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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Sept 25, 2014 1:27:46 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Sept 28, 2014 6:52:23 GMT
Read this amusing tv guide description of The Caretaker: “The terrifying Skovox Blitzer is ready to destroy all humanity - and worse, any second now, Danny Pink and the Doctor are going to meet.”
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Sept 28, 2014 6:53:07 GMT
The Caretaker: Season 38, Episode 6. Written by Gareth Roberts and Steven Moffat. The episode starts off with a series of adventures that the Doctor and Clara had as the latter goes back and forth to Danny. It is too bad it wasn’t shown how the Doctor and Clara got out of the predicament they were in, in the first scene of this episode as I would love to know how they made their escape from there. The Doctor mentions to Clara about going to see fish people. Could this be the same fish people that the Second Doctor met in The Underwater Menace. There is definitely a School Reunion-feel to this episode as the Doctor is that caretaker as he goes undercover at Coal Hill School whereas he was a teacher at another school in School Reunion. Whereas School Reunion had the Doctor become a teacher by making his predecessor rich, here in The Caretaker, his predecessor in that job instead got ill. Moffat in his introduction says that The Caretaker is kind of a new version of The Lodger written by Gareth Roberts who just happens to be the co-writer with Moffat of this episode. Like the look on Clara’s face when the Doctor in his guise as the caretaker gave her a wink. Nice reference of River from the Doctor. Quite funny when the Doctor and Clara debated on when Jane Austen wrote Pride and Prejudice. While I do not think that the Doctor had denied that he met Austen, as he says that he only read her bio, the First Doctor did indeed meet her in the Big Finish story Frostfire. Baffling, even when prompted by Clara, the Doctor did not recognise Danny’s face as having the same of his descendant Orson Pink whom they met in Listen. Nifty the Doctor having a watch that can make him invisible. Danny finally knows about Clara’s travels with the Doctor and sees the TARDIS for the first time. I so knew that the Doctor was able to detect an invisible Danny’s presence in the TARDIS as the Doctor is not that easily deceived. The female student who first appeared in Deep Breath gets more substantial appearance here and we finally know her name that of Courtney Woods. The Skovox Blitzer was very menacing in this episode even though it had a minimalist role in it. The Doctor gives Courtney a little travel in space and as the Doctor says she had a spillage with this travel. Intriguing end scene with that cop, who met his demise earlier thanks to the Skovok Blitzer, talking to Seb (Chris Addison). Addison incidentally was Peter Capaldi’s co-star in The Thick of It. After absent in the previous three episodes, Missy is back again for the last scene but when will there be a full appearance from her.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Sept 28, 2014 6:53:54 GMT
The TARDIS (although renamed as RETARDIS here) made an appearance in Monty Python Live (Mostly), One Down, Five to Go as she transported the Monty Python clan to their show. For one of the Pythons, John Cleese it rectified for him a ride in the TARDIS as he only viewed the TARDIS in his cameo in City of Death. In City of Death he was one of two art lovers in an art gallery who made a critique on the TARDIS thinking she was there as a work of art before the Doctor, Romana and Duggan came into her and dematerialised in front of the art lovers’ eyes. Monty Python Live (Mostly) also had cameos from Warwick Davis, Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox. The appearance of the latter two is amusing since they are both scientists and they had quite a disagreement with a scientific theory that was posited in the show.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Nov 2, 2014 5:57:38 GMT
Lost In The Dark Dimension Part 2: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT_-7kl6vRsThis episode is dedicated to the memory of Rik Mayall who passed away on June 9 2014 as it had been intended for him to play the villain Hawkspur for the official project before it got cancelled. The deviousness of Hawkspur is fascinating here and the way that his plan is progressing including when he talked to his two prisoners. Alex Stewart, the Brigadier’s son is also a focus here. As far as official Doctor Who is concerned it is only known that the Brig has a daughter. If Lost In The Dark Dimension had been officially made, there has been no doubt to Alex’s existence. The way that this story has been played out Ace and the Brigadier meets each other for the first time, as their meeting in Battlefield never happened. Fascinating that this episode ends with the cliffhanger of the Brig recounting to Ace of what happened when he saw the Fourth Doctor after his fall from the Pharos Project, a situation that has been played out differently to what happened in Logopolis where the Pharos Project took place. Making a brief appearance here is the Saxon Security van. A reference from this fan production team to perhaps Harold Saxon, the Master.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Nov 2, 2014 5:57:52 GMT
The Making of the Doctor Puppet Part 5 – Settling the Score of A Timelord Christmas: www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKw8aI3fPmMFascinating account for the recording of the music for A Timelord Christmas.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Nov 3, 2014 5:27:15 GMT
In an interview conducted by Darren Devlyn, Peter Capaldi spoke with the Sydney Sunday Telegraph tv guide of October 26-November 1 for it’s The Last Word feature in which he talked about playing the Doctor.
