The Doctor Who Forum | VickyMallard | Mentions https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/vickymallard/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning VickyMallard. Wed, 28 Oct 2026 12:34:09 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 258f5b007a0cafa86bda7697014b4722 syzygy replied to the topic Empire of Death in the forum The Fifteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/empire-of-death/page/3/#post-76618 Tue, 25 Jun 2024 20:55:53 +0000 @mudlark @whohar @ps1l0v3y0u @vickymallard  et. al

I appreciate the theories but I wonder to what extent it’s likely the Christmas episode (or Eps 1-2, next season) will address issues of the Position of Pointing Person (PPP)  particularly the differences between the first & last episodes under forensic analysis? 😁

If it turns out R’s birth…[Read more]

]]> d35547ccc8063e82763fdd5d5f572fa2 ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic Empire of Death in the forum The Fifteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/empire-of-death/page/3/#post-76612 Tue, 25 Jun 2024 10:43:38 +0000 @vickymallard

Confused? The clever money is on misdirection.

To start with, in Pyramids of Mars (very good classic Who story), Sutekh is not supernatural or divine but a mad alien with enormous mental powers. He doesn’t get chucked in the Time Vortex but trapped in a time corridor where he (presumably) lived out his extended lifespan. RTD w…[Read more]

]]> f331e57fef22fcf93615daec80a29644 Miapatrick replied to the topic Empire of Death in the forum The Fifteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/empire-of-death/page/3/#post-76610 Tue, 25 Jun 2024 09:15:36 +0000 @vickymallard I don’t know if it’s misdirection, and there is something else coming.

]]> fedf70641a8d39cfbb1f9e7e8b750746 bunface replied to the topic 73 Yards in the forum The Fifteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/73-yards/page/3/#post-76315 Sun, 16 Jun 2024 10:15:58 +0000 A dead Tardis is really such a heartbreaking sight, like lost hope. Although in this episode, I wasn’t really sure whether the Tardis was really dead, it felt like a dog lying on their master’s grave waiting for him to return.

Aww, @vickymallard, that’s both lovely and awful! But so true…

A ghostly TARDIS is right, though, for what’s coming…

]]> 25c30262c2072d8bb52b9fa12da28242 janetteB replied to the topic The Devil's Chord in the forum The Fifteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-devils-chord/page/2/#post-76279 Sat, 15 Jun 2024 13:27:29 +0000 @vickymallard. The new Tardis interior is very white and clean but it does at least look like a spaceship. After the last Tardis interior which was just ugly and weird I don’t mind it.

I think you will enjoy the next few episodes.

Cheers

Janette

]]> 4656cd0ee7b2519fce42718d42805d60 janetteB replied to the topic Space Babies in the forum The Fifteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/space-babies/#post-75666 Mon, 13 May 2024 05:21:50 +0000 @mudlark Agree the babies were creepy. I don’t think the cgi on the faces worked. I would have preferred if they talked a kind of baby language that only the Doctor could understand, given he speaks baby. I didn’t hate the bogeyman as much as I thought I would.

@vickymallard. Bill also panicked about stepping on butterflies so that was a nice…[Read more]

]]> 24a128835114205a557cdeb4954b6250 Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The End of the World in the forum The Ninth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-end-of-the-world/#post-75388 Sat, 24 Feb 2024 09:17:10 +0000 @vickymallard @winston @ps1l0v3y0u I found this episode entertaining. The Doctor flirting with Jabe the tree person – (Rose noticed – “You two go and pollinate”) – I really liked her, it was tragic when she died heroically. The theme of the Earth ending made me feel a bit – uneasy. But there were a host of interesting characters to…[Read more]

]]> f8b253b78597fbc3054cc4fb6c92f97e ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic The End of the World in the forum The Ninth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-end-of-the-world/#post-75387 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 07:33:29 +0000 @vickymallard @winston

Yes, those interesting aliens (a nod to the 70’s series The Curse of Peladon?) and lots of hints as to the fate of Gallifrey. And without the oft unsuccessfully employed device of the ‘regeneration trauma’, Ecclestone makes a convincing and intriguing alien in a humanoid body.

If you’re a huge 10 fan (and there are a lot)…[Read more]

]]> 4399105f49abb448c31f278341b360a0 winston replied to the topic The End of the World in the forum The Ninth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-end-of-the-world/#post-75386 Wed, 21 Feb 2024 04:45:29 +0000 @vickymallard I really liked the ninth Doctor but he is a little rusty when dealing with us mere humans. He has been on his own for too long and of course he is an alien. This must have been a really shocking experience for Rose what with all those aliens and the end of earth but she handles it pretty well.

