‘We are Nowhere!’ Very creepy!

We get to hear ‘The flowers of the forest’ on the bagpipes a couple of times before we will hear it again in Terror of the Zygons.

The screams in this episode are simply bloodcurdling.

Funny how a void can become so iconic…

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Clarty is an old Scots word for: dirty, filthy, caked in muck. Hence…[Read more]

aha! @fatmaninabox – you are a gentleman for not wanting to hurt our ears (and weirdly I almost went with Fade to Grey but was a bit weird with me ‘coming back’!)

and @Phaseshift – indeed, another that I couldn’t think how to link (and there’s me thinking I was the most tenuous thread-finder here!!).

As for me holiday, it was both excellent and…[Read more]

@Phaseshift and @Bluesqueakpip and all the London and southern based forumers –

Hope you’re all breathing a bit easier now. I remember hearing tell of the pea-soupers London used to get in the 50s – not nice

@PhaseShift – bugger. I changed it to reveal the cliffhanger after I saw your post.

Can you use your Time Lord powers and edit it for me? Just remove the relevant paragraph. Thanks.

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it’ll be interested to hear from anyone watching it fresh.

::waves hand in the air:: Me! Me!

I’ve heard some of the stories, so I have a vague idea what’s going on, but I’ve never seen this before. I didn’t feel that the void scenes were padding. Because I had no idea what happened next they felt very tense. Clearly the Doctor had t…[Read more]

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this dust had the potential to swamp the filters we use and make the results meaningless.

In the sense that the industrial processes just couldn’t compete? Huh. In my young days, we had proper pollution. Bloody foreign dust, coming over, swamping our native particulates. 😉

I’m still coughing – it seems to have irritated my throat…[Read more]

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It would be interesting to see if the criticism you occasionally see that he relies on them is in any way justified.

It will be interesting, because my recollection is that RTD generally doesn’t. The few times he uses a D.E.M. he makes it obvious he knows exactly what he’s done – like Moffat, there’ll be some kind of pun/reference to…[Read more]

Okay, Boom Town (finally). I’m not sure I’ve ever watched this all the way through, so here goes.

Right, so Annette Badland’s Slitheen is back, and has explosive plans for Cardiff. Memo to self: if anyone ever asks me ‘am I the only person you’ve told about this?’ must remember to say ‘apart from the ‘in the event of my death’ files programmed to…[Read more]

I rather enjoyed this, although it was never a barn burner. I enjoyed the doctor’s interactions with Annette Badland’s character, although as @PhaseShift points out, it was never really a convincing moral debate. I think rather that  the really strong performances on both sides made it quite fun to watch. But my main pleasure in this episode,…[Read more]

@PhaseShift – I forgot that it’s a vote (not just suggestions). I’ll be decisive and cast my vote to The Daemons.

Poor old ‘Carnival of Monsters’!

Ian Marter as a Proto-Clara – Love it!

@PhaseShift – ‘Carnival of Monsters’ is a good 4 parter. ‘The Daemons’ is a little longer at 5 episodes.

I take it we won’t be choosing ‘The Key to Time’ for Tom Baker, or ‘The Trial of a Time Lord’ for Colon Baker…….
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I would plug for Inferno. For anyone who has never seen it, it is a corker, and a fine example of the show trying something quite different.

But happy with whatever is chosen, of course.

I have discussed elsewhere (in copious detail!) my hopes for the new Doctor’s personality, so I won’t go into that here. But I’m definitely in the camp that doesn’t expect the memory loss to be a real issue. I expect a bit of early-episode instability, followed by a more settled, “I am the Doctor” take. Clara adjusting to the reality of…[Read more]