Hey @ps1l0v3y0u

Nice choice!
I’ll link it here (btw I just paste the Url from YouTube and that embeds it.

There’s a way to link text [link button above the field we type in] that also can work.
eg for this live version.

;¬)

@ps1l0v3y0u   Oh yes, re Daleks, Moff made major forays into Dalek history.   Chibs used them as villain of the week – nothing wrong with that, you can write a perfectly good ep with that format.   Considering what he did to the Time Lords, the Daleks were probably lucky he didn’t give them his undivided attention  [/snark]

@ps1l0v3y0u   Of course, Twice Upon a Time!   I’d forgotten about Rusty.

Chibs had two Dalek episodes, IIRC, Resolution (which was one of his better episodes) and Eve of the Daleks which was his best  (and I say that as a non-Chibnall-enthusiast).

I liked Ace, but I think Sophie Aldred is a bit too old now to play that part.   Yes I *know*…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u    Well, Ruth is quite unlike Rose, physically (though of course regeneration could be used to account for that).   I would very much hope Billie is the new Doctor.   As for the fact that she’s already been a major character – well, Capaldi was also a Doctor who had previously appeared as an incidental character.   And, Rose had also…[Read more]

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“introducing Billie Piper”

How can you introduce an actor that everyone knows from past Who?

A strange use of the word “introduce”. Seemingly, it only make sense if you read it as “introducing Billie Piper as …well, somebody or other…”

@ps1l0v3y0u      Billie Piper as the Doctor?    Wow, I’m right back into it.   My enthusiasm has been revived.   I *love* Billie Piper.

Hopefully she’ll be the Doctor, or at least in Who, for quite a while.   She certainly seems to be well disposed towards the series, judging by the several times she reappeared after Rose’s demise.   Mos…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u    That passage I quoted – I think Ohila may very well have been there for a quick readthrough, since it was only the prologue (released before the ep itself I think) with just the two speaking characters.

Agreed that talented actors can contribute much to the episode if allowed, though  they’re probably a headache for the writers who…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u     I would also like to see what Billie would be like as the Doctor even if it was just for a series or some specials. I just worry that RTD is playing with us and it turns out differently.

I  saw Chris Eccleston on a panel on youtube and when asked who should be the Doctor he said Billie Piper. He thought it would drive us all (fa…[Read more]

@ScaryB – dammit! I now have the song, and the expression “What a load of dugga-doo” stuck in my head 🙂

On yours and @Whohar ‘s mention of “hasty rewrites” – yes, when you think about the first Gatwa series and how much it focussed on the Doctor and Ruby both being abandoned and adopted children, I wonder if Poppy was planned out, at the…[Read more]

Hi @ps1l0v3y0u. Re Anita’s keen interest in Rogue and the Doctor, I read it that she had rather fallen for the Doc (well, who wouldn’t) and only realised when she saw him in the face that she’d known, dancing with Rogue, that she really wasn’t his type? The way her face fell as she watched them… But the thing about her Boss is definitely intriguing.

@ps1l0v3y0u Oh. Could I make it ‘Broadchurch’ in space? A series of Intergalactic Moiders with conflicted cardboard cutouts (my fav. Pretty please?)

Had you leveled the “cardboard cutouts” complaint against Season 2, I would have been right there with you. The second season of Broadchurch was a disaster, IMO. Throw in a past murder that no vie…[Read more]

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And one more – which is what I started looking for…

In honour of The Big O (Omega! (thanks @ps1l0v3y0u ), sung by the actual Big O (Orbison), from David Lynch’s Blue Velvet. In Dreams – lots of wishes and weirdness, with Dean Stockwell miming for very disturbed gangster Frank (Denis Hopper), the end visuals playing about with fantasy worlds and…[Read more]

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@whohar I have no objection to the episode focussing on Tesla. But suggesting that the competition of AC vs DC was between Tesla and Edison, as the episode goes out of its way to imply, is wildly misrepresenting the reality. The principal players in the ‘War of the Currents’ were Edison and Westinghouse (the Wikipedia article, a detailed account…[Read more]

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@everybody 🙂 Well we all seem to be broadly unanimous about Chibs’s tenure.

Re @ps1l0v3y0u ‘s comment ‘The theory that a Ladydoc shouldn’t in anyway ape a ‘blokedoc’ is not necessarily unsound.’ Decoding that (with respect, sometimes your comments are a little – cryptic or convoluted) – I agree – as far as that goes. Going further, each Docto…[Read more]