@graemelewis

this is all very well and good but give us some jokes about cheese…

@dentarthurdent @vickymallard

No. The jump from Vinvocci ship wasn’t great. I suppose the glass ceiling slowed him up, and he’s been around so long that by then, like Ashildr, he’s become brilliant at Crazy Stuff that should kill you. And we know he’ll regenerate soon.

One Vinvocci is a very funny man from the Horrible Histories team. The oth…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Just a theory… application of The Razor of Occam; do not duplicate broken chamelion circuits unnecessarily.

As far as we know only the Doctor has a sentient tardis. But maybe not. Maybe chamelion circuits are always prone to failure. Like the legendary British Leyland fully detachable door handles…

Not even saying that it’…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

well… actually I SPECULATE there could be just ONE police box/diner/sexyidris tardis

My bonkers flow chart looks like this:

Hell Bent: 12 steals tardis

> taken by ‘frozen’ Clara and Ashildr, who reunite mindwiped 12 with his tardis and tour the cosmos in an American Diner

> in due course one or t’other or both realise 11 has…[Read more]

@vickymallard

sorry for the spoilery… in fact, although some sources quote The War Games (1969!) as the origin of the idea of the stolen tardis, I can’t find a single mention. The doctor admits to being a renegade and at that point his navigation is hopeless so you might infer that he shouldn’t be left in charge of a tardis.

@dentarthurdent

The doctor lies. The writers mislead.

but apologies for spoilery…

We think Clara stopped The Doctor from stealing the ‘wrong’ Tardis because…

1. That was the point of the episode

2. Clara said ‘I’m the impossible girl!’ So the event must be a case in point (??)

BUT

in Hell Bent, the Doctor also stole a tardis which ended u…[Read more]

@vickymallard  @dentarthurdent

Planet of The Dead got a lot of stick when it came out. Cracking adventure, I thought, with lots of interesting angles: no Tardis; interesting alien species – maybe reminiscent of the swarm in Invisible Enemy and the Formasi in Leisure Hive – but there a finite number of tropes; antagonistic prospective companion;…[Read more]

@brewski

… no footprints in the snow…? Legolas? Maybe Galadriel… it was an episode with goblins!

Or just bad CGI!

Mrs Flood? Still haven’t given up on River post spacesuit girl, and pre Mel. Maybe Captain Jack rocks up with vortex manipulator and sends her back to Amy’s timeline.

Clearly the no DNA match for Ruby is a big deal. Elf you recko…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

The McGann conundrum deserves a bit more research… the one quote that keeps coming up is that Moffat couldn’t ‘envisage 8 as the Doctor that ended the time war.’ On Reddit someone quotes ‘DW & the end of the Time War’ where RTD seemed to show he definitely thought 8 burned Gallifrey. I suppose it was a complex creative decision…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @vickymallard

Re my comment about RTD’s choice of villains, I meant of course David HAREWOOD (not Haywood) in The End of Time. Doh

@juniperfish

As it happens we’ve been listening to a lot of ‘Night Tracks’ on Radio 3.

Who this raised a chuckle!

@dentarthurdent

I thought John Hurt was great as the War Doctor, and I suppose Moffat may have come up with the idea some time before: 10 regenerating his hand and the Trenzalore shenanigans rescuing a decrepit old doc who’d run out of regenerations (even though it turned out he/she/they had a free pass anyway… I think I got that right). BUT…[Read more]

@vickymallard

The Next Doctor… I enjoyed it. Cyberpunk! Nice. Teased the end of 10. Ooh you card Russ. Nice turn from Dervla Kirwan… even though, like David Haywood in The End of Time, her casting made me a bit uncomfortable.

Interesting point… should you be wary about exactly who you cast as villains? Not sure that’s RTD’s style. Perhaps R…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Anthony Stevens’ story was the infamous ‘Twin Dilemma.’ And the quote was his typewriter exploded ‘literally’ NOT ‘liberally.’ Fortunately neither Anthony nor Eric had to contend with predictive text.

When it comes good science, I would like someone to try making explosions in space silent.

@dentarthurdent

Ok, agree to disagree then. But some historicals are better than others.

As far as science is concerned Kill the Moon is as bad as almost anything CE, though I’ve not watched Flux. Spyfall made me want to scream. And not in a good way.

Forest of the Night was just an unhappy collision of interesting ideas. There was also the p…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

I didn’t think we disagreed exactly. My point is, if you’re not prepared to do the past honestly, then why go there? To plaster a monster or alien over an events kids and adults should know or be informed about can be potentially dubious.

Mind you science stories can also suffer from this. Earth’s large satellite would seem to be…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

1807: slave trade act – abolished the trade into the colonies

C16th-18th status of slavery not recognised in English common law and finally made illegal (not in the colonies). Indentured service was used as means of paying debt.

1833: the institution actually abolished in the colonies

Desperate people driven to the towns to…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

My least favourite story from series 10. There are a lot of buzzwords that could be plastered over a late Georgian story with a nod to slavery. It does come over as just that: a nod. And a monster in chains. And the reason the Thames froze was the climate was very very different.

It’s an uncomfortable salad of ideas. And the c…[Read more]

@nerys

Midnight: bbc iplayer has an embarrassment of riches on this side of the pond. Hope it’s there for a while!

that whole series was quite excellent; RTD must work like an auxiliary script editor beating everything into shape.

Shame about the barking mad season ender – great one liners though…

’it’s YOU!’

’Oh yes!’

’Your naked…’

’Oh yes…’

@nerys

I just hope, loon that he is, The Master has been told it wrong.