@dentarthurdent

for the record, can I just say I have Nothing to do with Deep Thought… more like Roosta or maybe Zarniwoop.

Seriously, can someone string up the non sci fi focus groups and actually do research and writing?

Russ season enders? MHO:

Good (but not that good);Bad Wolf plus, Army of Ghosts/Doomsday; Utopia plus

Indifferent; Stole…[Read more]

@translatorcircuit

I think you mean CBBC not Cbeebies. If DW IS indeed being pitched at pre-schoolers then, yes, the end has come.

And perhaps… the end has come. Can you square the iconoclastic demands of the frothing anti-woke brigade with trimming critiques of beancounters and filmschool script neuterers who would much rather be talking a…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

You may not have registered certain recent UK government climb-downs; Trump does tend to drown everything else out but the ableist/disableist debate is extraordinarily relevant to the UK. Certainly not merely ideological. Spot on Russ. That wad the best bit.

Not only is Dobson channeling Briers, Conrad is an echo of Pex from…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent
Key take-aways…

NOT that someone thinks Omega is coming through, why you would want that? But:

Poppy was in Space Babies… maybe she’s Russ’ fav child actress.

Poppy Honey is farmed on Hellias by Harmony Shoal.

It’s The Ranii’s VR, with Conrad utilising Male Supremacist Fantasy to keep it ticking… a bit like the ‘minor master…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

I really liked ISC. It could have been a nondescript Chibesque Fam outing but this was done with a certain panache.

The blown into space section was of course problematic, though it looked a million dollars. Mavity is apparently at hand so maybe none of it was real…?

The glitter gun was surely a tribute to the McCoy opening c…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

List compiled in haste. I missed out The Mindrobber. And included Voyage of the Damned twice. Though it is fantastic. Yes, I like Russell having camp fun; it explains Love and Monsters.

Really, for 5&6 it is so tough to pick worthy eps but. Apart from the Mara stories and Androzani, very few were remotely acceptable. And then t…[Read more]

@janetteb

‘does it hold up?’ Sounds like time for a list! top 5 each Doctor anyone?

1 & 2 is difficult because so much is wiped and the production values are quite other…

1. Unearthly Child, The Daleks, Marinus… because it’s both complete and quite other, the Time Meddler, and whatever is left of Dalek Master Plan and 10th Planet.

2…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent
Yes, Who runs on meta: the Trial of Timelord; the Time War; perhaps t’floox was about linear tv’s competition from streaming?

The Sunmakers riffs on Holme’s tax arrangements, The Two Doctors on his discovery of vegetarianism. The Carnival of Monsters must be Who itself (and the mandarins who never understood the show). On the ot…[Read more]

The key to understanding Midnight and The Well is the attack on identity: you’re talking over me: you’re not looking at me.

I have my own theory about where Russ is taking this. Let’s hope he gets the opportunity to see it through.

@dentarthurdent

Is there a real philologist in the room? I’m sure they’d tell me I’m talking rubbish. I think Finnish is the closest thing to a genuine agglutinative European if not Indo-European language.

In Boom, 15 is told it’s Oct 5th. For no reason. The show wasn’t broadcast on Oct 5th. So I checked out previous stories broadcast on…[Read more]

@translatorcircuit

Planet of the Spiders is serviceable but not Robert Holmes playing with tropes because he’s the MAN and he CAN.
Yes, Chris Bailey = The Mara. I’m a huge devotee of the Mara stories, yet so sad we only ever saw hints of a full BAMF Mara Empire. But then you really don’t want a rerun of Stupid Sutekh.

Anyway the Mara are on Harr…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

re German… almost an agglutinative langauge (ie you can almost shake and go any idea you like, but not quite).

Richard Briars was The Chief Caretaker/Great Architect in Paradise Towers. This is the era of casting the likes of Beryl Reid and Ken Dodd. A comic thesp giant whose stock was falling in the 80s perhaps. But i…[Read more]

@translatorcircuit

Yes. You don’t like Midnight or The Well.

Who resounds with superficial resemblances and echoes. But some ideas may be deliberately referenced. Paranoia is facilitated by people talking over you or continuing looking over your shoulder. It’s powerful stuff.

Where Midnight and The Well wins out is we are shown neither a ma…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

My last bid, thanks to google translate is

düsterbegründerfreude

= darklyjustifiedjoy

Conrad’s actor was brilliant. I’m sure most thesps relish dark scenery chewing. And they’re not all Richard Briars.

The central 5 of this series were as good as the ‘filling’ from the previous one.

@dentarthurdent

not saying righteous glee is an old or new combo… and it’s not really a neologism. But the thing definitely exists.

Justified Poetic Appreciation maybe?

@dentarthurdent

I suggest righteous glee

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

@dentarthurdent

This was probably my favourite thus far, regardless of my will to spot continuity.

@dentarthurdent @whohar

quotes. Yes Chrissie’s transcripts.

I think we were all gaping at the gasmask people and missed the dialogue. What a story.

@whohar

OK this is all the metaphor/simile and innuendo from the script of Child/Dances/Boom Town. I think it all survived, but I’ll have to check.

JACK: Excellent bottom.
ALGY: I say, old man, there’s a time and a place. Look, you should really be off.
JACK: Sorry, old man. I’ve got to go meet a girl. But you’ve got an excellent bottom…[Read more]