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  • #74716
    blenkinsopthebrave @blenkinsopthebrave

    @whohar

    The prodigal returns! Or, given all that time in the bath, perhaps I should say: the pruney prodigal returns…

    Welcome back.

    #74724
    Doctor lou @thedoctor234

    @ps1l0v3y0u

     

    I know right ? I wish they kept Ecclestone on board a little longer, he played the doctor pretty good too.

     

    #74772
    Mudlark @mudlark

    It looks as if the Doctor was right; it’s all wibbly-wobbly timey-wimey stuff

    ‘Wobbly spacetime’ may help resolve contradictory physics theories | Physics | The Guardian

    Will post my reactions to The Wide Blue Yonder as soon as I have the space and time.  Problems with plumbers, problems with my Tivo box and overseas Christmas correspondence pending.

    #74780
    JimTheFish @jimthefish
    Time Lord

    Wasn’t sure where to actually post this, but as the upcoming post is very much on Who, maybe this is the best place. Am about to try to revive my old substack and decided to start with a (very long) post on Who, the culture wars and its long history of controversy. (Not posting it here as it’s, as I say, very long and was starting to feel that the blogs section was being rather dominated by yours truly). But if you fancy reading it then please do sign up. As well as Who I plan to post on pop culture in general, as well as politics, journalism and neurodiversity (was given a late ASD diagnosis a few years back and I’m very much still processing it but have also become quite vested in a lot of the issues around it.)

    teaser

    #74784
    Juniperfish @juniperfish

    @mudlark That is incredibly cool – just read the article on wobbly spacetime.

    They haven’t done the experiment suggested yet (re tiny mass fluctuations) to prove or disprove it – so the galactic jury is still out!

    @jimthefish I feel your “Controversies in Dr. Woke” article should also be posted here!

    #74834
    WhoHar @whohar

    @blenkinsopthebrave

    All shiny and clean too!

    Nice to be back somewhere civilised…

    My recent post on the WBY forum about Louisa Harland, got me to a-thinking about Irish Folk Tales. I’m sure there is some mileage for Who in a “Celtic season” leaning on the traditional Irish Fairy and Folk tales. There be Fairies / Fae, Giants, Ghosts, Gods and Tir-na-n-OG (Country of the Young, that age and death have not found).

    I’m no expert, and I’m sure @juniperfish, @miapatrick et al will have a considered view. Interested in everyone’s thoughts on this.

    #74836
    ps1l0v3y0u @ps1l0v3y0u

    @whohar

    Celtic myth… that reminds me of Julian May’s Pliocene Epic (The Golden Torc etc)…

    Otherwise, this is an interesting link, comparing the earliest iterations of Arthurian myth with Irish legend:
    http://www.facesofarthur.org.uk/fabio/book6.3.htm

    basically the Vortigern story in Nennius is shown to be pretty much identical to the legendary fall out of Conn marrying Becuma; not that one proceeds from the other, it’s just that as a bard, if you wanted to hold your Mead Hall’s attention, you had to honour certain forms – wicked foreign women, lusty, venal usurpers, perfect sacrificial boys and tiny totemic monsters. Not to do so would be like playing ELP at the Wigan Casino.

    Barbieri’s work was never actually published as far as I’m aware and it’s 20 years old; Miles Russell has shown he’s far too kind to Geoffrey of Monmouth who really was a monumental liar

     

    #74837
    Mudlark @mudlark

    @whohar @ps1l0v3y0u

    Irish lore, including sources such as The Tain, would certainly be a rich vein to mine.

    Where RTD is concerned the sources would be more likely Welsh, but at any rate it seems as if he will be straying in the general direction of folk tales next season. The interview in the dead trees version of the Radio Times provides a bit more detail. At the edge of the universe, where the boundary between the real and the not-yet-real is thin, the Doctor’s invocation of the salt superstition clearly will have consequences.

