@phaseshift

Good call on the Skeletoids. I imagine Alan McKenzie is already preparing his lawsuit…

Also love:

I wonder if Theresa May still claims to be a fan?

@phaseshift @Thane15 plus any other Bowie spotters – apart from the visual references to Space Oddity (floating round the tin can, etc) I didn’t pick up anything in the script, but maybe another watch will reveal something.  I haven’t spotted anything in Thin Ice either, so unless I’ve missed that too, we have the eye thing in The Pilot, ‘we’re…[Read more]

@wolfweed – Landlord – great song and fantastic video!
I appreciated the song about woodlice but I just couldn’t watch that video !
As for Fismoll – gorgeous and a tune that knows when to bow out! I haven’t heard them before so another band to keep an ear out for – cheers!

@Phaseshift – obvious, but not so! Love it and keeping the Bowie link…[Read more]

I enjoyed this one – some quick thoughts as it was last night I saw it and would need a re-watch for anything insightful!

I now listen to Doctor Who episodes through headphones due to my new ohh-they’re-so-thin-nowadays TV being utter rubbish in terms of sound. Why don’t they just admit it and sell the darned things with separate…[Read more]

@Phaseshift

I thought that for Thin Ice it might be Scary Monsters… And Super Creeps. It did have a scary “monster”, and a guy who was truly super at being a creep. Next week: an early guess for Space Oddity from me.

Loved this week’s episode. Suchet was brilliant, and the twist was unexpected. There is definitely a theme of release going on, imo.

@phaseshift – sorry – I mispost & then crashed so I couldn’t edit. Just ignore the ‘Song of songs’. It’s meant to be this Fismoll track:

@phaseshift – I’ll see you – and raise you a song about eating your own poo!

I enjoyed that, the main reference I got from it was from the book ‘Slade House’ in which people disappear every 20 years for similar-ish type reasons.  Curiously, when I read the book I did think it would make a good Doctor Who episode.

I’ve seen a few Mike Bartlett things @PhaseShift, but this was completely different.  Not sure how effective t…[Read more]

@phaseshift

Fear. Thought proving idea. Following your train of thought, I suppose the vault would essentially contains the Doctor’s death. The oath could be to himself (or to River as @janetteB suggested) to keep it sealed, to protect himself from the inevitable.

I suppose it depends on how you interpret what’s going to happen in thew Christmas…[Read more]

@phaseshift @bluesqueakpip

Re the punch. It does seem that PC is referencing Jon Pertwee. Could this be another tie back (JP’s venusian aikaido) albeit in a subtle way ?

I think you’re both spot on with respect to the punch. That scene (and perhaps the later one with the foreman who drowned) seems particularly out of character, not just because…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

Yes, there’s something very odd about the death of young Spider. Firstly, it’s unusual in Who that we see a child dying. Secondly, the Doctor doesn’t appear to care; which is really unusual – part of the reason that we don’t often see children dying is that the Doctor prioritises saving the kids. Yet he relates to the other kids,…[Read more]

so, at the top of this page I was admonished for the corruption of ears, minds and judgement.
(and lo, it came to pass…)

But that doesn’t mean I’m going to double-down and link to Throbbing Gristle or Butthole Surfers or whatever.

No sirree.

Instead, here’s some jangly geetar indie music (@Phaseshift – was still thinking of your 80’s/90’s…[Read more]

@pedant – great lyrics for the Man of the World (especially for me as I’m not primarily a lyrics person when it comes to songs, but knowing you I looked them up!).

@Thane15 – Puro thanks so much for Grace Slick! And Jefferson Airplane are a much ‘heavier’ band than I’d taken them for (in a good way!).
Great way to wake up a crowd!
And The Cure -…[Read more]

@phaseshift   I suppose the ultimate question is whether you think the show deserves such analysis or not.
I think it does

As do I; given a durable framework and many changes rung upon it over the years by different writers, show runners, cast members, et al, the result is ripe for analysis (and gets plenty of it, happily).  And, let’s not f…[Read more]

@zeyra
This forum is supposed to try and keep a polite and civil atmosphere. We don’t always succeed, but we’re supposed to try. 🙂

Both @Phaseshift and I felt that saying something offensive about someone else’s country doesn’t follow site etiquette and doesn’t help to maintain a polite and civil atmosphere – especially when it’s directed at a…[Read more]

@phaseshift

The Doctor wanting to blow something up as first option is pretty unusual.

as his first, uninformed impression, i totally get this reaction. human colonists on the way, murdering robots waiting for them (the doctor has seen his share of murderous robots), newly minted companion to keep safe (and a promise to get back to keeping). and…[Read more]

@mudlark and @pufferfish—

I think there’s a definite Puritan edge to all the names of the colonists and I think this is possibly what made me think of Faber’s Book of Strange New Things. Is it possible that this colony ship is reserved for a religious faction/cult of some kind (after all, the Scots got a ship to themselves). Although it is an…[Read more]

Bit late to the party – was out listening to Cosi Fanni Tutti last night (the experimental musician/ artist, not the opera).

Great catch @Pedant @Mudlark and everyone on the Vada as proto Vashta Nerada.

@Mersey now that is interesting – second self portrait. I wonder if the Doctor’s 13th incarnation (The Valeyard) is locked in that vault?! Which…[Read more]

As ever, I generally agree with you lovely people about this episode: Better than the Forest of the Dead, not as good as The Pilot. I felt that the Doctor and Bill were slightly flat at times. In their defence, I don’t think those emoji robots can have been easy to act against. I would be happy to never see the emoji robots again. The nano-robots…[Read more]

Oh @phaseshift, I do hope you’re right. I would love to think that Bowie is there in Who, past and present.  I did think momentarily of Bowie’s eye when I saw Heather’s, but I didn’t follow the thought through.  Will be on Bowie alert from now on.