I’ll admit that I really liked Jamie Mathieson on the Fan Show talk about throwing in tidbits of info about a character (ie Nardole) and seeing how other writers handled it.
And that Oxygen was written before the other episodes and they took some of these aspects on.

That Nardole is ‘dodgy’ is lovely – if he’s Frobisher I’d squee with the best of…[Read more]

So, Bowie references…

According to the Doctor Who Fan show (though I may be liberally misremembering this), Jamie Mathieson had originally written the episode as the crew racing between different parts of a much larger conglomeration of spaceships.
Yes – Station to Station.

{ahem}

But perhaps lyrics from this one from the great man…[Read more]

@wolfweed – yes, I was struck by that from the Doctor too.
And agreed with him – we are responsible for either what’s happening or what’s not happening.
Irrespective of our intelligence, decision-making abilities, mendacity of people, the way capitalism creates one emergent behaviour through advertising that results in ‘fake news’ being…[Read more]

@pedant – haven’t heard that version (original?) of Torn before, thanks, its rather great!
I’d not heard of David Armand before (my shame) and laughed my arse off at his interpretation of Torn.
I’m not sure if I’ve found what you were looking for, but I did find a version of him with Natalie doing it (as it were).
Not sure I could love her more…[Read more]

Well I really liked this one too!
And as mentioned by others, the production values for all the episodes so far are excellent (no wobbly walls or too much bubble wrap!).

Nothing to add to what’s been said other than I’m hoping that the Doctor’s blindness is not something that debilitates him from being the Doctor (if that makes sense). There’s…[Read more]

In a previous post I mentioned Professor Longhair but didn’t link anything by him.
Perhaps “Professor Longhair” is a translation in a far off country of “Doctor Who” as was ‘Doctor Mysterioso’…

{ahem}

anyway – here’s a couple of ditties by the man.
These two are from one of the few LPs I actually bought back in the day. I’m really fond of it…[Read more]

@frobisher – I think we have the same (poor?) taste in jokes 😉

So, according to those who know here, it seems time is running out on bonkers vault theories so here’s one to throw into the ring.

There has been much mention of ‘hair’ on the aftershow.
Maybe its more than just a throwaway joke though.

And no, I’m not going to suggest that its the…[Read more]

@wolfweed – wow.

Very thrilled by this.

Here’s hoping its more Urban than Stallone.

Another track for Knock Knock (makes sense in the first few seconds and then you may as well just succumb to the funk)

;¬)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atmoOgLiihg

hmmmm…. actually I may have a development on my previous bonkers theory.

Like others, I’d said that the Doctor’s next regeneration may be in the vault, yet needing time to ‘bake’.

Now, if I take a theme of this series so far and that is parents and children and taking care of them, perhaps the Doctor has already regenerated but as a…[Read more]

ah – thanks @thane15 for that ragtime version!
It made me think of this version of Flight of the Bumblebees by Jools Holland.
I saw this many many many years ago when it was first on TV and luckily rammed a video into the recorder and taped most of the show. It was brilliant and also this part was the first time I’d heard of Professor Longhair…[Read more]

ah, thanks all for being kind to my spot of bonkerising.
Must admit, I’m a bit out of practice but hopefully the truth is at least as crazy!

Unfortunately I’ve now been struck by a bout of anti-bonkers (it’ll pass).
But some non-silly tidbits:

As has been seen, my humour is poor, but I do wonder whether the use of Bach is simply a bad pun (ie…[Read more]

ok, so here’s my (latest) theory as to what is in the vault (if not who).

I think that the ‘person’ in the vault is a hero of the Doctor’s.

Why?
Well, Mofatt has played around with heroes for a while throughout his tenure (Robin Hood, Father Xmas, Superman in xmas special etc etc).
But these are usually human heroes – our heroes.

Who are the…[Read more]

So – what other songs might go with ‘Knock Knock’?

One, (Mother’s Love by Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou) I can’t find online (grrrr) another is this slow funky sinister track by The Herbaliser (maybe listen in the background and then watch the episode again).

We have The Wooden Song by The Butthole Surfers which is creepy in as much as you’re waiting…[Read more]

@wolfweed – Landlord – great song and fantastic video!
I appreciated the song about woodlice but I just couldn’t watch that video !
As for Fismoll – gorgeous and a tune that knows when to bow out! I haven’t heard them before so another band to keep an ear out for – cheers!

@Phaseshift – obvious, but not so! Love it and keeping the Bowie link…[Read more]

I enjoyed this one – some quick thoughts as it was last night I saw it and would need a re-watch for anything insightful!

I now listen to Doctor Who episodes through headphones due to my new ohh-they’re-so-thin-nowadays TV being utter rubbish in terms of sound. Why don’t they just admit it and sell the darned things with separate…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthegreat – I’d entirely forgotten that clip of Arnie!
Its brilliant !

and love the fact they got Joan Plowright to ‘introduce’ Olivier to the kids!

ooh @Thane15 – I think if you re-read @missy‘s post I think she’s agreeing with you.

ie it can lead to bullying of the person stepping in, but sometimes its worth the risk to speak up.

so, at the top of this page I was admonished for the corruption of ears, minds and judgement.
(and lo, it came to pass…)

But that doesn’t mean I’m going to double-down and link to Throbbing Gristle or Butthole Surfers or whatever.

No sirree.

Instead, here’s some jangly geetar indie music (@Phaseshift – was still thinking of your 80’s/90’s…[Read more]

@Thane15 – on Shakespeare, here’s a true story.

Many years ago when I was at Uni studying Illustration, a friend was illustrating Hamlet.
Now, I’d ‘done’ Hamlet for my A levels which was only a few years previously, so I could still remember it quite well.
While looking at his sketches and paintings I asked what a particular one was of.

“Oh…[Read more]