I go away for a couple of days, I come back and there are lists! The sci-fi/fantasy list I won’t even engage with. As Amelia would have said: “It’s rubbish!” And seems to reflect a collective memory of about the last 5 minutes. What about the “children of Hydra” skeletons in Jason and the Argonauts? Has no one seen This Island Earth or Forbidden…[Read more]

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Doin’ the drunk giraffe…

@ScaryB  @janetteB  @FatManInABox  @JimTheFish

Here’s 10 Dr Who Moments I can think of off the top of my head. Grud knows if they are the best or even my favourites though…

Katarina is killed    The Daleks’ Master Plan

Bret Vyon is kill…[Read more]

I don’t have a strong opinion about Davison stories either as I have not seen many of them. I do like the idea of discussing Black Orchid as it is rather an unconventional Who story.

@ScaryB. I hope you are feeling better now.

Cheers

Janette

@ScaryB – sorry to hear that you haven’t been feeling too well.

I’d also say that Last of the Time Lords didn’t live up to The Sound of Drums – which only got beaten in the ‘downer ending’ stakes by The Pandorica Opens.

Yes, I will join you and @Phaseshift in condemning the shiny floaty forgivey Doctor. At the time, I did wonder if young Lucy…[Read more]

@scaryB

Sorry to hear you’r feeling under the weather. Get well soon, and if you need cheering up theres also City of Death and Hitch Hikers! 😀

So Last of the Time Lords I don’t enjoy as much as the first part.

I mentioned might-have-beens and if people followed the Day of the Daleks retrospective I mentioned that plot about a “false future” based on a Paradox was originally pitched as a story in which the Master had conquered the Earth. I think this was RTD going back in time and using…[Read more]

Agree with all that has been said.

@ScaryB. “The trouble with Rik Mayall tributes is that he keeps making you laugh” I think that is the greatest tribute and just how he would have wanted it.

Janette

@Stormy72 Hitchhikers began life as a radio play. Douglas Adams then, rather reluctantly, wrote the novelisations. The TV series was made in the early 80s. I know fans of the radio play who wouldn’t go near the TV series and fans of the TV series who could not stomach the movie. (I probably belong to the later group.) I don’t know of anyone who…[Read more]

@ScaryB    I don’t think I realized until many years after the fact that it was a school uniform! I don’t know whether that was my overall naivete (I was and am pretty naive in some respects) or just my lack of experience with school uniforms at that time. Over the years since, I have given music lessons to a number of private school kids, and ha…[Read more]

@ScaryB

Ahhh .. the G’s development team and its “improvements”. In anticipation of next week, I’ll paraphrase Marvin and ask:

“Why stop now – just when I’m hating it?” 😉

@tbird7702

No problem, and if you watch them, I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts. We publish new episodes on Saturdays (so – Tom Baker next).

@ScaryB I suppose the Dalekanium explosion might unhappen once long term peace is secured. What if the house gradually reappeared ? Weird & spooky…

‘Temporal Paradox’ also = ‘The Destiny Trap’ of the Silence (which forms the 11th Dr’s arc).

Definitely a great end to a real Pertwee highlight.

I’ll repeat the praise for Aubrey Woods from @ScaryB. His change from chief collaborator to standing in front of his masters to be exterminated doesn’t seem forced at all, because we’ve seen indications of doubt in the previous episode.

That’s a great video snippet from @craig on the timey w…[Read more]

I re-watched again last week.  This is one of my favourite Pertwee stories. I do love a temporal paradox, the sheer brain teasing impossibility of it.  Maybe Sir Reginald will magically get his lovely old house back, for if war is prevented, there will be no Dalek invasion and no guerillas to blow it up. (though, being a man of limited i…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Good to see his cutting back on his wine consumption too.

I know – after episode 1 I found myself wondering what colour his kidneys were. 😀

Some of those little illustrations in the early Target Books were great for scene setting. I guess they thought it would make the range look a bit more grown up without them, but when y…[Read more]

@ScaryB Ah, well I find that bit actually, so no I’m not happy.

In many ways, I think Episode 3 sets out to do a little too much and, while its nice to see the pace surge forward, I think that’s why elements like the chase on the trike come over as a little contrived (as @scaryb and @bluesqueakpip say). The Target novelisation (because it could afford the visuals) made it all sound a little more exciting w…[Read more]

Good, fast paced episode with lots happening. UNIT basically had a week off while the Doctor and Jo visit the guest cast, 200 years in the future. And we start to realise that the guerillas really do have a point – in case you hadn’t guessed from the mere existence of Daleks, the future is not a nice place to live.

@ScaryB – yes, the tricycle…[Read more]

@ScaryB I’m sorry I don’t understand what you mean by you’ll trust I’ll be happy. Is it because you think I that I like Jo as a companion better than Rose. If that’s the case then yes, I am happy. I actually think Jo is a very underrated companion. Like you said she trusted the Doctor, but still questioned him on occasion. She even saves him just…[Read more]