Dr Who

[Buster's Uncle]

I just had another look at the two season 9 trailers I've posted - and it reminds me the Who revival hasn't done well by the Master at ALL.  It's been ten years now, and you GOTS to step up your game if you can't do ANYTHING good with your hero's Moriarty  He should be as big on that show as the Daleks...

Makes me kind of glad they haven't troubled themselves to fish Romanna out of E Space -fingers crossed- which I would have done the second or third year, but then I would have come up with an appealing/cool Romanna or died trying, which is not the way to bet with the revival...

[Valka]

For me, Romana will forever be Lalla Ward. This nuWho is clueless as to how to treat Classic characters.

[Buster's Uncle]

We're in complete agreement, save that I liked the first Romanna just fine, too, if not nearly as much.  They were very different, and clearly, it isn't Romanna if she isn't a quite good-looking clothes horse, scary-smart and super-cool, but having known two, I can -only as a concept, mind- imagine/probably embrace a third provided she meets those criterion. [shrugs] Lala Ward don't look like that no more; you kinda HAVE to make a new incarnation.

(Tamm was SUCH a missed opportunity - whether they were TRYING to do Steed and Peele, or not, they should have, and failed if that was ever the idea.  [It looked that way in her first episode, and I'm guessing Baker just wouldn't play ball.])

Experienced amateur!

Qualified new professional!

they are-
The Time Avengers!

(cue theme - Who-screech-intro Avengers)


-Meant to say in my last that Season nine is alleged to begin in ten days, so we'll have it posted here within two weeks from now, if we don't forget to look for it.

[Buster's Uncle]

Crap.  If we played the requisite instruments, I would totally have to make Mylochka animate it and make a video. 

The melded theme music is arranging itself in mah haid - Avengers backing beat, (languid buuuhduuh buum-buumBUUhDUUH BUUUUMbuuuumm-buuuum instead of Whos's staccato BUHduh bumbum. BUHduh bumbum. BUHduh bumbum. BUM-BUM!) with the Who melody played on the Avengers instruments at the Avengers warm romantic pace.

[Valka]

Lala Ward don't look like that no more; you kinda HAVE to make a new incarnation.

I saw a recent(ish) clip of her on YouTube, sitting in the audience at one of Richard Dawkins' discussions that was recorded and posted. She's got much shorter hair now, but she was still blonde and still cute. I think she could easily reprise Romana II if she wanted.

[Buster's Uncle]

Doctor Who -New Series Prologue 1

That there's one of the Sisterhood of Karn, I think, from Brain of Morbius and the ladies who turned the US movie Doctor into the 'secret' War Doctor...

[Buster's Uncle]

Jenna Coleman has confirmed that she's left Dr. Who.

One can only hope that the writers will not make similar mistakes with her successor, who I think will find her a hard act to follow.

[Valka]

Yep, somebody at TrekBBS posted the happy news. 

[Buster's Uncle]

I do think the fault was not in Ms. Coleman, but the writing of the character...

[Buster's Uncle]

I am astonished.

Doctor Who New Season Premiere Full Episode - The Magician's Apprentice - BBCAmerica

-Not because I've watched yet - this appears to be official, legal and everything...  Somebody asserted that it was only for the series premiere, alas...

(Word is, Missy.    At least I have something passive to do for an hour - and then review.)

[Buster's Uncle]

It's always tricky to say anything worthwhile without being intensely spoilery, but I pause at 10:11 in to say that all the setup stuff that has comprised it thus far has been very strong.

[Buster's Uncle]

16:18

[Valka]

Wow. Payoff 40 years after one of the best scenes in Genesis of the Daleks - which is my favorite Doctor Who story ever.

Well done.

[Buster's Uncle]

Points for a Clara in the classroom scene that made sense, for once - until UNIT called...

[Buster's Uncle]

18:28

I am NOT a fan of the Mastress incarnation -hard to believe they managed to outdo the Tony Blair Master for crapping on the character- but she just called Clara something to her face that I've been saying for a long time about the Doctor's companions.  Like, the logic of it is right there that it's true.  The Doctor's a sort of old space cat lady w/ a taste for a certain breed, common enough, and a high turnover.

(-I do hereby christen her the Maggie Thatcher Master -like history, they forgot John Major....)