What’s everyone else’s top 5?

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

@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]

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 🙂

And at the conclusion all 15 Doctors form a conga line, waving to the audience as they ascend to the own individual Tardis.

😀 😀 😀

Maybe a bit too low key for RTD2 tho.

@thane16 Always love how you pick up on musical cues

Re doubts – I think the Rani says that it’s the Vindicator which creates the…[Read more]

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

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]

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]

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. 😛

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]

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]

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]

@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]

@whohar, are your amazing powers of prediction the result of that very long time you once spent in the bath?

I’m sure Douglas Adams would wholeheartedly agree with the power of a long bath! (And as always The Muppets are appropriate!)

https://youtu.be/Mh85R-S-dh8?si=5wdNCShsTzj8QbnB

@Mudlark – LOVE your Lesley Gore pick for Robot Revolution – just perfect (tho I admit to bias as it’s one of my all time faves). Thank you.

Thanks also to @Whisht – always spot…[Read more]

All hail to @WhoHar 🙂

(Now I need to go and gather up the bits of my exploded brain before commenting further! And I’ve booked my cinema ticket for next week)

Agree with several above that the threat is unclear – what will happen to everyone if they just refuse to tell their stories? What power does the Barber have to make them? We’re not shown, but the the tension does ramp up well despite that. I’m also not clear about the hair thing – does the hair growing…[Read more]

Good to be back. Thanks again for the lengthy and wonderfully detailed list (Surely if you make a list long enough, you have to have some “hits” 🙂 )

Speaking of which… what…[Read more]

IGN has an interesting theory about RTD trolling the shows own fans in real life with the #RIPDrWho hashtag 😉  My pet bonkers…[Read more]

And apologies for my absence on here, been working away from home and only just managed a proper binge catch up of the last 3 episodes. Twice!! And a catch up of the thoughts and theories here. I especially liked the Story And the Engine which has hung about my head a lot, and…[Read more]

Was Susan a companion?

Very definitely! She was the original you might say 😉 (Whether she was also a Time Lady is up for discussion)

The Doctor and Mr Ring A Ding have lots of visual (and other) parallels – bow ties anyone? Blue suit? Picking up a (simpering, Betty Boop-alike) female companion (in a yellow dress!) as he starts an adventure. And Mr R-a-D’s style very strongly…[Read more]

Haha. (Hey! Whaddya mean Yetis are giant android hamsters??!! We are SO much more!)

Meanwhile (just before we all head into the world of cartoons) love this piece about my new fave bot – now named as Scoot 😉 (Q&A with the designer. and a link to the official Behind The Scenes video at the end)

“polish, polish”…[Read more]

Thanks for sharing the news about Jean Marsh. Very talented woman. I was a big fan of Upstairs Downstairs in the 70s (my next door neighbour was a cook in a similarly big house in the 1920s. She found it very authentic for the most part).

I was gobsmacked when I realised Rose was the same actor as the wonderful Sara Kingdom.…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent Haha. Not jealous at all of you lazing about in tropical lagoons. It’s a tough life 😛

The Doctor has a great wardrobe.

Agreed.

Actually the TARDIS always had a great wardrobe, all the way back to Hartnell. Maybe they just lost the keys, or it relocated itself for a bit 😉

Belinda needs to go and investigate it urgently – she spent the whole of the first episode in her jammies!

I nip off for a couple of days and I come back to a whole bunch of bonkers theories! (Puppies, doors, maybe – but it’s still great fun).

@ps1l0v3y0u – Mrs Flood is actually the Vlinx…?!

I’m liking the whole Mind Robber/Land of Fiction ideas. And there’s still the loose ends of mavity and 14’s letting in…[Read more]

https://www.tiktok.com/@misslucif/video/7492531331608382738?is_from_webapp=1&sender_device=pc

“I also think we plant trees for the people yet to come.” – what a beautiful thought. Hang on to it.

I met a couple of Canadians on my recent travels down under (sadly not close enough to catch up with @janetteB or @thane16 ) who mentioned…[Read more]

Not checked out Wolf Hall yet, but I’ve heard great things

Not perfect, but a good season opener.

I liked the twist of it not being an AI problem but an AL(an) problem. I was getting creepy vibes off Alan in the opening but could have done with there being a bit more of it seeded thro the episode to fully earn the ending (without then having to make the connection quite so…[Read more]

Good to be back, my old friend, as we prepare to jump into another new (and hopefully not the last) season of Dr Who 🙂 🙂 And yes indeed, times were very different back then. Not least if you missed an episode (or couldn’t get the aerial adjusted 😛 ) it was gone forever. None of this…”Hmm, will I watch it at…[Read more]

PS And what @Blenkinsopthebrave said!

Lovely summing up of the 3rd Doctor’s iteration. Thanks @JimtheFish.

Like @Mudlark I had intermittent access to TV after ’73 when I left home for the unstable student life* (also in […]

Just wanted to do a quick message before then – y’all are AWESOME! So many great theories. If RTD has come up with anything even half as good, it’ll still be…[Read more]