Again, I wish Bidmead had stayed on for at least S19 as I feel he would have made sure that the Doctor was strongly and more consistently characterised, setting the benchmark for the writers in his next two seasons.

(In fact Davison never quite gives his Kinda characterisation again which is a shame as it's somewhat different to what he does later - almost trickster-ish. You can see the influence of Troughton on his performance in that story I think and he never gets to be that playful again).

Or just because the script isn't giving him enough to work with so he tries to force it.

There's that interview with Bailey where he talks about tailoring the Snakedance script to Davison's strengths but he's wrong - Kinda is much better for Davison because it gives him more to go at.

This might be sacrilege but I think Snakedance is the only performance he pitches wrong. Whether because he thinks the story is too slow and needs energy, or because he's trying to create contrast for when the Doctor finds the stillpoint, I feel he over-does it throughout.

I said before but while I think S20 is a really strong batch of stories I can see why Davison might have been frustrated by the under-writing for the Doctor in them. He's still very good but he's not allowed to be great very often. In S21 he's allowed to be great.

Davison's performance is superb. If the story around it were better I think it would be spoken of in the same breath as Androzani. Whatever Saward's faults he seems to have realised in S21 that the scripting for the Doctor needed to be better and Davison absolutely goes for it every episode.

I actually like Warriors...more than most, despite its very obvious flaws. But a tighter edit, better lighting and a monster that doesn't look like a violently ill pantomime horse would make liking it a lot easier.

I know not everyone likes the CGI options but the clips in the trailer do look really good and dynamic. Hopefully the Warriors...special edition will give the story a bit of a boost in particular.

Yeah I was hoping for that, and an extended Awakening episode 1 with the Kamelion scene put back in. Also an In Conversation with Chris Bidmead. *But* it still looks like an amazing set and i'm very excited to get stuck into it.

Yeah but they don't staff the bar well enough so getting that water can mean missing 3 or 4 songs as you can guarantee everyone in the queue ahead of you is ordering drinks for all their mates.

My experience of going to gigs via the rules on bottles of water.

Years ago - 'Of course you can bring a bottle of water in'

Then - 'You can bring it in as long as it is still sealed'

Then - 'You can bring it in as long as you take the cap off'

Now - 'No bottles of water allowed in the venue'

Peter Davison and Sylvester McCoy have played the Doctor on screen 3 times each now since 2005 (and Davison might have a 4th coming), Colin Baker once and Paul McGann twice. And whoever Tom Baker played in Day of the Doctor he definitely played the Doctor again at the end of the Shada reconstruction

Here is said hat, in case you wish to marvel at it.