@juniperfish

I’m sure timelord dna is practically perfect in every way; consanguinity being the main issue for us apes.
But of course ‘it’s a kids show!’

Anyway, they were woven on a loom according to 10.

@miapatrick

Evil of the Daleks was supposed to be Terry Nation’s last Dalek story before he found an American buyer for the pepperpots.

How meta can you go?

@miapatrick

Evil of the Daleks was supposed to be Terry Nation’s last Dalek story before he found an American buyer for the pepperpots.

How meta can you go?

@miapatrick

It’s happened before. Evil of The Daleks, doc 2, 1967. The Daleks get imbued with ‘the human factor’, start questioning orders and become very childlike.

‘Why?’

’Dizzy Daleks.’

@juniperfish

The child of The Loon? ‘I knew him (the Doctor) when he was a little girl…’

Or grandchild. I have wondered if that was Bill Potts… at some point. The pictures on Capdoc’s desk. Bill’s mum previously appeared (briefly) as a Timelady.

And why plant the Missy’s vault in the basement of THAT university?

But Lucy was clearly unhap…[Read more]

@whohar

Is RTD going to fix it in the arc? Logically, if Du Plushie world doesn’t accept immigrants, maybe the babies do get shipped to Skaro! The pay off could be the toclafane in Dalek form.

All in the worst possible taste.

Seriously good. Curiously timely. Can he write? Yes he can.

So, what have we here? The Crash of The Byzantium. Demons Run. Malfunctioning Mummy Tech. Nightmare AI hardware ala Oxygen.

And the snowflake?? The Snowmen someone said?

Hmmm. Not sure about the snowflake. We might have been played a bit there. Like Poirot on the Orient Express. Too…[Read more]

@scaryb

All I said was there was a brief thaw in late Jan. Yes, Jan was apparently record-breakingly cold. Then the snow returned with high winds and blizzards in Feb.

I have been told (many times – I don’t remember) there was lying snow in the south east until march. London does have its own microclimate: lots of chimneys and in 63 very i…[Read more]

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@mudlark

Apparently there was a brief thaw on the 25th Jan. Then it got colder again with high winds in Feb but maybe not quite as cold as it had been before.

Clearly Russ hoped no-one would think of that.

Lots of snow in The Tardis of course.

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@juniperfish

or… SLC = Salt Lake City. Closest urban centre to Henry Van Statten’s vault. Says someone on tinternet.

Kind of place where an American Diner might rock up if you ask me.

@blenkinsopthebrave

I hate it when that happens (disappearing posts).

I was quite intrigued by Years and Years… not sure why I missed it. Well, competition for screen time. And early days of the culture war, maybe I felt I didn’t need ‘ideological’ guidance!

I still think Russ could have illustrated the difference effects of the demise of musi…[Read more]

@mudlark @janetteb

Run the Margaret Lockwood thing past me again? Of course, I have my own theories about Me, aka The Knightmare…

Also, just because the Giggle and Maestro both first manifested in ‘25 doesn’t mean they were particularly active at that point. The Toymaker takes the best part of a century to go to town. Music may not have been…[Read more]

@juniperfish @mudlark

re guff powered spaceships, I still maintain the issue is the initial burn, otherwise you’ll just spin gently. Once you’re there, it’s parabola (oops missed) or ellipse (orbit). A new burn may be required but by then more methane fuel will have been ‘manufactured’.

The problem at DuPlushie World or wherever might be the ex…[Read more]

Chris and The Carrollers?? A preview of the xmas special perchance? And SLC… something. Any ideas?

Tom Baker dressing up was from Robot 1974… which was a pretty poor story. Though it did have a cabal of very useless crypto fascists. Curiously apposite.

@penguindog @gotthejam

what you to have to remember is there is a pecking order at work here.

At the top… Trans is fraught. Drag is the target. This is the Mailspress feeding zone. Entirely irrational. THIS HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH REALITY! I have had people try to talk to me about this over dinner. No Tofu. And could I meet their eye? No. There w…[Read more]

The post Maestro nuclear winter is an obvious nod to Pyramids of Mars. I’m afraid we’ll not see ITS like again. But that has been true since Jonathan Nathan Turner stepped into Graham William’s shoes. And not all of the golden age was THAT good. In any case we’re talking Nuwho.

What do we have with ‘Chord’ and ‘Babies’? Yes relief that Zchib is g…[Read more]

Can I state my admiration for the number the Beatles were recording when the Doc and Ruby turned up? Clearly an influence on Colon from Indie Club. I won’t post the video again.

I thought the actor who played Ron Nasty looked more like Dirk McQuickly, whereas Dirk’s actor should have been Barry Wom!

Hilarity aside, music is one of the corner sto…[Read more]

@scaryb @janetteb @whohar

the snow reminded me of Lavender Brown making it snow on Ron Weasley. Generally the early RTD snow was bits of spaceship or the contents of ballast tanks.

I didn’t want to be first up and say ‘ai carumba! I think Itchy and Scratchy has lost their edge.’ But I’m afraid we are in a new warm and fluffy age. The back of…[Read more]