The Doctor

[DoctorDitko]

You are so right!

RTD2 seems to have matured as a writer, but c'mon! Can't he at least live up to "reverse the polarity of the neutron flow?"

"Triple-drive the particle manifesto?"

"Vindicate the cyberline and roast the hyperfeeds?"

"Inculcate the plexidrones?"

"Shatterfry the positrons?"

C'mon, RTD2! You can up your game! Ask one of many sciencey Whovians out there!

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

Neutron flow? Neutron flow? Bah. Easy. I could flip that with two chopsticks, a coil of wire and old copy of Guitar Tech Monthly.

But if he messed with the polarity of Klystron Generator... now that's REAL drama.

 

 

Edited December 14, 2023 by ThaOGDreamWeaver

[Coin]

On 12/14/2023 at 11:35 AM, ThaOGDreamWeaver said:

 

And as a lifelong Labyrinth fan, I'm pleased the Christmas episode has an abducted baby, a horde of comedy goblins, and musical numbers...

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...hands up who thought I was kidding? I mean, it's not a banger like Magic Dance or Underground. 
And I'm not speculating about who or what might have the oversized codpiece.  

But they're definitely going for it.

 

Xmas number one, baby! 😛

[Coin]

So......

 

Who the hell is Mrs Flood??? 😄 

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

10 hours ago, Coin said:

Who the hell is Mrs Flood???

Other than being Eastenders legend Anita Dobson (and, incidentally, Mrs Brian May, so hopefully Murray can borrow him for a suitably epic theme tune...)

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There have been various noises from RTD & co that the Toymaker's meddling broke spacetime. It's rewritten a few of the rules of reality, including allowing similar personifications of other forces to show up, like chaos (the goblins) and music (just a guess that's who the Jinkx Monsoon character is).

 

But it's also created "splinter" timelines - including allowing the existence of two Doctors. And with Marvel messing about with the multiverse and "variant" characters, the audience might well be used to that...

 

So: alternate/regenerated/variant River? Or wearing a disguise?  Is she Ruby's mother/guardian, or just took a shine to Ruby, figured she was important, and decided to keep an eye on her till the Doc shows up? Is she someone entirely new? Or a red herring thrown in by the writers?

 

I'm sure we'll all find out come the summer...

 

BTW: we happy about what we saw in the preview trailer? No Daleks, but we've got Beatles (or an Whoniverse version thereof, because those guys would not pass as a cover band), Bridgerton, giant killer snails, an Alien ripoff, Mel on a moped, a Watcher type character (as in the one who was hanging around pre Tom Baker's exit, not Uatu), the return of the Nobles... this new "Season 1" could be fun. 

Edited December 27, 2023 by ThaOGDreamWeaver

[Coin]

On 12/27/2023 at 10:04 AM, ThaOGDreamWeaver said:

Other than being Eastenders legend Anita Dobson (and, incidentally, Mrs Brian May, so hopefully Murray can borrow him for a suitably epic theme tune...)

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There have been various noises from RTD & co that the Toymaker's meddling broke spacetime. It's rewritten a few of the rules of reality, including allowing similar personifications of other forces to show up, like chaos (the goblins) and music (just a guess that's who the Jinkx Monsoon character is).

 

But it's also created "splinter" timelines - including allowing the existence of two Doctors. And with Marvel messing about with the multiverse and "variant" characters, the audience might well be used to that...

 

So: alternate/regenerated/variant River? Or wearing a disguise?  Is she Ruby's mother/guardian, or just took a shine to Ruby, figured she was important, and decided to keep an eye on her till the Doc shows up? Is she someone entirely new? Or a red herring thrown in by the writers?

 

I'm sure we'll all find out come the summer...

 

BTW: we happy about what we saw in the preview trailer? No Daleks, but we've got Beatles (or an Whoniverse version thereof, because those guys would not pass as a cover band), Bridgerton, giant killer snails, an Alien ripoff, Mel on a moped, a Watcher type character (as in the one who was hanging around pre Tom Baker's exit, not Uatu), the return of the Nobles... this new "Season 1" could be fun. 

 

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I doubt it's River Song. It's been suggested in so many places due to the whole Flood/River/Pond thing, but I very much doubt it.

 

I absolutely LOVE the character, and would kill to see Alex Kingston again with Chuti Gatwa, but I thinik it's been done to death now, we've had her storyline and it ended perfectly. 

 

I'm hoping it's something like the Rani. I mean, she was around during Mel's run, so there's a connection there?

 

Or possibly something new?

 

Who knows.......

 

.........did you see what I did there? 😉

 

On a separate note, I'm currently reading the novelizations of the recent three specials. They are a little on the light side, but they do add some interesting back story for a couple of the characters and really do help flesh out Donna's mum character!

[OldManMercy]

ALL HAIL THE MEEP!!

[ThaOGDreamWeaver]

32 minutes ago, OldManMercy said:

ALL HAIL THE MEEP!!

You might have spotted comics legend Dave Gibbons (Watchmen, 2000AD, dozens more) credited for that ep, along with writer Pat Mills.

And here is their original Dr. Who Weekly comic from 1980. Quite a lot of straight lifts...

 

 

On M'learned coll' Coin's thoughts...

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RTD loves him an anagram (MISTER SAXON = MASTER NO. SIX). 

Which Mrs Flood isn't. But you get floods from rain... rani? 

Also the Rani was pretty hard done by in the Sly McCoy run, and RTD does have a soft spot for that kind of unloved character...

 

Edited December 28, 2023 by ThaOGDreamWeaver

[Clave Dark 5]

The other thought was that Mrs. Flood may just be a fourth-wall-breaker for her own sake (see Hartnell breaking the same wall in a Christmas episode long ago).  Regarding the weird turn the technobabble has taken, I noticed that too!  Maybe RTD just decided to push beyond the usual as it's become a tired trope for anything sci-fi these days.  Or maybe it's tied in to the more fantasy turn he says he's taking the show, "now it doesn't have to sound vaguely plausible.".

[UltraAlt]

Moscow Expels 6 British Diplomats

Who Would Not Shut Up About ‘Doctor Who’

https://theonion.com/moscow-expels-6-british-diplomats-who-would-not-shut-up-about-doctor-who/

 

Published: September 13, 2024

 

MOSCOW—Explaining that Russia’s patience on the matter had finally reached a breaking point, officials in Moscow confirmed Friday they had expelled six British diplomats who would not shut up about Doctor Who. “London must realize that their diplomats’ incessant jabbering about Time Lord physiology and whether Daleks or Cybermen are stronger can only go on so long before it requires a response,” a Kremlin spokesperson said via state media, adding with visible annoyance that whenever Russian officials had tried to discuss serious diplomatic issues with the six self-described Whovians, they would invariably steer the conversation back around to whether the worst Doctor had been Paul McGann or Colin Baker. “Even when we tried dosing them with nerve agent to get a little peace and quiet, these dorks would just keep on speculating about whether one TARDIS could canonically materialize inside of another TARDIS. With their expulsion, our message to the West is unequivocal: We do not care who the Doctor is. We do not care who the Master is. We absolutely do not care about whatever the fuck that big skin creature is. And so long as the Kremlin stands, we will never watch your dumb little TV show for children.” At press time, Moscow suggested that they would potentially readmit the diplomats if they got into some real sci-fi like Battlestar Galactica.