Doctor Who 2014

[Tonyblack]

I enjoyed that one. Reminds me a bit of the early Colin Baker's Doctor with his uncaring manner. It was great to see the Aberthaw power station on the beach scene.

 

[Tonyblack]

This week's radio episode - Relative Dimensions.

 

[Quatermass]

I watched The Web of Fear, or at least the five surviving episodes, yesterday. Very good story. Not perfect, but certainly deserving of its acclaimed status in the fandom.

 

[The Mad Collector]

Excellent episode on Saturday, at last they seem to have a proper idea as to what to do with this Doctor after a frankly rubbish start.

I agree Q Web of Fear is very good, I really enjoyed it

 

[Tonyblack]

I'm glad they didn't have that mummy on the show when I was a kid. I would have crapped myself.

 

[David Brown]

Excellent mummy and a good story.

The abrasive Doctor makes me think of how Colin Baker's version might have been done if the whole idea had been handled by people who actually knew what they were doing. And I'm not including Mr C Baker in that dismissive remark, as I feel that he was very poorly served in his short time on the programme.

 

[Jack Remillard]

It got the highest audience Appreciation Index rating so far this series (85).

 

[David Brown]

As I understand it, 85 is a very good AI indeed.

 

[Jack Remillard]

Yeah, 85 and above is considered 'excellent'. It has to be said, AI ratings have taken a bit of a dip this series, but they are still not bad (82 and over) and indeed better than for Series 1. Hopefully things will settle down for the rest of this season, and Moffat et al will learn lessons for the next series.

 

[David Brown]

I was originally going to say "excellent", but then realised that I'd used that word in my previous post on this thread, and didn't wish to sound like a David Banks Cyberleader!

 

[Jack Remillard]

[Excellent]

Note handles.

 

[Jack Remillard]

Just having a look at the 2012 Doctor Who 'Brilliant Book' that somebody got me as a present. Rory is described as "time's new Roman"...

 

[Bouncy Castle]

 

[Jack Remillard]

I though that was really good.

Clara's motivation for lying to Danny is eluding me though. Last episode, he was saying he really was pretty much fine with her travelling with the Doctor, and asking if she was sure she wanted to stop! It seems almost like willfully self-destructive behaviour.

 

[Ghost]

I though that was really good.

Clara's motivation for lying to Danny is eluding me though. Last episode, he was saying he really was pretty much fine with her travelling with the Doctor, and asking if she was sure she wanted to stop! It seems almost like willfully self-destructive behaviour.

Clara lied to the Doctor first about Danny being okay with her travelling with the Doctor

 

[Who's Wee Dug]

Just can't get into this series so much, hoping I will like it better as the episodes continue. :|

 

[The Mad Collector]

OK, another good episode, interesting plot hypothesis of what if Flatland decided to invade our world, I wonder what Ian Stewart thought of the episode if he saw it as he wrote a book (Flatterland) in 2001 developing the Flatland originally created by Edwin Abbott Abbott back in the 1880's as to how a 2 dimensional world would interact with 3 dimensions. Being a fan of the original book and Ian's sequel I had a long chat with him about it at the last convention in Birmingham although the concept of one side invading the other never occurred to us

 

[Molokov]

I'm hoping the Doctor Who episode might get a few more people reading Flatland (and also Flatterland). I've read the former but haven't had the chance to get Ian's sequel just yet...

 

[Tonyblack]

The latest Radio episode: Prisoner of the Sun


And the Making of Prisoner of the Sun.

 

[Jack Remillard]

Another AI of 85 for that one (which was also written by Jamie Mathieson).