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25 February 2015 at 09:12 #38287
I’m surprised the Doctor didn’t have a peek at the TARDIS flight logs after Listen, despite/because of Clara’s warning. It’s not like him to do what he’s told, haha.
It’s a pair. In fact, a lot of Listen seems to be pairs. Earlier, he insists Clara gets in the TARDIS where it’s safe – because this time it’s too dangerous even for her. She goes, in the end, because she trusts him to know that. She grumbles, but she goes.
So when Clara insists that he must never look where he’s been, it’s paired up with her earlier trust of him to know when it’s too dangerous (and his earlier demonstration that he doesn’t care if things are ‘too dangerous’). He trusts her to know. This time he mustn’t look – because if he does, he’ll go wherever it is, and Clara knows that’s something he must not do.
He did give her a very sharp look earlier in Listen, when she hands Rupert the toy soldier-without-a-gun. Which is why I wonder if he suspects that they somehow went back into his own timeline.
Regarding Day of The Doctor – Smithy clearly remembered those events, but didn’t know Capaldi Doctor was there. So no, he won’t ‘remember’ his incarnation being there, because he hasn’t yet been there. He’ll remember what he did up to Smithy.
I rewatched the 50th over half term, and the Capaldi Doctor never interacts with any of the other Doctors. He arrives unexpectedly, the Time Lords recognise him, he does something. He is, throughout, confined within his TARDIS and so can’t affect the Smith Doctor’s or Clara’s memory of events.
They don’t know he’s there.
24 February 2015 at 23:13 #38262And Clara is so panicked by the knowledge that she was the thing under the Doctor’s bed that she hasn’t realised the significance of where they were.
I think Clara realised the precise significance of where they were. In the Doctor’s past. Which, she had just been told earlier in the episode, was somewhere potentially catastrophic. Remember, she’s seen him change his own past to save Gallifrey. What happens if he goes back into his childhood and changes something that will make him ‘The Doctor’?
Okay, he’s a grown up. He’s almost certainly going to realise that he can’t risk that. But what will that do to him? The knowledge that the home he now wants to return to so badly is there, within reach, at the end of a TARDIS journey to his own past – but he can’t go back to that past without risking destroying Gallifrey again?
I do wonder if he suspects why Clara said ‘never look where we’ve been’, but trusts her enough to accept that it’s a route he shouldn’t take.
I’d agree though that Clara almost certainly doesn’t realise the significance of the visit, in that it suggests Gallifrey may be no longer time-locked. Missy’s escape also implies that, incidentally, so there are a couple of ways the Doctor could figure it out.
22 February 2015 at 23:58 #38211I like the way big tough Jamie goes into gooey marshmallow the second Victoria is threatened.
Yes, Bruce does look like a terrible boss, a dreadful bully – and an honest man. It’s interesting that the Doctor seems to instinctively trust him. They developed the ‘semi-telepathic’ nature of Time Lords later (at this point, the Time Lords are still in the future), but they do seem to play it as if the Doctor generally knows who to trust and who not to.
Ooh, Milton is really creepy as Benik. Keen on a bit of torture, isn’t he? Though had the Doctor not turned up, I’d say his possession of that file puts him fairly high on Salamander’s list of ‘problems to be disposed of’.
Patrick Troughton continues to deliver nicely considered performances – his ‘Doctor playing Salamander’ hasn’t got the accent quite right and is slightly less assured than his Salamander. Meanwhile, the cast members playing the underground scientists seem to have decided that being confined underground for several years is going to affect everyone’s mental health, with the main symptom being rampant overacting.
I think they were really all going for ‘subdued hysteria’. Or in the case of Colin, not remotely subdued hysteria. But even the normally reliable Christopher Burgess (who clocked up three BG Who appearances) seems to be affected.
I also noticed one minor goof. When Swann picks up the carton labelled ‘meat’, he’s concentrating so much on finding the vital bit of newspaper that he forgets to do the ‘this empty cardboard box is heavy’ acting. That box is as light as – well, as an empty box.
I do wonder whose idea it was to have Giles Kent in that position when he was playing dead. Somebody was having a little joke; that’s a fairly well known ‘don’t’ position for a stage corpse – so well known, in fact, that it appears in the satire ‘The Art of Coarse Acting’. It’s a) bloody uncomfortable and b) impossible to maintain for a long period of time. It’s always embarrassing when the corpse gets cramp and falls to the floor with a thump and a scream.