Capaldi: “To have the privilege of looking after the character for a while is the best thing about it for me. It’s that you’ve been given this very precious thing and it’s your responsibility to try and keep him aflame until the next person comes along. You’re looking after the character and it looks after you, too.”
Other comments from Capaldi included his praise for the fans: “My relationship with fans, either when I’ve met them or when they’ve written to me, that’s all been wonderful. It’s a delightful thing when people are pleased to meet Doctor Who, because Doctor Who is far more interesting than I am. The welcome look on people’s faces is because they’re meeting Doctor Who, not me. I know what Doctor Who fans are like because I am a Doctor Who fan myself. They’re good people.”
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Nov 3, 2014 5:27:35 GMT
Dark Water: Penultimate episode of season 38. Directed by Rachel Talalay and she had previous experience directing a time travel series as she was a director on Continuum. This episode starts off with the death of Danny, something which I did not expect to happen here. Sheila Reid makes a brief return as Clara’s gran and that was also unexpected. Before it was ultimately revealed to be a dreamscape, Clara demands that the Doctor go back to save Danny by a volcano. A reminder perhaps that Peter Capaldi’s first appearance in Doctor Who was in The Fires of Pompeii which of course feature a volcano in Mount Versuvius. In fact this season’s opener and Capaldi’s full official debut Deep Breath made its debut on Volcano Day August 23. It was certainly a surprise after Clara threw all the TARDIS keys in the lava that it turned out to be a dreamscape from the use of a dream patch. Knew immediately that the Doctor meant it literally when he told Clara that they were going to hell. Like other people who were seen to die this season, it is Danny’s turn to be in the Nethersphere and I shared his wonder upon seeing the city of it. Upon the Doctor and Clara finally meeting Missy, she says that her name was an acronym. Surprised to hear that even though due to the revelation at the end, the acronym was something that she made up. Considering on who she turned out to be, I am not sure whether the greeting that Missy gave the Doctor is something I should be comfortable with. Not bad misdirection of when Missy pretended to be a droid that the Doctor looks after her only for her to say Doctor Chang. Not bad revelation of what 3W stands for. Funny that the Doctor says that the dead don’t come back just before a skeleton stood up. The date November 23 is mentioned and that of course is the anniversary of Doctor Who as well as being Clara’s birthday. Dr Chang gets fired literally and this was akin to Time Heist earlier in the season when the word fired was meant literally. It took a second viewing to understand what Dark Water is and that is why it did not occur to me before this reveal that the skeletons would turn out to be Cybermen. Missy mentioned Cybermen from Cyberspace and that is quite apt. The Cybermen marched on the steps of St Paul’s Cathedral which was something they did before in The Invasion (1968). In fact The Invasion is an eight-part story which began airing on November 2 1968 and Dark Water aired on November 1 2014 just a day short of The Invasion’s 46th anniversary. The cliffhanger of this episode comes the revelation everyone has been waiting for and that was Missy’s identity. When she said that Missy is short for Mistress, I hardly had time to register it before revealing that she is the Master. This revelation was definitely well worth the wait.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Nov 3, 2014 21:54:59 GMT
