@beechgirl10 – welcome!
Feel free to chat about any of the episodes, but in case you didn’t know, if you wanted to tell how you came across Who, then there’s a ‘Memories’ thread.
(though it ain’t obligatory – I don’t think I ever did!)

;¬)

Hope you have fun!

@blenkinsopthebrave – thank you so much for this!
Will watch these ones specifically.
I’ve seen random ST Next Generation episodes but probably not the later ones, so was curious if there were storylines that would enrich (or make sense of!) the new series.
Might even watch something tonight! Thanks again

@thane16 – hey you! Hope everything is good with you.
Love the music!
Da Pacem is just…. {sigh} and now I realise there’s an entire album called Da Pacem and not just the opening piece! Usually I wait for serendipidy when buying music (ie it turns up at a charity shop) but on this occasion I reckon I need to actually get it!

Sometimes I hav…[Read more]

@peacefrog – indeed, if I hadn’t found the Florian one I was planning on that ol’ Auton fallback Showroom Dummies and say “well, the Doctor did mention them!”
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he he @peacefrog – I have my bonkers theory and will flog it till it stops moving!

Then i’ll kick it and cry “see – it’s still alive!”

;¬)

But you’ve got me on that Kraftwerk track – I can’t make it fit with the series or episodes (I should think harder I know!). I’m sure it will be a face-palm moment!

But yes, I guess I’m hoping at least one…[Read more]

Hi @blenkinsopthebrave
I’m thinking about watching the Picard series, but wondered if you had thoughts on which Trek films/ episodes I should watch first.

I’ve seen a random selection of Star Trek, never a full series. So if you happen to know a storyline that might make sense to watch (in terms of Picard) or film where its kinda necessary to…[Read more]

So, for Praxeus (bold as love? nah, though what it does reference I’m a bit mystified about…) it seems that Chibnall is a real geek of Kraftwerk.

He’s referencing Florian Schneider’s solo work!

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(The beginning made me think of this but these songs are very different)

ha ha @peacefrog – I love a lyric that is completely exposition!
Though I think I’m more of a Swamp Thing person myself (though not as cerebral!).

Weirdly I don’t think I’ve ever seen the video for Hit.
Which makes me think just how did I ever hear those Sugarcubes songs??!?

I guess I must’ve bought them or had someone make a mixtape for me.
Its…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

I can only think of one other main character from the Wizard of Oz film and I’m now beginning to hope this theory will happen!

Toto – Dorothy’s pet.
Based on what the Master said about pets before… Clara is coming back!!
Clara and Whittaker Doctor… I reckon that chemistry could work!

{sigh}

“Fangasm” is probably what…[Read more]

@peacefrog
Ooh never even heard of the Toadies before! Thanks for that!
And always love a bit of Bjork – even when I don’t like some of her music, I love that she writes it! Always pushing herself. Wonderful. (and always brings back watching a bonkers interview she did when in the Sugarcubes talking about a TV… When she says “city” I fell in l…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave – methinks #2

Glinda – Good witch who appears at convenient times (early on and at the end) to nudge Dorothy along.
With Dorothy being The Doctor, and Captain Jack appearing with a nudge and then promising to be there at the end… but surely they wouldn’t do that gag.
Glinda is kind’ve the Fairy Godmother….

yeah, a…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave – he he ;¬)

Glinda – Good witch who appears at convenient times to nudge Dorothy along; RuthDoctor methinks!

@blenkinnsopthebrave @rob

I kinda now think this theory is less ‘bonkers’ and more ‘I kinda hope not as it’d limit the characters’ so I’ll leave it alone and try something more daft (like following up on RuthDoc being the Master ;¬) ) but to belabour this one, there were two major characters I forgot to do…

Dorothy – she wants to go home (and…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave – I wholeheartedly agree and truly hope none of my bonkerising is anything like the actual storyline!

;¬)

Now this band may be considered (cruelly) as Flaming Lips-Lite but they do prove that really good choruses are a bloody good thing.

This song is all chorus.

And its a bloody good thing.

And makes me smile

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@peacefrog – not heard Wildflowers (Tom Petty) before; its rather pretty and it oddly sounds familiar, so I wonder if its a traditional melody..? (I won’t invoke @thane16 ‘s or @arbutus ‘ and others’ insanely hooge knowledge of earlier music – its not just SNL skits! ;¬) )
btw I agree that only fans of Pearl Jam knew they were on the Neil You…[Read more]

@rob @blenkinsopthebrave
I think that if there any allusions to Oz then I hope(!) that they aren’t too literal (as I think it’d reduce the companions rather than extend them).

However… not wanting to leave a bone or catnip alone…. one could have:
Scarecrow – wants to be smarter; has Graham had a habit of thumping his head and saying “I know th…[Read more]

@arbutus – I was trying to find some Chinese/Scottish mashup and wasn’t able to!
But thanks for the Gung Haggis Fat Choy link – they have haggis wonton (and no, its not one tonne of haggis!). They even manage to have dim sum turnip!
And there was I thinking there was no way to mix haggis and Chinese food!
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@peacefrog – thanks for the Deep Pu…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave – its an interesting Oz allusion.

I wonder if the lone Cyber/Tin Man will be important?
A chopper-down of trees… (back to Orphan 55?? gawd hope not) who asks for a heart… but should not be given one (because it means the ‘end’ of Cybermen and so is an echo of Genesis of the Daleks “Do I have the right?”) or because the…[Read more]

So – I think I have it.

RuthDoc is The Doctor. But she won’t always be.
She’ll become The Master.

So… now for some timey wimey effwittery to get this bonkerising to be the case….

There once were two friends at the Academy on Gallifrey.
One was a bit more distracted than the other. This one had to re-do their exams etc and stay at the Academy…[Read more]