And finally, after all this looking for evidence, it crawls into Astrid’s lap. Salamander has finally made a mistake. Swann isn’t quite dead.
22 February 2015 at 22:27 #38205But does he remember that Tom Baker told him to?
‘The time streams are out of synch. You can’t retain the memories.’
If Tom Baker is representing a future incarnation – that, for the Smith Doctor, hasn’t yet happened. The Time Lords haven’t yet changed his future and given him that new set of incarnations.
22 February 2015 at 21:36 #38201Unless … you’ve not actually completed that part of the calculation yet.
I think that’s a given. The Smith Doctor couldn’t have invited the Capaldi Doctor to the party, because he didn’t know there was going to be a future incarnation. Furthermore, the other Doctors all thought they were putting Gallifrey in stasis. But Gallifrey isn’t in stasis.
So the calculations worked – but not as planned. Why? Well, he’s a Time Lord. Moffat loops are second nature. Better start working on the maths. 🙂
However, the only people who know Attack Eyebrows turned up are the War Council.
21 February 2015 at 23:36 #3818221 February 2015 at 22:28 #38176@purofilion
The bullet was coming at a steep upward angle – the shot that hits Tara is one of the ones Warren shoots upwards as he’s leaving. She and Willow are in their bedroom.
Poetic licence, but not too much – if it hit Tara in the chest it would probably have hit Willow at neck or shoulder height- but we’re meant to presume it missed her by a centimetre or so.
21 February 2015 at 18:02 #38173@craig – he had a tiny part in the film Living Apart Together (so did John Gordon Sinclair).
Never seen it, but from the description it’s set around the Glasgow music scene.
20 February 2015 at 14:06 #38149I guess we just play it by ear for now.
That’s what I’m thinking.
Personally, I reckon that particular bit of official information is going to become so widespread, so quickly, that even the ‘want to know nowt’ people will find out about it. At which point it will sort of spread onto the main forum.
It’s just that I do remember last year that some people didn’t even want to check out the official info, so should probably be given the option to, er, not know what it is before they don’t check it out. :-~
20 February 2015 at 12:06 #38139@craig, @fatmaninabox, @jimthefish and @phaseshift – firstly, is it time to start up a Series 9 blog? So we can discuss official production-team approved spoilers where those who wish to be utterly unspoilered can avoid them?
And secondly, should @lisa‘s #38133 be moved, because it gives away a rather important piece of information? Admittedly, it’s official information, but I’m thinking of the aforesaid ‘don’t want to know anything‘ group.
19 February 2015 at 20:38 #38122And returning to some actual on-topic topics – the BBC site has some official news on the Series 9 cast.
As ever, please only click on the link if you want that information, as you’ll be thoroughly (officially) spoilered the second you spot the headline. 😀
19 February 2015 at 18:10 #38120@purofilion
How is it that everyone else is running to telephone boxes for quite some years?
Because mobile phones are evil plot destroying devices, far worse than any vampire. 🙂
@jimthefish – you did sound a tad snippy, but I put it down to my just having told a Romantics specialist the dates of Romanticism. Next up, teaching the Doctor how to suck an egg. 😉
Somebody (not me) once pointed out that both Spike and Angel have the same human name – Angel’s is the Irish version (Liam) and Spike’s the English version (William). So you could say that the one core thing lacking in Liam/Angel/Angelus that is present in William/Spike is Will. That may be a hint that – of the two – Spike is actually the stronger and more connected to his human self. Which might be why he can still love, even if that demonic nature twists it into a dark, obsessive, stalker kind of love.
Can’t say much more until puro’s seen S7. Which is my favourite of all the Buffy seasons.
19 February 2015 at 10:26 #3810419 February 2015 at 02:41 #38096I’m pretty sure he’d subscribe to the chaos and “spontaneous overflow of strong feelings” of the Romantics.
Spike would. Because William wouldn’t.
