@blenkinsopthebrave – A midges love poem!
Wow – great to hear poetry here.

@scaryB – oh god.
Dagga Doo is bad enough, but I now have a Kenneth McKellar ear-midge!
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Though “Och aye the midges” by Bob Strachan might live longer!

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On yours and @Whohar ‘s mention of “hasty rewrites” – yes, when you think about the first Gatwa series and how much it focussed on the Doctor and Ruby both being abandoned and adopted children, I wonder if Poppy was planned out, at the…[Read more]

My theory about Billie is that she may be a temporary interim Doctor till the future becomes clearer.

I make that 3 theories now:

1. @jimthefish ‘s Interface theory

2. Your interim Doc theory

3. My she’s The Moment theory.

To which I’d add something I briefly saw online:

4. She’s a version of Bad Wolf.

and another thought:

5. She’s…[Read more]

ooh my top 5?
The Well;

73 yards

The Story & the Engine

Rogue

Lux

but I really want to put the Devil’s Chord in there too. And I really liked The Legend of Ruby Sunday. 😀

Murky. Gritty.

oft mocked. Very nasty, dumb title: Vengeance on Varos. If the current arc is VR it needs a Visit to a Virtual Varos if only to dunk The V’linx in some Vitriol!

Some will be outraged, but it’s a weird mix of unlikely personal thesp triumph not even JNT and Seward combined could contain: Caves of And…[Read more]

Murky- do you mean top 5 since thE Gatwa Doctor, or from all of Who?

If it is from all of Who  then the top of my list would probably be the six part Troughton story-“The Web of Fear”. It was a stellar example of murky and gritty.

And–unfortunately–they don’t make them like that any more.

Only one loose end Scary hells bells there’s the most glaring and itchy loose end ever and RTD has been dangling it infront of us for a good part of the season———- Bring back SUSAN

Couldn’t’ help but wonder why UNIT’s defences only face one way!

Absolutely! And the scene where Kate turns the wheel and the entire top of the building tries to turn…

Of course, it gave her something to do, rather than (like her father) shouting out orders.

I should add that that scene was one of the reasons I enjoyed the episode!

Your cinema experience sounds fab @ScaryB .

That was a true emotional rollercoaster, and RTD totally pulled off the surprise, for me at least!!!

I spent the first part of the episode thinking – jeez this is a LOT of exposition, but hey, I’m in love with Archie Panjabi’s Rani.

I wasn’t a fan of Mad God Omega or the Bone Beasts -…[Read more]

I would happily bigenerate if my alter ego didn’t inherit my arthritic spine 🙂

Many thanks for that; I hadn’t come across it before and it’s lovely.  And yes, midges are best contemplated from a distance, dancing in columns in the sun.

@scaryb

😀  Well midges are admittedly one of the few downsides of the Scottish countryside, so I should have realised that it was the Scots if anyone who would come u…[Read more]

;¬D

Now, the Unleashed episode for Wish World showed how the crew were bitten to pieces by midges for that enchanted forest scene.
I felt for them, but instantly this ear-worm sprang to mind.
I never…[Read more]

Have just watched this episode at last. I think I was putting it off because I expected it to be a bit cringy. for me eurovision has zero appeal and I expected the S/O would really dislike it. It was surprisingly good and even he agreed that it wasn’t in the least bit “cringy”.

Nice to see…[Read more]

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@thane16 – hellooo!
Thanks for the Gundry – he and that song is new to me!
Lovely thoughts on ‘choice’ and Conrad’s world.
As…[Read more]

The whole point of the false world is that it can be destroyed by doubt… And the Doctor’s breakthrough doubt is powerful enough to break into the underverse where Omega is supposedly trapped.

Yes, the Rani made that very clear in her exposition to the Doctor. The reasoning seems straightforward enough: the universe is too robust and sta…[Read more]

Thanks for it though as its wonderful!!

:¬D

i think the giant skellingtons stalking all around london are nothing more than an offshoot of the “bone palace,” the rani’s headquarters. purely aesthetic, and a nod to fairy tales, but perhaps also a built-in “test” of how well the wish world is holding together? if everyone is content to accept them as reality, then the…[Read more]

stay scary

As @scaryb says, all hail! In essentials you to have evidently acquired powers of foresight or prophesy.

 I’m also not clear about the hair thing – does the hair growing back indicate time passing in the real world? Why does the Barber cut his own hair as he’s revealing his own story?

While I’m trying to digest Wish World (stories again, featuring the Rani as the Wicked Witch) yes, a good point. My take, for what it is worth, is that the cu…[Read more]

specially after all the hoo ha (Who ha??!)

Oi! 🙂

Good to have you back.

See above

Apologies to anyone I’ve missed off the list.

As to what’s goi…[Read more]

I loved it, but my brain is completely tied in knots with all the meta bits! 😛 (In a good way).

The Doctor and Mr Ring A Ding have lots of visual (and other) parallels – bow ties anyone? Blue suit? Picking up a (simpering, Betty Boop-alike) female companion (in a yellow dress!) as he starts an adventure…

I think I n…

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Re: Disney+, I think Who is on there for Rest of the World, in the UK it’s BBC / iPlayer.