I liked the tree people and Cassandras…[Read more]

]]> 867a73099be59496ef8b04f337d76a68 janetteB replied to the topic Rose in the forum The Ninth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/rose/page/2/#post-75382 Wed, 07 Feb 2024 07:12:12 +0000 @ps1iOv3yOu

You sum up old Who well. Yet I at least, loved it for all that.

@vickymallard

Who scrips definitely have to work for the first time viewer as well as the aged fan. (like myself.) A friend is currently introducing the new stories to her daughter, who refers to them as “old Who”. She is loving it. I don’t think she will ever watch the…[Read more]

]]> 840ea1a2df44fc0d7f0a7c243287feac winston replied to the topic Rose in the forum The Ninth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/rose/page/2/#post-75381 Wed, 07 Feb 2024 04:03:34 +0000 @vickymallard One of my favourite things about Rose is the music. It brings me back again and again.  This was my first episode and it started an almost 20 year long addiction to Doctor Who. I wish the Doctor would wipe my memory so I could watch them all over again for the first time. I think the ninth Doctor is mad and bad and a little cheeky.…[Read more]

]]> ea6dd1c07d6fe9bd11c847bdc792e141 ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic Rose in the forum The Ninth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/rose/page/2/#post-75380 Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:59:18 +0000 <p style=”text-align: left;”>@dentarthurdent @vickymallard</p>
if you are to venture into Classic Who, Phillip Hinchcliff/Roberts Holmes tenure is by far the best… 1975-1977. From ‘ark in space’ to ‘talons of weng chiang.’ Mostly gold. It fell foul of the ‘is this a kids’ show or what?’ controversy.

There are classics from all eras… ‘terror o…[Read more]

]]> 85e2837af5cef92b229b3d44ef69d72d Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Rose in the forum The Ninth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/rose/page/2/#post-75379 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 23:17:00 +0000 @vickymallard Well I was effectively a ‘new viewer’ with Rose, too. That is, I’d seen some episodes of Two and Three when they first aired, but after that I dropped out for many decades. So ‘Rose’ was a fresh start for me. I also had no idea the Nestene Consciousness had a past (until I looked it up a few days ago. I’d highly recommend…[Read more]

]]> c9c31234876cce09e8ea2d2ca0d39047 ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic Rose in the forum The Ninth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/rose/page/2/#post-75376 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 12:47:50 +0000 @vickymallard @dentarthurdent

Plastic Mickey. Man eating bins… ‘leave it to me, I’m  a gymnast!’ (in so many words) and yes lots of planets have a north.

Rose the story was lightweight in a good way. Light touch. We all know Who can do Preposterous and Pompous. But a nod to Spearhead from Space/Terror of the Autons, nothing too alarming…[Read more]

]]> f4ac000a25187a42aa7bd176a96a3a0f Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Rose in the forum The Ninth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/rose/page/2/#post-75370 Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:38:18 +0000 @vickymallard Finally 🙂 Yes ‘Rose’ is a good place to start. I would rabbit on about that’s where I started but I just said all that to Rewvian in the comment just above yours.

The mannequins were creepy. So was Plastic Mickey. And I agree it was a bit of a stretch that Rose didn’t recognise the strangeness, but I think that…[Read more]

]]> 56022b3727623f9629290e1bfda5bf54 Devilishrobby replied to the topic The Church on Ruby Road in the forum The Fifteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-church-on-ruby-road/#post-75369 Sun, 04 Feb 2024 22:39:24 +0000 @vickymallard  I wouldn’t base your opinion on a premier of a Doctor in a Xmas Special as the Xmas specials seem to have a hit and miss history. As @ps1/ov3yu has said RTD seemed to be channeling some of the Mof’s campish Xmas style, I would wait for at least a few episodes from the new series as it starts in I think it’s April or May before…[Read more]

]]> 4a1b5231bc8284bf8fb31a7f382ff828 ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic The Church on Ruby Road in the forum The Fifteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-church-on-ruby-road/#post-75366 Sun, 04 Feb 2024 20:37:53 +0000 @vickymallard

did you START with Ruby Road?? You need to see the previous 3 too really… I’m sure you are/have…

the singing… a shock I admit. But I think RTD was channeling the Steven Moffat’s annual raid on popular Xmas culture. Otherwise everything will be fantastic after The Toymaker (which is why you need to watch the others).

I took a br…[Read more]

]]> 33964c9477a158f8435efafac844429f ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic The End of Time in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-end-of-time/#post-75341 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 15:35:16 +0000 @dentarthurdent @vickymallard

No. The jump from Vinvocci ship wasn’t great. I suppose the glass ceiling slowed him up, and he’s been around so long that by then, like Ashildr, he’s become brilliant at Crazy Stuff that should kill you. And we know he’ll regenerate soon.