    I’m surprised that anyone is kind to Geoffrey of Monmouth, at least when it comes to his cheek in calling his work of fiction a ‘history’ 😉

     

    #74841
    ps1l0v3y0u @ps1l0v3y0u

    @whohar @mudlark

    twas none other than The Black Adder that labelled Geoff one of the great liars of history (Henry vii being almost as bad). My use of the adjective ‘kind’ is very relative here. Barbieri thought it was mostly nonsense too.

    Miles Russell in ‘Arthur and the Kings of Britain’ shows that Geoff copies and pastes biographical details from other ancient geezers into the Arthurian account. Yes he did, but we only know this because Geoff covered all these other ancient geezers too. He wasn’t trying to give Arthur the credit for things they did, just selling what was presumably by then (say 600 years later) a very sketchy story to his Norman lords and masters.

     

    #74847
    Mudlark @mudlark

    ps1l0v3y0u  Yes, plagiarism is not the least of Geoffrey’s sins, and where other sources failed him he shamelessly filled in the blanks by inventing his own ‘facts’ out of the whole cloth. The result is a racy narrative of its kind, but woe betide they who take it at face value.

    #74852
    ps1l0v3y0u @ps1l0v3y0u

    @mudlark

    plagiarising yourself though?! I suggest this makes Geoff the David Bowie of the Middle Ages.

    I love the bit in the HotKoB where Ambrosius favourite hangout is a holy place named after… himself?? (Cloister of Ambrius). Must have inspired Burroughs (and so Bowies’) cut-up lyric method.

    #74854
    Juniperfish @juniperfish

    Hello Sofa denizens,

    I stumbled on this “A Life in the Day of Tom Baker” from the Sunday Times 1978

    A Life in the Day of Tom Baker, 1978

    Utterly charming and utterly neurotic, and far too many drinks in one day.

    #74855
    ScaryB @scaryb

    @juniperfish

    Utterly charming and utterly neurotic, and far too many drinks in one day.

    haha, it is that, and another time (and place) altogether. Thanks for sharing

    #74856
    ScaryB @scaryb

    @mudlark I noticed that Graun article too, and thought exactly the same thing. Thanks for posting.

    Wibbly wobbly timey wimey… Who’d a thunk it, eh?! 😉

    #74858
    ScaryB @scaryb

    @jimthefish Would love to read your blog, but can’t see a link… can you make it live?

    #74860
    JimTheFish @jimthefish
    Time Lord

    Hi, @scaryb

    It goes live tomorrow and I’ll definitely post a link for anyone who’s interested. But while my subscribers are not many it’s probably only fair that they get first dibs…

    #74908
    ScaryB @scaryb

    Came across this lovely thing on Twitter/X;

    Post by Patrick Mulkern (“Radio Times and Dr Who Guide scribe”) who was watching The Giggle with (director of the very first Dr Who stories) Waris Hussein (on his birthday). Happy birthday Waris – we owe you so much! (And looking very spry for 85). That is one WEIRD looking birthday cake! 😉

    Image

    #74910
    Oochillyo @oochillyo

    hey everyone 🙂 how are you all 🙂

    Happy Birthday to Waris Hussein 🙂 I hope he had a lovely day full of joy and wonder with friends and family 🙂

    I remember hearing about his work on Who maybe from a documentary video 🙂 thank you @scaryb for sharing this with us 🙂 thank you Waris here’s to happy times and good health 🙂

    Take care everyone stay positive hugs 🙂

    Regards – Declan Sargent

    #74911
    blenkinsopthebrave @blenkinsopthebrave

    @scaryb

    Wonderful photo of Waris Hussein, the director who started it all.

    Thanks for posting.

    #74916
    ScaryB @scaryb

    This is a lovely article where Waris meets up with RTD, talking about how much times have changed. It’s great that he’s lived long enough to see his work from 60 years ago appreciated, especially after the challenges of being  the only Asian director in the BBC at that time, being young, and gay to boot. There was also an insightful series where Radio Times published his diaries (and in conversation) from his first months of working on the show. Can’t find those at the moment, sorry.