William may have been a Bloody Awful Poet, but he was a Victorian Bloody Awful poet; if we go by the Fool For Love flashbacks, he was born a bit too late to be part of the Romantic era. He might have aspired to be one of the Aesthetics (like Wilde and Swinburne). Also, the whole ‘mad, bad, and dangerous to know thing’ is a bit of a problem when you don’t want to upset your Mum. 😉
‘Spike’, it’s hinted, is everything ‘William’ never dared to be.
Unfortunately, one of the things William never dared to be was a monster.
17 February 2015 at 21:04 #38065Everyone on holiday for half term? 🙂
Anyway, for those who don’t think Doctor Who has ever addressed social themes: Fariah, it turns out, has been forced into a servant’s role. She even has to smile when Salamander wants her to smile.
Oh, and while the blonde Astrid doesn’t get shot on sight, Fariah does. For context: this episode was broadcast about three months before Dr Martin Luther King was assassinated and there were certainly tensions in the UK between the black community and the police.
Social themes aside, it becomes apparent in this episode that the Doctor believes Kent is setting him up as an assassin. One thing I did think was that the Doctor has a very long road to travel: from the Second Doctor’s ‘no one has that right’ to the War Doctor’s decision (even if he gets stopped) to commit genocide.
The complete incompetence of the resistance (we’ve just had two of our members arrested, so let’s all go back to our best known address) is only matched by the ineffectual guards. The guards, however, have been given some excuse – it’s pretty clear in the direction that they despise Benik and intend to just go through the motions.
Well, apart from our over-enthusiastic guard who shoots the one person who happens to be black. Entirely her fault, of course. She was unarmed and running away.
As well as finding out that Benik really is a complete s**t, we also find out (as Craig says) that Salamander really is a devious bar-steward (must be the jacket). An entire underground base who thinks there’s a war going on up top? And that Salamander is the brave person finding food for them? What is he up to?
17 February 2015 at 19:10 #38063@adt1957
changing the doctor’s gender for what ever reason is still in the ball park of a social theme
Rubbish.
There are parts where changing the gender changes some of the implications – changing Prospero to Prospera alters the relationship between Prospera and Miranda, as well as altering the dynamics of her testing of Ferdinand. If you’ve seen Helen Mirren in The Tempest, you’ll know that it’s both fun to do and worthwhile. It allows you to take a look at a character from a different direction, and brings stuff that you might not have consciously realised into a clearer focus.
Prospero in The Tempest is, however, a character with a fixed script. The Doctor in Doctor Who is not a character with a fixed script. He does have a fixed relationship, but frankly, my dear, I don’t think the TARDIS will give a damn.
Now, please, explain to me exactly what changing the gender of the Doctor will alter that you don’t like? No hiding behind ‘social themes’, just explain to me how it’s going to alter the dynamics within the show. Or the relationships within the show.
Or is it the relationship with the audience that you’re worried about? Because that alters every single time there’s a new Doctor. They took a huge risk with the twelve year old, they took a huge risk with the grey haired stick insect and they even took a huge risk with Patrick Troughton!
So what’s the big deal if they do decide to take a huge risk with an actor of the female persuasion? This is the Doctor. She regenerates. She can regenerate back. 😉
14 February 2015 at 17:32 #38011“Too technical” meaning there’s too much backstory to cope with if you haven’t been watching for decades? Or too technical in terms of scientific underpinnings,
Nope. As I recall, ‘too technical’ as in the sheer breadth of the audience. The baby writer isn’t writing for the child audience, the ‘yoof’ audience or the adult audience. They’re writing for all three, and their script will have to work on those three different levels.
So it’s a writer’s version of ‘technical’. 😉
13 February 2015 at 21:21 #37989I trust them to get it right — assuming they’re smart enough to start off by broadening the diversity of the writing team as well. I think they’re edging up on getting that smart.
It’s an easy complaint to make. However, it ignores the point that Doctor Who – with its need for experienced TV writers and directors – is in the position of having to choose from a not-as-diverse-as-it-should-be pool.
If you argue, as Moffat does, that AG Who is now so technical you can’t commission a newbie any more, then you’re dealing with a writing pool that’s about 85% male. The directing pool is probably about 90% male. (In film it’s about 98% male). If you’re looking for non-white writers and directors, you’ve got very similar problems. It’s not that the talent isn’t out there – it’s that a diverse talent isn’t getting any initial commissions. Therefore, diverse voices aren’t getting a track record.
