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At the time it just felt ‘wrong’ unlike when the performer themselves pass away. Almost certainly weird ‘standards’ on my part but there you go

I understand that completely, I think. If an artist dies you’re celebrating their acheivements. A virtual wake. Something like the loss of a child though? 🙁

@whisht   Thanks for that, good lively sound — always welcome!  Sister is okay, and has been scared into changing her (culinary) ways, so I may get to have her company a lot longer!  Thank goodness, and thanks for your good wishes.

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Funnily enough Nick Cave is a Doctor Who fan. He took his family (including the son that died earlier this year) to the Science Museum premiere of Voyage of the Damned after old friend Kylie got them on the guest list. As we all know, Australia has a history with the show second only to the UK. I hope the use of his…[Read more]

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You know, Sonic Youth were always a band I thought I ought to like, but never really did that much. The Beastie Boys on the other hand were a band I disliked intensly when I heard their first few singles but grew to love as they went onto things like Sabotage. Funny old world.

I liked a ot of that period of rockrap experimentation. Stuff…[Read more]

@Whisht good spot re’ the hand. I thought that we were seeing the Doctor as a boy when that happened. Maybe that was an intentional parallel, the man who creates the monsters to destroy the universe and the man who saves the universe were both once frightened boys not dissimilar.

Also I am sure there is a scene where Baker jumps up and down…[Read more]

@Whisht good to have you back. I suspect that some of the Who haters are “moffbots” or to be more accurate “murdochbots” attacking anything BBC. I was telling my SO last night about my description of keyboard warriors working in a damp dark cellar. He said he pictured them in a gleaming office with a team of others, all collecting their pay checks…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave The Doctor does acknowledge the disc, however, when Clara questions him about where he sent it.  He doesn’t corroborate exactly what is on it but we at least know he sent it to Missy.  That’s a start. lol

@whisht  There is an episode of Tom Baker’s with a yo-yo that deals with gravity.  I think it might have been The Ark in…[Read more]

Nice spot on the ankle grabbing @Whisht, missed that. Suspect it’s an echo rather than significant, but it I like it.

Didn’t spot the missing chunk on the CD player (of Rassilon) – will need to have another look… unless you’ve got a screen grab of it? Does the Doctor not also mention its function to Ohila (in the prologue)? Will need to check…[Read more]

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Thanks so much for posting, so poignant (especially since he lost his son earlier this year). Yes interesting choice for the scene. Do we pick up on “weeping” or fathers and sons…?

Meanwhile this is my one of my all time fave Cave songs – for Missy and Davros…?

“it’s not that in their hearts they’re…[Read more]

@Whisht Yes the ‘CD’ – Been thinking its more than what it seems too.
I think its interesting to think about it as unfinished. I think it has
another use beyond what the name implies. Plus the fact that it was sent
to Missy who was supposed to be dead? So the Doctor knew she wasn’t dead.
That implies to me that he had seen her before the…[Read more]

I have just watched this again, and read through all your comments. Although I haven’t looked at the trailers again as some of you have, here are my guesses for what they are worth.

“He has asked to see you” doesn’t entirely suggest an enemy to me. Or least, not a Davros/Master type of enemy. This is a request, and clearly not someone that inten…[Read more]

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I think the disc the Doctor handed over is something important that could unlock the Timelords from wherever they are.

This – bringing them back – is the Doctor’s “destruction”. But this is what he wants to do.

That sounds distinctly plausible; it fits the scenario and the Doctor’s character. But the variety of possible interpret…[Read more]

@whisht There can never be enough Morricone.

Anyway here’s the best theme tune ever

@whisht  Or colonies of living things that the Tardis transports but keeps hidden from the Doctor for its own reasons (our current refugee crisis comes to mind — maybe refugees the Doctor doesn’t approve of).  Why not?  Since they went to the trouble of establishing the Tardis as a personality, with goals of its own and immense powers of se…[Read more]

@whisht Just a little nod that says, yeah, cool. Cheers mate! 🙂

@Whisht    I hate to think what the Arsenal fans are reading right now. (ARSEnal is probably an apt descriptor for some of them if they are anything like Canadian ice hockey fans!) Actually, I started my day by listening to a lengthy lecture from my son on various deals that had made him happy, sad, or filled with hilarity, depending on the ci…[Read more]

@ichabod    Agent provocateur is an apt term for Jonathan Jones, since that seems to be the effect he often has on readers.  I am not sure whether he adopts a contrarian pose because he gets a kick out of winding people up, or whether it is a kind of ‘everyone is out of step except me’ pretentious arrogance.  And you are right, he is not young. …[Read more]

@whisht  Oh, no apologies, please!  You are addressing a champion forgetter here, so no complaints either way — though humor and music are surely always welcome (I read “painful humor” as laughing til your belly aches).

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OH! You can also use head cannons to defend your ship!

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Head cannons are used to blow people’s minds. (Pun enforced)