    Waris Hussein and Russell T Davies standing in front of a Cyberman

    #74929
    ScaryB @scaryb

    And from the old to the very new!

    Ncuti Gatwa introduces his new sonic, a very different beastie from the previous phallic influenced designs. A torch, a portal connection and a Gallifreyan inscription of a Rwandan proverb:

    The sharpness of the tongue beats the sharpness of the warrior

    Nice 🙂

    #74936
    JimTheFish @jimthefish
    Time Lord

    As requested by @scaryb and @juniperfish (it’s very long, so I wouldn’t blame anyone who gave up halfway through…

    https://open.substack.com/pub/cathode/p/doctor-who-and-the-warriors-of-culture?r=e49nm&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

     

    #74976
    JimTheFish @jimthefish
    Time Lord

    @scaryb — re. the new sonic. Yeah, I was dubious at first sight but have to say that now I absolutely love it….

    #75000
    Dentarthurdent @dentarthurdent

    Well while everyone else is getting (justifiably) excited over new episodes, here am I drifting along oblivious in my own little Who world.   Which is to say I just re-watched ‘Smile’.   I stuck some random thoughts in the forum for that episode.   (My hard drive says I wrote some comments before but if so I don’t know where I put them).

    #75004
    Juniperfish @juniperfish

    @jimthefish

    Really enjoyed reading your Cathode Rave article.

    And yet, it would be wrong to say that the Baker era, for all its metatextual playfulness is wholly apolitical. The lack of seriousness in the Fourth Doctor is a political play in itself and, like his predecessor, there is always an edge of mocking disdain in any of the Doctor’s dealings with authority and he is far less indifferent to injustice than the First and Second Doctors appeared to be. You just have to dig a little deeper with this Doctor.

    Baker’s Who often really reflected on questions of power. It was just, very often, rather more implicit than explicit about it. Take The Face of Evil, for instance (a fantastic story) where essentially the Fourth Doctor’s own arrogance and carelessness (in repairing Xoanon but forgetting to wipe his own memory print from the process, causing the computer to develop psychosis) caused enormous suffering on a planet the Doctor simply flew away from and forgot about. Generations of the descendants of the original space-ship expedition were experimented on by Xoanon as a result of the Doctor’s error. The Doctor’s intervention was intended to be kindly, but it directly caused Xoanon’s eugenics experiments, and shaped the lives of Leela’s people for generations.  The story is implicitly critical of colonial arrogance, embodied in the Doctor himself.

    But – I probably should be commenting on your Cathode Rave blog directly, rather than here….

    @scaryb and @jimthefish – definitely love the new sonic and what a great motto. Ncuti Gatwa is going to slay (with words).

    #75005
    JimTheFish @jimthefish
    Time Lord

    @juniperfish

    Glad you’re enjoying the blog.

    Baker’s Who often really reflected on questions of power. It was just, very often, rather more implicit than explicit about it.

    Yep, I think that’s totally hitting the nail on the head. His era (or at least pre-s18) is about the destructive arrogance of power rather than the social structures of that power (which I think you could argue Hartnell through to Pertwee were all more concerned with in their own way). From Davros, to both the Master and the Time Lords in Assassin, Sutekh, Harrison Chase, Magnus Greel, I’m not sure there’s an era that had quite as many straight-out megalomaniacs as the Baker years.

