David Plankton
I AM HIM.
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I'm up to episode four so far. Does anyone else think that Colin Morgan went 'the full Doctor' on this one and would be an excellent choice after Capaldi throws in the towel?
I'm up to episode four so far. Does anyone else think that Colin Morgan went 'the full Doctor' on this one and would be an excellent choice after Capaldi throws in the towel?
I'm up to episode four so far. Does anyone else think that Colin Morgan went 'the full Doctor' on this one and would be an excellent choice after Capaldi throws in the towel?
Could do wonders for the ratings though. Call it the 'Poldark Effect'.
Binge it on iPlayer!We watched the first episode and really enjoyed it. Now torn between waiting for it to come on TV and watching the rest on iPlayer.
He would be wonderful as the Doctor. Young but with that Old Soul thing that would be perfect for a Timelord.I'm up to episode four so far. Does anyone else think that Colin Morgan went 'the full Doctor' on this one and would be an excellent choice after Capaldi throws in the towel?
Ooh! He's a good idea....excellent actor, scarily clever, strange dark depths, oddly alluring. Colin Morgan could be his apprentice as opposed to his assistant. Colin could also hook up with Maisie Williams in her adventures across time and space.How about Rowan Atkinson as the Doctor?
Now the seed is planted, I really love the idea of Colin Morgan as the Doctor-he has just the right amount of otherworldlyness
I've always been a sucker for the old timeslip motif - even when done whimsically as in 'Goodnight Sweetheart'
I hadn't seen that news! If so, it's a shame, as I'd really like to see some development of the question of whether ghosts were time-slips, or it was a bit of both. As which wife did he kill? Aaarrgghh! The tension.There's not going to be a second series of The Living and the dead (blub).
But I would adore Colin as the 13th Doctor. He certainly proved his acting mettle in this.
The Living and the Dead is now on Amazon Prime, if anyone wants to re-watch it. I shall but I know it will lead to me endlessly listening to "The Reaper's Ghost" which is about the most haunting and strangely captivating song I've heard; I so much want to know more about the story that the writer of the song (Richard Dyer Bennet) overheard on his travels through England. Linky to an interview with the Insects, the series' soundtrack composers.
... Has the "Vertical Plane" incident been discussed elsewhere on this forum? Probably more bunkum, but a great story nonetheless!
Thanks EG. I shall have a browse, but it looks like may have been talked to death already.
Rattling good story though and I wonder if the writers of The Living and the Dead were aware of and possibly influenced by it?
I thought I’d missed the post about it being on Amazon. I hadn’t but I wasn’t excited then as we didn’t have it. Outlander make us get it though so we can rewatch, yay. We need it to be loved because then Amazon might make the second series.
I remember seeing a dramatised version on TV.Spent my lunchtime today in the library and started browsing the supernatural section (as you do). In a book devoted to modern mysteries I read the account of a piece of contemporary technology apparently appearing in two different times and allowing communication to occur.
In this case it was a BBC computer, which a man in 16th century, who used to live in the same house, describes as a box of lights.
A summary is given here:
https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/forum/topic/9878-the-vertical-plane/
It gave me a flashback to this intriguing BBC series, which featured a Victorian doctor glimpsing a woman in modern gear, carrying a "book of light" (i.e. iPad).
Has the "Vertical Plane" incident been discussed elsewhere on this forum? Probably more bunkum, but a great story nonetheless!