@nerys @dentarthurdent

Yes. Amy says something like that. The Doctor is the ‘damsel’ in ‘the husbands of…’ Donna introduces the idea… by her absence. “Things went wrong…” (The End of Time)

The point being… I think… is that The Doctor benefits from interaction (even with Rusty?) whereas The Master, in his thirst for power, never considers it……[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

I’ll leave Eaters of Light for you then.

In hindsight the development of Bill through the series was disappointing. It got squeezed out by the Missy redemption subplot which I frankly didn’t care that much about. So more no Moira, no Penny. They were fun. But maybe that might a bit ZChib????!

There again no further Ira…[Read more]

The Empress of Mars

There’s lots to enjoy here and much that could annoy. I suppose. Mark Gatiss obviously remembers the Ice Warriors fondly. So do I. I liked the ‘Alien’ tinged Cold War, the previous IW outing, though David Warner’s Duran Duran obsessed dissident scientist could do with toning down. I like steam punk; it seems idle to point o…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Empress of Mars!

oh well, there I was, doing Terror of the Zygons. Not all that good actually…

Have to watch EoM tonight I suppose. I remember it quite fondly. Let’s see.

@krathoon

the zygons could also disappear upon shuffling from this mortal but that was because the boss zygon made it happen.
I doubt if RTD will explain it, but who knows? Im not sure how ‘daughter’ from the Family of Blood could be trapped in a mirror, or her brother become a scarecrow to protect Britain. Unless he’s the one pumping chick…[Read more]

Sorry… more about The Lie of the Land really.

After more consideration I think I would definitively state that the Trilogy declined as it progressed. Creepy labyrinth dwelling Monks are scarier than needy Monks who seem to need you tell them they’re great in bed. The Doctor REALLY does need to recruit Jah Wobble and arm him with a fire ext…[Read more]

@winston @nerys

sorry for the incoherent post. I was briefly incoherent

But pizza… pineapple? Stuffed crusts?? Jonathan Nathan Turner? Even the more foolish parts of Graham Williams’ tenure…

The man who doesn’t care what he eats will hardly care at all.

@nerys

Chib… virtue/unforgiveable sin/urghh that man REALLY is an ijit… signalling… until the very end.

The man WAS part of the problem. The sooner RTD admits it, the better. (He won’t)

Moff is laughing like dog.

@dentarthurdent

caricature of Trump? Jack Robertson in Arachnids in the UK maybe? And Revolution of the Daleks… I wasn’t really paying attention by then. Or he was just a generic dodgy yank. Apologies to all yank-kind.

But yes you did hear orange… I think its when The Sekjen mentions the president of earth and Bill doesn’t realise he means t…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

I thought I’d post on the Extremis thread, but I had been following your reviews of series 10 and reacted to your comment on The Winchester.

When The Monks were first broadcast I was still smarting from the apparent unresolved elements from the previous arc, and didn’t really appreciate Moffat’s work here. I really like Bill,…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

saw/anticipated your post on The Monks and decided to revisit them myself… I remembered it as impressive and a bit flawed.

So, my considered opinion on the The Monk’s Trilogy…

In many ways it’s a four parter, ‘Oxygen’ being the basis of The Doctor’s blindness, the chink whereby The Monks conquer earth, having run their pesky V…[Read more]

@vickymallard @winston

Yes, those interesting aliens (a nod to the 70’s series The Curse of Peladon?) and lots of hints as to the fate of Gallifrey. And without the oft unsuccessfully employed device of the ‘regeneration trauma’, Ecclestone makes a convincing and intriguing alien in a humanoid body.

If you’re a huge 10 fan (and there are a lot)…[Read more]

<p style=”text-align: left;”>@dentarthurdent @vickymallard</p>
if you are to venture into Classic Who, Phillip Hinchcliff/Roberts Holmes tenure is by far the best… 1975-1977. From ‘ark in space’ to ‘talons of weng chiang.’ Mostly gold. It fell foul of the ‘is this a kids’ show or what?’ controversy.

There are classics from all eras… ‘terror o…[Read more]

@vickymallard @dentarthurdent

Plastic Mickey. Man eating bins… ‘leave it to me, I’m  a gymnast!’ (in so many words) and yes lots of planets have a north.

Rose the story was lightweight in a good way. Light touch. We all know Who can do Preposterous and Pompous. But a nod to Spearhead from Space/Terror of the Autons, nothing too alarming…[Read more]

@vickymallard

did you START with Ruby Road?? You need to see the previous 3 too really… I’m sure you are/have…

the singing… a shock I admit. But I think RTD was channeling the Steven Moffat’s annual raid on popular Xmas culture. Otherwise everything will be fantastic after The Toymaker (which is why you need to watch the others).

I took a br…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

cheers. I need to look at that!

Blink territory? Absolutely! I stress ‘almost!’ Blink is the gold standard, from the casting of Cary Mulligan to the gorgeous subplot with the detective, and the scene in the backroom of the video shop.

A shame the Angel’s mystique then became a bit tarnished.

Those Moffat stories from NuWho…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @janetteb

Mummy was Mathieson’s favourite? I really like it. Almost Blink standard. Maybe the questions of why Gus suddenly releases the girls or who it was/represented nag a bit. And the business of not seeing the Doctor rescue everybody at the end. In an AU that’s the season ender and Missy was actually manipulating the For…[Read more]

@janetteb @dentarthurdent

The Girl Who Died was co-written with Moffat. I love the hints of what I see as an abandoned story arc – unless it’s yet to ‘mature.’ Not many people agree and I doubt anything will come from it. But I haven’t quite given up yet…

The Girl Who Died… Katarina died and so did Sara (in the same series!) AU uberLiz got…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Huge fan of Oxygen… to paraphrase 4 in City of Death, ‘I love your high threat space horror. It’s so scary.’

If Mary Whitehouse had still been with us she’d have been frothing at the mouth.

Awesome. Curiously quite difficult to rewatch. I tried and maybe I was depressed about Chib and the damage done. Maybe I was genuinely…[Read more]

Of course the ‘Hand’ taken by 7 was Omega’s, not Rassilon’s. This also effects my comment on Hell Bent.