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  #9001  
Old 18th November 2018, 12:30 AM
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Let's just say i'm more hopeful than previous weeks, and leave it there until half seven tonight.
Christ!

Tomorrow morning the Earth will split, brimstone and fire will rain down, and a new showrunner will be announced. All of this will be a bad dream, and Capaldi never left.

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Old 18th November 2018, 04:53 AM
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November 18th: Today in WHO-story

Births
1910 - Edwin Finn (Landlord in The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve)

1925 - Alex MacIntosh (Himself in Day of the Daleks)

1932 - Trevor Baxter (Professor George Litefoot in The Talons of Weng-Chiang and Big Finish Productions' Doctor Who and Jago & Litefoot audio adventures)

1934 - Mitzi McKenzie (Mrs. Martin in Colony in Space and Nancy in The Green Death)

1939 - Ian McCulloch (Nilson in Warriors of the Deep)

1948 - Paul Jerricho (Castellan in Arc of Infinity and The Five Doctors)

1953 - Alan Moore (writer of Doctor Who Magazine' comic strips)

1961 - Steven Moffat (executive producer [2010-2017]; writer [2005-2017)

1977 - Miranda Raison (Constance Clarke [Sixth Doctor's companion - Big Finish audio adventures]; Tallulah in Daleks in Manhattan/Evolution of the Daleks; Big Finish actor - Lareem in The Davros Mission, Tess Pilkelton & Myra Selfridges in The Wreck of the Titan, Shepherdess & Acquisitor Prime in Persuasion, Margo & Xais in The Romance of Crime and 'Inspector Fleur McCormack' in The Trouble with Drax)

Deaths
1992 - Andrew Carr (Guard in Day of the Daleks)

2013 - Peter Cartwright (Arnold Underwood in The Power of Three) aged 78

Episodes
1967 - The Ice Warriors, Episode Two: 7.1 million viewers
1978 - The Stones of Blood, Part Four: 7.6 million viewers
2005 - Untitled mini-episode (BBC One - during BBC Children in Need)

2016 - Looking for Pudsey (BBC One - during Children in Need)

Documentaries
2013 - The Ultimate Guide (BBC Three)

Releases
1989 - The Sentinel! (Marvel's The Incredible Hulk Presents)
1993 - The Dimension Riders and The Sixth Doctor Handbook (Virgin Books)

1999 - Issue 285 of Doctor Who Magazine (Marvel)

2002 - Resurrection of the Daleks (DVD - region 2)
2010 - Issue 193 of Doctor Who Adventures (BBC Magazines); issue 428 of Doctor Who Magazine (Panini Comics UK)
2014 - The Bounty of Ceres and Masters of Earth (Big Finish)
2016 - Toby Hadoke's Who's Round 194 (Big Finish)

Behind-the-Scenes
2006 - Recording of the Big Finish audio Memory Lane took place

2013 - Recording of the first series of Big Finish's Doctor Who spin-off Charlotte Pollard took place
2014 - Recording of the Big Finish audio The Triumph of Sutekh took place
2017 - Recording of the Big Finish box set The First Doctor Adventures: Volume Two took place
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Old 18th November 2018, 12:32 PM
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i only just caught up with Demons of the Punjab last night. i really enjoyed the story. if you had taken away the Doctor and the shoe-horned in sci-fi elements, i would have happily enjoyed a subtitled version of this at my local arthouse cinema.

but that's the point isn't it? it's not really what i'm tuning into DW for. i'm sure more talented writers could have dreamed up a totally sci-fi setting for the story and handled the subject as an allegory, like Genesis of the Daleks was a rise of the nazis allegory. here i'll do it for them - the Doctor and her companions land on an alien world where there lives two different species. this world has been conquered by aliens who are now on the point of withdrawing but don't want to leave the two species fighting among themselves and therefore propose segregating them on different parts of the planet. some are for this and some want to live together - the Doctor needs to bring the sides together and avoid a bloodbath - not hard is it?
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Old 18th November 2018, 01:21 PM
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NOTE - Due to circumstances, there will be no Today in WHO-story posted on Monday, 19th November

I will hopefully be able to play 'catch-up' on either Tuesday evening or Wednesday morning
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Old 18th November 2018, 02:57 PM
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The Ogri as seen in the 1978 story The Stones of Blood

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Old 18th November 2018, 07:35 PM
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A promising start and an episode that could have slotted into Sylvester McCoy's first season, with some nice nods to past stories (The first acknowledgement that the show has over fifty years of history i think) as well as Monsters Inc, went down hill a bit due to the story line plodding along and yet another weak villain.

Think how much better this would have been had a Nestene Consciousness lurked in the basement utilising Kerblam and it's bubblewrap deliveries for it's next invasion.
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Old 18th November 2018, 07:49 PM
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A promising start and an episode that could have slotted into Sylvester McCoy's first season, with some nice nods to past stories (The first acknowledgement that the show has over fifty years of history i think) as well as Monsters Inc, went down hill a bit due to the story line plodding along and yet another weak villain.

Think how much better this would have been had a Nestene Consciousness lurked in the basement utilising Kerblam and it's bubblewrap deliveries for it's next invasion.
After the last few weeks decided not to watch it, and watched the time monster instead. Might watch it later this week on iPlayer
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Old 18th November 2018, 07:52 PM
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Things i'm learning about Doctor Who series 11

1 - Amy Pond made for a more convincing police woman than Yaz.
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Old 18th November 2018, 08:02 PM
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at least this week's episode had a sci-fi setting with a villain to be thwarted... but c'mon, the Janitor, for Pete's Sake!?!
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Old 18th November 2018, 08:08 PM
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at least this week's episode had a sci-fi setting with a villain to be thwarted... but c'mon, the Janitor, for Pete's Sake!?!
The janitor! He did say I would of gotten away with it,if it wasn't for you Dam n kid?
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