One Vinvocci is a very funny man from the Horrible Histories team. The oth…[Read more]

]]> 96da47e07553dc09d4be3a59504c34a9 Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The End of Time in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-end-of-time/#post-75337 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 10:01:41 +0000 @vickymallard Just responding to a few of your comments. The Master – I though he became a lot more interesting when Moffatt wrote him (as compared to Russell T Davies). Especially in one of his other incarnations and I won’t spoil by saying which one 🙂

I did like the green spiky people, specially the sarcastic female one. Sinead Keenan…[Read more]

]]> 521f449f7caf6608db4fd635802d27ed Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Planet of the Dead in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/planet-of-the-dead/#post-75335 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 08:52:28 +0000 @vickymallard Viewer’s varying tolerance for ‘errors’ always fascinates me. I will happily accept a time-travelling Tardis that can materialise anywhere it wants, but I get highly tetchy if the Space Shuttle lands on the Moon because (1) it was never designed to go beyond Earth orbit and (2) it’s actually a glider (if a rather brick-like one),…[Read more]

]]> 44f7d8f9ad58c503eada47e0f84a52f7 winston replied to the topic The End of Time in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-end-of-time/#post-75333 Tue, 23 Jan 2024 04:44:23 +0000 @vickymallard You are suffering from regeneration shock and it is terrible to lose your favourite Doctor.I loved the tenth Doctor too. I think you will also love the 11th Doctor he is a blast!

Stay safe

]]> acd412789f93d19295991bc4cfe75d62 ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic Planet of the Dead in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/planet-of-the-dead/#post-75330 Mon, 22 Jan 2024 01:25:06 +0000 @vickymallard

sorry for the spoilery… in fact, although some sources quote The War Games (1969!) as the origin of the idea of the stolen tardis, I can’t find a single mention. The doctor admits to being a renegade and at that point his navigation is hopeless so you might infer that he shouldn’t be left in charge of a tardis.

]]> 167c1778180270cce1380fdcfa176ad0 Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Planet of the Dead in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/planet-of-the-dead/#post-75325 Sun, 21 Jan 2024 14:25:49 +0000 @vickymallard Sorry, forgot to include you in my note to ps1l0v3y0u. It’s spoilery but I gave my account of what I understand of the Tardis in the Hell Bent thread.

]]> 2f98b9483991627821dc1aade0414a25 ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic Planet of the Dead in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/planet-of-the-dead/#post-75322 Sun, 21 Jan 2024 11:03:33 +0000 @vickymallard  @dentarthurdent

Planet of The Dead got a lot of stick when it came out. Cracking adventure, I thought, with lots of interesting angles: no Tardis; interesting alien species – maybe reminiscent of the swarm in Invisible Enemy and the Formasi in Leisure Hive – but there a finite number of tropes; antagonistic prospective companion;…[Read more]

]]> 5eb25bb5d180a08f21e4a1ba0a9ca73f Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Planet of the Dead in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/planet-of-the-dead/#post-75321 Sun, 21 Jan 2024 01:53:38 +0000 @vickymallard I really liked this one. And I too, liked that the giant fly aliens were not the enemy (and in fact, acted very honourably. I felt quite sorry for them).

Lady Christina was great (in my view). A sort of female James Bond (or Emma Peel?) I would have liked to see a lot more of her. Maybe not workable as a Companion,…[Read more]

]]> 214a0fe331d160cf9716dd76d4b5578a ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic The Next Doctor in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-next-doctor-christmas-special/#post-75302 Sun, 14 Jan 2024 21:04:00 +0000 @dentarthurdent @vickymallard

Re my comment about RTD’s choice of villains, I meant of course David HAREWOOD (not Haywood) in The End of Time. Doh

]]> bc792fd41fba6091c7f7370e94b58fae Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Next Doctor in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-next-doctor-christmas-special/#post-75286 Sat, 13 Jan 2024 08:52:25 +0000 @vickymallard @ps1l0v3y0u Well I was – slightly disappointed by The Next Doctor (which turned out not to be the next Doctor after all). Cybermen child labour in Victorian London just seemed a bit like the old Dickens/Christmas theme, Oliver Twist and all that. I thought Christmas Carol (okay that was openly Dickens-derived) was a better…[Read more]

]]> d259b435927727e4ab0d62e74a9767f1 ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic The Next Doctor in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-next-doctor-christmas-special/#post-75283 Thu, 11 Jan 2024 19:06:31 +0000 @vickymallard

The Next Doctor… I enjoyed it. Cyberpunk! Nice. Teased the end of 10. Ooh you card Russ. Nice turn from Dervla Kirwan… even though, like David Haywood in The End of Time, her casting made me a bit uncomfortable.

