@whohar

So now Peter Purves is at it!

https://www.radiotimes.com/tv/sci-fi/doctor-who-peter-purves-modern-series-newsupdate/

Is this the narrative? Is someone seeding the narrative? First a guy who wrote one (rather good) canon story and moonlighted on some other bits and pieces, now a companion from the distant past who ‘no longer watches t…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Would like to know how Star Beast was chosen as an intro to the Mouse era… but, we’ll probably never know. It entertained enormously, almost effortlessly, in a manner Chib could only ever dream. What I shall do is watch the transition from Chib back to Russ together I think…

1. there must have been some Russ input into Chib’s…[Read more]

@whohar

continuity… may well alienate more new fans than it attracts. But it is a 60+ year show; 50 years active. It’s more of a question of what you do with it: Cartmel wanted it to be less ‘roll out a classic monster’ and more about The Doctor himself: man of mystery revealed, not mad man in a box, that phrase itself being Moff’s deflection…[Read more]

Hope I’ve done this right:

Shearman wants to write more books/audio/big finish?? Cos he didn’t get another gig on the actual show.

Does someone actually know something?? Has Billie said any…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent
Yes, Inferno, Caves of Androzani, Fires of Pompei… magma has Who-form.

Perhaps it’s doctor evil/panicked hero hyperbole. You only need a certain amount of flooding/volcanic activity to wipe us out, but never knowingly undersell it.

@whohar @dentarthurdent @janetteb

Time paradoxes and how to avoid them.

Timelords are time sensitive… Girl who Died… ‘ripples not tidal waves.’ Obviously no one is going for the abandoned arc/plot seeding theory… but the implication is, this IS a tidal wave and The Doctor knows it. Therefor he’s there because the Tardis done it. Malfunctioni…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

fantasy science. Yes, it’s part of the show but they flaunt the worst possible examples so often you have to wonder if we’re being baited.

Flooding the entire Earth didn’t ought to be possible. Perhaps The Chief Sea Devil meant he would flood low lying continental margins. That might well cause the collapse of human civil…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

fantasy science. They flaunt it so often you have to wonder if we’re being baited.

Flooding the entire Earth didn’t ought to be possible. Perhaps The Sea Devils meant he would flood low lying continental margins. That might well cause the collapse of human civilisation. Couldn’t The Doctor babble about that?

Otherwise, the known…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Legend of The Sea Devils

LotSD is not Eve but it’s not most of the dross from series 11 & 12 neither. Which probably means it’s there with T’floox, neither boring us to death nor making very much sense.

There is a jewel which the Sea Devils need, so they can wipe out the land crawlers, somehow. And they get it during some runni…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @nerys

An Android Princess became Romana 2.

Lots of reoccurring thesps in less prominent but varied roles…

The War Lord and Solon

Poule and Mawdryn

David Troughton got in a few times.

As for 12’s face… it’s specifically to do with Ashildr, who he recognises, and acts so weirdly around that Clara calls him out. And in the…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Flustered hormonal Sally got a telephone call from older Billy, right after she left younger Billy safely next to the Tardis in the police pound, and some angels. I think.

Not sure how the angels then, and only then, moved the Tardis back to Wester Drumlins. Or why. I think Sally had the key. As we now know (but didn’t then) an…[Read more]

@whohar

That sequence is good. I would insert…

Gatwa’s decision to leave was because of an unhappy combination of streaming partner demands and show runner hubris. Also lack of time for writing because in-show development had been trashed by the previous showrunner’s wilful vandalism, which was forced the BBC’s need to take control of show cont…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

second thoughts…

The sun shut off can only happen BECAUSE The Doctor is separated from The Tardis.

So. Either The Doctor didn’t read the file. Maybe it happened straight after the Lizard and long bow thing. Or… The Doctor had to risk the shut off to prevent the paradox. Or… the Tardis stitched him up for the same reason.…[Read more]

@thane16

‘Mind as the monster.’

Better than a man in a rubber suit. Or actors with facial prosthetics, my problem with Stat Trek, though The Founders were well realised. And now quite scary. ‘Solids’ are chaotic and dangerous. Democracy is chaotic and dangerous (to whom?)

So, the reason why The Mara were so good. Badly realised in the early 80…[Read more]

@whohar

I am teasing.

‘Reusing’ faces, maybe it’s a phase Time Lords go through. 12 postulated there was a reason. Doesn’t really retcon for 6. 14 seems to indicate there is something wrong with that regeneration and 10: the metacrisis ‘human’ doc, a bit feisty, fond of the face in the mirror… though there’s always room for a small girl with…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Blink, The Doctor’s timeline.

Sally Sparrow gives The Doctor the Wester Drumlin file.

He either doesn’t read the file,

Or he does read it but goes to Wester Drumlins anyway to avoid a time paradox,

Or does, but goes there because the sun might (probably) get shut off,

Or does or doesn’t but The Tardis takes him and Marth…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @whohar @janetteb

RTD2: we seem to be mid arc. Lots unresolved. The Disney money flushed away. The Susan tease…

Would Russ rather have Gatwa still in harness? Yes, the adjustment to Reality War seemed rushed. But Russ effectively shrugged his shoulders at Ecclestone’s departure. And even the most generous Gatwa fans must adm…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

‘Duck. Sally Sparrow!’ Well the Doctor’s got Sally’s notes. Which presumably mention Wester Drumlins so The Doctor either had to go or set up a paradox, or he (more likely) he forgot. All Moffat’s first run of stories were super but Blink was genius level. The best thing you can say about Sally and Larry is it was downbeat,…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @nerys

I WAS being picky. ‘Eve’ is a worthy effort. Perhaps, if T’floox was itself an improvement but err… confused, Chris was learning, trying to up his game, maybe (in my mind) telling The Corp to back off: the notional post Moff straightjacket was too tight.

But not all Who falls apart upon inspection. And this was ok. Sally…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

Eve of The Daleks

Thank you. You rescued me from 5; I was about to watch Warriors of the Deep, just to snigger at The Myrka. This is MUCH better. It comes with a high rep. The long cold start works. Chib’s dialogue practically sparkles. The set-up intrigues. It has urgency. Everyone… well five people… get zapped again and again…[Read more]