@thane16

Experiments on sound profiles or fluctuations of, & connections between, pitch in scales, triads & chords across an entire work are on-going but technology is developing legitimate methods of sound analysis and measurement in Time Windows (!)

And RTD has been dropping thumping great hints from The Giggle onward, in addition to the more…[Read more]

@thane16
You just made me buy a book! Don’t need much encouragement there, but the description sounds very much up my street. Actually yesterday on my walk I stopped to look and found that it led me into listening to the  many levels and textures of sounds that were going on: several different birds (song and movements), water in a stream,…[Read more]

@mudlark

 I am, however, broadly familiar with the ideas concerning time and entropy and it has always seemed to me logical that the two were aspects of the same thing.

I was unsure whether to include my cod-scientific definitions – I assumed you’d probably be aware of the terms, but I wasn’t 100% and I reasoned it was better to include for…[Read more]

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@thane16 @scaryb

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]

@thane16

A dome shaped head??? Strax rocking a hoodie???

Whitdoc is interesting tho. The Doctor who appeared on a Sunday.

On the one hand (Jodie says) she doesn’t show up for anyone but Zchib… on the other… perhaps 13 didn’t swallow the whole of The Loon’s story. Is she atoning for Tecteun’s malign adoption?

3 cradles for the woman who would b…[Read more]

@thane16 @Mudlark – Wild Blue Yonder astronaut was definitely equine inspired.

I’m also concerned about Cherry – she doesn’t look at all safe with Mrs Flood, but is she just a minor character or is there something more to her that we’ve been distracted from?! (And indeed, what about Mrs F?)

(Douglas Adams had a lot to say about the power of a…[Read more]

@thane16

The head of the astronaut in Wild Blue Yonder looked somewhat equine to me, and I’ve seen enough excavated horse skeletons to know. So I don’t think we can pursue a hawk/Horus connection that far. But, just to confuse matters, in some Egyptian depictions of Set/Seth/Sutekh, the muzzle of the jackal has a distinctly raptor-beak like…[Read more]

@Whisht and @ScaryB as our resident musos – what is the tune Susan Twist dances to on stage? It’s bugging me as it’s really familiar…

@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]

@thane16

I remember 3 as being mocked by those who missed 2 and being terrified by the 66-69 shows. Does the wiping of 2’s best adventures damage the Troughton era or simply mean that we’re unable to laugh cruelly at the limitations of sixties special effects? Season 7 was a huge step up in production values but all the gimicks (introduced to com…[Read more]

@thane16

think RTD may have suggested that 14’s run has effectively ended -as Tom’s Doctor is a curator, so David’s Doctor is pottering in Donna’s garden…However like Moffat and the Doctor, I’m sure RTD fibs too. He could indeed return but it would be well hidden from audiences until a proper reveal.

Oh well, I had fun imagining it. And who’s a…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave @thane16 @dr-pepper-bean

Yes, the Doctor often regrets:

13… 13 is obviously difficult.

12 couldn’t save Bill and nearly refused to regenerate;

11 was devastated to be lose Amy and Rory to the Weeping Angels and sulked in Victorian London for years.
<p style=”text-align: left;”>9 & 10 might seem quite ruthless but tha…[Read more]

@thane16, @dr-pepper-bean,

I tend to think you are both right. Yes, the Doctor has long ceased to be the magical solution to all of humanity’s problems. Or even the problems of non-humans. And the limits on the Doctor’s ability to solve the problems of others goes back a long way. The Pertwee Doctor had to witness (impotently) the Brigadier…[Read more]

@thane16  Hello to you too. I have not had a chance to watch this series yet so I am lurking or is that drinking, over here instead. The new Doctor looks exciting and I am looking forward to watching a new series with RTD back. I did watch the specials but not the Xmas episode so I am a bit behind.

Since I broke my leg I have been watching a bit…[Read more]

@miapatrick  @thane16  @bunface

Early in the comments you were discussing the newly and overtly empathic and emotional face of the Doctor. For what its’s worth, I’ve been seeing this as a result of the bi-generation.  What was left of the accumulated trauma and guilt carried over from the Time War and other events and losses, together with all th…[Read more]

Sutekhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh Lord of Death…

@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]

@thane16 Many thanks, Puro!

After watching the reveal unfold, I couldn’t help but look back at my post on the BBC Spoilers thread on 13 June at 17.53. I want to assure you I do not write for RTD2–although, perhaps I should!

I have a couple of thoughts about how Sutekh escaped from the captivity imposed on him by Horace in order to return this t…[Read more]

@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?

@thane16 oh I think he can be. And thinking about it, when is Mel most use to him? When she’s telling him he’s amazing, or when she’s telling him to get over himself and get on with it? Companions, after all, keep the Doctor grounded.

another thing that’s occurred to me. When he explains regeneration to Ruby he says sometimes their faces…[Read more]

@thane16

I agree that the demonstration of civility and warmth is a definite part of the RTD project – and I’d say both Tennant and Eccleston showed some of the same, in ways that were more of their time just as Gatwa’s style belongs to Gen Z sensibilities. But I also think RTD obviously hasn’t lost his fascination with the moral dilemmas raised…[Read more]