Interesting point… should you be wary about exactly who you cast as villains? Not sure that’s RTD’s style. Perhaps R…[Read more]

]]> fb5c53570cdae293c2f7fc299c22b51e winston replied to the topic The Stolen Earth / Journey's End in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-stolen-earth-journeys-end/#post-75270 Mon, 08 Jan 2024 03:54:18 +0000 @vickymallard  I always like watching these 2 episodes except of course the sad ending. I am a big fan of the happy ending and even though we have waited a long time we finally have one. The DoctorDonna and the Doctor together again.

We did get a happy ending for Rose and her Doctor, I think. I hope they have a wonderful life full of adventures.…[Read more]

]]> 9984836a4d8d87bca92ef729fadfbab0 winston replied to the topic Forest of the Dead – S30 (4) 9 in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/forest-of-the-dead-s30-4-9/page/2/#post-75241 Thu, 04 Jan 2024 02:06:31 +0000 @janetteb and @vickymallard  Hello and Happy New Year!

I also envy vickymallard watching all of these fantastic episodes for the first time. It was an emotional roller coaster that I would gladly ride again. The monsters in the shadows are voracious and love fried chicken. We meet River Song for the first time and then she is gone.What? But the…[Read more]

]]> e176d93f53b686b50cb28d8fbf5c8e1a janetteB replied to the topic Forest of the Dead – S30 (4) 9 in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/forest-of-the-dead-s30-4-9/page/2/#post-75239 Thu, 04 Jan 2024 01:25:35 +0000 @vickymallard. Welcome btw. I envy you a little, watching these episodes for the first time. There is an episode of Red Dwarf where Kryten asks Dave to wipe his memory of Agatha Christie books so he can read them again for the first time. There are a few books and tv series, and Dr Who episodes I would chose to have wiped from memory so I can…[Read more]

]]> fc8220be7d0ffa4a3e617cdc48294414 Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-sound-of-drums-last-of-the-time-lords/#post-75207 Mon, 01 Jan 2024 07:52:41 +0000 @vickymallard Thanks, obviously I stole my user name from Doug Adams. I was looking for something vaguely Who-related but not an actual Who character, so Doug Adams (who was a script editor in oldWho days) seemed to fit the bill.
I take it you’ve seen DT in Neil Gaiman’s ‘Good Omens’ – I thought the first series (which was close to the book)…[Read more]

]]> d63b66d2561f4f9f42e2f3d0386fc241 ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic Voyage of the Damned in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/voyage-of-the-damned/#post-75111 Sun, 24 Dec 2023 19:23:38 +0000 @vickymallard

I have previously expressed my admiration for this Christmas special in these hallowed pages. Not all of the specials are worth watching EVERY year but this one and The Husbands of River Song are nailed on.

Some people don’t like the body count in VotD but you can’t crash Titanic/Poseidon Adventure and Aliens, with an extra nod to…[Read more]

]]> 7023a4ac004f40c9a4345fa3e2d62e09 Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Sound of Drums / Last of the Time Lords in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-sound-of-drums-last-of-the-time-lords/#post-75107 Sun, 24 Dec 2023 08:17:37 +0000 @vickymallard   Welcome to the forum.   Do I gather you are working your way through past seasons?   I did that a couple of years back – catching up on everybody from way behind.   I almost envy you because you’ve got several years worth of episodes still to work through.

I’ve got a standard suggestion I make to anyone catching up on episode…[Read more]

]]> 810176326a8d5023545cdca98a4a40e9 winston replied to the topic Utopia in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/utopia/#post-75105 Sun, 24 Dec 2023 04:16:26 +0000 @vickymallard   You have to watch The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances two part episode from the 9th Doctor’s time. These episodes introduce  Captain Jack who then travels in the Tardis with the Doctor and Rose through the series. It will explain a lot about Jack and it is excellent.Have fun!

let it snow

]]> 25b9275e365249a41554af66b9e6cb36 winston replied to the topic Voyage of the Damned in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/voyage-of-the-damned/#post-75104 Sun, 24 Dec 2023 04:05:36 +0000 @vickymallard  Hello and welcome to the site. Isn’t it good to talk to other people from around the world about the one thing we all love ? I live in Canada and we have a bit of snow so it looks Christmassy out there. I always watch the Xmas specials every year and I just watched this one. Although a lot of people die , the Doctor with the help…[Read more]

]]> 30895fd936f593aae542f10c4815b38c WhoHar replied to the topic The Giggle in the forum The Fourteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-giggle/page/2/#post-75020 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 03:09:26 +0000 @vickymallard

Hello, and welcome.

My assumption from watching the ep was that the Bi-generation allowed 15 to “shed” all his angst, leaving it in 14, which then 14 would work through in his (more) sedentary retirement. And 14 would not be able to regen / bi-gen again, so would age “normally” and presumably die of old age / accident or illness at…[Read more]

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