Doctor Who – educating small children in Classical History since the 1960’s. 🙂

I’m still not certain about Gulliver. He seems to be wandering about in search of a plot – not part of a test, or anything, just generally wandering. Bit like the Doctor, really…

Year 2000, Hourly Telepress? I suspect most youngsters watching this nowadays would…[Read more]

ooh – thanks for that @Phaseshift – not heard that before and really like it!

I always loved Peek a Boo when I heard it as a single. Bizarre, awkward, driving rhythm, head-nodding/ foot stomping – brilliant!

Just why I never followed up on listening to more from them is a mystery to me… its a mystery, a mystery…

@JanetteB
That’s interesting about different viewing practices. LOL at @Arbutus‘s “the British way”
@Phaseshift – Agree with you on the God Complex as well. It’s interesting there are so many things in this episode that are picked up as echoes so much later. I’m wondering if that’s just a feature of the show in general – can you see the same in…[Read more]

@toinfinityandbepond @Whisht @Phaseshift
Thanks for the headsup about Orphan Black (and likewise, I haven’t seen any advance info about it)
I missed the last 3 episodes cos iplayer screwed up; opened it for first time in ages and discovered it’s automatically downloaded all 10 episodes 😀 And some series 6 Dr Who as well.
<Happy happy ScaryB!!>

and posting this for @infinityandbepond @phaseshift and anyone else that likes (my guilty pleasure) Orphan Black which is back on the BBC3 (oh, you’ll have seen all the ads on the BBC for it…).

According to the article Phase posted a link to she gets into Sarah’s character listening to this.

Hope you’re not on your way to…[Read more]

So, in the occasional series of “Music that makes you think of an episode of Who” ( @Phaseshift – is this what you were crediting me for? If so my dumb, yes it was me and if so I feel an eejit!).

This also happens to coincide with some ‘spacey’ music recently – however it ain’t jazz, and it ain’t an excuse to listen to a very sultry…[Read more]

Sorry if someone posted this at the beginning of Apr when it was published – but has anyone picked up on this   http://www.kasterborous.com/2014/04/moffat-explains-tardis-dislikes-clara/

We’ve had a fair bit of speculation on this subject, and it looks like it’s not done-with yet. So why does the TARDIS dislike Clara?

Other than that I mostly…[Read more]

@Confusedpolarity @Phaseshift

It is interesting about different viewing habits, especially when these episodes were designed to be viewed that way. So in some ways, the direction, scripting is slower, but you can afford more time to let the big ideas perculate through (much as with Quatermass, which we were discussing a few weeks ago). You could…[Read more]

@PhaseShift It’s a shame that the version of Song for 10 on the soundtrack album is a diffrent version.

@Phaseshift @Debs @Whisht and everyone else. Unlikely cover versions?

More Frank Turner, from when I used to go see him with about 20 people. Now he does huge venues. But here he does a record store gig, half a mile from where I live (but it’s now moved, to Camden I think). Sadly I didn’t make this one. But this is a great cover of one of his…[Read more]

@Phaseshift – nice Pixies cover version!

Oh, and while I can’t remember suggesting the “music that made you think of Dr Who while you were listening”, its such a good idea that I’ll happily take credit until @angryandpeeved says “oi – that was mine!”

@FaeGrl – Cash’s ‘Hurt’ is fantastic – truly where an interpretation is better than the original…[Read more]

@PhaseShift – Wow, I was not aware of the DW Confidential with “Hurt”. Thanks for sharing that one and it’s very fitting to the Eleventh Doctor, I think. 🙂

Hmm… I need to find more episodes of DW Confidential, as I was unaware of that show completely. I get my new episodes of Doctor Who from Amazon and that’s about it. Rarely do they include…[Read more]

One more stab at getting caught up on this string of great music!

@purofilion, I just love the Byrds. Enough said there.

@TheKrynoidMan—  Geoffrey Burgon, yes! There’s an example of a composer who can be musically literate and still fully engage the emotions of the listener. (We’ve had this conversation before, I believe!) And thanks, @purofilio…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

Wow! I didn’t know about that! It’s crazy and totally brilliant! I do prefer live performances and recordings,I must admit it!

@PhaseShift

That’s what google should be about! ! I guess I’ll spend my weekend on that !

Thanks! 😉

@Phaseshift – yes, the ‘might have removed all your emotions’ line is a bit daft. The Daleks have always had a bit of an anger management problem – and anger is certainly an emotion.

Russell missed a trick with his Born Again Daleks: “EX-COMM-UN-I-CATE!”

Funny how there’s never enough shuttlecraft. It seems that there’s no SOLAS regulations in…[Read more]

@JimTheFish It’s not that I think that he’s a bad writer, it’s just that, as @PhaseShift suggested, I don’t particularly like him as a writer. I can’t speak for his non-who work as I haven’t watched any of it, but there are very few of his Who episodes that I would call good.

By the way the RTD2 thing is a Star Wars reference. Not that I think…[Read more]

Can’t believe I’ve not posted on this one before!

I’d add my name to the list of people hoping to see UNIT back, just occasionally; I’d like a nice, solid invasion of the Earth to be foiled (to be honest I’ve got a bit tired of the gigantic “universe in peril” stuff; I’d be happy with a base under siege!) I’d not want to see the Doctor Earthbound…[Read more]

ah – thanks @Wolfweed – actually, I did see that one, but was looking for an orchestral version from the movie (which may not exist! Maybe I’m misremembering the film! I’m not even sure if I’ve actually seen it!).

[btw can anyone else hum or whistle that theme without lapsing into Danny Boy?
or is it just me? 😉 ].

And @Phaseshift – I honestly…[Read more]