The Doctor Who Forum | BESD1 | Activity https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/besd1/activity/ Activity feed for BESD1. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 03:59:38 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 65a7bf59d0ac7f52d1b29e825842f761 BESD1 commented on the post, Looking Back on Series 8: A Personal Reaction http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/sidrat/looking-back-on-series-8-a-personal-reaction/comment-page-2/#comment-3326 Sun, 30 Nov 2014 18:34:18 +0000 @JimTheFish

Hope you don’t mind but I thought it would be interesting to bring our discussion from the other place as I think its a fairly fundamental disagreement (with the emphasis on the fun) and I’d be […]

]]> b9dcaf853b1b33b25db66bf005e2b13f BESD1 replied to the topic Death in Heaven in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/death-in-heaven/page/7/#post-35407 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:29:27 +0000 Despite what the following might suggest, I enjoyed this, although I don’t think it quite lived up to the first part.

Some thoughts:

1. I may be over simplifying matters (I’m sure any IT bods on the board will tell me sharpish), but couldn’t Missy have saved herself a lot of trouble by installing a simple “If …. then ….” subroutine into the…[Read more]

]]> 60eaecb49417d9737a5ec6e1ef496e96 BESD1 replied to the topic Dark Water in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/dark-water/page/3/#post-34542 Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:58:20 +0000 Sorry if this has been mentioned already, especially as it may be of no moment whatsoever but:

Who is Seb?

We only ever see him in the nethersphere so this means either he’s dead (but not cyberised as he still seems to have emotions, albeit in a moderately sociopathic way) or  he’s a computer programme or he’s alien/potentially time lord…[Read more]

]]> 9d2ab3e73b51a48f36c2706d89a241f7 BESD1 replied to the topic In the Forest of the Night in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/in-the-forest-of-the-night/page/4/#post-34328 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 16:50:40 +0000 @PhileasF        “it’s pretty amazingly irresponsible to have the Doctor say, in effect, that people who hear voices should stop taking their prescribed medication. Wow. Not sure how that one got through.”

 

The fact that it did get through tells me that it wasn’t in anyway accidental. Far from a glib comment offering general encourag…[Read more]

]]> 10e7d83a2ed05ca2d41d15e6b7123238 BESD1 replied to the topic In the Forest of the Night in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/in-the-forest-of-the-night/page/3/#post-34286 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:44:28 +0000 @devilishrobby “For this reason in my personal opinion it can be forgiven for straying from factual science. ”

I’ll refer you to @BadWulf on this – basically saved me a lot of typing, so thanks.

@phaseshift “And it seems the lost (and perhaps dead), are starting to return”

Brilliant – it hadn’t occurred to me that Annabel might have returned…[Read more]

]]> 15407786b93c8a06ee380239a8409c80 BESD1 replied to the topic In the Forest of the Night in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/in-the-forest-of-the-night/page/3/#post-34284 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 18:09:33 +0000 @juniperfish “this was a eco-fable about the majesty of forests; one where the Doctor was a wizard who knew to listen to children rather than medicate them.”

Exactly – this was a children’s fantasy told pretty much entirely from a child’s POV. As such not all of it worked for me (wish fulfilling dodgy science, empty London, reappearing sister,…[Read more]

]]> db9901319f818b01f997d7af15db98d2 BESD1 replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/mummy-on-the-orient-express/page/2/#post-33465 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:25:05 +0000 Really enjoying having this series take me where it will, and watching the doctor awash with moral ambiguity (so much more interesting than moral certitude). A couple of convictions growing:

  1. The robot/ retooled human theme spells Cybermen
  2. Buoyed by growing wave of regal flotsam and jetsam I grow more sure that Missy/Gus/lady in the shop  is…

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]]> ce19c0c48d8267b18433ac09b0a8cb63 BESD1 replied to the topic Kill the Moon in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/kill-the-moon/page/5/#post-33237 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:52:11 +0000 @Badwulf – ah, now Jabba would certainly fit the bill.

]]> 09019f1c7b307fe6b1fc377e6334ebd8 BESD1 replied to the topic Kill the Moon in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/kill-the-moon/page/5/#post-33236 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:51:11 +0000 Sorry – I meant @Bluesqueakpip ! There are a couple of posts responding to you up above with an embarrassingly poor spelling of your name.

]]> 5ab71375951bd4e33bb84d34849078e7 BESD1 replied to the topic Kill the Moon in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/kill-the-moon/page/5/#post-33226 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:03:30 +0000 @Badwulf @Bluepipsqueak thanks for introducing me to the Trolley problem. Having read up on it it seems the biggest problem with it, or at least its variants, is that it seriously overestimates how fat a person can be.

]]> 833707d9d77be2be8cf34b1d5f3eb7a9 BESD1 replied to the topic Kill the Moon in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/kill-the-moon/page/5/#post-33225 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:01:46 +0000 @MTGradwell @Bluepipsqueak – “All the science was garbage …….. You might be onto something here”   I really hope you are onto something, because if I get you right and what you’re saying is that these multiple distortions of reality are a symptomatic of some over arching distortions, probably related to the status of Missy’s promised land, t…[Read more]

]]> 55bf2b68729da780ce26fca184fab5dd BESD1 replied to the topic Time Heist in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/time-heist/#post-32280 Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:36:51 +0000 Sorry: “deep Breath” – not sure why I keep thinking of it as “Breathe”! Possibly a latent memory of Prodigy.

