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@mudlark

I’m reluctant to comment on the Ruth aspect because this story and indeed the whole season has intrigued so much.

But there seems to be so many plot holes surrounding the Ruth incarnation. Is RTD attempting a rewrite of Chris, or are they singing from the same hymn sheet?

So the image of Ruth was a shock; who actually saw that? T…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

It’s a kid show/not a kid show. Some actors get it and some don’t think it will help their pension at all. Write the theme tune. Sing the theme tune.

Something went wrong in the last series but this one could be as good as RTD1 Series 4. Though the finale that time was a bit pants, I know.

Moff finales, apart from Time of…[Read more]

@dwnerdfrommars

My advice to is to start drinking heavily… No!!!!

Watch everything after Empire of Death, which was mainly awful. Unless the arc saves it… eventually…I’m not holding my breath.

Story/Engine is a very good, very original story, nothing really to do with the sci fi milieu, but trading on some tasty Studio Ghibli stylee. Nice. W…[Read more]

@cookgroom @whohar

So… either…

Russ is indeed engaging with the mad mysterious and oft disappointing and ludicrous world of Zchib… of which I know nothing… Or…

Tis but a humble plot hole. Actually, I don’t think so. Or…

It’s a kid show. We’re overthinking it.

But there must be an even chance this is getting Divisionesque. Yes?

Question: a…[Read more]

So Ruth is back. Now, what does that mean? The fugitive knew the daughter of… someone. Are ‘the gods’ related somehow to The Division? For a moment I wondered if Abby might be an aspect of Susan…

The thing is I’m not really comfortable with The Pantheon. Sutekh SHOULDN’T be a god, not even a rubbish one. 10 called out the Impossible Planet beas…[Read more]

@mudlark

Conrad:

As someone is going to say soon, ‘hurt people hurt people.’

As Morrissey might have had Anthony say to Cleopatra, ‘some b******ds are bigger than others.’

Who has always revelled in died-in-the-wool, invidious nasties. Some get a chance to save their reputation. Some are punished. Some apparently get away with it. And some, a…[Read more]

@whohar @mudlark

Hadn’t thought about the 50p aspect of the bootstrap. That is very odd. Surely The Doctor wasn’t compelled to do it because he thought it was a fixed point?

Similar or related to the briefcase star seed code in Joy to the World perhaps? Is The Doctor beginning to suspect what is happening? Cos let’s face it we only think we ha…[Read more]

@mudlark

Yes you’re right. I got confused about the 2007 new year; I thought THAT was Ruby and The Doctor too. But Conrad (I meant ‘radical conman’ btw – typo) still seems to have put the events of Robot Revolution in motion with a dig at The Doctor which he decides to make BEFORE Anita Dobson peers in, jangling her keys. Bit weird. Boot strap…[Read more]

@whisht

The still of Balok, from Star Trek’s The Corbomite Manoeuvre, is on the nose. A puppet as it turned out. The protagonist was in fact a hyper intelligent baby.

The potential use of puppets is worrying for anyone who saw the Bandrill ‘video link’ from 1985’s Time Lash. However, the Bandrills look nothing like Anita Dobson, unlike the Balok puppet.

@cathannabel

I also struggle with Pullman!

I don’t mind Lewis’ theology. It’s there. You’d be mad to ignore it. Just don’t like the philosophy. Lewis was a literary scholar NOT a philosopher.

I think his male chauvinism was so over the top, it’s half hearted: a kind of pipe and slippers in the drawing room pastiche. I’ve expressed my admiration…[Read more]

@cathannabel @dwnerdfrommars

Lewis confession. I’m really not sure about The Last Battle: weird death cult vibes & the problem of Susan. In fact, C S Lewis is often really quite annoying. The man who thought it was cool to indoctrinate kids with The Trilemma.

And then he’ll go and write the damnedest thing, like the Dwarves who wouldn’t be taken…[Read more]

@dwnerdfrommars

Rani = Rain = Flood? Hmmm.

I always thought the Rani had the same job description as Tecteun. Goons in The Division must have had day jobs right? Good cover. Shouldn’t really comment because I try to say away from Chris’s oevre.

People think Mrs F letting Conrad out must be a good thing but we don’t where he’s going or why. Lo…[Read more]

@nerys

Surely, according to his logic, we should be penalising Hollywood?

Perhaps the elect have had enough of efficient well trained British thesps what with their manageable egos, professional timekeeping and mysterious accents. The villains need to be less sympathetic.
Time for Broadway hoofers to wipe off the lipstick, grab the black hat,…[Read more]

@whohar @blenkinsopthebrave

enjoyable? It was a hefty continuation, or prequel as it turns out, of a season that is shaping up very nicely.

Worrying? Well, it seems like we’ve been warned about this for years. We thought, yeah that’s just stuff on computers, it’s not real. Data? Hrrrppp! What can they do with data? Get real.

It is real.…[Read more]

Well… I looked at Kerblam and Praexus on McTighe’s CV and I did have my doubts. Then the first half didn’t fill me with confidence. But yes it was a set up. A rather good one. Just goes to show, it was indeed Chris who done ‘it’; ‘it’ being whatever it is we don’t want.

Takeaways:

Conrad (a radical connan?) is the guy who gave The Doctor Beli…[Read more]

The early seasons of the X files featured more monsters of the week, with just a few ‘arc’ stories. Cigarette Smoking Man and the alien invasion got quite tiresome very quickly.

Monsters are, more often than not, cardboard cut outs. Some are derivative. Tim Shaw was basically the love child of Predator and Jem’Hadar. Ought to have been creep…[Read more]

@whohar

Surely Stupid Sutekh was too stupid to actually be Sutekh? A case of Artificial Unintelligence.

@blenkinsopthebrave @janetteb

Gallifrey was hidden CLOSE to end of The Universe because of Infamy… apparently The Universe had it in for them. I have days like that. But it wasn’t the ACTUAL end, presumably because the heating bill was too…[Read more]

@whohar @blenkinsopthebrave @janetteb

If Mrs Flood turns up with a gold tooth, then she is Missy Master. I surrender. Thing is, last time I saw it, gnasher in question was last seen in Max Capricorn’s gob while he plummeted into the Titanic’s Storm Drive with Kylie. Explain.

Safe to say, Moff was pro Gallifrey; RTD and Duff Chris were anti. Is…[Read more]