I think @purofilion was understating when she said people on the board were ‘on fire’. Lots of good stuff coming up. Will try to comment a bit later on a few issues, but I’m up in Whitehaven at the moment, relying on wi-fi in a town that just feels like the 1950s. Loved the picture that @craig posted though, so had to sign in.

The beer in…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @juniperfish

Sorry, my schedule is hell at the moment and I completely glossed over your fascinating discussion on the Arthurian references.

Yes, completely bang on with the Battlefield reference @bluesqueakpip, and I always got the impression he’d both been and would be Merlin again. The once and future Wizard.

If this plays…[Read more]

With dear ol Shirley Bassey getting a callout in Under the lake I suppose I should go for her, but I’ll leave it to someone more familiar with her work.

I’ve mentioned Bowie on other threads tonight, and have been reading details from the latest Mars analysis. Flowing water and methane spikes in the atmosphere. Could it…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

Doctor Who was being watched by about two fans and their pet Dalek*

That would be me, you and Rusty then? Simpler times.

@juniperfish

Good calls on the Tarot!

On the deaf character, while it is early days into the series, I’ve noticed a couple of lines that play into synesthesia, that blurring of the senses. Missy had that line about artificial gravity ‘tasting coppery’. The skewed senses of the Daleks being transmuted into weaponry.

It will be interesting to…[Read more]

Just how different does this series feel to newer viewers I wonder? The pacing feels significantly different to recent series, doesn’t it?

I thought this was really intriguing as a setup. Obviously a lot of callbacks to the base under siege style of the BG period. And Quatermass, of course. If you are going to rob, go for the biggies.

All for…[Read more]

Great links @craig and a heartwarming story about the potential museum. I think it’s actually pretty horrific that the mud Edison slung at Tesla stuck in many ways, which means he has never quite been celebrated.

I think that is why he’s perfect for Who though. He was essentially an idealistic socialist working in a system where his investors…[Read more]

While I was away, I caught a bit of The Prestige. I love The Prestige. It’s a great film. It also, unfortunately, sets me off on a bit of a rant.

We’ve had historicals dealing with Queens, writers and painters in Doctor Who. Huzzah for Victoria, Agatha Christie, Dickens and Vincent. Great subjects that deserve the Who touch.

But let’s have a…[Read more]

@lisa

I’ve added a possibly spoiler alert to your post.

@bluesqueakpip @juniperfish @pedant

Interesting news. I got back earlier today and tried to get some sleep this afternoon. A repetitive ‘pinging’ sound interrupted this attempt and I finally discovered the source was this story. It was the sound of a couple of hundred dummies ricocheting off computer monitors as they were spat out by intemperate…[Read more]

@kharis @juniperfish

Hi – the Tarot came up in a response to a site blog by @tommck during series 8 and we were discussing the identity of Missy. I thought series 8 was loaded with the major arcana archetypes and placed Missy as Death. There was a great response by @drben on the fools journey after it.

Nothing to stop you developing and…[Read more]

One interesting thing about this two partner from a personal perspective.

For the last couple of years we’ve been running the BG retrospective of Doctor Who. Every time Tom Baker has come up for nominations for a story, there it sits. Genesis of the Daleks. An undoubted classic, but one that many old fans have discussed to death. We’ve always…[Read more]

So, I was thinking about Witch songs and, unsurprisingly perhaps, the thought of young women dancing about without their draws on seems somewhat more appealing to musicians than magicians.

We can’t have seen the last of Missy this Season can we? No. Nay, nay and thrice nay! This is….. the season of the witch!

(It was laboured intros like this…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip

Absolutely brilliant! 😀

@whisht

At the time it just felt ‘wrong’ unlike when the performer themselves pass away. Almost certainly weird ‘standards’ on my part but there you go

I understand that completely, I think. If an artist dies you’re celebrating their acheivements. A virtual wake. Something like the loss of a child though? 🙁

@juniperfish

If Who ever does a musical episode (oh go on, please) Davros and the Doc just have to rock out to “Let’s do the Time Warp Again”.

I think the predictable wails of “ripping of Joss” would prevent this, but I do think it could be remarkable fun….especially if they could get Bleach to do some unhinged songs for it.

For those who d…[Read more]

@scaryb

Snap with you and @juniperfish on the creepiness of the Asylum take.

Haha.
Assuming Missy’s telling the truth of course.

Maisie Williams Pond, Missy’s daughter! Let’s kick off a speculation trend!

Just how good was Bleach in that!? I thought his performance in Stolen EarthJourney’s End was the best since Michael Wisher and did something I thought would be impossible. It combined ticks from all the performances before it. I think this is where he delivers a definitive performance of his own. He almost had me convinced this was his redemption…[Read more]

@denvaldron @fatmaninabox

Skarro got blowed up in Remembrance of the Daleks. Not shimmy shammied, not catapulted into another dimension. It actually got blowed up, by Davros himself, falling into the Doctor’s trap with a stellar manipulator. Very kablam. It got better?

Ah? You mean you haven’t come across the ‘official’* explanation for t…[Read more]

@juniperfish

The Maldovarium is a Star Wars tribute, from beginning to end, as has been pointed out before, so perhaps this is the Who version of “Did Solo or Greedo shoot first?”

Good call. It’s funny that SMs touchstone 50th century time period does really have that vibe of Star Wars (the Demons Run set in A Good Man Goes to War being ano…[Read more]