• hey everyone 🙂 how are you all 🙂

    this cheered me up soo much 🙂 I was telling my friend about my comment and was checking back on this page and was like hey where is what I was refereeing to before the previous comment ?

    Turns out as I was writing my 2 or 3 confusions @Rewvian the review champion I believe now posted his ideas while I was…[Read more]

  • @Rewvian I watched this a few days ago. My impressions were pretty much the same as yours. Spitfires in Space was a bit goofy, even if they were fitted with stolen Dalek tech (at least I presume that’s where Bracewell got his ideas from). And the bit where Amy saved him was touching. Had the Daleks managed to create a human? I assume…[Read more]

  • @Rewvian I’m not sure if there was a villain in this one. The source of the moral problem was a tragic misunderstanding that the Star Whale wouldn’t swim unless forced to. So the situation resolved itself to the Trolley Problem (or something equivalent). Liz 10 was put in an impossible position – continue the Star Whale’s captivity or kill…[Read more]

  • @Rewvian I re-watched this a few days ago, so your review made interesting reading. I thought the episode was well done, on the whole. Though the newly reconstituted Doctor has appalling table manners!

    It’s evident that Rory is very conventional, while Amy has a tough streak in her. Suggesting to Mr Henderson that he goes and has a…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The End of Time

    @Rewvian Yes, that’s a pretty good explanation of the Master’s superpowers – due to his explosive revival. That works, thanks for that.

    I just watched Part 2. I’d remembered the good bit – the final confrontation between the Doctor, the Master, and Rassilon. That was really well-staged and tense. I’d forgotten the slow bits.

    The…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The End of Time

    @Rewvian Okay, so I just re-watched Part 1 (Part 2 tomorrow). Part 1 was – okay. I think mostly build-up for Part 2.

    I do agree re the mentions of President Obama, I found them disconcerting. I’m usually uneasy about characterisations of actual people, even when they’re dead. I would rather a fictional generic US President had been…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The End of Time

    @Rewvian Easy way to find out. One simply goes to Chrissie’s transcripts site at Chakoteya.net and does a word search in the relevant episode, and (in Part 2) here it is:

    ‘PARTISAN: (a woman) But we know his intention. He still possesses the Moment, and he’ll use it to destroy Daleks and Time Lords alike.’

    Okay, so that’s cheating :)…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The End of Time

    @Rewvian Oh yes, that was a pretty good episode now I recall it.
    The voice-over was impressive – a very authoritative sounding voice. And the reveal of the narrator as Timothy Dalton (as Lord President) was no less impressive. I thought he was more imposing as Lord President than he was as James Bond.

    I hadn’t realised that The Moment…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Next Doctor

    @Rewvian I’ll try to remember to remind you about Night of the Doctor.

    You’re not far behind me. I just re-watched The Eleventh Hour last night. So even if you ease off the go-faster pedal a little, I think you’ll probably overtake me quite soon. But it absolutely doesn’t matter of course.

    I’m happy to report that Eleventh Hour still…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Next Doctor

    @rewvian I echo what @dentarthurdent says. Definitely watch Night of the Doctor and the follow up mini-sode, The Last Day which is designed to lead into Day of the Doctor. They are both well worth watching.

    cheers

    Janette

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Planet of the Dead

    @Rewvian    I liked this episode.  Planet of the Dead because everybody who ever lived there – was dead.   Eaten by the Swarm.  For some reason I’m reminded of the exchange between Lister and Holly at the start of Red Dwarf –

    “Where is everybody, Hol?”     “They’re dead, Dave.”   “Who is?” “Everybody, Dave.”    “What, Captain Hollister?” …[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Next Doctor

    @janetteb   I agree about the giant stompy robot, surely it would be remembered.   Doctor Who does tend to have a recurring  continuity problem with all the apocalyptic events that have happened to London and/or the world and seem to have been forgotten in later episodes.

    I also tend to regard Christmas episodes as lightweight digressions, ofte…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic The Next Doctor

    @rewvian. I really enjoy the first half of this episode but the giant stompy cyber-king destroying half of London loses me. Why isn’t that mentioned in the history books. Why does nobody remember it? Jackson and Rosita are good though her costume is jarringly wrong too from a historical perspective.

    Cheers

    Janette

    Just read my previous post on…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Next Doctor

    @Rewvian Well, I guess the most significant ‘extra’ mini-episode has to be ‘The Night of the Doctor’ which came just before Day of the Doctor. (It’s on Youtube). Not just for the Doctor’s overall storyline, but for a sight of Paul McGann as number 8. I’m sad he never got to play a regular Doctor in the TV series, I think he was perfectly cast as…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Next Doctor

    @Rewvian    I took the title literally, I thought we were actually going to see the next Doctor.   Jackson Lake would have been an okay Doctor, I think.   But I would have absolutely loved to see Rosita as the next Companion, she was great!

    As always, it seems, I have a minor nitpick, the Doctor going into action on a balloon.   How do you cont…[Read more]

  • @dentarthurdent and @rewvian My daughter in law (to be) watched the episodes with River Song and The Doctor in order of her meetings with him, but I don’t know if she actually did that by simply watching them in reverse order or worked out the actual order. I suspect one would need to peek into that blue box diary to do that correctly.

    If the Big…[Read more]

  • @Rewvian   I’m pretty sure there was a line of dialogue somewhere that said the Doctor and River Song met in reverse order – which somehow gave me the impression (wrongly) that River Song was travelling backwards in time – which is a logical impossibility.   (Why? – because such an impossible creature could only interact with anybody in the rea…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Midnight

    @Rewvian    I thought Midnight was a classic episode, one of RTD’s best, even though it made me uncomfortable and I didn’t find it as much fun to watch as some of the others.    But the reason for that was, that the biggest threat to the Doctor came from his fellow passengers.   It exposed one of the less creditable traits of the human species…[Read more]

  • @Rewvian    I got quite confused watching this double episode about what was actually going on.   I think I eventually got it sorted out in my mind, though.

    The Vashta Nerada were fortunate in a way that their forest ended up as books.   I suspect most forests end up as cardboard packaging or toilet paper.   Now that would make going to the bath…[Read more]

  • Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Voyage of the Damned

    @Rewvian   You would be correct that Clara and Bill didn’t have the best conclusions.  Or, maybe they did.   I’m being very cryptic here so as not to perpetrate spoilers.   Let’s say their departure was not without drama.

    Even Marha, though she left the Doctor on good terms, ended up as a Unit (or was it Torchwood?) operative, I think we later…[Read more]

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