@nerys    I often find  Satellite View  (in Google Maps) is a lot better at showing tracks, than the regular map view.   Though it does depend a lot on the terrain.    And of course I’m talking about viewing it on a laptop with wifi Internet, which is probably a non-starter in the mountains  (unless you saved the screen previously).

@nerys    In hindsight, I should have phoned the Emergency Assistance number as soon as I was established in my hotel room at 1 a.m.   (They are 24-hour I think).   I expect they would have had a new car lined up by the time I finished breakfast.   But I was too tired to bother, and the subsequent confusion was all my fault   (they were far too po…[Read more]

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DW with no disaster??? Disaster would seem to be a dramatic necessity. Therefore The Fam might be seen as a ploy to rewrite said rule. A disastrous one of course.

Stupid coincidence is more of an issue.

Sleep No More. Oops Clara ‘accidentally’ fell into of those sinister looking coffins. ‘Doctor… perhaps it’s a bed. Let’…[Read more]

@nerys  Umm. Well, in the hope that Craig will pardon the bandwidth… I picked it up from Valence TGV station, I had a Fiat 500 booked but they ‘upgraded’ me to a MG ZS. The 500 would have been ideal for narrow Alpine roads, the ZS less so. Some cars, I can tell precisely where they are on the road; others, I have some trouble accurately judging…[Read more]

@janetteb @winston @nerys My recent travels (as I probably mentioned already) included two weeks driving an Opel Corsa around the Alps and two weeks of a dinky little Toyota Aygo in south of England country lanes, without putting so much as a scratch on either (for the first time ever). Boring. But as winston commented, all the best stories tend…[Read more]

[Whoosh!] That was me zipping overhead from Revolution of the Daleks to Eve of the Daleks without touching down on the way past.

@nerys As I recall it, this season was six unrelated stories with a background apocalyptic universe-wide disaster, all highly confusing. The Weeping Angels one was far the best, I think, but it got undercut by the…[Read more]

@janetteb  @dentarthurdent   @ps1l0v3y0u   @nerys    I really enjoy the Christmas episodes and watch them again every year in order. I like them all though of course I have some favourites like The Husbands of River Song and Doctor Mysterio and Voyage of the Damned. I like the fun ones I guess and I appreciate some others for being great episode…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u  @nerys   @janetteb  @dentarthurdent   I am late to the table but here goes my attempt at my favourite non Moffat episodes for each series.

1.  Dalek     The 9th Doctors reaction when he saw the Dalek and his frenzied attempt to get away let me know  how dangerous they were and the Doctors contemptuous rant  was some pretty great…[Read more]

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AU… alternative universe: generally it adds a new perspective to the run of the mill stuff we’ve become too comfortable with. Always tell a story 2 different ways if you can.

exposition… it’s a sign that the story can’t be resolved through narrative and really doesn’t add anything.

So Family of Blood. The…[Read more]

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AU… alternative universe: generally it adds a new perspective to the run of the mill stuff we’ve become too comfortable with. Always tell a story 2 different ways if you can.

exposition… it’s a sign that the story can’t be resolved through narrative and really doesn’t add anything.

So Family of Blood. The…[Read more]

@janetteb I wouldn’t say The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe is a _bad_ episode. It just didn’t do anything much for me – I guess that’s a matter of personal taste.
In general those vaguely Dickensian ones (Lewisian ones?) don’t appeal to me. One that I did really like – which surprised me – was A Christmas Carol.

Of the specials, I…[Read more]

@nerys @dentarthurdent @janetteb

It’s interesting that there seems to be broad agreement here… I guess that a lot of the chosen episodes either show:

a strong sci fi idea

or a good spiky script ala Moff, even if it’s not Moff

Moff and Mathieson alone deliver both the swerves and the big image… this is what foxed everyone in Empty Child/Da…[Read more]

@nerys

the challenge are to find the best episodes NOT written by Moffat.

As a friend of mine commented Moffat was the best writer for RTD, and also the best writer for Moffat. What of the others? What makes good Who?

To that end, I suggest, aside from the obvious ‘seasons’, the specials and Christmas Specials are their own categories, out…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u @winston @janetteb @nerys

I can’t resist a list like that, or rather, making my own.

Best non-Moff eps. (By the way, was there any season to which the Moff contributed in which the best ep of the season was NOT one of his?)

Season 1 – The End of the World was fun, visually, and satisfied the classic sci-fi trope of space…[Read more]

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Non Moff best eps

Series 1: Dalek. Nu Who has arrived.

Series 2: controversial… Rise of the Cyberman/Age of Steel, but only because I know Love and Monsters would be howled down

Series 3: controversial 2… Human Nature/Family of Blood should do it but it is saddled with that voice over exposition. Boo! The Sha…[Read more]

@janetteb   The Doctor’s Wife is excellent!  Such a wild combination of sheer terror experienced by Rory and Amy and the fun weirdness from Uncle and Auntie and the strange bitey lady who turns out to be the Tardis. Have fun.

@nerys   That is what makes this site so good. The people are great. I agree with you about these 2 episodes, they are…[Read more]

@nerys

More incoming! They think we’re all dead. Maybe we need to make some chat.

Empty Child/Doctor Dances for instance… unbelievable innuendo. In fact, beyond innuendo, I really didn’t get it at the time…

More interesting stuff.

Please!

@nerys I’m sorry I missed your reply, I wasn’t ignoring you 🙂 Just semi-sentient recovering from my trip. Like you, I’ve been ‘woke’ (ugh!) on climate change for a long time. The world can’t keep absorbing more people with a higher standard of living (and hence energy and materials consumption) forever. The old traditional methods of…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @nerys

Web of Fear… I remember watching this. Rather liked The Yetis as a nipper. All the critters from this era made a big impression. I suppose identifiable mooks are good for kids.

The pictures of Jasper are horrific. When the UK had its record breaking day (40 degrees) 2 years ago about a 1/4 of a village called W…[Read more]

@nerys   We were there about 10 years ago and it was such a beautiful place. Everywhere I looked took my breath away and some brought me to tears. Now I cry for the people and the animals and the loss of so much forest. So many fires all across Canada in the last few years all causing devastating damage.

Communities across the country are a…[Read more]