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I’ve been indulging in audios this week.
If you like ‘Genesis of the Daleks’ I heartily recommend ‘I Davros’ on spotify (thanks to @pedant for the link).
‘The Davros Mission’ is pretty good too…
Student accommodation has changed since my day. It seems that nowadays 6 people gather & declare each other housemates before they start househunting…..
The BBC Click article on binaural sound suggest it’s going to be the next big thing because everyone goes around with headphones on all the time now. First signs of becoming Cybermen…?
@conchobarre @missy
I don’t normally post a link without checking for spoilers first. I didn’t do that with the AMA so that people could join in. Unfortunately, by the time I’d written up the post with the link half the answers were there & it was nearly all over.
Two people on Reddit asked two spoilerly questions about the two big spoilers in the press yesterday. I don’t know why they expected an answer – they didn’t get one. Same with all the ‘What’s gonna happen in the next 7 eps?’ questions…
Unfortunately it means that spoilerphobes can’t safely enjoy M Gomez’s delightful banter…
I see that P Ness was on the Matthew Wright Show this morning. I missed 95% of it but I did catch the end where he said, ‘I write for Doctor Who – I understand being trolled…’
@conchobarre
I should have said – I don’t think the Dr & Rose audios are available until November. Announcement only yesterday…
Michelle Gomez Reddit AMA today @ 6pm UK time methinks…
@jimthefish – Coming Soon?
‘The Ambassador will be the next person to discover that I’m a bloody difficult Hermaphrodite Hexapod…’
Michelle Gomez is doing an AMA on Reddit tomorrow…
I assume that means Ask Me Anything…
If so, surely that’s a misnomer – Anything? Really?
Oh yeah – Also today’s big announcement was… Dr 10 & Rose are returning to audio…..
An ‘In Joke’ for Dr Who fans:
Four days so far of headlines about ‘Worldwide Cyber-Attack’…
DOCTOR: You know what’s wrong with this universe? Believe me, I’ve looked into it. Everyone says it’s not their fault. Well, yes, it is. All of it. It’s all your fault. So, what are you going to do about it?
Makes me think of this…
I’m more of the opinion that people are daft brainwashed sheepoids (but you’re not allowed to say that as it’s offensive to daft people)…
Today’s bonkerisation:
Who’s in the vault?
The righteous fan…
‘But at my back I always hear
Time’s wingèd chariot hurrying near;
And yonder all before us lie
Deserts of vast eternity.
Thy beauty shall no more be found,
Nor, in thy marble vault, shall sound
My echoing song’
P Ness has series 2 all worked out. But it’s realisation depends on a healthy U.S. viewership…
More secrets revealed through the wonders of graphic design…
another Matthew Clark interview
Also of note – Matt Lucas improvised the line ‘Some of my best friends are bluish’…
And Jamie M had the Dr unblind by the end of the episode but Moffat kept it running…
@alexwho – (I have insomnia! – So…)
Prediction: The ghosts of Pip & Jane Baker will be enlisted by ‘The Suits’ to cajole Chibbers into making series 11 populist Dr Who for 3 year olds.
Chibber’s dreams of an even more adult Dr Who (see inferred rape of Nefertiti a la’ ‘The Keys of Marinus’ or ‘The Time Meddler’) will be dashed, making it a bit of a waste of time anointing him Showrunner…..
It’s weird…
The blindness thing is verging very much on the ‘Crass Gimmick’. Everyone online is going OMG! OMG!- You can’t do that! You just can’t do that! OMG!
But if you genuinely buy into it, as our character’s happenstance, it can be truly upsetting…
Okay – I’ve got it!
Nardole is not really Nardole. The real Nardole is in the vault.
The fake Nardole (since ep 1) is the Dr’s niece Louise (from Daleks’ Invasion Earth 2150AD) who is Missy’s daughter & also the Meddling Monk turned evil (& possibly also a shape-shifting penguin criminal)…
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Howzat?!
The Daily Express is currently running a story saying the interweb is convinced that Missy is Bill’s mum (because one person had the theory).
Other contenders are:
River Song is Bill’s mum
Susan is Bill’s mum & that Missy is her Grandma (i.e. Missy is Susan’s mum)
(I’m tempted to play the ‘Sons & Daughters’ theme tune again…)
I’m surprised we’ve not had the Dr’s (as yet unmet by us) biological child/&/or Jenny…
My own familial preference would be Missy’s daughter is in the vault (& we haven’t met her yet)…
Who to trust? Who to trust?
I return to what was said in week 1. Nardole is an anagram of Leonard. Saint Leonard is the patron saint of prisoners.
Nardole is a bit like Nestor in ‘Tintin’. He’s a butler who used to work for nefarious characters…
So who do we trust? The Dr or Nardole? Has the Dr told Nardole the truth? The dialogue suggests not. Or is Nardole dodgy? Why does a humanoid head on an android body need oxygen? (We already went through Toiletgate…) And he also revealed he changed his face to go on the run…!?!
There still exists the possibility that Nardole thinks it’s a ‘baddie’ in the vault because the Dr lied & it’s actually really a ‘goodie’ (or something)… (as was also mentioned week 1)
A nod to HAL?
Jamie Mathieson joked on twitter that the working title of this episode was ‘Scarybiscuits in Space’.
In fact ‘Oxygen’ is the only one he’s been able to keep…
This casting actually makes sense to me, if you watch Luke Treadaway play Alex Higgins in The Rack Pack…
I actually mentioned that he would make a good Doctor to my mum a few weeks ago…
Gwendoline from Ghost Light also tinkled the ivories…
Here she is doing her impression of Kate Bush circa 1883…
Just got this off of Wikipedia…
The melody of “Pop Goes the Weasel” was used as a leitmotif in several episodes of the 1960s science fiction series ‘The Prisoner’, particularly in the series’ penultimate episode ” Once Upon a Time” in which the lead character, under an intense form of interrogation, obsessively sings the song, with “POP” identified as a meme representing the directive “protect other people.”
Always read the small print! Did nobody scrutinise that contract? I’d love to see the actual wording.
Regeneration is mentioned in an ominous stylee.
Grandfather. Maybe he really is. Dr Who Mag this month reveals that Harry Sullivan is Harry’s grandfather (not the one with a boyfriend) but that this nugget was kept out of the televised episode so’s not to confuse those viewers so casual they haven’t been watching since 1975.
Yeah, that’s right – Scotland only has landlines… (?!)
Some mention of a Vocbot… Bill has a teddy bear & likes Little Mix. Pearl Mackie disagreed greatly with the Little Mix bit but lost the battle…
The secret lift recalls ‘Invasion of the Dinosaurs’.
I recently had a holiday in Oban at a hotel where all the floorboards creaked like crazy – now I know…
Wooden Eliza reminds me of commentator/journo Carole Malone…
Nearly everybody dies… & then they all live again…..
So where do they all sleep/live afterwards? Hopefully the Doctor helped keep them off the streets & out of the rain for the duration?!
Really optimistic that’s The Terrible Zodin playing that piano…
click show on binaural…
