@TheKrynoidMan – feeling better now? 😀

This was also the episode that spawned the “Doctor and Master are gay” thing.

No. Really, really no. The idea that the Doctor and the Master may have been in a relationship that went a bit beyond ‘just good friends’ long predates this episode. I can recall the possibility being mooted during the Pet…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan – ah Buddy Holly – you’ve made me smile!
Buddy made me think of sitting at the dinner table maybe 20 years ago and my dad saying “ah Lonnie Donegan – now he was a wild man”.
He didn’t elaborate much, but then my dad mentioned that he’d helped roadie/manage a skiffle group in Ireland! Probably in the 50’s/60’s. He never elaborated on…[Read more]

Loving the XTC and Buddy Holly double bill from @whisht and @thekrynoidman.

I’m in the mood for oddness this weekend. When aren’t I? This bloke is the son of yer’ actual physicist who didn’t get invited to those sort of parties and dies early – having given us the “many worlds” or parallel worlds theory. His son buggers about with instruments and…[Read more]

ha ha – no worries @TheKrynoidMan

As I say – they were rubbish ‘jokes’.
(Suarez has been known to bite players and my Jaws clip was for the early exit of Spain.
Schadenfreude karma? hey ho!)

Anyway, that’s enough of my stoopid footy-related music!

ah – thanks @TheKrynoidMan

Playing that now just before the Uruguay v England match.
Sets a nice tone.

I presume Jaws is in honour of Suarez?*

*(I promise no more rubbish footy jokes)

Anyway, now that @Phaseshift and I have finished our verbal jousting (crawling accepted 😉 ), some comments on the actual episode.

@Wolfweed – It is quite funny that the sonic has a bit of a moment when trying to tackle the wooden door – before Duggan thumps it and it goes for the metal lock instead. And that randomiser seems to be switched on…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan

That was a lovely tribute to the man, although to be honest he’s not quite my favourite Master, that would be Peter Pratt, although Delgado is a very, very, close second.

Many, thanks but – you’re dead to me……. 😉

No, I love Delgado first, but I think Pratt did a fantastic voice performance behind that mask. I was at a c…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan

Yes I definitely get that feeling, and I think RTD (& probably SM) know that streak well. Largely, it doesn’t matter if you know the material or not to the story they tell, but it seems like a little bit of a reward.

@wolfweed pointed out last week the mood patches were from another spin-off book called Only Human (for the ninth D…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan (from Rose & Crown)

That’s interesting about the Horror Channel showing films like Twisted Nerve. I don’t have access to it unfortunately.

I guess at 20 you probably missed the last great series of retrospectives on BBC, which went between 1988 and 2000?

It was a strand on BBC2 called Moviedrome. Basically Alex Cox (or lat…[Read more]

@craig

Oh, that’s excellent detective work on Konga. I’m going to have to bookmark that in case I’m ever in the mood for trying something that may be really awful. 😀

@Blenkinsopthebrave

I’d forgotten that bit from the end of series 3 of Fringe. I know at the time some people thought it may be related to the same FX company that did the Fan…[Read more]

Back from a short hiatus. Well, lots to catch up on! First up: City of Death.

I find myself tempted to agree with @TheKrynoidMan on this one. Well partly. Well, for this episode. I too, always preferred Mary Tamm’s Romana. There was a strength of character in her Romana, that I never saw in Lalla Ward. And in light of Operation Yewtree and the…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan I did say it wasn’t to everyone’s taste. But I kinda like it and it’s a nice change of pace for us after Day of the Daleks, I think. It’s good to see that Doctor Who can do all sorts of different stories.

You sound a bit disappointed so I thought I’d drop this in (which I think I first heard in LA…[Read more]

You KNOW that makes sense.

@PhaseShift and @TheKrynoidMan – besides, I’ve gone and bought the DVD now. 😈

@thekrynoidman

While acknowledging your vote, I note that @the4thsEra has logged in with a DA avatar and still couldn’t be arsed to vote for the Deadly Assassin.

I fear dull Time Lords are about to be cast aside for Lalla Ward in a schoolgirl outfit.

Come on. You KNOW that makes sense. 😀

Oh, no, not the Mind Probe!

I agree with those who have praised Aubrey Woods’ Vichy-style Controller. That character definitely developed, thanks to a nicely understated performance. I thought that his “Inspector Javert” moment, facing off against the man who had saved his life, was particularly well played.

Sir Reginald might not be a m…[Read more]

Definitely a great end to a real Pertwee highlight.

I’ll repeat the praise for Aubrey Woods from @ScaryB. His change from chief collaborator to standing in front of his masters to be exterminated doesn’t seem forced at all, because we’ve seen indications of doubt in the previous episode.

That’s a great video snippet from @craig on the timey w…[Read more]

I agree mostly with @TheKrynoidMan but I would recommend watching at least the very first episode “An Unearthly Child”. If slow B&W is not your thing there is really no need to watch the following episodes in that story. That story sets up all that follows. If you don’t mind the occasional slow B&W then watch at least one Troughton story. I…[Read more]

@TheKrynoidMan – is that something you’ve been told, or you’ve tried a Special Edition and didn’t like it?

As @JanetteB says, the Special Edition is worth it for this episode alone – and amazingly, those extra Daleks aren’t CGI. They’re one new live-action Dalek, one extra Ogron, some good editing and some split screen work to make it look like…[Read more]

I don’t know why so many people make this mistake.

@TheKrynoidMan – basically, because Noel Clarke never had ‘title credits’ status. He was a promoted supporting character, but that lack of title credits meant that lot of the newspapers never noticed he was a ‘companion’, even though he did end his regular run as a companion travelling with the D…[Read more]