The Doctor Who Forum | BESD1 | Mentions https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/besd1/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning BESD1. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 04:42:06 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 f60bd964eb2e211aa9d96aef6dc55be1 DrBen 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-3332 Mon, 01 Dec 2014 19:18:26 +0000 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 […]

]]> 083d8de90f8aa7e89e4d08e87bce1f02 Nick 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-3329 Mon, 01 Dec 2014 08:02:18 +0000 @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 […]

]]> 099199177d2a4376ba001aa1667049a4 JimTheFish 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-3327 Sun, 30 Nov 2014 22:10:49 +0000 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. […]

]]> 5d17629541b49115fd79c39f19e571f0 PhaseShift replied to the topic Death in Heaven in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/death-in-heaven/page/8/#post-35438 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 12:11:58 +0000 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]

]]> 432dc59598aa12ce897a9e2ad27335ee Apopheniac replied to the topic Death in Heaven in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/death-in-heaven/page/8/#post-35425 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 07:50:52 +0000 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]

]]> e79c2f63e408331e2ef09464b67b6251 Arbutus 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-35415 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:58:00 +0000 @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]

]]> 6a38352f6a5d84817dda6873774a7056 IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan 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-35411 Thu, 13 Nov 2014 00:17:04 +0000 @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.

]]> d28b6c65c998100f97472347b33e2d6b Spider 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-35410 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:39:56 +0000 @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]

]]> 88e230fdcba9e5ce309607208493b7cf blenkinsopthebrave 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-35409 Wed, 12 Nov 2014 23:02:33 +0000 @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]

]]> e584e13bcd3d056eca46070a39dbe57c DrBen 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-34339 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 19:10:15 +0000 @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]

]]> 453ee4a1d1fbaafcae5b822ef05e6dbb Bluesqueakpip 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-34336 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 18:56:57 +0000 @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]

]]> 0da7ad58b25c4cde2edb140844797a5a janetteB 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-34300 Thu, 30 Oct 2014 02:27:08 +0000 @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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]]> 1fe3c9187206a85c2b3292e760784cf9 Bluesqueakpip 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-34290 Wed, 29 Oct 2014 21:01:01 +0000 @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]

]]> abaadbab436293c31d1a0cf4fef0cc0f ScaryB 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/3/#post-33467 Sun, 12 Oct 2014 21:52:01 +0000 @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]

]]> 58374010ba0cbbc854f97fb56b7ad355 BadWulf 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-33227 Tue, 07 Oct 2014 20:08:49 +0000

@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]

]]> e575c9936906e4ede455e5e92a0eb833 PhaseShift 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/5/#post-23769 Wed, 01 Jan 2014 14:52:06 +0000 @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]

]]> 320204e92e28470d86d0886b8d51204a Arbutus 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/5/#post-23676 Tue, 31 Dec 2013 02:10:52 +0000 @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]

]]> 5c37241ff5a3bc7314efb6d663315f0b OsakaHatter 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-9863 Sun, 19 May 2013 17:45:35 +0000 @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?

]]> b470798702655e5a82319584f26a2c7b PhaseShift 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-6990 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:16:54 +0000 @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.

]]> efc3516023c5c3f2bcc9fdcb89dcb8c9 HaveYouFedTheFish 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-6980 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 23:23:59 +0000 @besd1 – Clara passes the observatory just before the pool. You see it actually named later on the tardis map on the console room screen.

]]> 43852759cee80baec0fc9767ab928e64 HaveYouFedTheFish 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-5153 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 18:05:46 +0000 @besd1 – you are most welcome! So glad we could tempt you over to the dark side (mwah ha haha ha ha ha – cue most ott classic who villain laugh)

I think you are absolutely right about the st johns logo only […]

]]> f8818049e3b873997d9621e5586b9c30 Juniperfish 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-5091 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:55:23 +0000 @ScaryB – ah it was your “dalekised Doctor” theory – go you! Great theory 🙂

@BESD1 – Welcome and nice spot on the St John Ambulance. But is that on every version of the new TARDIS we’ve seen or just visible […]

]]> 4a39a7a322bd7680b7ae0bb6b22149c7 ardaraith 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-5085 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 10:24:55 +0000 @BESD1 – you are right!  This is the first TARDIS since the 63 version to feature the St. John Ambulance…  He’s a Doctor?  Receives calls for help?  returning to his […]

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