@ichabod – totally take your point about Clara’s tight-rope walking. In wish fulfillment land, of course you would. However, Clara is displaying all the signs of knowing it’s Not OK 😉 Sure, a lot of that is to do with Danny’s incomplete understanding of the situation. Then again, in terms of the pushing too far, putting in danger, he’s right o…[Read more]

@Apopheniac    Well, it started somehow with this series and has been rather fun. But normally, people just come on and share. I have been introduced to some entirely fabulous music on this thread.  Like your excellent contribution, great track!

@TheKrynoidMan    I can’t claim a lot of love for The Phantom Menace, although I didn’t think it w…[Read more]

@PhaseShift. Glad your brother is on the mend.

@Arbutus & @Apopheniac I second that award. I worked out what BTL meant but every time I see it I hear Billy Crystal’s voice in my head.

Cheers

Janette

@purofilion     I think part of the problem lies with the fact that these people really don’t understand how they come across to us. I had an exchange of views awhile back with someone who appeared very briefly on this site, where I told them that it wasn’t as much their opinion as their tone that people were objecting to. They were quite ann…[Read more]

@Apopheniac Late last night, I watched The Tenth Planet (so now I have three First Doctor stories under my belt so to speak, having also seen An Unearthly Child).  It was interesting to see the Cybermen in their original outing (please someone correct me if that wasn’t the first Cyberman story), and compare them to what we’ve recently seen in Da…

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@Apopheniac @purofilion – Re: attitudes to gender in very early Doctor Who

It definitely does place The Daleks in its specific era – it is very peculiar to me to see how Barbara seems to automatically defer to Ian, and how Ian sends his fellow teacher and  a female alien away when dealing with the dying mutant inside the travel machine, just…[Read more]

@Apopheniac I’m with you re Danny. I think he was a damaged PTSD ex soldier who just wanted a quiet life! I’ve got my fingers x’d that we’ll get Sam Anderson back as Orson 🙂

@Rob

Well in the eternal triangle of Bucks, Oxon and Northamptonshire  where the winds blow, the rain cascsdes and the earth slowly liquifies into a soul sapping…

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Re Cybermen “deleting emotions” – hat tips to @Apopheniac @Rob @BadWulf @PhaseShift and anyone else I missed:

There are a number of possible reasons why Missy et al wanted people to voluntarily delete their emotions before becoming Cybermen.  As @PhaseShift says, people have been known to resist Cyber conversion throughout the years.  Missy may h…[Read more]