tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post2370989735879902569..comments2023-10-02T14:33:18.136+01:00Comments on The Very Fluffy Diary of Millennium Dome, Elephant: Day 4377: DOCTOR WHO: The SnowmenMillennium Domehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08430269096817934037noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-86781935924602498932012-12-31T21:57:20.564+00:002012-12-31T21:57:20.564+00:00Thank you Daddy A,
Love the idea that the travell...Thank you Daddy A,<br /><br />Love the idea that the travelling Punch and Judy man was reference to Mr Dr Pat and the glorious Box of Delights!Millennium Domehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430269096817934037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-82009947506342194282012-12-31T21:56:23.825+00:002012-12-31T21:56:23.825+00:00Oh, clever point about "remembering"!
M...Oh, clever point about "remembering"!<br /><br />Makes me wonder about the Doctor's lapse of memory regarding the Great Intelligence too. In fairness it's been at least 600 years, but... he's erased all memory of himself from every database in the Universe... does that include his own?Millennium Domehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08430269096817934037noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-54245582429320240102012-12-28T20:33:18.239+00:002012-12-28T20:33:18.239+00:00Ooh, forgot!
Was the Punch and Judy Doctor a refe...Ooh, forgot!<br /><br />Was the Punch and Judy Doctor a reference to Troughton in The Box of Delights, if they were going all-out for Trout?Alex Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03364653159038708678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-27422262818197182702012-12-28T18:25:37.489+00:002012-12-28T18:25:37.489+00:00For me, too, it was much more entertaining than th...For me, too, it was much more entertaining than the last two Christmas specials (though I’m lonely in much preferring last year’s silliness to the woman in the fridge). And great observations about the different states of water and wordplay – as well as, less positively, the ‘my trauma is the worst’ attempt on the Doctor. It made Matt rather less enjoyable than usual, though at least gave him something different to do. I wonder if he had any input on the ideas? For all that it’s spun as Doctor Who and the Krikkitmen or whatever other attempt at sprinkling Douglas Adams dust, it’s much more influenced by Troughton, as you imply. As he’s Matt’s favourite, perhaps he said ‘Could I have something a bit Mighty Trout…?’ Even if the end result was that, rather than Matt bringing to mind Pat or Sylv of all his predecessors, he became the ‘moody git after loss’ of Eccleston or, er, Richard E Grant.<br /><br />Though when you add burly oddjob with a past Strax as a dead ringer for Brian Glover’s Magersfontein Lugg to old Doctor in young body as old-fashioned detective, maybe they were trying to do Campion?Alex Wilcockhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03364653159038708678noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-22974616.post-49749733508576029462012-12-27T11:30:40.361+00:002012-12-27T11:30:40.361+00:00And, incidentally, it is not “a first” when Clara ...<i>And, incidentally, it is not “a first” when Clara describes the TARDIS as “smaller on the outside” as Donna did so in “The Runaway Bride”</i><br /><br />That might be deliberate, though. "Remembering" is clearly an important theme in this story arc, and there are other hints that there's something up with the Doctor's memory - note that the Great Intelligence only "rings a bell" (although one of the people I pointed this out to last night suggested it could be a deliberate reference to the missing episodes).lizwhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06401131361183004457noreply@blogger.com