@devilishrobby

Yes, Rassilon (if that was he) ‘the president’, was last seen scarpering from Gallifrey during Hell Bent… one wonders why The Doctor is so certain about the TL genocide. The details are predictably hazy… my brain does not speak Zchib. Is the Doc just extremely anxious to avoid any others who are left?

So, I do need to check o…[Read more]

@devilishrobby

I hate Pre Gap hidden tracks. Impossible to rip.

I’m reasonably sure The Rani was Tecteun. Have you ever seen them in the same room together? If Rogue has really gone to another universe with The Birdies he might end in E space. Or in Cromer with Omega.

Lady lords are irrelevant anyway. In the words of Ray Davies, ‘girls will be…[Read more]

@mudlark @juniperfish

Not so much Badwolf as Madjack??

As good as any observation.

Though Sutekh went nowhere near Tardis or Time Vortex but was trapped in a space time portal for the rest of his natural life, because he wasn’t the messiah but a naughty little doggie. So, it doesn’t really matter what Rose said.

@dwnerdfrommars

I think there could be a Clara connection to this milieu. I’m waiting for someone to open up an American Diner dahn the road.

But Mrs Flood seems to cockney rather than Lancashire… and she’s aged… Clare post Hell Bent cannot age. She might be wearing a shimmer, or something else might have disguised her. But, unless we’ve m…[Read more]

@juniperfish

To be a warning about Sutekh it would need to be DAFTJACKAL surely?

@scaryb

Susan Triad’s cup of tea…

If the Vlinx is actually a Bamblweeny 540 sub-meson brain, and UNIT installed an atomic vector plotter in The Time Window, that alone could explain Empire of Death.

Seriously, could it be a Douglas Adams nudge? After Sutekh, will we get the return of Scaroth? Or as my daughter calls him, Ramen Noodle Man. She…[Read more]

@whohar @juniperfish @blenkinsopthebrave

It’s not ‘sneering’ really. The obvious negative comments are of a predictable flavour from people who sign up specifically to be negative. Are they bothered about Who’s labyrinthine continuity? I could be very sneery there… no they’re not for a moment. But we are. Maybe it’s not someone sneering, but…[Read more]

@whohar

I suppose VR is just another way of saying ‘l don’t really like this story, Russ.’

relics… The Black Adder had Edmund, as Archbishop of Canterbury, claiming that holy fingers only came in packs of ten. Though clearly these included thumbs, which some devotees find unacceptable.

If we’re trading Smith titles, Chris Packham stylee, I…[Read more]

@whohar

SoD… I mean the actual Roman lance from Golgotha.

Not sure what Kirk was thinking of… still Skids, Joy Division, New Order….

Actually, not sure RTD wants to reference it, exactly. Pretty sure he had another pointy thing in mind when saddling Rog with his unfeasible Norman handle. But, yes, Rog was a crypto fascist if not a neo nazi.

@thane16

Exploding Tardis. That long night in Darrilium must have flown.

‘You fly the tardis with the handbrake on!’

’You collapsed the Universe and wasn’t there when your own mother was shot by a replica of your own dad!’ (Note to self: send another crate of paranoid psychotic serial killer blood to Paternoster Square. I’m forever in your deb…[Read more]

@whohar

Complete Narrative Collapse sounds a bit like theoretical physics. But the world’s insane and wonks are to blame anyway!

The things is, to check the Harriet incident I’d have to rewatch EoD again… and I don’t really want to. The acid test.

H.Arbinger is at the controls. Was she running the VR? Is this a simulation designed to reveal……[Read more]

@thane16

the crack was utilised by the TL’s but it was caused by the tardis exploding, but what blew up the tardis?

Unless that was the universe collapsing when the Doctor went in the Pandorica (although he came straight out again)

Never mind

Not sure if it’s relevant, but the working title of 1988’s Silver Nemesis was The Harbinger, a Cartm…[Read more]

@thane16

I really don’t know about pointing woman. It could be anyone, within reason.

The snow could be explained by ‘the face’ in the scan. Or that connection is a red herring. I hope it’s not Sutekh because… he was a bit ridiculous wasn’t he? Is that the new Disney paradigm? Or was he always a paper… bandog? Happy to see the back of him.

It’s…[Read more]

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@vickymallard

Confused? The clever money is on misdirection.

To start with, in Pyramids of Mars (very good classic Who story), Sutekh is not supernatural or divine but a mad alien with enormous mental powers. He doesn’t get chucked in the Time Vortex but trapped in a time corridor where he (presumably) lived out his extended lifespan. RTD w…[Read more]

@whohar

I’m sure that would be the Mabinogion. Not that I am an expert but comparative analysis of Welsh and Irish myth is insightful.

I was musing on the power of 3 during the discussion on Dot and Bubble. That it’s problematical to say 3 is necessarily significant because it has become its own trope.

The Celts seemed to need to be told som…[Read more]

@whohar

see Spoilers for my comment re Mr Garnett.

More science… in general ‘smaller’ is better. Mainly in terms of threat. But science too. If you decide to go with speculative theoretical physics ok. But make it tight. Black Hole Information Paradox: show me what it means! Your challenge for next season Russ!

Even the maligned ‘Babi…[Read more]

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@mudlark @blenkinsopthebrave

Profiles of the Future: Arthur C Clarke’s 3rd Law…

‘Any sufficiently advanced technology is inextinguishable from magic’

…apparently.

The Time Window was tampered with…? Mmmm. We know someone who likes to mess around with that stuff, don’t we children? TUF guy. V. Mysterious. Could Warp your Mind! In fact the last…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

No. Not answered. Most things to do with the Time Window seem utterly baffling.

Either:

it’s a coincidence. High % chance she would be named Ruby by whoever. Did we get the name of the church? If it was All Saints, she could have been Nic Shaz Nat Mel Sunday.

or they made it up to be nice to Ruby, she was actually p…[Read more]