    #75058
    Juniperfish @juniperfish

    Sneaking out of work briefly to wonder whether a 6oth Anniversary “What’s Your Favourite Who Series/ Story/ Episode from 60 years of Who” topic might be nice @craig for Yuletide? Seeing as the BBC has kindly made so much of the back catalogue available on iplayer at present…

    #75061
    blenkinsopthebrave @blenkinsopthebrave

    Watched “An Adventure in Space and Time” again last night. What a brilliant labour of love to the origins of the show it is. The screenplay by Gatiss is pretty much perfect, as is the acting by David Bradley, Sacha Dhawan, Jessica Raine, Lesley Manville, and the list goes on. I have watched “Doctor Who” since the Hartnell days, but it was only last night, when looking up Hartnell after the show was over, that I realised he was only 55 when the show started and only 58 when he handed over the reigns to Troughton. You look at his faltering performances towards the end, and you assume he must have been at least a decade older. Anyway, a wonderful production and one richly deserving a repeat viewing.

     

    #75062
    Devilishrobby @devilishrobby

    @blenkinsopthebrave my understanding is that he was actually suffering from a combination of a form of arteriocerebro-vascular  dementia and heart failure quite possibly exacerbated by his heavy smoking and drinking though he didn’t actually die till 1975 I suspect he was having problems memorising his lines as early as 1966 when he was effectively pushed out of the role of the Doctor due to ongoing disagreements with the changing production team of who. Today we probably recognise his condition as early onset dementia which is often vascular in nature,

    #75063
    blenkinsopthebrave @blenkinsopthebrave

    @devilishrobby – Yes, that is explained in the movie. What I was personally struck by was just how much the actual Hartnell had aged so early as a result of the smoking and drinking. But this is to focus on the sad side of his story. What the movie captures perfectly is just how much he captured the hearts of Britain’s children, and just how much the enthusiasm and hard work of people like Verity Lambert, Waris Hussein, and so many others created what we are still enthusing about today.

     

    #75066
    WhoHar @whohar

    @ juniperfish @craig

    +1 to that suggestion.

    #75093
    WhoHar @whohar

    @everyone,

    Well, it’s that time of the year again.

    Regardless of your belief system, or whether you think it’s the most wonderful time of the year, a consumerist nightmare full of enforced jollity, or struggle to cope due to illness, being differently abled, neuro divergent, or just have bad memories of this time of year, I think there is still a message we can all get behind. So, I’d just like to say:

    Peace on Earth and Good will to all.

    And Pro Tip: take some time out to relax during this hectic period. The best time being between Christmas Day and New Year’s Eve, or the Merryneum as it’s now known.

    #75094
    blenkinsopthebrave @blenkinsopthebrave

    Watched “The Shakespeare Code” last night. Loved it! The word play (obviously), the action in the streets of London and in the Globe (which had a sort of anarchic exuberance), and the slightly daffy (but wonderfully charming) allusion to JK Rowling at the denouement–was all incredibly charming and fun. And then afterwards, I started thinking that the tone of it reminded me of something. And it suddenly came to me. Only few days earlier I had been reading one of the Gervase Fen novels by Edmund Crispin–“The Moving Toyshop”. For those of you who have not encountered the Gervase Fen novels, they are rollicking and slightly anarchic murder mysteries featuring Gervase Fen, Professor of English literature at a fictitious college in Oxford, written during the 1940s by Edmund Crispin, whose actual name was Robert Bruce Montgomery, and who, under his real name, was the composer of a huge number of film scores ( such the medical comedies “Doctor in the House”, Doctor at Large”, “Doctor at Sea”, with Dirk Bogarde and James Robertson Justice, in the 1950s, and many of the early “Carry On” movies in the late ’50s and early 60s, which began with “Carry on Sergeant” starring…William Hartnell).

    Anyway, back to the Gervase Fen novels. As I watched the “The Shakespeare Code” I had the strongest feeling that Tennant’s Doctor (particularly in this story) was almost channeling Gervase Fen. When I saw that the episode was written by Gareth Roberts, I decided to look him up, only to discover that Roberts himself felt that there was a connection between the Gervase Fen novels and post-gap Doctor Who.

    So, just in case you are looking for something to read…

     

    #75095
    idiotsavon @idiotsavon

    Hi everyone. It’s a *really* long time since I last visited. So I thought I’d pop to the sofa to say hello and Merry Christmas to you all.

