..and it just goes to show that “lots of money” does not equal quality. I not sure what I can add to what has been said above. I think between them @Craig, @wolfweed and @PhaseShift have covered everything I intended to say. Like “Wolfie” I could watch this episode “til the end of time”. It is right up hovering about the top of my list of…[Read more]

I love when they find the secret entrance (nice carving!).

@PhaseShift – Tinclavic is a nod to ‘The Visitation’.

The cliffhanger demonstrates that you should never start picking away at any chipped plaster on your walls…

This story is strangely unnerving for Doctor Who. It has a definite Sapphire and Steel air about it. And with Tegan dressed up at the end, perhaps a bit of The Wicker Man as well. What is particularly interesting is the way it presents the past as malevolent.

But, dear me, does Tegan have to be quite so whiny? All the time?

But I will leave it…[Read more]

@PhaseShift. Very interesting post. There are a few alternative Doctors mentioned that I did not know of. I am not familair with the audio stories. Part of the fun of Curse of Fatal Death is seeing different actors’ takes on the role. It is rather like one of those children’s flip books where one changes the face of the character. When one doesn’t…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

OK, I am going to do my best to convince everyone that we really should watch “The Mark of the Rani” for the 6th.

Why?

1. It is an historical (I love historicals). But more importantly, it is not just the only historical that Colin Baker did, it was also filmed on location at the Ironbridge Gorge Museum (the story is about the…[Read more]

@Phaseshift

Vengeance! With my favourite malevolent alien slug.  And it’s got Sil in it as well! 😈

@Bluesqueakpip

We’ll come and rescue you before he starts force-feeding you Season 22!

@wolfweed, @PhaseShift

Out of the Unknown. At last! This was one of the best, certainly one of the most thoughtful, and challenging, anthology science fiction shows ever put on TV. And in October the remaining episodes released! And cleaned and spruced up! Wow.

Out of the Unknown (like Who) suffered terribly from the policy of wiping tapes…[Read more]

@PhaseShift – I seem to recall that Vengeance on Varos Special Edition is mentioned by Mr C. Baker, in the Five(ish) Doctors reboot, as having ‘extra me’. So my vote is for Vengeance.

Besides, some weird bloke has just locked all the doors and windows and is refusing to let me out until I vote for it… 😉

@PhaseShift and @FatManInABox – Birmingham isn’t on the World Tour list, but the Beeb might well respond to the leak of the rough cut by running some fan-event previews. If they know they’ve got a great opening episode it would be an excellent way of shifting word-of-mouth in their favour.

@ScaryB would know more than I would if that’s a likely…[Read more]

Further to comments above about the troll-like qualities of some online Whovians – the fanclubs of late 80s/90s also had their share of curmudgeonly types I believe.

@Phaseshift (and others of the goth and other dark materials persuasion) – we were discussing recently (on the Hitchhiker’s thread) re if it’s possible to have too much black. I was…[Read more]

@PhaseShift I’ve been on quite a few sites today where the trailer is being discussed and some people are just blatantly blurting out which bit is from which episode, and what the basic plot of that episode is etc. like being able to read somehow makes them special. How small must you feel in real life to have to do that to make yourself feel big?…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

Thanks for the warning. I reaffirm the comments I made a couple of hours ago at #29003 in the On The Sofa thread.

Just to say big thanks to @Wolfweed @Craig @Phaseshift @JimtheFish @FatManinaBox for all their efforts to keep us spoiler free in the forum. This is now the only place I’m looking for DW news and I’m so glad it’s here.

The rest of the time I’m wearing my danger specs – which makes surfing the net a bit complicated 😎

I 100% agree with @Bluesq…[Read more]

actually @Phaseshift that list you linked to makes me think that there are ~4 qualities The Doctor needs (from an actor):
Innocence, Danger, Intelligence, Charm.

Makes me think there’d be a fun Top Trumps style idea with this (each actor having more or less of each).

🙂

I can understand why the cast was dismissive. From an acting point of view, the script offers very little to work with; it’s a nice pastiche, but everyone’s made of cardboard. There aren’t any decent red herring characters and it has that quality that actors dread – no subtext.

When Lady Cranleigh decides she needs to say nothing she … says…[Read more]

@Phaseshift – as @blenkinsopthebrave says, that list is inspired!
Had a real laugh reading it.

I can actually see Meredith grumbling and cackling his way through, but also turning on the charm when needed!

And Walkern is also a brilliant choice (if a bit A list for TV in the 80’s!).

The few missteps in casting are the ones that miss what has…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave, @janetteB: thank you, it feels particularly good because for the past few years he has been wearing mostly (or only) combats and tee-shirts. The module result is also good because I hadn’t done much creative writing for the year or so before this course, it was nice to have the focus.

@PhaseShift: well Morrison’s had the…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

Actually, that list of American actors was quite inspired!

But…imagine it being written by American writers and produced by American TV. It doesn’t bear thinking about!

Well, I really enjoyed that. In a way, of course, the cast were right. It wasn’t the type of sci-fi show they had signed up for. But the idea of taking the Doctor out of his comfort zone (if all of space and time can be described as a comfort zone) and placed in a very different genre-based setting was an intriguing one. And it really was well…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

The Daily Maul does Dr Who stories all the time which is why I keep (embarrassedly) linking to them. It couldn’t possibly be because they don’t like the BBC, could it?(!)

Here’s what was actually…[Read more]