@craig— That’s a lovely little short too, isn’t it? I definitely prefer the full feature though and I’m really impressed that they managed to extend it without it feeling like a smallish idea that’s just been padded out. JW aside, I’m just surprised that I hadn’t heard of it before because it really gladdens my heart to see there is still a…[Read more]

Part of me cannot be bothered to engage with the one-off sign-ups who’ve joined to froth about the Doctor regenerating in a female body. But another part of me feels they should be anwered, publicly, despite the present age’s penchant for “edgy” ironic/ post-ironic trolling.

@jim4 whatever the truth of your nostalgic vision of early Who as for…[Read more]

@whisht @thane15 @scaryb

At last someone thought to get their smartphone out at a gig.

The sublime “Rise”:

ok, been a few days without posting and then posting two songs (I’m like bloody busses!)

{ahem}

Anyway…. here’s one for the Empress of Mars episode that isn’t a lazy Bowie reference (bad whisht).

The lyrics are even fun if you squint your ears

@ScaryB
ah – The The never a bad choice!

But to…[Read more]

@ScaryB

A somewhat delayed reply, but…

(hope you’re more convinced now, @Bluesqueakpip (but look forward to discussing if you’re not)).

Alas, no. To me, Peter Capaldi is just not ‘The Doctor’. A Time Lord, yes, fine. Alien, definitely. But he’s not ‘The Doctor’. For me, Peter Capaldi’s playing the Gallifreyan who really lives behind the rol…[Read more]

@thane15 @Winston

Cheers. Just to clarify – the T May pic (& accompanying ‘quote’) posted by @ScaryB is by Andrew-Mark Thompson, the Emperor of Dr Who photoshopping…

This is my Trumpy one, posted on the day he backed out of the Paris Agreement…….

@scaryB Watching Pyramid in the middle of the election campaign, I did feel the Monks’ brainwashing programme was at points eerily familiar! That opening sequence: the gentle lull of the propaganda juxtaposed againt the brutality of real life. And one of Nardole’s observations struck a chord – about how people are prepared to accept a crappy…[Read more]

@scaryB @thane15 @winston

re the Tardis/Nardole

If they had just wanted to get rid of Nardole from the story, he could have been left at home to guard the vault as in Smile. Don’t you have to conclude that the Tardis took Nardole and then refused to work, so that he had to bring Missy with him, to get back to Mars ?

Whilst it could be a red…[Read more]

@missrori

Instead of going bad for the sake of a good person, he does the right things for the sake of a bad one

Very good.

@scaryb

Indeed, very well put.  Which layer is ‘truth’ and who (Who?) is willing to make the effort to dig away the lies and distortions to find it, and themselves.

A fun romp with some serious themes also in play. Hammer horror meets Zulu. And a good change of pace from the Monks (sort of) Trilogy. If we’d not known the writer, I think we’d have all picked Mark Gatiss.

Greatly enjoyed what I take was a visual reference to Tomb of the Cyberman.

Bill’s right. Everybody loves The Thing.

I’m with @scaryb,…[Read more]

@scaryb: Although the monks have gone by the end, most other people still do not have this awareness. They choose to go along with what they are told, and to not examine their thoughts/memories or the world around them in any depth.

Rather like the EU – innit?

Missy

@scaryb  Yep, I don’t trust her either.  I think that’s why the Doctor’s so distressed.  He wants to redeem his friend, she’s showing signs that it’s possible — but is it really possible?  What is he to do?  Is it all just another sign of The End for this particular incarnation?  Indeed, does she know that his body is wearing a bit thin?

@scaryb  There was the girl with the star in her eye in The Pilot. Eye like your theory and will look for more eye references.

@scaryb    Those monks are up to all sorts.Thanks for the proof.

@scaryb Good point about the TARDIS also slipping away in the other Ice Warriors story Gatiss penned.  The TARDIS always takes…or leaves…its occupants where they need to be.  (hmmm)

True, Missy might have something to do with it — after all, it’s been established that she can sense the Doctor’s condition, so what’s to say she can’t i…[Read more]

@ScaryB

It’s a wonder that the people of Earth didn’t turn Friday into shoes & handbags when he crashed. The power of the promise of riches untold!

The spacesuits this episode are like a combo of the spacesuits from The Wheel in Space (adapted from those seen in The Tenth Planet) and the uniforms from Enemy of the World…

June 9th is my birthday. I woke up to news that the Conservatives had lost their majority and I genuinely felt like the universe had bought me a present. “Happy Birthday. We didn’t know what to get you so we just kicked the Tories a bit. Hope you like it.” (Yes, I very much do like it.)

Then of course the Westboro Baptist Church aka DUP showed up…[Read more]

@ScaryB  @JimtheFish  Gatiss wanted Peladon but I can’t say why he didn’t get it…..

My bonkers theory is that the Doctor is pregnant with Missy’s baby…

@ScaryB   I posted 2 Theresa May & the Monks pix on twitter a while ago. Deleted one & replaced with a Chuckle Brothers one…..  Plus a host of others, with various politicians (inc. Trump of course) & celebs including this one…….

@Thane15

Please don’t be a stranger to us! You are well loved, friend.

@ScaryB

And I completely second your thoughts to FatManInABox.

@Whisht

as Puro said.

Aww, luv you too

I haven’t been around as much as I’d have liked as I’m having a serious de-clutter of my flat as well as rearranging the furniture. (@ScaryB – you’ll be pleased to h…[Read more]