Ok! Lots going on there. So much so it was almost more early Moff than classic, overblown, season ending Rusty…

Red fingernails? I really dunno if the Rani was noted for the red finger nails. I think I might find it demeaning to find out… I mean we are talking about Pip and Jane Baker here.

We had a blurry shot of Kate and Mel leaving the hel…[Read more]

@winston @janetteb

VotD must be a top 3 Christmas special. Titanic, Poseidon, Aliens, Robots of Death, ‘Keel him!’…

Love it

I assume the Host represent parallel cyber evolution. They are really extraordinarily similar to the SVs, Vs & D’s that Taren Capel liked to inject with gigantic glowing red syringes. Or the Titanic was a time ship……[Read more]

I have finally just watched WBY…

Why were people going on about Isaac Newton? Really? Why???

And all this stuff about the influence of Midnight… what about The Waters of Mars??

Loved it. Not sure about the Timeless Children thing, because that was about the stage in the Chibnall cycle when my brains started leaking from my ears.

But yes Tim…[Read more]

@mudlark

plagiarising yourself though?! I suggest this makes Geoff the David Bowie of the Middle Ages.

I love the bit in the HotKoB where Ambrosius favourite hangout is a holy place named after… himself?? (Cloister of Ambrius). Must have inspired Burroughs (and so Bowies’) cut-up lyric method.

@janetteb

remember… Mr Copper’s degree in Earthonomics came from Mrs Golightly’s Happy Travelling University and Dry Cleaners.

@WhoHar @mudlark

twas none other than The Black Adder that labelled Geoff one of the great liars of history (Henry vii being almost as bad). My use of the adjective ‘kind’ is very relative here. Barbieri thought it was mostly nonsense too.

Miles Russell in ‘Arthur and the Kings of Britain’ shows that Geoff copies and pastes biographical details…[Read more]

@WhoHar

Celtic myth… that reminds me of Julian May’s Pliocene Epic (The Golden Torc etc)…

Otherwise, this is an interesting link, comparing the earliest iterations of Arthurian myth with Irish legend:
http://www.facesofarthur.org.uk/fabio/book6.3.htm

basically the Vortigern story in Nennius is shown to be pretty much identical to the legen…[Read more]

@WhoHar

’JHK??’ I meant JFK but you knew that.

I suppose when Jack met Harold it was an international changing of the guard… in particular I’m referring to Jack’s infamous reveal of his favourite preventative migraine cure. Maybe he was trying to wind up Harold not realising the son of empire was already mentally scarred by Robert Boothby.

@WhoHar

I think as far as Harold MacMillan was concerned JHK might as well have been.

I think Chibnall was under strict instruction to not go there. They’ve got their bloody female. Now just fill the Tardis with idiots so no-one asks awkward questions. We all love ‘Villa’ but it IS the story where Byron makes a pass at the Doctor… a bit sad rea…[Read more]

Clearly, Isaac Newton needs to be played by an asexual, neurodivergent actor.

A Regency AU where the British rescue and then fete Toussaint L’ouverture would be worth watching. It would have to be a very alternative AU though.

A white MLK? Do I/you/anyone really want to go there? Bobby Kennedy doesn’t count I suppose. Otherwise, the BBC knew how…[Read more]

I hereafter declare the ‘London Town’ a rabbit hole. I’ll be putting out cones and yellow/black tape and email the council.

@whohar

safe to say lots of Brit songs use the form ‘London Town’ sometimes to rhyme or scan no doubt, sometimes as a regional dig at parochial insular London. RTD might be making the latter point (well we certainly ain’t in Cardiff or Sheffield anymore, Toto!) otherwise the real question is why should he use the phrase? No one says ‘Lond…[Read more]

@thedoctor234

William Hartnell was remarkable… and it was a tricky brief, because he obviously revelled in the curmudgeonliness of the role, but he was also disappointed by most of the scripts I think… been trying to watch ‘The Keys of Marinus’… by Terry Nation no less, and it’s tough.

My first doctor was Patrick Troughton. I don’t remember much…[Read more]

London Town… to tell the truth I didn’t actually notice that one. There were worse anachronisms. Maybe someone wanted ‘London, England,’ in Moff style letters and what we got was an acceptable compromise.

I ain’t really bothered. Mind you, if it had been Chibnall, I would be frothing at the mouth! I’m afraid this is the way it will be… you tak…[Read more]

@thereet

you’re thinking of Colin Morgan. He was also Merlin… in Merlin!

Dark with cheekbones like Lee van Cleef… so not dissimilar to Benedict

Transatlanticisms? This was written by RTD… script editor Scott Handcock… Welsh/english… difficult to see how egregious Americanisms could be a deliberate ploy. Or are we saying some unnamed Disney suit is telling them: ‘hey! You don’t have to go to Port Talbot for steelworks. We just gotta a vague idea you’re next to Yoorp; or ‘Americans…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

trolls thought Moff had ruined their childhood??!

That is AU…

There’s no doubt about it.

fools register to troll; to flog crypto; to smish and phish and catfish. Welcome to your world customer! It might make a good Who script/arc. Wanna see THOSE plushies!

Otherwise the subscript is ‘hurry up and die granddad.’ Not very original. And it assumes no one in the future will be able to change their minds. Das i…[Read more]

We seem to have been invaded by cyber ijits. Including crypto twats. Enjoy DW day guys and gals!