• JimTheFish replied to the topic Rose

    @nightingale

    Crikey! That’s harsh

    Yeah, it was a bit. In my defence, it seemed funnier in my head. And I definitely agree with your point that it was perhaps easier to shock in those days. Not sure I’d agree that the Pertwee era deliberately set out to push boundaries. It wasn’t afraid of injecting political ideas into Who, certainly and there w…[Read more]

  • JimTheFish replied to the topic Rose

    @nightingale

    The killer doll provoked a lot of complaints at the time for making children scared of their own toys.

    Yes, it did, but all that really suggests is that people were just as idiotic in 1973 as they are now. And while Robert Holmes definitely had ‘scaring the little buggers’ in his sights as part of his remit, I don’t think he wasn’t…[Read more]

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic The Kebab & Calculator

    @nightingale yarp and if the many (I now think, maybe too many) post-apocalyptic shows I’ve watched have taught me anything, it’s that it doesn’t look fun.

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Kebab & Calculator

    @nightingale This crisis is demonstrating that our entire economy and social model is without solid foundations. One little shake and it all tumbles down. One thing  I really hope is that this situation will lead to some revolutionary social change. Our excuse for a government has already demonstrated that they actually know that “trickle down”…[Read more]

  • Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @nightingale

    Yeah, technically what created the continuity snafu was ignoring the additional possible Doctors after Brain of Morbius and calling Davison the Fifth Doctor. I suppose you could say that was the point at which the continuity snafu starts.

    I’d have to re-rewatch the Deadly Assassin to double-check, but I think the Doctor is talking…[Read more]

  • Mudlark replied to the topic General Theatre thread

    @nightingale

    I had a very strong suspicion that was the case, but on the internet you never can tell, so I had to ask 🙂

     

  • Mudlark replied to the topic General Theatre thread

    @nightingale

    That certainly provides an interesting perspective on Endgame, but if anyone told you that it was a sequel to Infinity War it’s no wonder that you were confused 🙂 Or did you write this with tongue in cheek?   If not the latter,  Endgame was written as a one act play, originally in French but later translated by the playwright h…[Read more]

  • Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @nightingale

    He betrays no astonishment at his pre-Hartnell selves when psychically battling the outcast Time Lord Morbius, but is mindblown when receiving psychic exposition about them from the outcast Time Lord the Master.

    Yes, that’s a continuity problem. But there’s no good answer to it, because the pre-Hartnell selves were a continuity…[Read more]

  • JimTheFish replied to the topic The Kebab & Calculator

    @craig and @nightingale

    He was an actor of astonishing range and rare unpretentiousness and he never, to my knowledge, phoned it in. Even when he was doing something like voice work for The Elder Scrolls there was something compelling in his performance.

  • Davros replied to the topic On The Sofa (10)

    @nightingale

    Yeah I never really understood the lack of enthusiasm for Clara or Martha. My favourite companion is still Donna, though.

    (Rewatching all of post-gap Who with my 11 year old son and now his 6 year old nephew, continued: 2×12 to 2×13)

    “Army of Ghosts”/”Doomsday”

    Why oh why does the BBC give away the farm in the end-of-episode p…[Read more]

  • JimTheFish replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @nightingale and @blenkinsopthebrave

    Yes, I’d concur with the both of you on Nolan. I’m not a massive fan either. Jordan Peele is a good call though, maybe with a side of Rian Johnson thrown in. But I think @blenkinsopthebrave might be right on the money with Preston Sturges….

  • @jimthefish

    Thanks for the (lengthy) link. It was very insightful. As were your thoughts. Like @nightingale, however, I would not equate Moffat with Nolan. (I am at one with @nightingale on Nolan). So then I asked myself: who would I compare Moffat to? After some thought (and this is not a perfect analogy) but in terms of sheer story-telling…[Read more]

  • JimTheFish replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @nightingale and @phaseshift

    Yes, it’s a good piece but as you say could have done with a bit of editing. Whenever I see a lot of repetition, I don’t necessarily get suspicious but think that they should definitely call for an editor. I do agree with both you and their central point that Moffat was all about subverting the expectations of what…[Read more]

  • Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @nightingale

    that altered nothing of the mythos up to and including the TV movie.

    That’s quite true, but can we argue that a showrunner has to treat the Pre Gap mythos as sacrosanct? Which bit of it is sacrosanct? How do we reconcile the already existing inconsistencies? Moffat inserted an extra Doctor from the Gap into the running order.…[Read more]

  • BadWolfAlice replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @nightingale Yeah, I think it would be a interesting choice for a new Doctor to be introduced before starting her proper tenure. Especially because we still don’t know much about who Lee and Gat are, so it would be really interesting to get to know them throughout this Doctor’s era with the foreknowledge of what happened to them in Fugitive of the…[Read more]

  • Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @nightingale

    Yes, sorry, replied to wrong person. I’m definitely up for ‘River and the Timeless Child both got their ability to regenerate from the Time Vortex’.

  • BadWolfAlice replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @nightingale

    Hi! I’m glad you like the theory 🙂 I’m sure there’s a few holes in it but the same can be said about pretty much any theory at this point.

    That said, Ruth was on the run from Division-looking Time Lords such as Gat, which would appear to pin her down to her time in the Division in her youth.

    That’s true, but it’s possible that Ruth…[Read more]

  • winston replied to the topic On The Sofa (10)

    @nightingale  Hello from Canada!  The sofa here is very comfy so welcome and sit right down. Have fun here it is a great place.

  • Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic The Timeless Children

    @nightingale

    No, River’s origin story works fine. Just ask yourself where the Timeless Child got her ability to regenerate from?

    And Madame Vastra was very clear that it was in River’s DNA. I vaguely recall a big DNA diagram on screen, and she was rather delicately trying to ask if the Doctor was River’s father. Without using the words ‘sex’ or…[Read more]

  • JimTheFish replied to the topic On The Sofa (10)

    @nightingale

    Still building it…. You can’t rush these things, you know….

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