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Definitely need a full and thorough analysis of the potential meaning behind the cards chosen. And I’m sure we’re in the right place for that…

Oh you know that is just catnip…

The Doctor picks the Eight of Clubs. Cartomancy (fortune telling with a deck of cards) equates clubs with the Tarot suit Wands. Eight of Wands in the classic…[Read more]

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The Toymaster did go full Prince Ludwig from Blackadder @ps1l0v3y0u, @phaseshift. But showed his sinister side with that “sunnier climes” comment. With the excellent “I was born in Cheltenham” as the response.

I thought that was particularly well handled myself, and although RTD went for it in the behind the scenes stuff I think he shou…[Read more]

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The Doctor cuts 8…

Definitely need a full and thorough analysis of the potential meaning behind the cards chosen. And I’m sure we are in the right place for that 🙂

Actually, that was my only real quibble with this ep – I was expecting the games, such as they were, to be more cerebral, with puzzles or logical conundrums to be…[Read more]

A bit late to this party, due to Timey-zone, Wimey-zone stuff. I only watched this Sunday morning (my time) and was then out at the theatre in the evening, so didn’t get the chance to post before now.

And I’ve not read any other comments, so apologies for any repetition. And apologies for any repetition.
First off – I really enjoyed this. From my…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u Red was the Rani’s signature colour; she was given to wearing red gloves as I recall, to go with the rest of her red sparkly outfit. But as @PhaseShift and @Mudlark point out, the red nails might be a reference to the more recent “Cult of Saxon” which recalls RTD1 era’s John Simm Master.

I rather hope we’re not getting a retro-rei…[Read more]

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I would say the Host robots are more reminiscent of the Robots in the Tom Baker Robots of Death in fact they look very similar facially except the robots in Robots of Death were metallic Green  as opposed to the golden angels

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GOOD Whisht!!! Yes, yes and YES! Exactly that! 😉

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the stage in the Chibnall cycle when my brains started leaking from my ears.

😀 😀 😀

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Irish lore, including sources such as The Tain, would certainly be a rich vein to mine.

Where RTD is concerned the sources would be more likely Welsh, but at any rate it seems as if he will be straying in the general direction of folk tales next season. The interview in the dead trees version of the Radio Times provides a…[Read more]

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and now the eye-candy’s back!

Why thank you 🙂

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I would hope that’s not true, and would be a bit shocked if it were. Hopefully next time they will get it right. It would be nice to see Louisa Harland (Orla from Derry Girls) in the TARDIS…

But I’m getting off-topic. Any further Chibnall rambling by me will go under @JimTheFish Chibnall retrospective blog.

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I think if it’s a good story, the casting will quickly become a non-issue and, if the story is poor, the casting then becomes a stick to beat the writer / showrunner etc.

That was one of the problems with Chibnall’s run. He had a huge opportunity to use the Doctor’s gender change and tell some different stories / from different…[Read more]

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What about a black JFK?

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt0281686/plotsummary/?ref_=tt_ov_pl

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And I didn’t even mention The Phantom Raspberry Blower….

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Yes, we have strayed into nit-picking territory and I vowed I wouldn’t do so, at least for this episode, but once tempted I’m afraid I find it hard to resist, so forgive me if this once I ignore the cones and warning tape and dive into the rabbit hole. Then I will go away and sit quietly in my corner.

It’s the London Town in this…[Read more]

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I know right ? I wish they kept Ecclestone on board a little longer, he played the doctor pretty good too.

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No one says ‘London Town’ from day to day.

Where I’m from (not London), we used to use the expression “I’m going out in Town” or “going up to Town” when this in fact meant going into the city, so it’s not as uncommon as you might think.

I’m a little surprised people found it so jarring – it’s not as if someone said “Cor lummy, tha…[Read more]

<span class=”useratname”>@ps1l0v3y0u</span>    Oh, and I forgot to mention Paul McGann.   Excellent in The Night of the Doctor short.   I’ve seen the movie and it didn’t feel like Doctor Who, it was an American cop show disguised as Who.   He would have made a great Doctor, in proper episodes.

And of course the War Doctor,  John Hurt.   H…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u      I think you’ve summed up the Doctors pretty well.    My favourite of NuWho would be Capaldi.   But the others were good – Tennant maybe a bit too emotional.    Smith started out too young but he aged into it (a bit like Roger Moore as James Bond).

Old Who, I only ever saw glimpses of Hartnell, Patrick Troughton who I liked very m…[Read more]

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That reference to ‘London town’ is indeed weird. I confess I missed it at the time – possibly I was so engrossed that my mind filtered it and I just heard ‘London’ – but I checked the transcript and, yes, there it is. But even if the writer hadn’t been RTD, I’m not sure that it can be counted an Am…[Read more]