Now, in all seriousness.

This IS The Master’s Theme.

@pedant – noooooooooooo!!!

You went there.

But “Best. Intro. Ever.”
blimey.

I hope when you said that that it sounded like:
“Besp. Inpro. Ebah”
while you had your tongue firmly in your cheek!

🙂

@nick – oh, I might need to re-watch as I thought that the Master’s presence on the craft kinda makes sense of the situation *

ie
– He (and I’m saying that deliberately ie SimmMaster) boards the Mondas colony ship (before Mondassian Cybermen were ever a thing);
– Takes control/ guides it nearly into the black hole;
– Convinces as many of the…[Read more]

great song @pedant – it will shock and sadden you to know that I’d never heard it before!

:¬o

As for World Enough and Time…

Well I’m still flogging this horse if no one else is(!) but is this too obvious a Bowie link?

;¬)

Well, just to throw in my tuppence…

Loved it!

Overall I loved it (Rachel Talalay and Moffat seem to be a great team), but I also loved details like the tear-shape on rim of the eye hole that echoes the later designs and the Master’s ripping his mask off like an old villain (that would actually not happen like that with the actual makeup!!)…[Read more]

So, a different choon for Eaters of Light.
This one for all the children references…

(not the best off this album, but hopefully not a bad introduction if you’ve not heard their stuff. I tire quickly of it – maybe two songs in succession and that’s enough but those two songs….. ahhhhh….)

@blenkinsopthebrave and all – Moffat and Gatiss doing Dracula?

Completely coincidentally I was watching a panel at a ComicCon last night (it was from maybe a year ago? Coleman, Gomez and Peter Capaldi were asked which monster they would most like to play….

Capaldi’s answer – Dracula.

Gary Oldman’s Dracula to be precise.

I fear Gatiss will be…[Read more]

@Nick
Apologies – I’ve been missing replies to a few people ( @wolfweed – no I haven’t re-watched anything yet!) but just thought I’d acknowledge (with a big smiley) the nod to Dr Manhattan.

😉

ha ha – yes @Arbutus I noted the “its worse than jazz” dig!

Will listen eagerly!

I haven’t said much (anything?) about Eaters of Light as nearly everything has been said (an I kinda agree with it all).
So, Bowie reference for Eaters of Light…?

Not exactly a favourite of mine, but seems obvious.

So, thought I’d channel some wolfweed but am scaling scary heights.

In Empress the scientists were waiting for the Valkyrie [lander, satellite etc] to beam back its imaging of Mars.

Which is a nice touch as the last time we saw graffiti on Mars was from Viking

[ok ok its not grafitti – or was it (finger to side of lips)]

@pedant – that’s lovely and I’m hoping the smartphone was held in a vicelike grip by one of her production crew!!
I jest – currently musicians make most of their money from live gigs so live performances online showing to thousands “you should go to the next gig by this person because they are great live” are (imo) essential.
I think the whole…[Read more]

Last night in London we’ve had a terrible tragedy in a tower block fire, which will unfortunately result in the deaths of many people.

I sometimes hear (here and elsewhere) that people don’t care about each other.
Sometimes I think it might be true, but unfortunately its in tragic circumstances that I learn (again) that I’m an idiot.

Local…[Read more]

ok, been a few days without posting and then posting two songs (I’m like bloody busses!)

{ahem}

Anyway…. here’s one for the Empress of Mars episode that isn’t a lazy Bowie reference (bad whisht).

The lyrics are even fun if you squint your ears

@ScaryB
ah – The The never a bad choice!

But to…[Read more]

oops – been away a coupla days so haven’t replied to a few people (bad me!).

@soundworld
When I said I really liked Gomez’s Missy I wasn’t intimating anything lustful (tut tut).
Though she is quite attractive….

No, I really like the way Gomez delivers lines – she seems to find words delicious if that makes sense.

I’m no wordsmith so can only…[Read more]

Not sure how much (or often!) I’ve said I like Michelle Gomez’s Missy but I really like Michelle Gomez’s Missy.

I wonder if her ‘redemption’ (if that’s the right word) will somehow be her helping The Doctor’s regeneration; maybe she nudges it (maybe by forcing Bill to really shoot him this time).
So doing the ‘right’ thing but in all the wrong ways!

ah – somehow missed yours @pedant

One reason I posted the actual song was I’ve been failing to find original songs of Bowie’s (DRM!) so was a bit surprised to find this one (maybe its a Vevo thing).

But did really like yours – would’ve loved to have been there!

I’m being lazy…..

well – I enjoyed this one.
As with all the episodes this season, it was brilliantly realised in terms of how it looked (steampunk, Victorian soldiers and tea set; Ice Warriors).

I made no notes during it, so no bonkers theories, didn’t spot any connections (and I’ve tried looking at 1881 and Edgar Burroughs).
I’m not sure that I actually ‘get’…[Read more]

@Thane15 – ha ha no worries!
I did raise an eyebrow when I read you asking for people to write something for you as it was so out of character, so no surprise it was a typo!

Beards – yes, I’ve heard similar here (ie politicians being told to not have a beard). No idea where it comes from and only seems to be a thing for politicians rather than…[Read more]

Not sure if this has been mentioned here, but from the UK coverage of the recent election it seems there was a very large turnout by ‘young voters’ which swung a lot of seats in Labour’s favour.
Having seen their vote ‘making a difference’ (even if there was an ultimate ‘failure’ in not getting Labour into power) it’ll be interesting what might…[Read more]