@ps1l0v3y0u @devilishrobby

The overall effect may also become quite silly.

That’s my concern, and that the whole thing will be clumsily preachy about the environment (rather than cleverly showing us the ways the planet is being destroyed.

@juniperfish

You just know she comes from a family with an aga and the smell of wet dog in the kitchen in the…

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@devilishrobby

Much obliged. I think I’ll probably wait, as there is too much good stuff available right now, and coming up. Maybe if I get through my backlog over Christmas…

Anybody watched the Sea Devils spin off yet?

And, more importantly, is it any good?

We don’t have it down here so I can either wait until February or go looking for an unofficial version. Not sure it is worth the bother, so would be interested to know what people think.

@nerys @dentarthurdent @ps1l0v3y0u

do you have a source or is it rude to ask?

I don’t unfortunately. Just observations. I’ve been wrong on the finale pretty much every time, so the law of averages suggest I’d get something correct eventually.

Apparently, there was a source on Reddit who was leaking information about the last series. So uncannily…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

I’ll bet that when RTD invented the Villengard arms factories (in The Doctor Dances) he had no inkling of where the Moff would go with it.

Moffat wrote that. It’s all him.

@ps1l0v3y0u

My response was a bit Carry On

Carry on Cyber

Carry on up the Tardis etc.

13>14 WAS more loaded than 12>13.

100% agree. Strange really. Probably due to the return of Saints David and Russell.

@ps1l0v3y0u @nerys @translatorcircuit

I suppose you have to say Chib and… what would you call it… gender avoidance (?) was a reasoned response to a particular narrative problem.

Maybe. Noting that Chibnall also told Jodie Whittaker not to watch any previous Who, maybe he was trying to do a soft reboot type-of-thing.

@ps1l0v3y0u @translatorcircuit

 RTD wouldn’t have turned that chance of a laugh.

Tradition on Who is for the new showrunner to write the regeneration scene.

Apparently, it was RTD’s choice.  He made a comment that he didn’t want to have a man in women’s clothes as he didn’t want to offend (IIRC) people in the trans community.

There is prec…[Read more]

@nerys @translatorcircuit @ps1l0v3y0u

@whohar (i think) mentioned that Chib didn’t tell the (other) writers in series 11 that 13 was a female Doctor

Yes, twas I.

Even before I’d heard this rumour, my view was that Chibnall had really wasted an opportunity to do storylines that reflected the change of sex/gender. There’s so much potential t…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u

@nerys

@dentarthurdent

@janetteb

I think the reason Chibz gets a ‘free pass’ from other showrunners is just politeness or ‘professional courtesy’.   You don’t badmouth your fellow workers even if you think they’re crap.

Absolutely understand this. What I don’t understand is why RTD doubled down on it in the latest two series. He co…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u

@nerys

@dentarthurdent

@janetteb

Moff’s legacy:

Timelords rehabilitated

The Doctor gets a new regeneration cycle

1 is 1, he turns the cylindrical uncamouflaged Tardis into a police box.

All three are trashed in TTC

This is why I am surprised Chibnall gets such a free pass from the previous showrunners. He must have known what t…[Read more]

@janetteb

I wonder if the BBC are going to continue to produce these condensed / colourised / re-scored versions of classic stories. They’ve done Docs 1, 2 and 3 now, so presumably a Tom Baker story is due next. I wonder which one. They previously did a feature-length version of Genesis, which was transmitted and is also available on Blu-ray I…[Read more]

@translatorcircuit

I don’t know if the re-edit of the original episodes into a feature length one will be an improvement.  Some of the older Who stories did suffer from padding, although I can’t recall if that’s the case here. And television in the 1970s tended to be more influenced by theatre (compared to modern shows which tend towards the…[Read more]

New edit of the 3rd Doctor Sea Devils story:

https://www.doctorwhotv.co.uk/doctor-who-sea-devils-special-106375.htm

Airing on the same* day as the spinoff

*Same day unless you are in Australia, New Zealand, United States, Canada…..

Some rumours circulating that RTD and Bad Wolf will be out once the 2026 special is done.

Rumours also that Pete McTighe and Jack Thorne are in the frame for next showrunner.

@janetteb

I expect there will be big announcements next year, new partnership,new show-runner new Doctor.

I hope so. My guess is that the 2026 Christmas Special is a kind of placeholder while the BBC / Bad Wolf figure out the next move. If we don’t start to hear something by say Easter next year, then I’d be expecting a delay until the new season…[Read more]

Deadline article on the BBC and D+ fallout.

https://deadline.com/2025/10/why-disney-ditched-doctor-bbc-1236601181/

@dentarthurdent @camdudetenger2018 @translatorcircuit

@ps1l0v3y0u

Who out there could really shake it up? Don’t have to be a fan

I think not being a fan should be in the job description for the next showrunner or, at least, someone who’s not been involved in the show before. Someone who is sympathetic but not overly in thrall of continuity. I don…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @camdudetenger2018 @translatorcircuit  @ps1l0v3y0u

‘Going nowhere’ – what a curiously ambiguous turn of phrase

Yes agreed. I think a previous post actually said “Rest assured, the TARDIS is going nowhere” which is even better / worse.

@ps1l0v3y0u

@translatorcircuit

At last some real news! And it’s about as positive as it’s going to get right now.

I see also that TWBtLatS will be shown later this year; looking like Disney want out quickly. But hopefully this will be shown around Christmas this year.

Still, lots of unresolved questions:

So RTD2 is going to write the…[Read more]