@stevemcclean

YOU HAVE LEFT YOUR CAPS LOCK BUTTON ON. IT’S ON THE LEFT OF THE KEYBOARD.

@Rob
Yes, I noticed that. In fact, I remember saying for The Woman Who Fell To Earth that the Whittaker Doctor seemed to be considerably more honest than previous incarnations.

But I don’t think it’s necessarily a ‘female’ thing. If you think about it, things have ended badly for every single AG Who Companion. It may simply be that this more…[Read more]

@pedant

But a sense of peril somewhat missing this week.

Comedy horror, I think. I was laughing my socks off, anyway – though that may be because ‘fear of spiders’ appears to be absent from the Bluesqueakpip genome. But there were definitely a few places where even I was going ‘Yikes, that’s a BIG spider’.

They were lovely spiders. Really good…[Read more]

So – anyone see this?

@msrbahar

Anyway, getting back to the music – @thane16 will probably know more about this than I do, but the hiring of musicians became much less ‘white male’ when many of the top symphony orchestras introduced auditions from behind a screen.

That is, the panel couldn’t see who was playing – they could only hear how they were playing.

@msrbahar

Welcome to the English language. English is a global language, and words from one area of the globe may have different meaning in other parts of the world.

For example, ‘African-American’, to a British person, would mean ‘a black person from the United States of America’. ‘African’ would mean ‘born in, or a citizen of an African…[Read more]

@JimtheFish and @Juniperfish

In a sense, the revelation that Krasko was a racist from the future wasn’t a big deal for me; I’ve read other SF where there’s still racism in the future.

But I think the big danger with racism is seeing it as an ‘alt-right’ thing, rather than an ‘othering’ and ‘stereotyping’ which can become toxic in pretty well…[Read more]

@mudlark

I found my sleep improved hugely when I used the parental access controls to set a timer on my OWN tablet and computer. Now, if only I could set a timer on my bladder…

@Lisa
There’s nothing wrong with having an opinion about Brexit (however you voted or would have voted if you’d been living here) – but the entire UK has an opinion…[Read more]

@msrbahar

Those who use IMHO are generally shouting ‘I am not remotely humble!’

In my not-remotely-humble-opinion, of course.

Other points to note are that you somehow managed to remember the last names of every single man you mentioned, including Segun Akinola, James Horner, John Williams, Davies, Moffat – but apparently being on your phone…[Read more]

And no wonder Toisin Cole played the moment where he got to stay for the meeting with such a huge grin. Ryan actually got to hear Rosa Parks and Dr Martin Luther King Jr. plan the beginnings of the Montgomery Bus Boycott! How historic is that?

@lisa

Dramatic license, I think. They wanted to skate over the ‘planned’ aspect of Rosa Parks’ protest. Mainly because if they had explained that the strategy meeting was to discuss such a protest, poor Jodie Whittaker would have been landed with an incredibly long speech explaining why they still had to stick with the exact history.

Because if…[Read more]

@troygorsline

The South would not have been at all tolerant – they would have ordered her to the back of the bus, too

Yes, I was a bit ‘suspension of disbelief’ about that too – so I checked. It seems that Malorie Blackman and Chris Chibnall got it pretty much correct in their research, because while Yaz would have experienced social prejudice i…[Read more]

@craig and @jimthefish

I’m sure we used to have a better quality of trolls in the old days.

Anyway, to quote one of my posts over at T’Other Place:

“The other point that occurs to me is that it would have been the wrong power balance. Instead of this being a historically based story about a moment where a black woman protested systematic…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Yes, Lady Cranleigh thanks them for staying for the funeral. There’s also a scene in Remembrance of the Daleks where the Doctor and Ace accompany the cortege to the door of the church, but then quietly slip away rather than go in. (Remembrance of the Daleks also had a lot to say about racism, btw).

But I can’t think of one post Time…[Read more]

@georgecotty

There are approximately 56 stories set in the historical past, many of which include real figures from history. There are also another 12 serials where there was no extra-terrestrial threat – what you might call the ‘true historicals’.

So, out of those sixty eight historically based stories – many of which had ‘I can’t change the…[Read more]

@arch
Two possibilities:
1. The question is being saved for later and there’s another episode with Sharon D. Clarke.
2. This episode was the answer, and they’ll never need to ask the question.

This is the first time the gang have really experienced the power of time travel, and the first lesson they learnt was not to change the past.

If it’s…[Read more]

@dogboythecat

What do you mean by ‘one-dimensional’?

The villain was ‘one dimensional’ because he essentially refused to reveal anything about himself. Rosa Parks certainly wasn’t one-dimensional – we found out quite a bit about why this woman would decide she’d had enough. Even James Blake was revealed as a fairly ordinary guy who liked…[Read more]

@cedarbranchtardis

To state the completely obvious – we haven’t any idea what kind of chromosomes an alien from the planet Gallifrey would have, but sequential hermaphrodites are fairly well known in biology. 🙂

Okay, anyone noticing a theme with the episode villains?

Tim Shaw – pushed off a crane and zapped back to who-knows-where.
Ilin – a hologram, zapped himself back to who-knows-where.
Krasko – gets zapped by Ryan – back to who-knows-where.

Are we going to end up with a grand villain meet-up for the finale, or is this just so we don’t know who’s…[Read more]

@oldgitdotcom

Trolling report: Very poor attempt, little imagination. About 1 out of 10.

Bloody hell, I remember the old days, we had proper trolls back then …