As @WhoHar says, there are lots of rumours swirling about hasty reshoots that apparently happened in Feb, involving the regeneration scene, and presumably developing the Poppy story. There are also rumours that Carole Ann Ford’s Susan had another appearance in the finale and leading on to the next seasons. Whether all that was necessitated by…[Read more]

And murky – yes, bring back murky!! One reason The Well is in my top 5 for the last 2 seasons.

What’s everyone else’s top 5?

I have to agree somewhat with @Juniperfish‘s comment about the Doctor apparently zapping Omega with something that looks like a big gun, but I accommodated this into my head canon as it not being an actual gun but a force-generator, so its intent isn’t to kill Omega, just force him back into the Underverse! But it’s important that the Doctor fixes…[Read more]

@devilishrobby Agree with you on hoping Ncuti would only give up a bit of regen energy but I think in real life he’s an an actor going places (hope so) and probably only signed up for a short time. I loved him as the Doctor, felt like a very fresh take on the character.

@juniperfish Agree with you (and I think @WhoHar and others made the point…[Read more]

Just in from the cinema screening, which was fab, and encouragingly full of lots of younger Whovians (as opposed to old timers like me, though there a few of us too).

@cathannabel

 And I’m going to have to cry for Ncuti a bit more, I’m afraid. I was so not ready.

Me too. Managed to dodge spoilers in the run up, tho I was aware it was likely to b…[Read more]

Just dropping in to wish everyone an enjoyable finale, and may all your favourite theories come true!

I’m looking forward to watching both this week’s, and Wish World as a double bill in my local cinema. Anyone else?

Cheers… here’s some cocktail suggestions to oil the bonkerising bits of the brain 🙂

BBC APPROVED SPOILERS...

BBC APPROVED SPOILERS...

@Blenkinsopthebrave

That’s beautiful. Hadn’t come across Anthony Hecht before.

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]

@Whisht @Mudlark

I watched Unleashed too, and I felt for the crew! Midges are really the worst, evil wee critturs.

Are there any songs about them?

Of course there are!! A bit on the cheesy side but here you go:

Scottish legend Kenneth McKellar (“the midges, the midges, I’m no gonny kidyes, with teeth like piranhas, they’ll drive ye…[Read more]

@Whisht – what an amazingly eclectic music collection you have <3

Great choices as always. And the last one even has the colour scheme!! (Blue/yellow/splashes of dark red)

And very fitting for 1950s Wish World.

Now I may have to go and suck some lemons to counterbalance all that sugary sweetness. LOL. 😛

Waves @thane16 – good to see you back, and some good points

@Winston @Whohar

Septimus Valentine – that is indeed magnificent.

In fairy tales it was always the 7th son of the 7th son who was important, daughters didn’t seem to count 😉 . Glad your relatives disrupt the myth 😀

And poppies – remembrance (as well as forgetting/dreaming) – good shout.

WhoHar – throwing Jenny into the mix – he’s brought…[Read more]

@WhoHar

We’ve been (logically) assuming that the Doctor is talking about one person i.e. that Poppy is his daughter. But what if she’s not? What if the Doctor is making two unrelated statements?

Interesting. I like it!

It’s been an interesting mix with RTD2 – on the one hand creating a whole pantheon of superpowered mythical creatures and on the…[Read more]

Thanks to @Mudlark and @Juniperfish for spots and explanations about Blodeuwedd. Which fits with this season’s theme of myths, fairy tales, and the power of stories. In fact all of Ncuti’s/RTD2’s run.

And to @geoffers for clarifying my muddled thinking. Of course the Rani timetravelled from 1865 to 2025. Similarly, we (and the world’s…[Read more]

Dates are mentioned in Lucky Day – anyone note which ones? Do we know what date it is when Mrs F releases Conrad from prison?

Welcome back @pufferfish I love your thinking!

@Mudlark The whole point of the false world is that it can be destroyed by doubt… And the Doctor’s breakthrough doubt is powerful enough to break into the underverse where Omega is supposedly trapped.  So Conrad was employed as a flawed world maker. Set up to fail… poor Conrad!

Random thoughts -…[Read more]