[Even for film, look how many of the tiny number of women or non-white directors/writers came in from either theatre or acting.]
For women writers, I think there may also be an additional problem – you have to ask them. 😉 And I suspect most of them know what the so-called-fans did to Helen Raynor for her first AG Who story.
[Kudos to Catherine Tregenna, for giving it a shot. Hopefully that’ll break the ice a bit. Or, alternatively, if we do get another shit-storm, it’ll be clearer that the misogynists are out on the Internet, not in the Production Office. 😈 ]
13 February 2015 at 11:37 #3798712 February 2015 at 22:13 #37976@doctor1994
I am not being pedantic. I’m being dyslexic.If you don’t give me the clues to meaning provided by full stops and capital letters, I’m adrift in a sea of words. It really does ‘sound’ in my head like you are talking and talking with no pause for breath.
To add to the fun and games, ‘I’m’ and ‘im’ are two different words- both for my brain and my screen reader.
Now, I’m sorry that you feel annoyed, but when you sarcastically say that your English is hurting my eyes – you’re actually pretty close to the truth. I would like to talk ideas with you, so please – give me some help.
12 February 2015 at 12:05 #37962that world may be about to end in about a month’s time.
But do CERN have a Big Red Button? Inquiring minds would like to know. 🙂
Regarding the ‘no singularity’ theory, this article has a good explanation.
11 February 2015 at 18:35 #37948@doctor1994
aaand breathe! Think punctuation. Also, capital letters. I’m very fond of capital letters in the proper places, because they give me clues about what I’m reading.
i think steven moffat should listen to the fans of the show and see what they want
There are, at a rough estimate, 70 million fans of Doctor Who. Give or take 10 million. 😉 Unless they all want the same thing (they mostly don’t), trying to give all of them what they want is a fast track to insanity – and, to a plot so confused that even the intrepid Whovians on this site couldn’t make sense of it.
They certainly do keep an eye on the fans, because they’ve hired some of them. Well, a lot of them. Well, I think we’re currently running at the Head Writer, the chap playing the Doctor, several writers, the bloke who thought up the title sequence, that nice lady who does the comic covers… 😉
jake heartness
I think you may have misheard that.
11 February 2015 at 10:19 #37935@purofilion and @scaryb
When I watched the DVD, it was the programme ‘as broadcast’.
The original reason was the horrifically real beheadings that were in the news on broadcast – it may well be that the DVD decision was made because they were and are still going on. Or it may be that they simply didn’t have either the time or budget to do a re-re-edit.
The original episode had a robot losing an arm (that was the reveal they were robots), and a robot losing a head (which they made very plain was a robot).
@doctor1994 – there are persistent rumours that a black actor (possibly more than one) has already been approached for the role of the Doctor, but has turned it down. I don’t blame them. Whether you’re the First Black Doctor or the First Woman Doctor, the pressure is going to be intense – and while the role can be a career-maker, it also has the potential to be a career-breaker.
The rumours mostly swirl around the casting for Series 5. That, the story goes, is why the casting was so open that they saw the utterly unsuitable and far too young Matt Smith. I wonder what happened to him…
😉
8 February 2015 at 23:09 #37906I do like Victoria – she is completely useless, but in such a very sweet way. And she is willing to try to help … but unfortunately her education as a Victorian lady seems to have concentrated on, I dunno, possibly a little light embroidery? Playing the piano? Beginning and advanced swooning?
Despite this lack of preparation for real life she does, on the whole, tackle the entire ‘now involved in International Spying’ thing with determination. And an awareness that she’s completely out of her depth. However, out of her depth or not, she’ll give it a go; with screaming. 😉
Possibly in response to Victoria, Jamie projects an air of competent authority throughout; he knows how to be a guard, even if he’s one whose uniform consists of some fetching leatherwear.
Astrid, meanwhile, seems to have studied at the Austin Powers School of Spy Training. And Salamander’s security really is crap – oh, you’re an entirely new messenger with a mysterious message looking remarkably like a previously reported intruder? So, would you like to come out for a drink?
