@whisht

I agree that some of the choices seem a bit optimistic in casting. 🙂

I’ll also agree that MacLachlan and Cage seemed to stand out as “wrong” somehow. It’s odd the ones that I immediately thought – yes I could see that, as I thought about them in other work. Wilder was a great suggestion that I always remembered from you on the next…[Read more]

Ah … parting is such sweet sorrow. Still, we have a lot of fun getting to the end. Trapped on board the doomed stunt ship, it’s great to see the team learning to cope with inevitable death, while Zaphod continues to demonstrate that tact is a concept entirely alien to him.

“You were there when your Planet did the big firework.”

Marvin con…[Read more]

Ahhh. Midnight. Apparently the last script to be written for this series as it replaced a story that didn’t pan out.

I think this is a real gem. Apparently RTD was getting sick of some of the criticism of his approach, and decided to cast himself in the role of guest writer for once. Whatever you think about him, he took his role as show c…[Read more]

Just to say I’m glad that @craig put the episodes up early today. It’s too bloody hot to do any of the numerous chores that have built up so I’m quite enjoying the induldence of an afternoon of retrospectives.

@blenkinsopthebrave

It would have been a very different beast that’s for sure. I honestly don’t think it would have lasted that long.

The choices are interesting. Burgess Meredith I wouldn’t have thought of in the role at all, but remembering his turn as The Penguin in the Batman series, I thought I could see why the idea appealed.

The ultim…[Read more]

Ha – I was doing a websearch for something else, and I came across this which raised a smile. One of those “alternative” lists of the Doctors history, but imagining American actors of the periods in the role. Quite funny, with some odd choices, but I think it was @whisht who suggested on the Next Doctor thread that Gene Wilder would have been a…[Read more]

I’ll pick up and reference a couple of comments from last time in the mix. I was enormously indebted to @JanetteB regarding Lady Cranleigh’s dress. I’ve always found it naggingly familiar and I never realised it was retooled for Sophia Myles in Girl in the Fireplace. Good spot.

The second episode needs to do its work in a limited time to resol…[Read more]

Oh, congratulations @miapatrick. Splendid work! I hope the bow tied Mr@miapatrick will be treating you a celebratory drink tonight.

@wolfweed @scaryB

That certainly looks pan-galactic gargle blaster-ish to me.

Delighted to see Sanjeev though. We near completing another comedy set, this time from Goodness Gracious Me. We’ve had Meera Syal (Hungry Earth/Cold Blood) and Nina Wadia (Eleventh Hour). We just need Kulvinder Ghir to call house!

I just hope Sanjeev gets the time t…[Read more]

No criticism of you @wolfweed. I’m glad you trawl the shallow end of the journalistic gene-pool instead of me! 😀 It’s good to know where the latest rant is going to come from. It’s an invaluable service for which I’m determined to buy you a beer for at some point.

The Broadcasters link you posted requires you to register, but for anyone…[Read more]

@wolfweed

You really do have to love the Mail. Normally Privatisation = Good, so it must have caused them a brain haemorrhage to print that story in an effort to write yet another complaint about the Beeb.

It’s palpable arse gravy anyway – BBC in-house drama gets it’s own identity, the ability to increase productions to other broadcasters (Card…[Read more]

@fatmaninabox @JimTheFish @ScaryB

Many thanks for the kind words. I would have been happy with “It doesn’t completely suck”. 😉

@fatmaninabox

Actually, given my natural feelings towards six, that’s really good. Do we have a candidate for our cover image for the six review?

From the GIMP forums they are looking to implement trial version…[Read more]

I’ve been out all day, so missed the who-har-har. SM must be spitting blood and demanding a violent transfusion of blood from whoever did it. Well done to @wolfweed for early reporting though.

I’ll concur about not raising the drawbridge yet though. Let’s play it by ear. At least its early episodes, so I can’t believe there will be massive…[Read more]

@ScaryB

Yes – good point re the MC in Cabaret. Though the “I mean that most sincerely folks” was pure Monkhouse in full cheese mode. 🙂

As an ex-Goth I think I side with Ford on this one. Looks great stylistically, but trying to do anything in that ship with all the black would make your brain bleed (I think that’s why Zaphod is imper…[Read more]

@matthutch96

Hi, and welcome to the site. I’ve just removed the last section of your post. If you want to discuss anything spoiler related, I’d suggest you post in the dedicated spoiler section (link to it here). It hides information from the activity feed automatically.

Many thanks.

After discussing the possibility of a Sci-Fi western mini-season, I thought I’d have a quick look at imaging, because I was trying to remember how to get that sepia look manually (I use GIMP which is both great, free and has a funny name, but its inbuilt tools for that kind of thing are limiting).

Anyway – not perfect, but in compiling this, I e…[Read more]

An episode in which we learn many things, for instance, where our site colleague @Arkleseizure got his name from. 🙂

I quite like the guide flagging up that the Human race have a gullibility rating of 9 following this sudden and unexpected rescue from sudden death. Shortly followed by the waiter asking:

“Do you have a reservation?”

To which…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan

weren’t they the aliens that RTD2 said would be bigger than the Daleks?

I remember it well, it was on the sofa of BBC Breakfast, and said with the booming laugh and “nod and a wink” attitude of a man versed in irony who was excavating his cheek with his tongue.

It may have been reported in print in a different way, but anyone w…[Read more]

I think @craig s use of “screwball” comedy is a good one. It definitely has that flavour, and carries it off remarkably well. It really does help that Tennant and Tate are gifted comic players.

So – after the trials and tribulations of her aborted wedding (fiancée dead, having tricked her with the intention of feeding her to ravenous spider…[Read more]