@DevilishRobby – your spelling is fine. 😉

Regarding Sarah Jane Smith and the Fourth Doctor, from what Liz Sladen said, it was a mutual attraction. She joked that she and Tom felt the Doctor and Sarah Jane were probably dragging each other behind the TARDIS pillars at every off-screen opportunity. 🙂

It is a change that any romance on the part…[Read more]

That was an excellent summary of the special effects techniques by @Bluesqueakpip, and aren’t they effective? The rippling ground effect in particular is very unsettling.

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Absolute belter – even viewing it from a 21st century perspective where the ideas of sentient/organic spacecraft and human genetic manipulation by aliens are well e…

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@ScaryB @Craig @Bluesqueakpip

Many thanks for the welcome back. I’m just realising how much activity on the site I’ve got to catch up on. It’s quite disconcerting to have a five week black hole in my personal memory bank of what’s being discussed.

I’m currently trying to subdue my workgear (which has achieved a state of malevolent sentience…[Read more]

@MonochromeDimension – Yes, that’s true, Daleks have not exterminated anyone in a long while in the new Who, however there’s always the worry that they might! Anyway, yes I will be starting with the seventh really soon and I’ll let you know what I think of him. 🙂

As for the convention here, I did look it up… and I’m not sure if I want to go…[Read more]

@Arbutus – Colin Baker is another actor I’d love to meet at a convention, now if only I could find a convention close by that both he and Sylvester McCoy will be at; it would be great to get both their autographs.

Oh and @ScaryB I forgot to mention your mentioning (ahhhhhhhh! grammar!!!!) of the Eleventh Doctor and Carmen, he can obviously play…[Read more]

@FaeGrl @MonochromeDimension @ScaryB

I attended my one and only DW convention back in the eighties. It was an eye opening event for me, as I previously had no idea that people costumed up for these events! The main guest was Colin Baker, and it was very shortly after he had been fired from DW. I remember him talking about this, and being…[Read more]

@FaeGrl
Hee hee. Regarding these cold climates, I think it’s all supposed to be about “inner fibre”. I saw a graphic after the recent snow in Atlanta, showing the amount of snow that had to fall in different places before they would close public schools. It claimed that in the south, this amount was “any snow”, while in Canada and most of the…[Read more]

@ScaryB – I’d probably want to watch all his serials before writing up a defense for the Sixth Doctor, I’m getting there though! And yes I agree we need a Sixth Doctor revisit, ‘Varos’ would be perfect for the reasons I mentioned before. That and yes… it has Sil, of whom I know from ‘Mindwarp’; and he’s rather amusing. Ah, random viewing method again!

I wonder what general knowledge of biology was like in the fifties. It was obvious to me why the bodies wouldn’t have decomposed until the sealed chamber was opened, and I’m not especially science-minded. It surprised me a bit that the colonel needed this explained.

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@ScaryB – Yes, I very much appreciate the old episodes of Doctor Who! No offense to Moffat, but it’s way better writing, I think. Also, I love the fact that I’m enjoying the very same episodes that my mother, grandmother. and great grandmother enjoyed when they were my age or younger. I’m actually the fourth generation of my family to love the…[Read more]

@FaeGrl – Oh the first Dalek serial is my favourite Dalek serial! No other episode after it has managed to catch the atmosphere of the planet Skaro (and I have a lot of opinions on Skaro, in fact I don’t consider its appearance in ‘Asylum of the Daleks’ canon… but I can only explain about that if you don’t mind spoilers for the Seventh Doctor).…[Read more]

Came on this morning to find this massive list of rainy weather songs. Very appropriate as it was pouring down here as well (although the sun has now come out and I’m seeing nice patches of blue here and there). So I have spent an enjoyable half hour working through the rain repertoire.

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@ScaryB – Hooray! Thanks for positing the song by Garbage! I forgot about that one! 😀

@ScaryB

One thing I didn’t get was the hole in the door

It appears all by itself. Sladden states quite firmly that it was nowhere near the place he’d been drilling.

@Whisht

I could have sworn I saw a trick shot where they threw the photos at the newshound. Surely the camera couldn’t swing that fast and true?!?

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Hurrah, now that The Bridge is finished on the telly, now to turn my mind to all things sci-fi.

I watched the three episodes in a row and really got into it, and was all for jumping ahead.  But, I’ll stick to the spirit of this blog and save myself for next week.  Thoughts, in my favourite form, a list:

1) Pentangle.  It did look like the pa…[Read more]

@ScaryB   Sad news indeed…

http://www.doctorwhonews.net/2014/02/christopher-barry-1925-2014.html

@ScaryB – Yep, I think I found the right forum, this site is fantastic. 😉

And yes, I spent most of my year after the end of my regeneration and loss of companion in solitude, at the top of a snowbound spiral staircase. Now, I’m attempting to poke my head out from the solitude a bit. It’s too lonely being alone all the time, me thinks.

@ScaryB – Well… not completely complete… ‘Web of Fear’ is still missing part 3… and apparently on the DVD release it won’t be animated; which is a bit of a bother. But yes, that was pretty amazing. I really hope one day ‘The Daleks Master Plan’ will be found.

@ScaryB – Thanks. Gotta love the Seventh Doctor!

I just read a bit of the info on Quatermass posted in the first thread; it does indeed sound good, I’m not feeling up to it today (dunno if I could really concentrate on it right now) but I’m definitely considering giving it a watch. Had no idea parts of it were filmed live, and the fact the…[Read more]

@ScaryB

And why are they spraying water over the “bomb”?

That’s certainly a modern technique; they fire a high velocity water jet at the IED (it’s called a Pigstick). I think the idea is that the high velocity will blow the thing apart – and the water will b*gger up the electrics so that it doesn’t explode while being blown apart.

So it wou…[Read more]