Oooh – An early entry on choose-a-choon from @wolfweed .

I’m afraid my choice is a little more predictable. Yes, it’s Knock on Wood.

Possibly not the one you were expecting though. 😉

@wolfweed; Thank you for the video. Mr. C is always entertaining.

Missy

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As I commented earlier, it seems very appropriate that the Doctor would choose Struwelpeter as bed-time reading for Kitty’s little band of urchins, and if not that, but for the matter of copyright, I suspect that it would have been something pleasantly disgusting from Roald Dahl’s oeuvre.

It seems to me that the attraction to the mac…[Read more]

@wolfweed I tried that out and I like it! Will pass it on to my mate who does the music.

@morpho    I liked the Doctor’s explanation that the butterfly effect happens anyway, even without time travel.

*Loved* that; a quick and easy way of dispensing with a long, depressing disquisition on why Time travel into the past is bound to change the future to *some* extent, but you’d probably never know (who says it has to change in ways you…[Read more]

@wolfweed not to disagree but Missy said the doctor gave it to her when she had her daughter and she showed a cameo pin.  I find it hard to believe that someone would give a man a cameo pin.  But in the scheme of things anything is possible.

@Mirime @Nick

This is straying a long way of topic, but no, I find it hard to believe that anyone could mistake a Welsh accent for that of Lincolnshire 🙂  Nor, for that matter, is the Norfolk accent, rural or urban, anything like the Cheshire accent.  The fact that I seem to have inherited traces of the latter is entirely down to my mother an…[Read more]

@wolfweed thanks for that looked it up on you tube.  So was Missy a female before she was the master? Why would the Doctor give a man, the master a cameo pin? Oh space and time befuddles me. Yet as far as we know the doctor has always been a male.  Since River was with both men and women could one of her woman loves been the doctor as a female?  …[Read more]

@nick—

As adventure stories, they could be dealt with in 20 minutes. What’s made them enjoyable has been all of the character development and the production values

I kind of get what you mean and agree that the stories are not what you’d call complex but I think the above has actually been the show’s mission statement pretty much from Rose o…[Read more]

@wolfweed

Awesome!

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Really not sure why people hate the Doctor playing the guitar. He’s played the recorder, formed his own rock group (with Marcus Aurelius on bass guitar) and seems to know how to play the harp. Which is also a Gallifreyan instrument as well as a human one.

Music is clearly part of a young Time Lord’s education, so why shouldn’t he relax…[Read more]

@missy— SM talks about it in the After Show interview for this episode, which I think @craig has posted on this thread. You should be able to find it if you scroll back a couple of pages…

thanks to @wolfweed for posting. Hopefully this scene will make it onto the DVD release… in fact, what with that and the ‘missing’ Dalek scene, is there an…[Read more]

@wolfweed: Thank you , what a shame they had to cut the scene. As I keep harping on about, they cut the Dalek scene too, the funniest scene in the episode – well, one of them. I still haven’t seen the article where Steven Moffat explains why they cut it. Could someone steer me in the right direction please?

Missy

@wolfweed thanks for the heads up. It has never dawned on me to want a companion from the USA even though that’s were I am from.  When they say his companions are whinny I wanted to yell… Let’s see how you’d handle being in those situations. As far as his playing the guitar, if I lived as long as him I think I would learn lots of instruments.

@blenkinsopthebrave — also think you’re take on the episode being at least partially about language is spot on. Though I don’t seem to mind emoji as much you or @ pedant 😉

@mudlark and @wolfweed — the Van Gogh painting is striking, but I think the chances are it’s a striking similarity. I suspect the cornfields were chosen because its a…[Read more]

I like Smile better than the Pilot. I like how they succeeded in creating the mood of creepy idyll and the fact that Doctor is stranded in this closed space (like in classic Who). I also like that Bill could show all of her potential and she’s different from previous companions (for now). Funny how they see history. Until the late nineteenth…[Read more]

@wolfweed @thane15

The resemblance between the Van Gogh painting and the opening scene on the planet does not seem all that close to me.  On the one hand the painting is full of swirling movement, from the swooping curve of the path into the foreground and back, to the wind rippled wheat and the wind-tossed crows, and the sky has the hazy, b…[Read more]

Wonderful episode and very stimulating comments, as usual. Coming late to the party and absorbing 167 comments in one sitting is tricky, so apologies if I’m repeating points already made….

To follow up @wolfweed on Shada echoes, the Doctor tells the students in his lecture “time is an illusion,” which is the first part of the Douglas Adams…[Read more]

@wolfweed—

That’s a wicked and interesting spot. It’s good to have you back.

@whisht—

not sure if anyone else has mentioned, but Bill is very much a Companion for this forum.
Her theories as to what is happening are indeed more insane than what is actually happening

That’s also a very cool idea.

@Morpho

We live and learn 🙂   I had no idea that those early versions of ‘An Unearthly Child’ had survived and have spent the last hour or so busily investigating. It is misleading to call them ‘pilots’ though, since they certainly are not in the sense we now use the term and I was somewhat confused at first by your reference to them as su…[Read more]