@PhaseShift – quite right, of course. I’d forgotten that the Dalek films were made when Hartnell was still in the role.

@JimTheFish – A quick check of Wikipedia reveals that Terror of the Autons was broadcast less than three and a half years since Tomb of the Cybermen, so nope, race relations haven’t moved on.  In fact, they may have gone backwards:  Roy Stewart was probably thinking that, at least, he had lines when he played Toberman.

@PhaseShift – I’d heard t…[Read more]

@pedant

see above

I swear, season 8 will have an episode entitled “The Name of the Free Man Who is Not a Fish.” Either that, or I’ll be pulled out of class for a remedial spelling lesson. Or @Craig or @Phaseshift or @JimTheFish or @Shazzbot will extend the time to make edits just a few minutes more to accommodate long-winded participants with…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip @Phaseshift

Re non-appearance of trailers – they’re not shy about promoting everything else (other than actual programmes!) about the show! <note to self: stay caaaalm, breeeathe slowly>

Those first session photos are great Bluesqueakpip, Hartnell looks right in character, even so early on.

@PhaseShift – thanks for the heads-up. I’d vaguely noticed Orphan Black as something I wanted to watch, but forgotten it was starting tonight. It’s now set to record on my HDR.

@PhaseShift – yes, it could be. You’re right – there’s something about the mouth and the nasal structure that are very reminiscent of each other. But like @thommck, I’m glad they went for the CGI version in the end; it was distinctly creepy.

@Shazzbot and @Phaseshift – I also think it’s ‘hide’ because everyone is hiding something – and it does also play into the idea of the photography ‘hide’. That’s suggested by the photograph of the Doctor, developing slowly as the Professor talks about himself.

In hide photography you use the ‘hide’ to get closer to the subject than would normally…[Read more]

@PhaseShift and @JimTheFish

Yes, as soon as Phaseshift said that, I also thought ‘spot on’. McCoy, especially – but Davison would’ve played it very calm, very polite and like a very sharp dagger that he’s going to twist.

Poor Peter. Nobody loves him. 🙂 thanks for the links @PhaseShift The prostest certainly does seem like an example of “protesteth too much.” They must MUST have at least voice parts. (fingers crossed.)

Cheers

Janette

Thanks@Phaseshift for the link, yes the 2010 Davison video was just as lovely.  He might be becoming my favourite BG Doctor now….

@PhaseShift Peter Gaviscon!!!!!

@PhaseShift – yes, he’s really on the edge here. This episode is – not the beginning of the ‘children’ theme, but certainly where we see that the threat to his friends’ baby sends him absolutely incandescent. The Doctor can cope with companions in danger, but not with a threat to their child.

And yet he caused the danger; it’s a continuation of…[Read more]

@PhaseShift – I didn’t see this on first broadcast, either. Since I must have been about seven I’d probably reached still-Fascist Spain in my highly-educational world tour of dodgy dictatorships (courtesy H.M. Govt).

I have a very clear memory of watching The Deadly Assassin five and a half years later, and having to ask who The Master was – and…[Read more]

@PhaseShift and @ScaryB (and @Craig) – ooh, Day of the Daleks. A quick check shows that it is available online at the moment. Also available from Amazon at £6.50 and the BBC shop at £8.99.

I’ll need to watch it […]

Waves at @Bluesqueakpip 🙂

and also at @Phaseshift (You were asking me about Nine Worlds, way back when. It was great – will definitely attend again.)

Woohoo – Autumn is coming, the dematerialisation […]

You did have to love the identical cousin thing

@PhaseShift – to be fair, they’ve only ever used the ‘identical cousin’ gag when it’s a meeting with another character who might be expected to notice that these […]

@PhaseShift

AG Who has generally specialised in identical relatives. We’ve got Gwyneth in The Unquiet Dead

And her identical relative from an ‘old Cardiff family’, Gwen Cooper.

Of course, we’ve […]

As showdowns go, River opening up an intergalactic can of whupass supported by the Doctor in the Silents TARDIS looks so cinematic.

@PhaseShift: it does, doesn’t it? That’s such a well directed scene; and then […]

@PhaseShift– ah, I didn’t mean the characters seemed similar as such. Just that Steel could manage that kind of dialogue without driving me, shuddering, away from my laptop. (Similar thing with Blake’s Seven for […]