age) I could relate to your memories of watching TV back in the’70s. My university days really began in ’75 (after a bit of disorder back in ’71 but all sins were forgiven). The mid ’70s years…[Read more]

@mudlark Spot-on analysis of Project 2025 and Trump. You explained that far better than I would’ve. Thank you!

@mudlark Project 2025 is terrifying. It’s as if the Self-righteous Right read “The Handmaid’s Tale” and took notes. People think the president doesn’t have that much power because of the balance of power between the three branches. But if you can reclassify thousands of federal civil service workers as political appointees, then those employees…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @dentarthurdent @mudlark @nerys @ craig

Well, in current circumstances, and particularly after the 1999 reform, discussion of tHoL is a bit like turning your lounger so you can better admire D-28.

But… is a bicameral system needed or are they all based on the model of tHoL?

What would I like? More effective checks and b…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u, @dentarthurdent, @mudlark, @nerys, craig,

Regarding PR, we all have different experiences, depending on the voting system we grew up with. In Australia, for instance, it operated in tandem with compulsory voting, and as such, worked quite well IMO. Would it work as well in the UK or Canada? perhaps not. Then there is the question of…[Read more]

@mudlark @dentarthurdent @blenkinsopthebrave @nerys @craig

What do we have?

Starmer’s government seem to acknowledge the limitations of their mandate, which is awfully humble of them. But they already sound a bit like a man trying to get out of a straight jacket. This hole is not going to be scaled by some Johnsonesque wheeze or flim f…[Read more]

Hi @mudlark @janetteb and all

At the moment I’m sitting in a second-floor room in Finsbury Park.   Leaving tomorrow to pick up a car and head for Cornwall via Hastings.   Been too busy to even poke my head into the Winchester for the last couple of weeks, rambling round the Alps having sundry adventures and misadventures.   (At some point I might…[Read more]

@mudlark @juniperfish

Not so much Badwolf as Madjack??

As good as any observation.

Though Sutekh went nowhere near Tardis or Time Vortex but was trapped in a space time portal for the rest of his natural life, because he wasn’t the messiah but a naughty little doggie. So, it doesn’t really matter what Rose said.

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

@mudlark -ah yes, no, I understood (a tad late) but I’m not sure that PPP is going to be any different to RTD’s original intention. It would be interesting if there was a different configuration.

@miapatrick. Absolutely. I wholeheartedly concur. & I think that RTD explained, somewhere, that the hooded woman was “shadowed by time……[Read more]

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

@mudlark @whohar @ps1l0v3y0u @vickymallard  et. al

I appreciate the theories but I wonder to what extent it’s likely the Christmas episode (or Eps 1-2, next season) will address issues of the Position of Pointing Person (PPP)  particularly the differences between the first & last episodes under forensic analysis? 😁

If it turns out R’s birth…[Read more]

@thane16 @mudlark

there won’t necessarily be a return to R’s mum.

I agree. But, @mudlark‘s forensic analysis strongly suggests something is going on. The scene in TCoRR is different to that on TLoRS, so it’s plausible that something manifested in the time window version of that scene. Possibly (very) bad, possibly friendly to Ruby.

So, no to a r…[Read more]

@mudlark despite the 2 women, I do think that there won’t necessarily be a return to R’s mum. Pretty sure Rus would say it’s all tied up -theme over slavish addiction to plot.

https://bleedingcool.com/tv/doctor-who-empire-of-death-what-you-missed-got-wrong-much-more/

Link ^^^ @Thane16 and for anybody else obvs.

@mudlark

I was Jesus’. Q. Why? A. ‘Because when people were killed Jesus had to make them alive again’.

Cowboys and Indians and Jesus. Now there’s a movie.

@mudlark

After reading your post, I am reminded of my initial response to the episode–that perhaps we should rebrand the subtitle of the Forum to: “Theories even more dramatically satisfying than what’s actually happening”