@mudlark

Oh – Many thanks. I think the thing about my current schedule (working a fair few evenings and nights) is that I’ve become thoroughly disconnected from what is on TV, in Autumn, when everything comes back. I seem to have missed every TV moment that people are talking about for about 7 weeks.

I’m delighted that HIGNFY is back, as I had…[Read more]

Morning all. Just before I nip out for chores ‘n’ stuff, a couple of links from the G, if you haven’t seen them.

Loved this little quiz “Who said it Doctor Who or Doctor Seuss”. General fun, but it strikes me there are good messages in both, with some interesting parallels.

Catherine Bennett has an occasional series on Modern Tribes, and this…[Read more]

OK – little bit of politics, but this made me laugh my head off. It’s a work of genius, but you can’t help feeling sorry for cassetteboy, the producer. The hours of footage from the recent Conservative Convention he must have sat through to produce this. I only saw “blink and you miss it” coverage in news highlight programmes, and I felt like…[Read more]

@Fatmaninabox

I’ve picked up a few bangs and scrapes myself with this work. I genuinly buggered my knee by walking into something concrete. That’s the thing about small furry animals. Apparently they are scared by light, and I need it to see. With someone as inherently clumsy as me, absence of light is a guarantee for disaster.

Glad you’re…[Read more]

@Cathannabel

Thanks for the link to that article. It reminds me of a podcast that the Splendid Chaps in Oz did last year looking at depictions of Religion and belief in Who. It’s well worth a listen.

I actually followed one of the links in the article to the profile of Malcolm Hulke. He’s mentioned in the article as being of a left/atheist per…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

I actually went to medical school when I was a young thing and managed a year and a half before leaving because the word “empathy” had not entered the classroom.

Hah! Yes, you seem a bit too interested in people to have that career. 😉 I don’t know if you’ve ever come across it before, but Radio 4 did a comedy series “Struck off and…[Read more]

@BadWulf

I guess you’re not stuck on a miserable commuter train out of London in the clammy drizzle then!

Nope – I’ve always felt that London is a fine city, demanding a lot of admiration, which also goes for the fine citizens who commute in and out of it.

To really admire it I’ve found it beneficial to stop a safe distance away from it. Yor…[Read more]

I had a couple of tracks for characters/interactions. And @whisht will be delighted that there is no thrash guitar here (although I’ll remain silent on the possibility of thrash sax and violins).

For Danny’s attitude to the Doctor being of “Officer” class, this gem by The Damned, Generals, came to mind. Seriously, if you haven’t heard their alb…[Read more]

@lisa

It’s been a while since I read the novel, but I think they were pictured and more or less presented as giant flies. I think the Doctor describes them as a pestilence, which would fit.

The Tardis Wiki entry is here.

Just a warning for you and anyone else on the New Adventures and BBC range of books from the 90s and 00s. Nothing is canon,…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

GET BETTER!! WE NEED YOU!!! (Sorry, but people screaming it at me seems to do something) 😉 Seriously though, I hope your Doctors taking good care of you. If he has the people skills of 12, let me know and I’ll come and slap him, until he improves.

I’m guessing it’s all part of the European heritage that’s been shipped about,…[Read more]

@handles

I’ve watched the first Gotham, and enjoyed it enough to want to continue. Its noirish look and feel is a treat. It’s funny – Chris Nolans first Batman film took some familiar aspects from Frank Miller’s Batman: Year One for Bruce Wayne, and this looks to be doing the same as some of the scenes of the young Gordon learning his way around…[Read more]

Just following on from the bit about the timing of the last episode, I note with some humour that the penultimate episode is on November 1st. The day after Halloween, but still, before sundown, Semhain. When the dead return.

I think our poorly @juniperfish may enjoy that thought.

May I just say that I love Autumn anyway. Having Doctor Who back…[Read more]

@Purofilion

Apologies if you thought I’d left Oz out of my recap. I know Australia, New Zealand and many others have similar arrangements, but it still astonishes me that many people think that the US ignores it for some reason. I actually think it would play well as a storyline because if you look at the major territories that Who is popular, t…[Read more]

OK, after watching it a second time, I think this is very good for what it wants to be.

It’s extraordinarily funny. What strikes me is that having a regular part in Doctor Who is a real gift to an actor because, as the Doctor says “It’s a real rollercoaster with you today”. This was a chance to flex the comedy muscles and the regulars rose ma…[Read more]

Here’s an interesting thought.

• Danny is a soldier with regrets in his past
• The Doctor is an officer/soldier with more than a few
• The Doctor promised to do something in Gretchen’s (a soldier) name. Remembrance, if you like;
• Remembrance of the Daleks was the last story to feature Coal Hill as a battleground;

Knowing that Steven Moffat has for…[Read more]

@whisht

Yes – it’s troubling how many gifted songwriters over the years haven’t felt the need to write odes to their old school caretaker. Apparently there are more songs about people who issue driving tickets. 🙂

I thought @craig nailed it last week with bankrobber (special nod to @barnable for Scooby Snacks), but my contribution this week…[Read more]

@juniperfish

Get well soon x. ENT infections can be the worst. I once had an inflamed ear for six months, and the infection made me lose my voice during the period. I sounded like Kermit the Frog on helium, which is pretty embarrassing for someone who sports a virtual goatee.

I was interested in the wordplay that @ScaryB made on this one – The…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

I hope you’re feeling better!

I may of misheard that. I thought I heard “I had to pretend to be an Auton for a while (couple of months)”. Something about he and River falling out.

I thought it may have been related to that bit in the Big Bang when River revealed she’d dated an Auton replicant for a while, but it didn’t work out! 🙂

@pedant

But those are entirely your own categorisations, and a bit of Our Girl, of what a soldier is, I’ll warrant.

An insurgent can command other insurgents. They more often than not have a structure. An insurgency of one is often called a spree-killer.

A leader, an officer, delivers them to the troops. If you can point me in the d…[Read more]

@miapatrick

Yes – it’s interesting the differences between those deaths and her reactions to them. I fogot to mention – Chris Addison! Someone I hadn’t heard in the cast biogs turned up for a (hopefully) repeat performance. Are they mining The Thick of It connections?

I’m guessing this inclusion was to highlight the selection criteria for Missy…[Read more]