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These people went from lifting chips to pulling off some action movie shit

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Series 11 plot

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Shopping Haul part 2-the valeyard

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if captain jack returns in series 11, the episode title should be “Hello Harkness My Old Friend”

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Shopping haul Part 1-the Valeyard

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3 reasons we‘re going to miss Capaldi

3. His dramatic flare:-

No matter where and when in the universe he is, all eyes are always on him, although Whittaker was amazing in Broadchurch, it will be hard to top the wildly insane but fantastic ways that Capaldi would find of leaving his mark on the universe. #angryeyebrows

2. His actual love of the TV show:-

He’s made his love of the show no secret at all, he’s even said to have been watching the show as a child from 1963, he’s basically a dictionary of whovian fandom, which you can easily recognize through his acting.

1. His emotion:-

Capaldi supplies us with a wide range of emotion and charcter, like a real person, his acting makes the Doctor kind but cruel hot but cruel etc. His entire persona is basically an oxymoron and he plays it off fantastically!

Our rating of Capaldi (as a median) is 9/10

Sincerely The Curator and The Valeyard

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Pearl Mackie (Bill Potts) & Peter Capaldi (Twelfth Doctor)

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The Hand of Fear DVD review (Sarah Jane’s last story)

millions of years ago on the planet Kastria a criminal named Eldrad is sentenced to obliteration, his body is destroyed but his hand survives. Then returning to current day, the Doctor and Sarah Jane land in a quarry and are caught up in a quarrying explosion (on Earth) and Sarah falls under and is unconscious, while under the rubble she encounters the hand and it grasping her renders her unconscious. Sarah Jane is rendered unconscious but in that state makes contact with the fossilized hand, it's ring placing her under it's control, she then escapes the hospital and heads to a nuclear generator nearby and breaks into the core.

In the nuclear reactor the hand regenerates body parts, the workers and doctors try to persuade her to leave, but only the Doctor can get her to respond, eventually after searching for her, the Doctor finds Sarah and knocks the hand down before it regenerated anymore parts. The Doctor takes her to a medical center while the hand's ring takes over a nuclear operative called Driscoll, who is manipulated into bringing the hand into the reactor core while everyone else flees. This causes an RAF bombing raid on the nuclear plant, but this just increases radiation making the hand regenerate fully into Eldrad, but is in female form (but isn't a time lord so it's the radiation mixing with a woman). She uses her powers to learn from the Doctor why the humans have attempted to destroy her. Eldrad convinces him to take her back to Kastria, explaining that she created the solar barriers that enable her people to thrive, claiming that they were subsequently destroyed when Kastria was caught in the middle of an interstellar war.

The Doctor, Sarah Jane and Eldrad travel in the TARDIS to Kastria in the present time, 150 million years after Eldrad left. They find a frozen world, very few signs of civilization are left. Eldrad is seemingly caught and destroyed by one of a series of traps while traveling with the Doctor to a regeneration chamber. Eldrad emerges in his true masculine form, however, then begins a tirade against the King upon seeing a hologram of him. Admitting that he destroyed the barriers during his attempt to destroy the Kastrian leadership, Eldrad finds the remains of the King and learns from a pre recorded message that the Kastrian race accepted extinction over living a miserable existence underground, destroying their banks in case Eldrad returned. When Eldrad decides to make his new empire on Earth, the Doctor trips the tyrant into an abyss, keeping the ring to ensure he cannot regenerate.

Then when returning to the TARDIS the Doctor is called upon by Gallifrey and they declare he can't carry on journeying with Sarah Jane (as she was possessed and caused too much distress on Earth). This news upsets her after everything they have been through together and, packing her belongings, she states her intention to leave. The Doctor returns her to Earth where she tells the Doctor not to forget her. As the TARDIS dematerializes Sarah Jane realizes that the Doctor has not left her in Hillview Road as planned, and probably not even on Earth...

The Doctor (Tom Baker)- As always Tom Baker acts tremendously amazing and responds to the situation with Sarah better than any Doctor I've seen leaving a companion before, but believe Elisabeth Sladen handled it with so much emotion (which you could see was real). 9/10

Sarah Jane (Elisabeth Sladen)- Wow what a simply beautiful performance from Miss Sladen, the absolute raw emotion seeping out of her acting and the obvious real emotion displayed by her (well, she was a cast member since 1973 so she would be really emotional). It might just be my bias, but I do thorughly believe that this is the best acting I have ever seen from a companion, with amazing dynamics. 10/10

Female Eldrad (Judith Paris)- An okay performance, slightly good dynamics with Tom Baker, but acting that's physically painful to watch, nothing really special to say at all if I'm honest. 6/10

Eldrad (Stephen Thorne)- A good performance with good acting and a very convincing evil persona, the only problem I did have were his dynamics with the cast, he didn't run smoothly with the cast. 7/10

Would I recommend? I would definitely recommend to any experienced Whovian who's familiar with the Tom Baker era cast, but to a new fan, I'd probably say to get the jist of how the cast runs by watching maybe start with revenge of the Cybermen and then Key to Time leading onto this story.

overall score 8/10

Sincerely The Curator

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Big finish the 1st doctor adventures review part 1 the destination wars. (minor spoilers)

In David Bradley’s audio drama debut as the first doctor we are delivered an eerily similar portrayal to the original cast and crew. Cast review:                    David Bradley (1st doctor )-David Bradley gives a great performance as the first doctor in this story, and his interactions with Susan, Barbara and Ian are so close to Hartnell. The interactions with the first master are brilliant and his relationship with Susan is pulled of greatly as they actually feel like family. In one scene, which I think is Dreyfus and Bradley’s standout scene, he is forced to give his tardis key to the master and save Susan from a battlefield where the master controls time and makes minutes in his laboratory years outside, and the result really emphasises how much the doctor cares about Susan.                                                 

James Dreyfus (the first master)- in this story James Dreyfus is very sinister as the master using hypnosis (prominently on Ian and Susan at one point) and shows just how evil he is, as he “enslaves” 2 races and is on both sides prompting them into war for what the Doctor and Susan (who knows who the master is suprisingly). They think it’s for his own enjoyment but it is later revealed it’s to power his crashed tardis he used to escape Gallifrey.                                   

Claudia Grant (Susan)-Claudia Grant delivers a spectacular interpretation of susan, sounding very much like her and her chemistry with David Bradley is brilliant and they really feel like family, however she doesn’t really have a lot to do with the classic series original, but she does have good moments particularly the meeting with the master.             

Ian and Barbara (Jamie Glover and Jemma Powell)-brilliant performances from these two, Jamie and Jemma are fantastic as Barbara and Ian, however like in the classic series Ian gets the most of the spotlight whilst Barbara at one point goes off with the doctor to gain access inside where they meet the settlers “enemy's”, the Dalmari who want to talk but the settlers open fire on them angering the doctor. Ian mostly gets hypnotised by the master but in one scene when the master steals the tardis Ian and Barbara work together to stop him tying him up and using the quick return switch to get back to "The City”

Dalmari- The Dalmari were great characters and that’s about all you can say about them, they didn’t want to fight but the master, otherwise known as the inventor, sent some of his servers to attack them starting a war .

Supporting cast (Raymond coulthard, Sian Reeves; Deli Segal)- The supporting cast for this story is great, in particular Tanna, who due to time acceleration from the master grows and matures and has a lot of development in this story.

Rating 9/10- Brilliant story work and portrayal of characters, good pace and easy for beginners to get into .Must get.

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Writer David Fisher has died at the age of 88, very depressing, the mind behind key to time. RIP