As per The Winchester discussion, I did give this a whirl, and… it is still fantastic!

Three fantastic Doctors. And Billie.

Little nit picks: like the memory thing in the black archive. Does that mean Clara was briefly unsure if she was a Zygon or not? And, if the Earth was ‘ripe’ in 2013, and the Zygons had already broken into the black archi…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

I shall have to rewatch Day of The Doctor. No great hardship.

Highlights… 10 in Elizabethan England, The Moment, Jenna Coleman settling into the role… and Bill’s mum running for cover (same actress)! If only they’d persuaded Timothy Dalton and Lee Evans to return.  Actually, not a problem: it’s practically perfect.…[Read more]

@translatorcircuit

I know that Mandela did not die in prison and that he became president of South Africa. These are strange times. There may be people out there, right now, who can’t accept that truth. I know Harry Enfield’s Mandela sketches are now considered unbrosdcastable. A lot has changed in 15 years. They actually mocked celebrity endor…[Read more]

@whoizzy

We’re only going to meet Mickey again in another universe.

Another Tardis…? But NOT Clara (or presumably Ashildr)? Actually I suspect The American Diner might be the same Tardis: see Name of The Doctor.

I note from Flux that the Sontarans seem to have got over the Briode Nebuliser/Kartz Reimer issue. Perhaps Strax could cook up a ste…[Read more]

@devilishrobby @blenkinsopthebrave @janetteb @nerys @translatorcircuit

So, your reading of “with or without Disney’s involvement” is that The Mouse is still interested, whereas we all thought he’s skipped away? But why go if he’s interested? They want a better deal. Yeah, that could be out of Trump’s playbook.

But do we know they are still ne…[Read more]

The Vanquishers

Right… Who are these Vanquishers? The Doctor, split into 3? Her motley crew? The Sontarans, who stitch up the other two mook armies? Or The Uglies, with their pseudo religious devotion to Time?

Or is it meant to be ironic because, whenever it was in December ‘21, absolutely everybody may not die, but the death toll must be rath…[Read more]

@nerys @dentarthurdent

Forget dates. I just wonder why some random date is sometimes quoted by the writer. Yes, Village was broadcast on that date but Chibnall didn’t have to be so precise. Is it a nod to the discerning fan?

Of more importance is The Master’s timeline. 3 and Delgado, unless it was 5 and Ainley, may have talked about remain…[Read more]

Survivors of T’floox

So, The Angels have powers we never imagined. And they’re cruel and vindictive. And work for Division. OK. Could be.

However, will someone explain Tecteun’s motivation in destroying the universe and then removing The Doctor in case she stopped the destruction? Except she then offered to take The Doctor with her and save…[Read more]

@nerys @dentarthurdent

Village of The Angels: The Afterthought.

Do you remember my date theories? Significant dates of eps. Dates mentioned in eps. For November 21st (Village of the Angels) there are two other eps.

1. Dalek Invasion Earth: Could this have been a flux event? If so then that’s definitely a retcon. That is plans start with A…[Read more]

@janetteb @ dentarthurdent

thank you. Village is obviously streets ahead of the rest. Not perfect but I could virtually watch it in one go: always a good sign. The previous 2 were poor but not as disastrous as most of series 11 or 12. Most of that is down to ‘the chuckles’ I’m afraid.

Chib is a mystery wrapped in an enigma submerged in disin…[Read more]

The Village of The Angels

Toward the end of O,UT, The Doctor says to Dan ‘you have no idea what you’re dealing with. I do.’

Phew, THAT’s a relief!

Mind you, in Village, she also says ‘I’m many things but I’m not ridiculous.’ And… I’m not so sure.

There are moments when you wonder if Chib fully realises what he’s written. That is it’s not a mi…[Read more]

Once, Upon Time (T’floox 3)

Did someone say title of T’floox 2 is a bit ‘This of That’? At least it didn’t alliterate metonymically.

I don’t want to say I like T’floox 2 because it has so many problems: Gung ho Dan; slaggin The Wirral, ‘calm down calm down’; Logan’s guiltily satisfying and violent revenge is somehow not sold at all; the ugly tw…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

the beta text or whatever it is means I pasted my spiel and then edited it, did something it didn’t like and then navigated away. Strangely, it sounds like Whovian space-time coordinates. I wonder if that where they first originated?

Sorry to go on at such length. I am being unfair because all Who writers have and will cont…[Read more]

The War of The Sontarans.

‘I don’t understand it and I hate not understanding!’ sez The Doctor at the end of Halloween Apocalypse. Welcome to the world of The Chibnall Who Critic, Doctor.

That is unfair. I was unfair last time, I suppose. Why not just say, ‘I don’t like Chib’s writing’?

OK, I don’t like Chib’s writing. In addition to which…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Was this, purely hypothetical, acceleration enforced by Covid or by The Corp (because Chib was being politely shown the door, wasn’t he); or designed, because the previous two series were such dogs; or simply symptoms of narrative insanity?

All I can observe is something changed. And then Chib and Whitdoc were both gone.

@dentarthurdent

I mentioned Diane but it was Claire being tragically meaningful of course.

There was an attempt to speed up story development. Is that the reduced number of eps or Chib trying out some Blink/Big Bang Moff style timey wimey? Or just a slimmed down Fam?

Halloween Apocalypse

As promised/threatened.

I’d given up by this point: not really watched Who properly since Fugitive, having lost patience with The Battle of Stupid and Pratfall. So I missed Revolution… apparently Granddad went. And Our Kid. Whoopee!

Thesis: you COULD have Granddad on his own. IMHO rather dull. Or you COULD have Kid, tha…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @whohar

‘Macho’… even pre Chib Nuwho had Timelord Invictus, Good Man C*cks It Up Good and Proper, Epic Sulks, Confession Dials and Other Idiocies.

I’ve no quarrel with the ‘tone’ of RTD2, more the execution, which again may be down to the story. But will we ever know? Will a big break demolish the precious continuity?…[Read more]

@whohar @dentarthurdent

The ending… it did seem like a bolt on. To the extent that, though there was supposedly a ‘reason’ to regenerate I just know, if I check it out, I’ll think it was nonsense.

It’s a pity because the rest of the series built up quite a head of steam, even if the ratings were in the basement. The worst regeneration story sin…[Read more]

@translatorcircuit

WOW! It really IS for pre-schoolers! Urghhh. I DO apologise. I GENUINELY thought that was a mistake/joke.

Embarrassing. Kids Show! Official.

So, the Venn Diagram HAS become THAT small. I don’t like it, and some noise might just help, but this COULD be the end. Though to be fair HE mentioned US, I mean us, the weirdos. In the…[Read more]