Oh don’t get me wrong @blenkinsopthebrave  my commentary was written and delivered with tongue firmly in cheek and with a true sense of love for every silly plot-hole going!

Wouldn’t watch Doctor Who if I didn’t love it. Wouldn’t have posted a commentary on any forum other that this one.

Another challenging episode for me to comment on. In the end, I enjoyed some elements of the episode, but there were a awful lot of misses in there too and I’m afraid I can’t rate the plot much above a shambles.

@jimthefish made some good points and @blenkinsopthebrave hit some of my issues here:

OK, bear with me, because you know how much I l…

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@wolfweed Doesn’t that say ‘Male’?  So not Bill’s stats.   I can’t read the numbers anyway…

@blenkinsopthebrave  Yes, I was unsettled by the way the whole sim thing was dropped.  Am reserving judgement till we see the next ep, because overall I did love Veritas and if I loved this slightly less there was plenty to enjoy and at least like a grea…[Read more]

@thane15 @pedant @blenkinsopthebrave

I’m off to enjoy the sunshine now, in our alternate AI reality, but for your pleasure

@steffstaff

36:00 – Broken glasses scientist informs the Doctor that even though she activated the safety protocol that seals the lab and stops deadly toxins escaping into the atmosphere, an air pump will activate in thirty minutes that will… um… let the deadly toxins escape into the atmosphere. Oh and it can’t be turned off.

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@pedant @blenkinsopthebrave I used almost exactly the same words to describe Extremis. I thought the episode was great, beautifully done, but my heart did sink a bit when it was “all just a dream” or “all just a sim”. There’s not much difference in terms of stories. If there is, let me know.

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Along with Bobby Ewing walking out of the shower at the end.

Oh for heaven’s sake. Bobby Ewing coming out of the shower meant everything that happened in however many seasons Patrick Diuffy was absent for NEVER happen.

These weren’t dreams, they were sims, exactly has the Culture ships in Iain M Banks SF ran sims for every…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave, @cathannabel, @mudlark, @whisit thank you- would have replied earilr but I premitvly took @pedants advice and indeed did ‘drink drink drink’ and now its a bank holiday weekend, when will it all end…
@bluesequeekpip thanks again for your help with the creative writing modules. You were a big factor in getting my overall…[Read more]

Another politically charged episode with meditations on rulers and ruled, with the main thought, How on Earth do the rulers get away with it? I need a second watch to try to get properly to grips with this one.

@blenkinsopthebrave  @thane15      and why a pyramid exactly?

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I find that rather disappointing, even though I don’t really care what he thinks. I worry more about the editorial line from the Daily Mail and Express, supported by the Sun to be honest. That said, I would wonder whether that it was just JCC taking the piss, being controversial for the sake of it, but you never can tell.…[Read more]

@janetteB @blenkinsopthebrave

On Netflix it is called ‘Anne With An ‘E’ for reasons that only Netflix knows.

Oh drat. I was thinking to avoid watching Anne of Green Gables having overdosed on the books as a young teen but if @pedant @winston and @blenkinsopthebrave approve then I have no choice.

@missy I haven’t watched Halycon. Sounds interesting but maybe a bit too soapy for my taste.

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@blenkinsopthebrave    Thanks for the tip. I should have thought to check that, as I know they are doing a lot more of that 21st-century stuff on the CBC nowadays.  🙂

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@blenkinsopthebrave IIRC, that idea was being floated in the days of Pertwee but Delgado’s death nixed that or other ideas on what made them so close and yet so far from each other.  Moffat reviving something like that now…hmmmm….

@thane15   Puro, you have written some interesting things here, but I really will need to get in my re-watch before I can engage with them sensibly!

@blenkinsopthebrave     I personally find that no matter how familiar the tropes, if they are wrapped up in sufficiently interesting paper and shiny bows and ribbons, I don’t recognize them unti…[Read more]

@Thane15

Just to be clear I was using “sprite” in the computer animation sense. Anything that moves and does stuff is a sprite, be is Mario, Messi in FIFA17, Zombies in Half Life 2, spaceships in Elite or orcs, elves and wotnot in World of Warcraft. “Those things you shoot in video games”.

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