I don’t think even RTD would retcon the entirety of Who, by making it a story within a story. Would he? He can retcon The Timeless Child as much as he likes, though. 😀

@bobbyfatv2

Tears is definitely this Docs thing. It appears to be Gatwa’s…[Read more]

Was Susan a companion? Really? Just a Clara style e Missian lapdog? Wasn’t she the Original Time Lady?

Otherwise, this time around Varada Sethu is channeling Nichola Bryant circa Caves of Androzani. Sorry, I did look.

Not sure who Anita was dressed as…

Hold on… just twigged, there was an Anita in Joy to the World and we all l…[Read more]

Stay safe

Meanwhile back in Auckland they’ve had the remains of another tropical storm, with high wind and rain warnings.   Hope our house (and garden) is undamaged when we get back in 1.5 weeks.   Nothing I can do about it here, so it’s fairly easy to not worry about it.   Just go and look at some more fish.…[Read more]

Mrs Flood is the Vlinx? Nooo…

The Vlinx is the hardware running a Matrix or Data Slice on behalf the Valeyard, CEO of Villengard, and probably an incarnation of Dr Simeon, who was presumably also responsible for The Land of Fiction after he took time off from possessing Buddhists and Squaddies, and creating giant android hamsters aka T…[Read more]

Another terrific post. Very evocative of 1970s Edinburgh (not that I’d know – I’ve only been once and that was in the early 2000s. Great place.)

I think the grounding on Earth had positive and […]

Eiffel Tower? I thought it was Blackpool Tower 🙂

I think the schwup is something to do with the reason that they can’t get back to Earth on 24th May – incidentally that’s the air date of the penultimate episode (“penultimate” from the old Latin meaning “the ep we all get excited…[Read more]

We do get some cold weather in winter and -20 isn’t too extreme where I am.Mind you we also get into the 30s in the summer sometimes. It is all happening here.

stay safe

Great to see you back! Am responding on this forum as it is just general “hi!”

As we are of a similar vintage (and like good wine, improve with age) I could relate to your memories of watching TV back in the’70s. My university days really began in ’75 (after a bit of disorder back in ’71 but all sins were forgiven). The mid ’70s years…[Read more]

Susan Triad’s cup of tea…

If the Vlinx is actually a Bamblweeny 540 sub-meson brain, and UNIT installed an atomic vector plotter in The Time Window, that alone could explain Empire of Death.

Seriously, could it be a Douglas Adams nudge? After Sutekh, will we get the return of Scaroth? Or as my daughter calls him, Ramen Noodle Man. She…[Read more]

@thane16

If the Tardis was infected when the Doctor saved baby Ruby from the goblin dinner then do we account for his tears, at other times, because part of him, perhaps due to his connection with the Tardis, is aware that something is deeply w…

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When did the TARDIS become infected? Let’s assume it was in Wild Blue Yonder,

That seems to me very much the most likely occasion – see my earlier post in response to @markkelly. It’s just about possible the Meep brought it earlier, depending on the identity of the ‘boss’ referred to. It might be worth re-watching that episode to check if…[Read more]

Psychic manifestation, I’d say absolutely. In the trailer for this ep STriad was all “they’re using my face”,  which must be a line in part 2 seeing as it wasn’t in The Legend.

All part of the AI theme: face hacking, deepfakery, identity theft.

Which leads me into more Doctor musing!

Interested in the orange connection…[Read more]

If I was being judgemental I would s…[Read more]

Ruby and Carla have already scanned that VHS tape VERY closely – but they never saw a police box materialise and the Dr come out, or the woman turn and point etc…

Maybe I’m mistaken, but I thought that the raw CCTV footage didn’t show the Tardis because the camera was facing in the wrong direction. What they did was to use the the VCR rec…[Read more]

interesting that in Rogue, Ruby was very nearly trapped & I wonder if this is signalling at least one possible future out of all the time streams or multiverses. Is time collapsing in certain timestreams? Are tiny decisions, the ones we regularly make every day, leading…[Read more]

@bunface @Blenkinsopthebrave @thane16

I wonder if Gatwa Doctor’s frequent tears are because, on some deep level, he recognises that there is a Red Doctor/ Sutekh-possessed Red TARDIS out there in the crossed…[Read more]

Yes, this is juicy! ScaryB, yes, something is very odd about Ruby -Maestro says “she has music hidden in her soul…. This creature is VERY wrong. And HE can’t have been there that night!”
@unitpicker “she could of course be the real Susan.” Oh yes! That’s most intriguing.

Juniper -yes, me too. How can the f…[Read more]

@bunface @thane16

Just rewatching… What about Kate testing DNA and saying ‘Just because Susan Triad is nice, doesn’t mean she can’t change. A chrysalis doesn’t know it’s a butterfly. A phoenix is just a bird until it burns.’

Is that a hint… As you said, baaaad Doctor?

I re-watched The Pyramids of Mars…[Read more]