Hi @scaryB

I think the most appropriate song for the Star Beast is…

Which I’m sure has *nothing* to do with Disney at all.

😀

@mudlark. Glad you put up pt 4  and good to see you. Last few days have been very hectic here with the usual Thursday Friday stuff and family at the weekend but finally getting a bit of time and a lot to catch up on.

@ScaryB. Lovely to hear from you again. So nice to see all the “old faces” on the forum again (@craig and @jimthefish and more).…[Read more]

It’s great to see the band getting back together , old and new, to our delightfully over-analysing space!

@ScaryB <waves>

I enjoyed Pat Mills’ review of The Star Beast – many thanks for that.

@JimtheFish <likewise waves>

RTD2 is indeed a perfect moniker, and all power to the hive-mind of the interwebs for creating it. I am interested to see…[Read more]

@pufferfish

Donna’s laptop could have been a Chekov’s laptop, but I doubt it in this case. Perhaps she had been reading emails or browsing the internet and something she read prompted her mind to drift off and ponder the matter of her sense of loss and of something ominous approaching. At any rate it provided a setting for her monologue rather…[Read more]

It’s so good to be back, seeing familiar faces/avatars returning, and to have, finally, a new episode to discuss. It’s been a long wait.

Welcome, too, to @B10essee  and  @unitpicker: I hope you will have fun here and find participation rewarding.

As for the episode, I enjoyed it hugely, borne along by the sheer energy in the production and c…[Read more]

@scaryb

RTD2 – love it!!

Thanks but I almost certainly can’t take credit for that. I’m sure some sharp young thing came up with it on Twitter or whatever it’s calling itself these days.

And that’s a really nice piece from Pat. And since he’s seldom known for holding back on his opinions we can safely say that it’s meant from the heart. And good t…[Read more]

@scaryb I just discovered my error about t’other place. Good to know that close it down before the troll wake up.

@scaryb Yes, the new Tardis interior does look pretty cool. In recent years it tends to change with each new version of the Doctor, but apart from anything else, what we saw looked so expensive that I can’t imagine it is just there for three Tennant specials. Of course, I could be wrong–I quite often am! And yes, the callback to Hartnell is a nice touch.

@scaryb Welcome back!

You were 7, I was 11, but there is part of the true Whovian that alway remains 7 or 11.

That’s what makes it all so special.

@scaryb and @winston

Sorry to hear about your Covid encounters and that you’re all safe, well and on the mend…

And all the best to all the bonkerising crew for ’22.

Hope you’re feeling better @scaryb , and @winston that the rest of your family stay Covid free. It’s everywhere right now – bloomin’ Covid Christmas, as Raymond Briggs would say. I’ve been indoors for the last ten days with my sis, as she tested + on Christmas eve. So far I’ve escaped – lots of open windows! We are out of Covid-gaol…[Read more]

@scaryb and @winston I’m sorry that you have had to deal directly with Covid. @scaryb, I’m glad that your case was a mild one, and @winston, how relieved you must feel that your granddaughter is asymptomatic (though I understand what you mean about the possibility of spreading it to the rest of her family). That’s the best we can hope for with this virus.

@scaryb  Glad you are felling better and only had a wee bout. My granddaughter has it now but has no symptoms, except boredom, from being banished to her room for 10 days. She could give it to her family even though she has no symptoms.It was very quiet Xmas here this year.

Thank you for the good wishes and Happy Who Year to you too!

Stay safe.

@scaryb Sorry to hear about the dreaded lurgee, but very pleased to hear it was only wee bout, and that you are back!

And also, a shout out to the wonderful @craig, who continues to keep the lights burning for us in this home away from home.

Happy new year to all!

@miapatrick and @scaryb

Yes, I think we’re looking at a reset canon going forward and the Doc as cosmic adoptee too and I’m fairly happy with both ideas. RE. RuthDoc, yep, I think we’re definitely going to see her again. It occurs to me that the holy grail of unexpected reveals for Chibs will be a surprise regeneration and I wouldn’t be surprised…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

I genuinely don’t know. Given how easy it would have been to call that episode ‘The Timeless Child’, I’m pretty sure the plural has some significance. Right the way back in Chibnall’s second episode, The Ghost Monument, the Doctor herself is the Timeless Child, singular.

One of the things I did pick up this episode is that…[Read more]

ah MAN!!

@scaryb @thane16
Helllllloooooooooooooooooo !!!!!!

So great to hear from you!

In the same vein, here is my track for Survivors of the Flux.

“Nothing’s Gonna Change My World”
(but which world does she mean…?)

;¬)

@scaryb @miapatrick

I’ve been pondering the notion that Bel and Vinder are the Doctor’s birth parents and it would certainly work. I’m not sure that the Flux itself could be the operative factor in transforming the hypothetical Doctor embryo, because  Awsok stated that it – and presumably its effects – were spatial, not temporal. Swarm and…[Read more]

@scaryb good point!

don’t get me started on the closing of the Graun thread. Only one time has it still been open in the morning. If they don’t want to mod it overnight, I can’t for the life of me see why they can’t, as sometimes has happened, reopen it later.

And yes, very Chibs, it’s good to know he seems to have hit the mark over the adoption…[Read more]

@jimthefish yes I feel that it ‘fixes’ in a way that part of eight’s film. I’ve always been happy to see eight included in AG Who, but that revelation has always been kind of sitting there, tactfully ignored.

And yeah, Chibs – I didn’t think I’d be saying this after his first run of episodes, but ambitious is definitely the word. His second gave…[Read more]