Dark Water Extra: www.youtube.com/watch?v=npCpqguKQ0kOne of the TVs at my house has access to Youtube and the Dark Water Extra is the first Extra episode that I got to see on Youtube by the TV and what a thrilling experience this was. Somewhat taken aback to hear Michelle Gomez’s real voice in contrast to the one she uses as Missy. Upon finding out that Danny dies in the main episode, Samuel Anderson said that he could not believe it as he thought that no one dies in Doctor Who. Is he serious? Interesting comment from Steven Moffat that Missy makes us laugh but we are still frighten of her. Interesting look at the filming of the warzone flashback scene with Danny. Funny when Moffat says St Paul’s Cathedral was a replica filmed for the main episode only for him to say that he is kidding as it is the real thing.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Nov 4, 2014 1:32:48 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Nov 4, 2014 2:12:33 GMT
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Nov 4, 2014 8:22:44 GMT
Had a rewatch of the Confidential Cutdown of About A Boy, the corresponding episode to Night Terrors. I recently saw Homeland 4.5 which is also called About A Boy. About A Boy is also the name of a movie that starred Comic Relief Twelfth Doctor Hugh Grant and from this current standpoint it comes just as the official Twelfth Doctor Peter Capaldi is soon coming to the end of his first season. Further to the coincidence of my rewatch of the Confidential Cutdown to About A Boy, is that I have seen Andrew Tiernan (Purcell) in the Waking The Dead story Anger Management. The DVD subtitle stated Director without mentioning director Richard Clark’s name even though he is interviewed here and his name comes on-screen when he turns up.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Nov 8, 2014 23:01:53 GMT
The Mega: The Mega is the final story of Big Finish’s Lost Stories range. Written by the Zarbi creator Bill Strutton and adapted for Big Finish by Simon Guerrier and released in December 2013. The Mega is the only Lost Story featuring the Third Doctor. Katy Manning (Jo) and Richard Franklin (Captain Yates) narrates this story as well as reprising their characters. The Mega is the name of the alien race that the Doctor, Jo and UNIT encounter in this story and what a superb story it was at that. Due to my personal bias towards her, Katy Manning’s narration of this story was absolutely top-notch and Franklin did good as well. A particular highlight of this story is the role that the Prime Minister plays in this story and was absolutely well done when his plan got revealed. This story takes place when the Doctor still does not have his memories of how to fly the TARDIS which meant that he and Jo had to employed a creative method to get on a plane and later on they got on a different type of plane, one that most people could only dream of ever boarding. The Mega delivered well in its unusual premise of a war for peace.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Dec 13, 2014 22:25:05 GMT
From the Doctor Who News Page: Tom Adams has passed away.
Born on September 3 1938, Tom Adams appeared in Doctor Who in the Fifth Doctor story Warriors of the Deep playing Commander Vorshak.
Outside of Doctor Who, his work included The Great Escape, The Avengers, Strange Report, UFO, The Persuaders! & Pacific Blue.
He died on December 11 2014 at the age of 76.
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Post by Katy Manning's Chinese Husband on Dec 14, 2014 22:09:54 GMT
This is what I read from Andrew Beavin on the Whovians United facebook page: “Last year in Doctor Who Magazine, Steven Moffat mentioned that he wanted to feature the Cushing movie posters in "The Day of the Doctor," but couldn't because they would have been too expensive for a throw away gag, and he stated his belief that the Cushing movies exist within the canonical universe, because after Ian and Barbara left the Tardis, they perhaps wrote a book or did a series of interviews about their adventures with the Doctor, which was then made into the Cushing movies, but all the differences are because of the conversion from page to screen, etc.”
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