    Hats off to you Craig for keeping the forum going, and thank you. This is such a great space.

    Looking forward to see where RTD takes us!

    x

    #75097
    Mudlark @mudlark

    Just discovered that I forgot to buy an essential ingredient for the stuffing 😬, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t time to stop by and wish everyone here on the forum a peaceful and joyous Christmas and a hopeful New Year.

    #75098
    Oochillyo @oochillyo

    hey everyone 🙂 how are you all 🙂

    I’ve spent past 2 days most hours Morning till nights on none stop video calls and lots of messages and giffs (especially of Wolverine haha 🙂 ) with my buddies fixing problems like bank stresses , someone to listen ect , talking , laughing , meeting parents , lot of laughs , tears and hugs and its helped a lot and its finally stopped raining all days and Sunny today 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Sorry about before all the long posts ect hope it wasn’t too much

    Hope happiness continues thank you Melda , Marco and Ryan 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Happy Christmas times everyone in case Internet stopes or I am just preoccupied all day love you all thank you for helping too including @whohar 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Regards – Declan Sargent 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

    #75099
    Juniperfish @juniperfish

    Merry Mid-Winter Solstice to all!

    Thought you might enjoy this naughty clip with Tom Baker and Mary Tamm (Romana 1)

    It’s from the “for cast and crew” outtakes/ blooper 1978 White Powder Christmas

    You can find out more about it here:

    https://archive.org/details/WhitePowderChristmas

     

    #75100
    Oochillyo @oochillyo

    hey everyone 🙂 how are you all 🙂

    I know this is the sofa not film section but I love the sofa and soo happy right now just saw one of the best films of my life after a comedy film I knew I saw and it really impacted me I stood in front of the tv for most of the rest of it to hear it better truly one of my new fav films 🙂

    Called – About a Boy – made in 2002 🙂 the same year I was born sweet 🙂

    Just short and sweet review , nearly had me in tears thinking about visiting a proper councillor , really reminded me of school but was soo sweet and heartwarming at the end truly I am beaming with a smile on my face my Dad even watched it at times and we were laughing together truly brilliant moment 🙂

    About a Boy (2002)

    Thank you

    Regards – Declan Sargent

    #75206
    Oochillyo @oochillyo

    Happy New Year Everyone 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂 how are you all 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Got home at 1:59 (writing at 2:01 at this point) 🙂

    Wow I was literally day dreaming and hallucinating near the end of the car journey home was soo tired but now like wow awake easy peasy all is breeezy and Molly is next to me on the sofa so thats why I’m writing on the sofa 🙂

    Waited like 3 hours before the big hour lots of family visited our Niece’s house I think I’m not very good with what that means like Neices ect but yeah soo many people and yeah lots of fireworks , others took videos and it was like wow and could feel the force but yeah super nice just crazy what happend to me close to home in the car that’s a new experience like asleep awake seeing stuff that’s not how it is wow even had like a crazy like dip of my head as if on a roller coaster at one point like I could really feel that force and movement like you get on a roller coaster when the car I don’t know just went down the slip a bit like amazing what sleepy can do ha

    So New Year wow 🙂 and hopefully each day a story piece to the big book cake haha 🙂

    Love you all congratulations have a lovely evening 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Take care everyone stay Positive Happy New Year wo ho 🙂 hugs and love 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Regards – Declan Sargent

    #75217
    Oochillyo @oochillyo

    hey everyone 🙂 🙂 how are you all 🙂 🙂

    So went to Dericks house and later friend joined 🙂 small nibble type things and chat 🙂

    I was thinking lot of story things and wondered what is a paradox and like if it could happen would it actually do or change anything or is it just the film idea we have of it

    Like I was thinking previous times about paradox for story elements then I though today of like a double paradox like can that happen ?

