@jimthefish and @ScaryB. Thanks for the info. Another reference to Susan. Significant or just RTD throwing us some red herrings and having a laugh at our expense. (I have fingers crossed that this time it really is going to be Susan.)

Cheers

Janette

And good point, @juniperfish and @scaryb —

I’d say Daleks are almost certainly NB. Ditto Cybermen. Not to mention Sontarans, Time Lords, Alpha Centauri and so on. I think it’s safe to say that the Whoniverse is and always was pretty genderfluid in its outlook.

And as to the young uns being confused by a ‘man in a dress’ … I suspect centuries…[Read more]

ah, I see @scaryb has got there before me….

@scaryb

Ohhh, good link! More grist to the Susan speculations then.

And then there’s the John Smith link too!

All this gives me great hope that things won’t be as simple as they seem on the surface of the first episodes, and that RTD hasn’t lost his playful edge.

@scaryb that would be OK by me…

@janetteb @scaryb re music – I think it is a part of the best of us. Though I’m reminded how, just to really drive home her psychopath status, when Villanelle in Killing Eve was asked was kind of music she liked she said ‘national anthems’ ;). I think it’s just tat – not only is it appropriated for war-like purposes, this, pretty universal aspect,…[Read more]

@juniperfish. I was thinking that but I also thought that Danny and Orson were Susan’s grandchildren so I tend to look for Susan descendants everywhere.

@ScaryB. It was such a good post that I read half the repeat one before I realised.

As to “woke crap” well I welcome a return to the sincere politics of RTDs writing. His writing for Who at…[Read more]

@ScaryB – Ah thanks for clueing me in to the Susan Twist mystery – love it.

I agree, @JanetteB , given the Doctor’s line in this episode, “There’s always a twist at the end” and the fact that his granddaughter Susan is also given a mention in-episode, it seems perfectly logical to wonder whether the “twist” is Susan. Perhaps Susan is Ruby’s birth…[Read more]

OK so this time – I’m just not that into the Beatles. I find Beatleworship irritating, but for all that, I did like it when Paul joined John at the piano and they finished the sequence of keys. I found the ‘we need music to make us us, otherwise disastrous war’ a little twee given that we are, on the whole, a reasonably warlike species that loves…[Read more]

@scaryB Thanks for the link to the Radio Times article. Did they chose the actor because of her name, Susan Twist? is the song at the end a sneaky reference to her?

Reference to the Rani and to Susan. I know that I have a bad track record here, always looking for a possible return of Susan but I am theorising again that Susan might be going to…[Read more]

Like you, @ScaryB <waves> I’m optimistic overall, despite hoping the bombast dial gets turned down just a smidge going forward. Gatwa and Gibson are both excellent, and charmingly believable in the Doctor and Ruby’s newfound excitment at hanging out together.

I love ’60s style and thought the Doctor and Ruby were also smoking in their era…[Read more]

@scaryb @janetteb @whohar

the snow reminded me of Lavender Brown making it snow on Ron Weasley. Generally the early RTD snow was bits of spaceship or the contents of ballast tanks.

I didn’t want to be first up and say ‘ai carumba! I think Itchy and Scratchy has lost their edge.’ But I’m afraid we are in a new warm and fluffy age. The back of…[Read more]

Hi @ScaryB Nice to hear from you..and @Whohar too.

I am totally not supposed to be here because I have yet to watch the episode. (I like spoilers)We are planning to watch tomorrow.

The snow incident you refer to is at the end of Christmas Invasion. In the following Christmas Special or at last a later one the Doctor sonics fake snow saying one…[Read more]

@scaryb

For once, we here in Aus 🇦🇺  have a time advantage over the UK 🇬🇧 so I’ve likely watched Space Babies before all of you guys. I’ve already posted my thoughts on the ep page, so don’t go there before you watch (spoilers sweeties).

Enjoy the drinks.

@scaryb Hello old friend! Thanks for posting that. it was very cute.

But now, off to watch Space Babies!

@scaryb @jimthefish @craig @phaseshift

just to add my thoughts on the sad loss of Ian Gibson.
And to echo Jim’s plea that we put Mick McMahon into some sort of protective space.

(but not an iso cube)

Gibson’s flowing lyrical lines were so powerful for me when I saw them in 2000AD.
It created an environment and characterisation that couldn’t…[Read more]

@scaryb – A perfect song for this week and The Giggle.

My contribution is also a tender one by Elbow (they’ve quite a few).
Dear Friends.

“…But it struck me to say while so far away
You are with me today
You are here are in my head, in my heart”

But I’ll also just have to share this video I stumbled…[Read more]

@JimtheFish

Really enjoyed reading your Cathode Rave article.

And yet, it would be wrong to say that the Baker era, for all its metatextual playfulness is wholly apolitical. The lack of seriousness in the Fourth Doctor is a political play in itself and, like his predecessor, there is always an edge of mocking disdain in any of the Doctor’s d…

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@scaryb @jimthefish @craig

Gutted to hear that myself. If anyone doesn’t know about the impact Halo Jones had on Andrew Cartmel’s run on Doctor Who can I post this link to the blog on 2000AD I wrote back when we were doing retrospectives?

2000AD Doctor Who (Gridlock edition)