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and just catching up on stuff…

@blenkinsopthebrave – A midges love poem!
Wow – great to hear poetry here.

@scaryB – oh god.
Dagga Doo is bad enough, but I now have a Kenneth McKellar ear-midge!
;¬)

Though “Och aye the midges” by Bob Strachan might live longer!

;¬D

@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]

@scaryb

My theory about Billie is that she may be a temporary interim Doctor till the future becomes clearer.

I make that 3 theories now:

1. @jimthefish ‘s Interface theory

2. Your interim Doc theory

3. My she’s The Moment theory.

To which I’d add something I briefly saw online:

4. She’s a version of Bad Wolf.

and another thought:

5. She’s…[Read more]

@scaryb

ooh my top 5?
The Well;

73 yards

The Story & the Engine

Rogue

Lux

but I really want to put the Devil’s Chord in there too. And I really liked The Legend of Ruby Sunday. 😀

@blenkinsopthebrave @scaryb

Murky. Gritty.

oft mocked. Very nasty, dumb title: Vengeance on Varos. If the current arc is VR it needs a Visit to a Virtual Varos if only to dunk The V’linx in some Vitriol!

Some will be outraged, but it’s a weird mix of unlikely personal thesp triumph not even JNT and Seward combined could contain: Caves of And…[Read more]

@scaryb

Murky- do you mean top 5 since thE Gatwa Doctor, or from all of Who?

If it is from all of Who  then the top of my list would probably be the six part Troughton story-“The Web of Fear”. It was a stellar example of murky and gritty.

And–unfortunately–they don’t make them like that any more.

@scaryb

Only one loose end Scary hells bells there’s the most glaring and itchy loose end ever and RTD has been dangling it infront of us for a good part of the season———- Bring back SUSAN

@scaryb

Couldn’t’ help but wonder why UNIT’s defences only face one way!

Absolutely! And the scene where Kate turns the wheel and the entire top of the building tries to turn…

Of course, it gave her something to do, rather than (like her father) shouting out orders.

I should add that that scene was one of the reasons I enjoyed the episode!

Hello Everyone,

Your cinema experience sounds fab @ScaryB .

That was a true emotional rollercoaster, and RTD totally pulled off the surprise, for me at least!!!

I spent the first part of the episode thinking – jeez this is a LOT of exposition, but hey, I’m in love with Archie Panjabi’s Rani.

I wasn’t a fan of Mad God Omega or the Bone Beasts -…[Read more]

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@blenkinsopthebrave

Many thanks for that; I hadn’t come across it before and it’s lovely.  And yes, midges are best contemplated from a distance, dancing in columns in the sun.

@scaryb

😀  Well midges are admittedly one of the few downsides of the Scottish countryside, so I should have realised that it was the Scots if anyone who would come u…[Read more]

ha ha @scaryb – I’m not trying to be eclectic, just searching my library for song titles with appropriate words (if only I listened to lyrics!!!)

;¬D

Now, the Unleashed episode for Wish World showed how the crew were bitten to pieces by midges for that enchanted forest scene.
I felt for them, but instantly this ear-worm sprang to mind.
I never…[Read more]

I echo previous posts Nice to have you back @scaryB

Have just watched this episode at last. I think I was putting it off because I expected it to be a bit cringy. for me eurovision has zero appeal and I expected the S/O would really dislike it. It was surprisingly good and even he agreed that it wasn’t in the least bit “cringy”.

Nice to see…[Read more]

Hey @juniperfish – [waves] great spot on the Baba Yaga reference for the bone house/palace.
And her flying was very Wicked Witch (or Green Goblin!).
Maybe Poppy will ease the pain of hurt people, who hurt people?

;¬)

@thane16 – hellooo!
Thanks for the Gundry – he and that song is new to me!
Lovely thoughts on ‘choice’ and Conrad’s world.
As…[Read more]

Hallooo everyone. An exciting but short series!
Love the theories and the characters within the  the rich Blodeuwedd tale. @whisht A shout out to a QLD minimalist composer, Peter Gundry and his Blodeuwedd fantasy composition (available on YouTube).
@whohar you’re definitely one of the gods of prophecy (aren’t they all?)! Perhaps Apol…[Read more]

@scaryb

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.

Yes, the Rani made that very clear in her exposition to the Doctor. The reasoning seems straightforward enough: the universe is too robust and sta…[Read more]

@scaryb – that classic Muppet song is an Everest to the foothills (or bogs!) of Dugga Doo!

Thanks for it though as its wonderful!!

:¬D

@mudlark and @scaryb

i think the giant skellingtons stalking all around london are nothing more than an offshoot of the “bone palace,” the rani’s headquarters. purely aesthetic, and a nod to fairy tales, but perhaps also a built-in “test” of how well the wish world is holding together? if everyone is content to accept them as reality, then the…[Read more]