    For example in the story I was thinking thematically and like maybe I dont want one of these characters to go down you know and I was thinking of a way to cheat it kinda ha but it got me thinking wait a minute if this character cheats it for character A but previous thinking Character A was the paradox you know if I’ve got that right ha

    So I thought double stacking paradoxes and all the thinking about YouTube , films ect all stuff about paradox and I thought what is it actually what does it do ?

    Cause can have like logical paradoxes like I watched a lot of those Vsauce 3 videos about it but they aren’t like time breaking ones

    I was thinking about the time breaking ones and yes I know but if we actually had a time machine would any of that classic stuff happen ?

    Like you always hear with the GrandFather Paradox and like in Back to The Future film – what if like you became your Grandparent basically or like what happend in Back to The Future film before was resolved with the current day family fading away and like would that actually be real if could move around on time lines ect

    Example you hear in lot of these thinking stuff about time lines that you would basically create a second time line that splits from the one you were on and I was thinking its always in film ect like with Doctor Who and the time the Master did all that paradox stuff – it all got wiped in the end and I thought maybe they kinda just time traveld it was like a time jump where the ‘future part’ never happend

    And in these cases its always ah it never happend and nobody remembers – but what if they did ?

    What if the observer like the people of the world could remember the change and the fix – if they could know they were on both time lines in a way

    I wonder like what creates a paradox like from a tv / thinking view to like real science if could happen

    Like if someone is born – is their life the moment they are born connected on some time line or did we just make that up you know like I was thinking with Martha Jones in my fav Episode of Doctor Who – Gridlock – She says “If I die here my family would never know ” cause she was far in the future

    I knew this all topic seems stupid but all this I was thinking about

    In this case does her possible death in the future affect anything ??

    Seriously do things like have a time line or not – example whats to say if Martha never made it back to present day — that wouldn’t create a split on the time line cause she is meant to have a life there or not ?

    You always get the back in time affect things but why never a future affect like if Martha Jones or Fry in Futurama like example created a new invention while in the future for them – if they went back to present day and then died or something happen – this future event we all hear from films ect – doesn’t happen ? but its part of a future

    But example Back to the future – by messing with a past event it affects all subsequent events on that time line of that event you know

    What if someone knew changed history – does the what we know actually just all get erased or would people have like awareness of both time lines

    In my book – I have a time travel thing and was thinking my main character has children but they are like some point in his past so if he died they disappear right but then I thought what if that grandfather paradox got doubled and one of his future children goes back and becomes the parent of him or like takes his place and then what happens if that child disappears who is like holding the time line together you know does the child over write the first paradox or does both happen ?

    this is why I thought soo much about what is a paradox , how if could happen how does it work , why – like I said are we all connected to something the moment we are born or does it have to be like big events or changes to past – why is future like in Doctor Who always told that is in flux is subject to change kind of thing – sometimes like with Martha Jones she became a reason in Shakespeare Code everyone began using the phrase author and I know its sci fi but what if someone really could go back in time and re cover lost labours 1 would 100’s of years of it being the lost play vanish or would records of that exist still like if we say today – in a book somewhere in a Museum it says that’s the missing play or on a news report – and someone could go back and recover it – is it always back to future style where things can change like Twin Pine Car Park becoming Lone Pine Car Park cause Marty ran over the tree – would someone say holding or on CCTV having that this is the lost play would the words or just like everything every memory and recorded evidence of that change in a snap and it would be like that how it always was if someone recovered the ‘lost play’

    Would it be lost if they took it from like 1600’s Shakespeare time to today would the people in between that time still know it as the lost play or even us modern cause it was in a way lost for all that time between or is that wrong like it would just change instant in all history or if they found the play and showed it around kept it in word of mouth extra in the 1600’s up to now – it would never be the lost play right ? and our past would change or not ?

