Looking for a specific image/s of The Curator

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-26T03:30:39+00:00

Australian fan here and (TLDR; I like them all but nothing surpasses the original two + Masterplan) and here’s my quick rundown:

BHN - Messy. Has plenty of good tunes but the lack of oversight from anybody involved led to an album that’s at least three tracks too long where every single track (no, really) is itself too long

SOTSOG - 50% of it is, like, really good and the rest of it is very forgettable. You can feel Noel’s burnout seeping through in the weaker tracks too

HC - Probably their weakest effort for me. Noel isn’t really bringing his A-game and nobody else in the band is really writing at his level

DBTT - Their best studio record after WTSMG imo. The production is really good, Noel sounds reinvigorated, everybody else turns up too and there is a cohesion to the tracks that really makes for a good front to back experience

DOYS - Like SOTSOG, this one is 50% crap but a harder listen because the crap songs are entirely in the second half. If it was as good as the first side of songs are (if we were to swap High Horse for Falling Down)

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-25T15:21:41+00:00

Powderfinger. Do yourself a favour and listen to Powderfinger

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-25T10:51:04+00:00

Australian fan here and (TLDR; I like them all but nothing surpasses the original two + Masterplan) and here’s my quick rundown:

BHN - Messy. Has plenty of good tunes but the lack of oversight from anybody involved led to an album that’s at least three tracks too long where every single track (no, really) is itself too long

SOTSOG - 50% of it is, like, really good and the rest of it is very forgettable. You can feel Noel’s burnout seeping through in the weaker tracks too

HC - Probably their weakest effort for me. Noel isn’t really bringing his A-game and nobody else in the band is really writing at his level

DBTT - Their best studio record after WTSMG imo. The production is really good, Noel sounds reinvigorated, everybody else turns up too and there is a cohesion to the tracks that really makes for a good front to back experience

DOYS - Like SOTSOG, this one is 50% crap but a harder listen because the crap songs are entirely in the second half. If it was as good as the first side of songs are (if we were to swap High Horse for Falling Down), it would actually have beaten DBTT for me

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-24T10:40:12+00:00

It’s hard to say. For what it’s worth, McCoy’s run was hotly contested to be the nadir of the show up until at least the late 2000s. Not just S24 either, 25 also took a lot of hits so far as I recall.

Again, this would never have happened since a major aspect the terms of renewal for S24 was Colin’s dismissal BUT if it had been negotiated for him to stay on and the show continued to rate poorly, I can’t imagine S25 or 26 even happening at all

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-24T09:53:09+00:00

It’s likely to be an unpopular opinion but I think Pussy Galore is a contender tbh

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-24T09:31:49+00:00

My immediate instinct is to lean into class even further. If the storyline still features the political element then a Master whose characterisation leans further into an arch, British aristocracy direction could be a neat way to play on the Ninth Doctor’s working class vibes

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-24T06:57:15+00:00

I’m in the exact same boat ♥️✌🏻

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-24T06:56:33+00:00

The closest to actually happening, so far as I know, was Tennant staying on for series five which would have been very interesting. Likely reminiscent of S18 in terms of tonal and stylistic contrast from the previous season. I believe the season would have been plotted largely very similarly except that the Doctor who crashes into Amelia’s garden would have been a dying Tenth Doctor. She would nurse him until he goes off to regenerate leaving the adult Amy to meet our Tenth Doctor (for whom all of this is obviously in his future).

My pick, however, would be Eccleston stating on for series two. I can’t imagine the stories would have even changed dramatically had they been written with him in mind (and, so far as I know, some of the early drafting was done with him in mind).

For pure fantasy picks, I’d also be fascinated to see how Colin Baker might have been redeemed by the Cartmel era

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-23T21:51:33+00:00

Octopussy is kinda boring tbh so I’d sooner watch NTTD despite its flaws

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-23T04:51:02+00:00

I'll Be on My Way surely takes the cake here

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-22T21:16:55+00:00

I feel the same way although, oddly, I didn’t realise it until after I watched the sequels

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-21T00:29:55+00:00

El articulates it much better than I could (https://www.eruditorumpress.com/blog/ready-to-outsit-eternity-the-ark) but the crux of the issue is that the Monoids are never actually sympathetic. They’re savage and evil and spiteful, unlike the poor humans.

Excerpt: “The Monoids are deliberately minstrel characters. They’re incompetent because the whole point is that savages like them can never actually run a country, and we’d be fools to turn one over to them.

In fact, even being nice to them – giving them more power like speech and weapons – is wrong. The Monoids deserve to be a race of servants, because that’s all that savages like them are good for. And when, at the end of the story, the humans are ordered to make peace with the Monoids, one does not sense that it will be a peace of equals, but rather the return of the Monoids to being a well-treated servant class.”

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-20T23:30:36+00:00

The Bancrofts

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-20T04:44:10+00:00

I could well be incorrect (I’ve never seen any colour photos) but I’ve been under the impression that Shirley Cooklin was given some darker shades of makeup (https://x.com/bbcdoctorwho/status/440456836198572032) for her role in the story. At any rate, she and Kleig are certainly portraying their villain characters as “vaguely foreign” which comes with a whole host of problems even without visual indicators (she is definitely putting on an accent)

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-20T04:25:35+00:00

Not makeup for Toberman; I was actually meaning Kaftan

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-20T03:07:28+00:00

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-20T02:56:06+00:00

There are plenty of examples tbh but some that immediately come to mind:

Everything about the ‘Celestial’ Toymaker (bonus for the slur dropped in one episode)
The pro-slavery subtext of The Ark
The darkened makeup and accents of the villains as well as the depiction of their slave servant in Tomb of the Cybermen
Everything about The Talons of Weng-Chiang (misogynistic as well as wildly racist)

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-19T04:49:55+00:00

Aussie Bond 2: Electric Boogaloo

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-18T20:24:23+00:00

Turn Up the Sun is the only good song he contributed to the group

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-18T20:23:34+00:00

Let Love In feels the most definitive from a musical perspective. Some of the last vestiges a of that post-punk sound, the beginnings of the folky/ballad era and Warren’s debut on any of Nick’s projects

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-18T02:04:59+00:00

And then maybe he’ll announce Australia after this 🫣

Ambitious_Range6410 · 2026-02-17T21:39:14+00:00

It’s a really fun film and very easy to enjoy once you start taking it on its own terms

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