@purofilion @thekrynoidman @jimthefish

Ah… Batman. One of my favourite subjects.

Me, I grew up on Batman as a really young kid. I wanted to be Batman (or Clint Eastwood). My parents’ sofa had arm covers that, when put on my head, gave me little points like Batman’s ears, and a very tiny cape. It was all my imagination needed.

But as I got a…[Read more]

@thekrynoidman — The Dark Knight is well worth watching for Ledger’s performance alone. I’m personally not that crazy about the films either side of them. I personally really like Keaton’s take on Batman and would rate Batman Returns as the best of all the films (tie-ing with TDK)

Reposting my earlier replies that were lost in the cloud (although without most of whatever deep views might have been attached).

@fowl   Thanks for the Rush! I hold Geddy Lee in some esteem. Here is my pong to your ping:

@TheKrynoidMan  @Whisht   I had lots of love for your tunes and comments rega…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan

A good point, and I agree with your assessment of 60’s and 80’s Cybermen . In fact, it raises the question of when and why the Cybermen stopped speaking in their current incarnation. Or have I got that wrong? I can recall talking Cybermen in “The Next Doctor”, but do they talk under Moffat?

I have been slowly catching up with what I missed during my recent enforced absence, and got a lot out of the erudite discussion of “The Deadly Assassin”.

By and large, I tend to agree with @TheKrynoidMan that this story provides a welcome focus on the Doctor, as opposed to his assistants, delivers in terms of its political thriller aspects, and…[Read more]

@thekrynoidman & @blenkinsopthebrave — to be fair the new series has still managed some corking cliffhangers — did anyone see The War Doctor coming? But they’re narrative ones these days rather than things like revived monsters, which, as you both say, wouldn’t survive the internet.

A blog on the show’s top cliffhangers? Now that’s a capital…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan. Yes, everything you say is sadly true. In some ways, the Internet has a lot to answer for (except , of course, with providing us the opportunity to have this Forum)

While my memory of the original screening is just a memory, at least I have that memory. I suppose that is one of the few benefits of decrepitude!

And while the…[Read more]

Nice tracks from everyone. @lisa, I have to agree with @Whisht that the Dave Thomas piece is amazing. I have tried the accordion and simply can’t do it (too opposing actions at once, just couldn’t coordinate it), so the notion of playing accordion and something else simultaneously is mind blowing.

@TheKrynoidMan   Congratulations, enjoy your s…[Read more]

@lisa – as Alice says “ooh that was lovely!”
but Dave Thomas – that was excellent! Really really lovely! the most lyrical thing I’ve heard without words in ages!
thank you for that – its something I would never have come across without you.

And as for your music listening skills.. pleasepleasepleaseplease never defer to me (or anyone)!!
I’m a…[Read more]

@thekrynoidman—

Also, sorry if my posts come off as “sound bite criticisms” as you call them, when it comes to writing about things I like or dislike, I can write a lot about them, but I’m always worried that I’ll ramble on incoherently and bore people so I try to limit myself.

Just to say if there’s somewhere you can ramble on, it’s here. I…[Read more]

@arbutus

I fully agree with others who have said that the scenes in the Matrix are the weak part of the story. I imagine that they were thrown in to placate those who might find the lack of action in the first two episodes a bit pokey. 

Yes – one of them was probably me on the first showing. To put this into context this final episode was sh…[Read more]

@thekrynoidman — yes, indeed. There’s that at least. But aside from that I don’t think there’s really anything that differentiate this Master from a number of other disfigured villains of especially this period of Who. And the Master should always be in a league of his/her own. There’s not much you can fault Robert Holmes on, but his villains do…[Read more]

@thekrynoidman — maybe I came on a little strong saying I ‘hate’ him. I think the costume design is brilliant — really scary and still gives me the wiggins even now. I just don’t see anything of the previously established character of the Master in there. He’s just generic, evil villain skulking in the shadows to me.

@thekrynoidman They did work together on the album. I should’ve said “they” rather than “he”.

@thekrynoidman When that Jet track came out everyone, and I mean everyone, said “You’ve ripped off Iggy Pop”.

Iggy Pop, to his immense credit, didn’t care and admitted he basically stole it from The Supremes.

btw – @theKrynoidMan – I didn’t say ‘Hi’ good to see you again!

I am a massive fan of Bugsy Malone and am now seriously late for stuff after listening to other choons from it (bit naughty of you going with the finale!).

So, in keeping (a bit) with this week’s theme…

(I may not be able to put…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan Good to hear you like it, always interesting to know what younger fans make of the old stuff.

And agree with the various posters that #3 is the weakest episode – the downside to multi-part stories, especially the 6-parters. Mostly this rattles along nicely. Troughton is great (and thanks @Craig for @HTPBDET‘s old avatar as the ID…[Read more]

Well, that was fun.

@TheKrynoidMan It wasn’t budget constraints that made the Doctor v. Salamander so short; it was a technical problem with the split screen (the film jammed). I entirely agree that the only reason this story had such a bad rep was the surviving episode (until the rediscovery) was the worst one of the lot. The rest of the story…[Read more]

@theKrynoidMan @papermoon

thanks for posting.

It is indeed sad news. I remember being resentful when Star Trek took over Dr Who’s slot in the summer break in UK (especially cos Who used to run all year round – no concept as a small viewer of what that actually meant re the production schedules!) but I grew to love it and Spock was always my fave…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan – it’s very sad news. I’m a big fan of Star Trek, so to know we have lost one of the original cast members who was seminal to the creation of the franchise – and, obviously, the Vulcans – is such a loss.