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@dentarthurdent

Again… not really about a specific ep so I moved it here.

Sorry, my mulling over RTD turned out to be a bad post, late night etc. And then I changed it half through. The contraction of titles in two parters was started by Den of Geek, I think.

So, what the hell has just happened?

I’m not sure how RTD got the gig the first tim…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u   Hmmm, so you think RTD was making himself essential?   Possibly so.   Obviously Mrs Flood / The Rani was an extremely long-distance arc.

But suppose RTD and the Beeb had parted ways halfway through, I guess someone else could have found a continuation of the Mrs Flood storyline.   But as for all the other storylines – first it woul…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent

The Arc…

The weird thing is the incomplete arc so obviously echoes the RTD vs Corporation gambit played out. But you HAVE to pay because only I can EXPLAIN! Although, as I keep observing, someone signed off those press release.

Well, the DG has just cast a whole raft of shows adrift… all light entertainment but… WHO KNOWS WHAT’…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u

Well, I just watched the final double episode, and the Doctor seemed a lot more human and like his normal self in that one.

How ‘monster’ could an arc be?   Mrs Flood has been lurking for – how many seasons?

The ‘science’ in that was so – metaphysical – I don’t think I can nitpick anything.   I’m not sure how the Bone Creatures who…[Read more]

Random thoughts on The Reality War.

… and the Doctor got rescued by Anita from the Time Hotel. That came out of left field. But it worked, and nice to see her again.

So it’s Big Reset Button time again?

The Time Hotel seems to have expanded its capabilities to have become a sort of ersatz Tardis, flown by Anita.

Nice to see Rose(2) again…[Read more]

Random thoughts on re-watch.

Somehow, the Rani, though a bit obnoxious, doesn’t have quite the threat level conveyed by other Who villains.

Oooh, the Doctor in bed with a Companion. That’s a first. I mean, we’ve known that previous Companions were in love with their Doctors, but I think this is the nearest we’ve seen to them actally doing Luurve…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent @janetteb

Yes. What the hell, hero? Also sketchy science. Though it looked great. Also, in the words of Sylvia Noble in The Star Beast, ‘none of this real!’

Also, Eurovision looms large in Who History.

So, in my view, as you know, RTD was cooking a monster arc in which The Doctor is being tested: it was all Mind Robbers, War Gam…[Read more]

@janetteb   Not saying the guy didn’t deserve it, but it was un-Doctor-like.   Also, the Doctor appeared to be partly motivated by revenge for himself being frozen, which was also quite out of character.   The guy had plenty of reason to hate the Corporation, but taking it out on the rest of the Universe was unacceptable.   If he had just set out…[Read more]

@whohar    I’d agree wholeheartedly with all that.

Also, I’d add, the writing lacked a certain polish or sparkle that Moff used to inject into it.   And, I think, a certain sense of humour.   I’m thinking of, say, the interaction between Clara and the Doctor in Flatline, or the Doctors in Day of the Doctor.   Can anyone point to a Chibz episode…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I agree the bad science is far less offensive when the entire world is fictional, and overall it was a better story that KTM which really had nothing to compensate for the bonkers plot. My main objection is the Doctor torturing the Freddie Fox character. It was out of character. that might have been going somewhere but now we will…[Read more]

Well, I just watched it again.   Wrote several paragraphs, most of which I’ve deleted because they were just repeating what I posted a year ago.    A couple of points survive –

Blowing the roof off – that’s certainly drastic. Minor quibble – I’m not sure the Doctor and the Tardis would get sucked into space – there must be artificial gravity sti…[Read more]

@thane16

What were 3-4 issues you had with this iteration or series.

I would say (in no particular order):

1. Too crowded a Tardis. Consequently not enough story for all the leads.

2. The first female Doctor. There was not enough written about the gender change. What a wasted opportunity. Instead, he decided to turn the Doctor – traditionally a…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent  @ps1l0v3y0u   @thane16  Hello!   There are some very interesting posts here and it has taken me awhile to read them all. I have no problem with social messaging especially when so many more people seem to get their information and news from screens. There is proof that watching too much violence or too much doom scrolling can a…[Read more]

@thane16

in the social messaging of Chibbers I thought it was overtly political – except I understand that’s both essential (plays & stories were always this) & part of Who’s rich history but something about the execution of their messages was clunky or unsubtle….

Well, you said in three lines what I took a page to do.   The ‘social messaging…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u   Chibz’ ‘history’ eps made me cringe because of the inaccuracies in the ones I do know a little about, which leads me to doubt his accuracy on those I don’t know about. (I stole that from somebody). I have to admit I didn’t watch Rosa because I was sure it was going to be a depressingly simplistic stereotype of white men bad, black w…[Read more]

@thane16 @dentarthurdent

Right. Chib. The socio-economic years.

The history eps: Rosa, Demons… yes there’s commentary there but, because it’s buried in the (recent) past, you can (if you want) mentally sanitise it to oblivion. And, worthy though the ambition is, the narrative of Rosa is a problem. Old white bloke on bus. Then we get proper risk…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u. Lol! No, but mine really are….

in the social messaging of Chibbers I thought it was overtly political – except I understand that’s both essential (plays & stories were always this) & part of Who’s rich history but something about the execution of their messages was clunky or unsubtle….

@thane16

have you SEEN some of my posts?!

apologies for the weirdness of the post above! I wasn’t going to edit the post again for fear of loss.

@dentarthurdent @ps1l0v3y0u absolutely, I always ask anyone on the forum those same questions- to the ether & beyond!
<p style=”text-align: left;”>I felt the same about Chibbers characters there. Certainly my street had a lot of young ladies thrilled with a female Doc & it was good to see many costumes recreated from the show over those next few…[Read more]