]]> 1936342d3878ddd42e1f9da1544f3d28 BESD1 replied to the topic Time Heist in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/time-heist/#post-32279 Sun, 21 Sep 2014 13:35:10 +0000 Purely in terms of story telling, and having scanned the thread I get the feeling I might be in a minority, I thought that was the best episode of the series so far. I’ve enjoyed every episode, but have been finding the story telling a little lacking on the whole.  “Breathe” was an enjoyable introduction to the new Doctor, but the story was a bit…[Read more]

]]> 3ae847c4754aa7f3b4daa7ffdbf2dffc BESD1 replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-time-of-the-doctor/page/3/#post-23524 Sat, 28 Dec 2013 15:14:52 +0000 @Rob

“She’s a psychopath,  loves the Doctor, lives in a mainframe” – ooh now, I was utterly convinced Tasha and River couldn’t be one and the same right up to there. Are you suggesting that the Papal Mainframe is descended from CAL in some sense (an app perhaps?)?

]]> 6c1073643e257c75c48833aee27ac3a9 BESD1 replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-time-of-the-doctor/page/3/#post-23522 Sat, 28 Dec 2013 15:06:55 +0000 @Phaseshift “It does seem to suggest that the Time Lords (and Doctors) fears about them being frozen in that moment in an alternative Universe were unfounded. Time seems to play out at some pace on the other side.” Or is the question looped over again because the Time Lords are frozen in a discrete slice of time during which they can act (to find…[Read more]

]]> c4a688eadc623fa5f983ae1d0374548e BESD1 replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-time-of-the-doctor/page/3/#post-23516 Sat, 28 Dec 2013 12:20:49 +0000 Not sure if this has been noted yet but – now we know what was in the Doctor’s Room in the God Complex. The Crack.

]]> 441b27a4e49abecc670a14663af96793 BESD1 commented on the post, 'Loose Ends' - for the 50th Anniversary Special and Beyond http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/sidrat/loose-ends-for-the-50th-anniversary-special-and-beyond/comment-page-1/#comment-1800 Sat, 16 Nov 2013 11:46:26 +0000 Coming very late to this, and even later to this loose end (which might be more sort of a vague continuity error in any case) BUT:

The Gelf – in Unquiet Dead at least one of the Gelf seems to have escaped into […]

]]> 1f102867417347f7b59f78b3153c606b BESD1 replied to the topic S33 (7) 14 – The Name of the Doctor in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-14-the-name-of-the-doctor/page/6/#post-9860 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:40:13 +0000 @Juniperfish

“We now know that she suggested to Hartnell’s Doctor which TARDIS to steal. We also know, from The Doctor’s Wife, that the TARDIS stole her thief. Ergo – Clara is either a manifestation of the […]

]]> 3c511c1612ea6c83bc72fc863da11e17 BESD1 replied to the topic S33 (7) 14 – The Name of the Doctor in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-14-the-name-of-the-doctor/page/6/#post-9841 Sun, 19 May 2013 15:09:41 +0000 @JimTheFish and @Wolfweed For that matter how much TV or Film Sci-Fi truly is scientific? Books yes, I’ll give you that. Asimov, Dick, Gibson and many more have all produced fiction based on projecting current […]

]]> e47518b35e3961c0ae12dbd6bb76a994 BESD1 replied to the topic S33 (7) 14 – The Name of the Doctor in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-14-the-name-of-the-doctor/page/6/#post-9840 Sun, 19 May 2013 14:54:39 +0000 Firstly – yes, definitely, ding dong, top smart etc. Secondly, not sure if this has been asked (or answered) yet, but do we have confirmation that the GI was destroyed in the Time Stream, or is that an assumption? […]

]]> f6f98c07a22cebedb4ec545b600299f6 BESD1 replied to the topic S33 (7) 11 - Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-11-journey-to-the-centre-of-the-tardis/page/3/#post-6989 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:09:34 +0000 @MiaPatrick – Forgive my ignorance but: TBOSJ?

]]> 3c3573a5df6bbbc34a63c9c67f5bb82a BESD1 replied to the topic S33 (7) 11 - Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-11-journey-to-the-centre-of-the-tardis/page/2/#post-6979 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:22:44 +0000 Oh and one other thing – did anyone else feel like Matt Smith was “doing Tom Baker” when he revealed to Gregor and Tricky that he’d fooled them?

]]> f87f795a320655b2ecf689caecbca70d BESD1 replied to the topic S33 (7) 11 - Journey to the Centre of the TARDIS in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-11-journey-to-the-centre-of-the-tardis/page/2/#post-6976 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:19:21 +0000 Okay, so I haven’t had time to read all the responses yet so forgive me if I repeat anything but:

Brilliant – just brilliant. taut, neatly plotted, superbly played, both humane and fantastical at the same […]

]]> 84d7a00cea5806e96cf500f1b8f631ef BESD1 replied to the topic S33 (7) 8 - The Rings of Akhaten in the forum The Eleventh Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/s33-7-8-the-rings-of-akhaten/page/6/#post-5063 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 01:17:48 +0000 Just thought I’d pop over here from the Guardian as it seems much more fun (I think it was that John Donne deduction from @HaveYouFedTheFish last week that really did it for me). Just out of interest, I don’t know […]

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