    Its like Back to Future – the family is fading away time line in flux ect but Marty ran over that tree right in the past so its lone Pine but at start of film its Twin and Doc Brown says so but technically it should have changed always been changed to lone pine or the moment the time machine Delorean was invented or Marty Sat in the car

    What changed that car park – the invention of time machine or the tree being run over – in film its cause the tree but like in Doctor Who maybe or Neil Degrass Tyson talks – it would have been changed the moment the time machine existed right

    Sorry I’ve gone on a long tangent but its really interesting yes we cant really test right now but actually what creates a paradox – what makes a time line its actually really like un thought of you know we see the common film ect stuff but actually the deeper pieces as to why is like mystery

    Why is future able to mold even if the reason something change in future went back and never did that thing ?

    I used to watch this kids show and I’ve tried soo hard over past years to find it but I cant genuinely its like one of the CBBC shows that has seemed to vanish which is a shame

    But its like this kid – he invents things right – but in the future he is basically the best inventor ever and soo famous ect so his like Great Great Grandson or such goes back in time to help him when he is kid to make sure he becomes that inventor

    Sometimes things do go as planned in the episodes so like in a thinking way the time line kinda changes or maybe is bent a little

    But literally – A the kid isn’t the super Inventor yet so we have the classic I have a time machine I am the future like Terminator thing were the events haven’t occurred but the future people ect have experienced it and are going back

    So what if that kid stopped inventing – what if he broke his arm or anything and I don’t remember apart from I am here to like guide you and make sure it happens you become the inventor but I don’t know if his Great Grandson or whatever goes to present day time because this kid isn’t gonna be an inventor or something has to change like he has to be guided ?? maybe not but I think in the final episodes it was kinda like the Grandson was an enabling factor as to why we all got here you know and if wasn’t for which is confusing like time travel is – if wasn’t for the child being super inventor of future and his grandson going back in time to learn from and guide him then we wouldn’t have got the super inventor and we wouldn’t have got the grandson going back

    Cant anything on this time line break – what if the grandson went to the wrong time like a middle point or the kid just gave up inventing why is it that the future has to happen ??? why is it locked in in this case but currently the future observer knows that things need to be corrected in their past and to us present day the child inventor well its not like he is locked in but by his future like with the family member going back it locks him into keeping up the inventing ect right

    I just don’t understand and maybe were not meant to be easy example Doctor Who – future always could change – this tv show the kid is like destined to become that future inventor but something is wrong and needs a future self to fix and guide past time line child so where did this wrong come from or was it like in the tv show way to learn at first but then became a founding reason this all happened ?

    How can something be wrong in the time line and need to be fixed if it hasn’t happened ? but to future people its always happened but the thing is like with that show its not meant to happen in the wrong way like that kid is meant to be super inventor so if the grandson didn’t do anything that would change but then the kid would never be the inventor

    Its like from here typing I can see like 3 times lines right

    (A) like the how its meant to be says the film or tv show

    the how it went wrong and so something needs to happen to shift it to (A)

    But what they don’t say is how did they shift become observed like the something is wrong if 1 the time line was meant to happen (A) or be how can someone know of (A) but know its becoming like B ???

    I know we all confused and maybe a waste of time but for my story I really wanna explore this stuff like if my time travel main character kicks the bucket we all know his future kids dissapare right cause like Back to Future style my main character to him hasnt had children yet but he has at somepoint that he skipped / time traveld over but if he doesnt get to that point then his future kids dont happen right

    But what if that is occurring like I said but then one of his children goes back to and becomes like his Mother ect and then what if she doesn’t make it or the main character doesn’t have this child like what breaks – his Mother doesn’t happen then he doesn’t but if he is first on the time line then him breaking means daughter cant go time traveling but if he is alive and she goes back then all of sudden she become his Mother so what happens if either of them disappear

    That’s what I was thinking about like a double paradox kinda like a time line lope where like we have time line then another one connects to it and like that orbaralis snake thing but as a time line connecting to another time line

