My block of flats is pretty nice. Since the heroin dealer was arrested and families moved in it's pretty quiet. It's a lot better than the one in this episode and the graffiti consists of a beautiful mural of a lake at sunrise.

I started watching Doctor Who in the early 80s when it was really continuity heavy. I was four and confused by life generally and just accepted that it was a story which had been going on forever and went with it. It just felt cool not to be talked down to. Also my teacher was a massive fan who explained who the…

It's just shorthand for "weird alien Jedi mind tricks", which tend to show up in sci-fi a lot anyway. Hell, you could apply it to everything Phillip K Dick wrote. The messing with perception theme always interests me anyway and it's less annoying than the Sonic Screwdriver as magic wand shortcut. I wish they'd just go…

He's still just a scared kid. Cut the poor fella some slack!

I thought the girl being reduced to a sex toy for some guy she barely even knew and the Doctor being okay with it in Love and Monsters was totally horrific.

Was Igor a step too far?
I do like The Brain of Morbius and many of it's over the top horror tropes, but did they go too far here? Mad scientist building a monster: yes. But is the same thing with a castle in a thunderstorm and a deformed servant with a speech impediment a bit cack handed? Also we have the…

The monster is a classic of B-movie insanity along with the talking brain in a jar.

It's equally weird to me that people were watching 70s Who when in 1983 all I'd really known of Tom Baker was 'that guy who turned into The Doctor when I was a really little kid' (because obviously at 6 I was practically an adult). I get the impression that US TV just showed Tom Baker episodes over and over and…

I think Phillip Madoc makes it as good as it is. In the hands of a lesser actor Solon could have been a cringingly awful cliched mad scientist. It helps of course that he gets some well written dialogue too, but as a concept for a villain it's been done a lot and often badly.

I haven't seen many episodes with Sarah Jane, but so far despite the fact the I don't like the story much overall, The Time Warrior is a much better performance from Liz Sladen. I'm looking forward to seeing her on top form in others

This proud tradition continues in the 21st century, with the year of four whole episodes because David Tennant was doing proper acting in the theatre.

The Cyberman gold thing is terrible but it didn't show up till about their sixth story. It's a shame the next cyberman story didn't just have them modifying the technology so it didn't work any more. Somehow though the probic vent just seems more avoidable. They could at least make it look less like a target and…

The animated episodes capture the look of the story surprisingly well. On the cliffhangers you get an overlap where you can see the same scene live and animated and it's pretty impressive. If you can get past the fact that twoepisodes are cartoons then it's worth a look.

I wouldn't mind seeing the SFX retooling of this. The bit where the exoloding spaceship somehow turns the castle into a rock face and then explodes a bit of it is unbelievably bad. I skipped back to watch that again twice because I couldn't believe they'd actually done it.
I also prefered the black triangle in The…

This is the best I've seen The Sontarans and he was one of the highlights of this story. He actually comes across as a serious threat. That's the first time I've seen the Pertwee Doctor just get casually beaten up. Usually he just says "HAI!" and the bad guys fall over. I nearly cheered when Linx beat him.
I love that…

The end of part one of Enlightenment is a favourite of mine. I'm not spoiling it for those who haven't seen it though as it really does hinge on surprise. It does help if you've seen at least Mawdryn Undead first though, and Terminus ideally although it's less good than the other two by quite a way. On the other hand…

I can understand skipping 6 and 7 for a while as they have less stories than the others by quite some way, but I disagree strongly with i and 1's idea of skipping over the fifth Doctor. I love that era and dislike Pertwee, but it just comes down to personal taste.

I always thought it was because he was a cold hearted bastard in the beginning willing to stove a cripple's head in with a rock because he was slowing them down and travelling with Ian and Barbara gave him a new perspective which made him like us for showing him his potential to be a better person.

As a continuity note it's also self defeating as the last time we saw the Daleks the Doctor caused them to blow up Skaro and destroy themselves. Seriously, what the hell was the point of this? Okay so this could be earlier than that from a Dalek point of view put it's just baffling to everyone.

I think the best approach is the one taken by the TV series: let the audience figure out what works best for them. It works best as another mystery. The name of the show includes an implied question but without a question mark. Make of that what you will but unanswered questions seem to me to be part of the shows…