@whohar

Chibnall would have made it into a baby soap opera. ‘What’s going on? No, you don’t know what he’s done! I’m divorcing you Eric!’ And it would be a two parter at least.

Saward… the babies drink blood and everyone but Ruby and Doc die in the end. Maybe Ruby too.

Pip and Jane? Well a lot of people want to see The Rani again. She got a men…[Read more]

@whohar

Call me Mr Brightside.

Not saying Babies was better than B+, if that. IMHO.

There was indeed catch up expo. Expo wasn’t wasted on giving away the whole backstory, clumsily and vindictively because, “who’s the showrunner now, Father Steven Moffat?? Next section: people who don’t like Crime Dramas. I got awards for my Crime Drama, did you…[Read more]

Welcome to Checkov’s Fluffy Armory.

It seems churlish to say ‘on the whole I enjoyed it.’ It was GREAT. Maybe some reveals were a little obvious. The scene setting didn’t take long but… there it was…

And NO! Raise your crucifix (other sacred and/or humanistic protective symbols are available) against the spectacle of Whotinuity. Nope. Nothi…[Read more]

@devilishrobby

cheers. I suspected the multi doc stories had more regeneration info. But I wasn’t about to trawl through them.

Cartmel may indeed have inspired the Timeless Children, but he’s on record as hating it.

Last word… Of course Moff apparently thought the ‘Morbius’ faces were Doctor pre 1, and defended that aspect of Timeless Children. Not sure what he thought of the rest. But that doesn’t mean to say 1 didn’t steal sexyidris or wasn’t the first to become The Doctor. That is IF Ruth was the regeneration forced after The War Games!

Would a neural bl…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

if you’re bored you can say so. It’s fine.

Otherwise… in Name of the Doctor it’s obviously 1 who stole the tardis in it’s ‘death star elevator’ form but that’s Moff’s retcon.

The existence of other Timelords and tardises is introduced in The Time Meddler (season 2) and expanded on with The War Games (season 6) when Timelord, th…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Clara/Ashildr’s tardis did indeed have a duff chameleon circuit. A Type 40 problem? Like Leyland fully detachable door handles? Or it’s the same tardis and sexyidris thought all those shakes and burgers would be bad for her figure.

Last point… everyone assumes Ruth predates 1, just as everyone (now) assumes the faces we saw in Mo…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Could you disguise the inside of a tardis? The Diner had a back room (presumably a kitchen???!) which was the tardis proper. Clara and Ashildr may have gone anywhere (apart from The Time War and Earth circa Chicxulub) and met anyone.

In that a chameleon circuit is supposed to disguise a tardis, why bury it?

Otherwise, could the…[Read more]

SPOILER, SPOILER, SPOILER...

@janetteb

hmmm, ‘The Raj’… no I’m not prescribing sackcloth and ashes. My impression is that the generation who experienced partition, close at hand or from a distance, often use the word ‘betrayal’. Britain had been revealed as the emperor with no clothes; having created the idea of a political ‘India’ they could do nothing about Jinnah seceding…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Samuel Anderson is a great actor. Obviously he was part of the ‘centenary soldier’ arc. I loved it when Danny identifies the Doctor as an officer. So yes he’s abrasive; he is an antagonist. Not everyone can be warm and fluffy. Rory is in some ways more Doctor-like than the Doctor; its a tribute to Arthur Darvill’s acting that he…[Read more]

@dwnerdfrommars @dentarthurdent

George Lucas a Whovian?? I had a friend who was an (American) Professor of Anthropology, a huge sci fi fan, and he confessed he didn’t get Who at all. Denis Waterman was famously dismissive. Perhaps he wanted write the them tune/sing the theme tune ala Little Britain.

The most obvious parallel for Star Wars is D…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Some might say brave. Others foolish.

I remember meeting a fellow whovian late in 2018 and we eventually, reluctantly turned to the problems of the new season.

The overriding impressions were of slowness and incoherence. We identified the tiptoeing around The Lady Doctor issue (and so the unwelcome return of the crowded Tardis…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Spyfall… I confess I have issues with the Bond franchise. This doesn’t help me take the story seriously.

Noor Inayat Khan… doh! I typoed her name! Sorry.

If Zchib, or Moff, want to bring on Nazis for creative reasons, so be it. Better be done well tho. If they can advance the story with recent political or historical figures…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

the gold tooth?

Max Capricorn surely?

@dentarthurdent @devilishrobby

I really like Love and Monsters. Even Moaning Myrtle’s (hinted) life as a paving slab. But then I happily defend doctor 6.

CB wasn’t a great actor but he was given an impossible brief; Tom in that role (to judge from the occasional shouty moments from a decade before) would have been truly terrifying. And I dou…[Read more]

@janetteb

wow that’s a tricky brief.

My personal fave (?) is the Two Doctors… though it is overlong, with a ridiculously decrepit 2nd Doctor and Jamie, and even more ludicrous Sontarans. Violence (tick).

I haven’t seen Revelation of the Daleks since the first broadcast. That impression was favourable. But it is a Dalek story WITH Davros. Gen…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @winston @dwnerdfrommars

6 (and Nichola Bryant) undoubtedly copped the worst excesses of Nathan Turner and Saward. Not that 5 didn’t also suffer: The Myrka; Turlough going crazy; Anthony Ainley going crazy; the correct way to milk a giant bat…

But Nathan Turner’s sartorial sensibilities were as nothing compared to Sawar…[Read more]

@dwnerdfrommars

Pineapple? Hmmm.

NOT mmmm!

Colin Baker… pretty much the same. Hilarity was there to be had: Varos, 2 Doctors (controversial I know), Revelation, even the weird and not that wonderful Timelash. Also the mindboggling Mindwarp.

You have to remember the welcome contrast between the second Baker and the Davison ‘surrender mon…[Read more]

@winston

Revenge of the Cybermen featuring The Vogans. (NOT Vogons).

Not THAT bad; better than Robot, but poor after Ark or Genesis. The Zygons and Planet of Evil are a bit clunky too. The Android Invasion however is better than I remembered.

I am revisiting 4 too.