@thane16

‘Mind as the monster.’

Better than a man in a rubber suit. Or actors with facial prosthetics, my problem with Stat Trek, though The Founders were well realised. And now quite scary. ‘Solids’ are chaotic and dangerous. Democracy is chaotic and dangerous (to whom?)

So, the reason why The Mara were so good. Badly realised in the early 80…[Read more]

@thane16  syzygy   I’d agree, soaps are likely very difficult to write well.   Not least because they come out every night (some of ’em, at least).  How can anyone keep coming up with fresh original dialogue on that schedule?

And then, each of the half-dozen storylines gets cut up into 5-minute chunks which get screened intercut with the other…[Read more]

@thane16 Hi, thank you! and ish.

Yes the ‘hello’ really struck me. There’s usually a moment of confusion – though not so much I think with Fifteen? But at least, maybe a sense of being newborn. She was more as though she’d stepped through something.

@blenkinsopthebrave – yup, when I thought it, I thought I knew the lot that would appreciate…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @thane16 @winston @blenkinsopthebrave @whohar

it’s easier to find duff eps pre twice upon a time than good ones after (up until RTD2 anyway)

9 eps per season does seem a bit mean, with not a lot of scope for additional writers. I would say the only real clunkers were Russ’ Legend and Empire. But did they clunker. I keep lookin…[Read more]

@winston Well, as I’ve already said, Season 5 at first ‘lost’ me to Who, probably because I was still recovering from Tennant withdrawal. (I now like Smith and Capaldi just as much as Tennant. I guess I’m a bit slow to accept change). On later re-viewing, I’ve enjoyed those episodes more. I still find S5 middling good, best episodes (for me) were…[Read more]

@thane16 Moff *is* clever, in fact I think he’s a genius at writing dialogue that is witty, ironic and surprising. (I’m a sucker for interesting, original turns of phrase, whether in book fiction or in TV drama). I think Moff’s era was the best of Who. RTD’s first era was very good too (I don’t know enough about his current one to judge it).

To…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  @thane16  @whohar   @ps1l0v3y0u

Series 5 was wonderful from the very beginning to the bitter end. The Eleventh Hour was such a great introduction to a new Doctor and companion that my regeneration shock wore off quickly. The episode is set in one big lonely house  and a very small village with only a small amount of FX but…[Read more]

So that was the finale and it felt like a broken mirror – sparkly with lots of fragments.

In that spirit… my disconnected thoughts!

I think I’m probably more in the camp of @Whohar and @thane16 on the finale.

Whoever said “the rule of cool” below is something I also feel about RTD.
“That’s a cool idea/ visual – let’s go with it”.

I honestly…[Read more]

@thane16 Not sure at present, it’s entirely how the BP thing is is going to play out  and how the recommissions of the next series goes, if she’s here as a permanent Doctor  and a new season is given the go ahead I suspect a Xmas special may be in the offing even if all we fan expect over next year is 2 or3 specials as a form of hiatus whils…[Read more]

@thane16 I agree especially with the cloud/ history he is under.

@janetteb

and it It still doesn’t fully make sense I will watch again, and again

I’d recommend watching The Reality War, as they are basically one story split over two parts; it might provide context (or it might leave you more confused).

@thane16

they didn’t address how the Doctor tortured Kid

I think this was a massive mis-step tbh. I found it…[Read more]

It looks like I am out of step with almost everyone on here, barring perhaps @thane16 . I really didn’t enjoy it at all; I wanted to, I really did, but it was an incoherent mess in the main. Spectacle over storytelling, which meant that the big story beats didn’t resonate with me.

I’d expected a regeneration but it didn’t hit home as previous…[Read more]

@thane16

I liked the murky, dirty spaceships, the grim worlds, where everything seemed off kilter and cold.

@ps1lOv3y0u

I do miss the gritty old prosaic Who.

Yes! I am in agreement with both of you. I suppose we are missing the 20th century – the world we grew up in.

But at least I have my DVD collection of gritty old prosaic Who in the…[Read more]

@pete66 @thane16

I actually liked most of this series more than the resolution… even RTD1 season enders weren’t normally that barking.

So, I do miss the gritty old prosaic Who. I assume the VR theme is a way of changing the ‘tone.’ If you think about it the show was jazzed up and comic stripped after Hell Bent with ‘Husband’, presumably…[Read more]

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Waves @thane16 – good to see you back, and some good points

@bobbyfatv2

On the subject of names, The Rani addressed the baby’s father as Herr Zufall which is certainly significant, since Zufall means chance/happenstance – entirely appropriate for the seventh son of a seventh son in a Black Forest fairy tale.

@thane16

Greetings Puro.

why does Ruby feel the need to see Conrad face to face? She isn’t h…

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Hey @juniperfish – [waves] great spot on the Baba Yaga reference for the bone house/palace.
And her flying was very Wicked Witch (or Green Goblin!).
Maybe Poppy will ease the pain of hurt people, who hurt people?

;¬)

@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]

@mudlark @janetteb @juniperfish @ps1l0v3y0u @blenkinsopthebrave @cathannabel @scaryb @devilishrobby @dentarthurdent @krathoon @miapatrick @cookgroom @bunface @orionhunt @fozzyb @bobbyfatv2 @spacedmunkee @thane16 @Craig @whisht @winston @dwnerdfrommars @translatorcircuit

See above

Apologies to anyone I’ve missed off the list.

As to what’s goi…[Read more]

@thane16

Lots of callbacks. I think also a song from Doc 11 (during the scene with the fans). Sad Man in a Box.

Also the Mr RaD laugh was the same as Stooky Bill’s from The Giggle.

And did anyone catch the mid credits scene?