• This is a fascinating discussion, and @JimTheFirst @BESD1 and @Nick all have good points.

    In the 80s in the US, there was a rash of wildly popular TV shows (Cheers, Remington Steele, Moonlighting) in which […]

  • @Jimthefish @BESD1

    Hi there. I think your points of view are both right of course and I find it easy to agree with both sides of your argument based on certain criteria. However, I’m not sure that you can make […]

  • Hi @BESD1,

    We’re probably roughly contemporaries as Pertwee and Baker were my first Doctors too and a great many of my favourite companions also hail from that era — namely Jo Grant, Sarah Jane and Romana 2. […]

  • PhaseShift replied to the topic Death in Heaven

    I braved a second watch, and I feel this is a magnificent end to a series which I look forward to binge watching at the earliest opportunity. Just for things I’ve missed, which will probably be a lot, as I’ll explain.

    I think it’s a sign of confidence and bravery to do something different with a show. You may lose a few people on the way but,…[Read more]

  • Apopheniac replied to the topic Death in Heaven

    Hello @Barnable @pedant @BESD1 @blenkinsopthebrave @spider

    I think it was all a con about the-dead-feeling-cremation, just to get them to press the delete button and erase their feelings, so Danny (or others) wouldn’t ruin Missy’s plans

    I agree with @pedant, we cannot trust anything Seb or Chang said.  On a philosophical note … why was it so i…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic Death in Heaven

    @BESD1    I loved your comments. You made a lot of good points. I particularly liked what you had to say about Danny, although personally I thought he acted the pants off it. But I think that what I really missed was a sense of closure between him and the Doctor. The Doctor seemed to have come to some kind of understanding and appreciation of “P…[Read more]

  • @BESD1 @blenkinsopthebrave

     If the dead remain connected to their bodies, and can feel cremation or the incisions of researchers,

    We only have Seb’s and Chang’s word for that – and nothing they say can be trusted.

  • Spider replied to the topic Death in Heaven

    @BESD1 and @blenkinsopthebrave

    In regards to #1:  It completely depends how you define the ‘delete emotion’ parameters in your IF statement. Is it a ‘pressed the button’ checkbox? in which case, you’d still have to examine the underlying code to determine exactly what emotions are actually deleted … and how you define that in the first…[Read more]

  • blenkinsopthebrave replied to the topic Death in Heaven

    @BESD1

    Having now watched it a second time, I got over my overly emotional response of the first viewing, and thought it was brilliant in just about every respect. So, I think it did live up to the promise of the first part. And yet, I find myself in agreement with most of your points. Specifically:

    1. Agree (but then I am more IT clueless than…[Read more]

  • DrBen replied to the topic In the Forest of the Night

    @Bluesqueakpip @PhileasF @BESD1 – This is not an unusual trope in fantasy.  Everyone assumes that the person who sees things/hears voices/acts weird is actually insane/ill/whatever, when in reality she (usually she) is just more sensitive/talking to ghosts/in touch with aliens/whatever.  It’s a version of the “You Have to Believe Me” trope.

    The D…[Read more]

  • @PhileasF and @BESD1

    The fact that it did get through tells me that it wasn’t in anyway accidental.

    It wasn’t accidental. I had a bit of a comment on that on another forum:

    Medication versus listening. Everyone wants to give Maebh her medication rather than deal with those embarrassing habits and listen to the strange voices. Except for the D…[Read more]

  • janetteB replied to the topic In the Forest of the Night

    @BESD1

    Danny. Personally I’m not a huge fan, but I don’t get the noise about him being controlling/possessive/ a potential abuser. Wasn’t it him who told Clara to think carefully before deciding to stop traveling? Wasn’t it her who lied repeatedly to him, even though he made it clear he didn’t have an issue with her being in the Tardis? Wasn’t it…

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  • @BESD1

    I don’t get the noise about him being controlling/possessive/ a potential abuser.

    Judging by the recommends on the ‘for’ and ‘against’ Guardian BTL comments, it runs about 50/50. I’d go with @DanMartinUK and say that Danny is very passive-aggressive.

    he made it clear he didn’t have an issue with her being in the Tardis?

    He had a row…[Read more]

  • ScaryB replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express

    @BESD1

    Re Rani/cybermen – you could be right (see my theory re Missy preparing a “present” for her “boyfriend” (assuming it’s the Doctor she means and not Gus)).

    Or it could be the massive redirect others have suggested and what we should be looking at  is Danny. Has he really not been travelling yet?  We’re all assuming his traumatic “thing” ha…[Read more]

  • BadWulf replied to the topic Kill the Moon

    @BESD1 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.

    Dang you and your adherence to scientific rationality! It totally spoils the story if you can’t just *believe* in the fatman. 🙂

    (I always…[Read more]

  • PhaseShift replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @BESD1 @Arbutus (& @OsakaHatter)

    I think my thoughts on the crack and time passing were simply that

    1. They’ve had time to put a plan to contact the Doctor in motion.
    2. They had time to both receive information, process it and adjust their actions, responding as they did.

    So that does imply some linear passing of time rather than being “…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic The Time of The Doctor

    @BESD1     @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 ca…[Read more]

  • @BESD1, @Juniperfish – perhaps the TARDIS’ waryness with Clara in RoA for example is because it was aware there were duplicates around, and couldn’t tell which one was Clara-prime?

  • @BESD1

    We really should really produce a “Key” to our abbreviations.

    TBOSJ =”The Bells of St. John”
    AOTD = “Asylum of the Daleks”, etc.

    As soon as you get it, it does remove a lot of effort.

  • @besd1 – Clara passes the observatory just before the pool. You see it actually named later on the tardis map on the console room screen.

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