    I know maybe its a film thing to help us understand but I do think its intresting that in Back to The Future films – the like villian is always some ‘form’ of Bif like his Cowboy ancestory and Marty’s Cow Boy ancestor – and all the villian are Bif or future Bif but like that film thing were like maybe its some silly trope but when you go back in time can find someone who looks like you or the Bif Case no matter what time Marty goes to there is a Bif in a way maybe connected to his time line and ofcouse this doesnt happen in real life unless very rare case where like someone looks like thier decendent you know but what is that too just some funny film thing or like an actually idea in time travel – like Neil Degrass Tyson once told VSause 3 Jack right about this film where no matter what they main character did his partner or whoever always died – its in Doctor Who terms a fixed point in time – say dont do go here she goes elsewhere and is run over by a car you know that butterfly final destiantion effect where its always got to be – and in Back to Future films I know has a trilogy and good use of character ect and time travel they always had a Bif representation but is that a legit thing if you started time traveling like with the grandfather paradox if someone could see from the outside and the present wasnt instantly changed like back to future lone pine car park effect would someone not see 1 A photo of you present day then B a photo of your grandparent and think they are same face ect – it makes you wonder if Marty is like creating multiple time lines or something and he is in a way making multip Bifs and Multiple people in his past (we only been as far back as cowboy times) that look like him that could actually be him

    Like one of my fav cartoon shows – Bravest Warriors 🙂 they have the whole series’s arcs or such about Chris and his future time lines and like there is a joke like this is you in future like 80 years old – this is you 200 , ect ect this is you when your strong – all these Chris’s are meant to exist but in a clip he changes that (I havnt seen full series) but thats like that its meant to be future effect but thats all of Chris’s life but back to future kinda does that in reverse even if they dont say so like its not said if that is cowboy Marty or somehow his ancestory looks like him is that a time line effect or what ofcouse for the film they dont focuse on that but its something really intresting

    Thank you for listening 🙂

    Take care everyone stay positive hugs health happiness and love 🙂 🙂 🙂 🙂

    Regards – Declan Sargent

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    Juniperfish @juniperfish
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    Dentarthurdent @dentarthurdent

    @juniperfish Good one! Though I can’t help noticing Tom Lamont confuses Heaven Sent with Heaven’s Gate – which became famous as a disaster of a movie. And then there was the American cult that ended with them all committing mass suicide. What a mistake-a to make-a.

    #75298
    Juniperfish @juniperfish

    @dentarthurdent Oh dear – well spotted! Good old Grauniad 🙂

    For anyone feeling stressed by the New Year (and aren’t we all) here is an oldie but a goodie (particularly if you are not a fan of the “mindfulness” trend):

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    ps1l0v3y0u @ps1l0v3y0u

    @juniperfish

    As it happens we’ve been listening to a lot of ‘Night Tracks’ on Radio 3.

    Who this raised a chuckle!

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    blenkinsopthebrave @blenkinsopthebrave

    @juniperfish

    That made my day!

    Brilliant.

    #75308
    winston @winston

    @juniperfish   I am still giggling while I write this. I am definitely not relaxed but I am a little happier. Thanks for that.

    stay safe

     

    #75468
    blenkinsopthebrave @blenkinsopthebrave
    #75469
    ps1l0v3y0u @ps1l0v3y0u

    @blenkinsopthebrave

    ow! What do I know?

    Kinda written in stone then…

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    winston @winston

    @blenkinsopthebrave  That news makes me feel sad. Maybe I just don’t like change. I am getting used to having to wait for many of my favourite shows to come to the library or DVDs because I can’t afford the many streaming services I need to watch them. Still Doctor Who and the BBC go together like tea and biscuits. I must be getting old.

    Stay safe

    #75527
    blenkinsopthebrave @blenkinsopthebrave

    Just reading this, about Delia Derbyshire, the forgotten person who turned Ron Grainger’s original theme for the show into the iconic sound that it became.

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/teach/ten-pieces/articles/zd4k382

    I think there may be at least one documentary out there on her, but I have yet to find it.

    I have always felt she deserved greater recognition.

     

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