I am definitely getting the impression that the Doctor doesn’t trust Giles Kent any further than he can throw him. It’s the way he keeps insisting on finding proof of Salamander’s guilt. Meanwhile, Salamander himself is busy providing examples of his villainy. Blackmail, poisoning, planning the invasion of Derby, Lincoln, Worksop … no, that last was the Sheriff of Nottingham. 😉
It’s a lovely pair of performances by Troughton, especially because you can see how completely different his Doctor is to Salamander. He’s emphasising the gentler qualities of the Doctor’s character, making him even more of a contrast to the hard-edged Salamander.
@juniperfish – I think the equivalent to this week’s episode would be Time Heist.
5 February 2015 at 11:39 #37822Helpful hint: I would never, ever, go to a blog where the invitation is written as poorly as yours is.
Blogs are there to be read. An invitation with one long, stream-of-consciousness sentence with rotten typing and no punctuation suggests (strongly) that I won’t be able to read that person’s blog.
So I won’t bother to click on the link.
Invitations should be fun, inviting – and easy to read.
4 February 2015 at 22:48 #37812Another thing that’s been a long time a’coming – the Doctor Who Lego set has finally been licensed.
4 February 2015 at 14:40 #37803@purofilion – Alexis Denisof and Alyson Hannigan are married with two kids, yeah…
4 February 2015 at 13:46 #37802@purofilion
No, I haven’t listened to the Caretaker commentary yet. Either that or I listened to the first ten minutes and then a)switched back to the episode and b) blocked it out of my memory.
The problem with commentaries are a) availability of the actors and b) people who haven’t done it before. The fact that there’s no Moffat, Capaldi or Coleman gives me the sneaking suspicion that the commentaries were either recorded during the World Tour, or at another point when they were just plain too busy.
Or, in the case of Steven Moffat, his commentary would consist entirely of ‘but I can’t talk about that’. 🙂
If the only people available haven’t done one before, you usually pile in two or three people in the hope that they will at least start talking to each other. It doesn’t always work; certainly some directors don’t yet seem to have picked up that being able to do a good audio commentary on your work is becoming part of a director’s skillset.
The main problem is downloads. BBC Worldwide wants the DVD out as fast as possible, because otherwise people will just download the series. But getting the DVD out as fast as possible means that there’s barely any time to do those nice little extras – like commentaries.
2 February 2015 at 00:30 #37756Yes, it’s a bit of a departure, this one. As if the production team woke up one morning and decided to do The Avengers instead.
Milton Johns – a lovely man, who always gets cast as a creep. Like George Pravda, he’s a BG Who regular, with at least three stories on his credits. Benik really is extremely camp; there’s also a nice hint of power plays at the top, with everyone in Salamander’s camp busily stabbing everyone else in the back. But no one daring to try it on against the ‘Leader’, because you’ll not only find a knife in your back, you’ll find poison in your food and probably a volcano in your front garden. 🙂
Yes, the lack of video surveillance really makes it feel like another era. Funnily enough, live video surveillance was possible back then – so Jamie’s right, the security is crap.
Patrick Troughton is clearly enjoying the chance to show off his acting; this story keeps reminding me of Nightmare in Silver. Not because I expect a Cyberman to pop out of the fridge or anything, but because both stories gave the actor playing the Doctor the chance to show their range. For Troughton, it’s just how good a character actor he really is. For Smith, it was just how well he could play coldly nasty.
1 February 2015 at 00:05 #3771812′s addition of books and blackboards adds a warmth and more lived-in feel, compared to when it was 11′s
Agreed. It always felt like the Smith Doctor actually lived in the pit beneath the console. I think they added a desk in a cubbyhole at one point.
But the books, blackboard and leather reading chair make it very clear that the Capaldi Doctor pretty well lives in the console room.
I did and do like the Smith Doctor’s first console. It was downright weird, but fit both his Doctor and the idea that the TARDIS was a long, long way from home. She had to repair herself with whatever she could find. 😉
29 January 2015 at 17:37 #37670What the fcuk was that? Some kind of ‘Guess the TV programme’ game?
29 January 2015 at 12:19 #37665Okay, so I think I’ll be staying away from the Graun for a bit.
It’s like somebody thought ‘What is the most unreadable format we could possibly use, which gives our readers as little information as possible?’ and then made it into an index page.
28 January 2015 at 14:05 #37658I wasn’t in charge of the remote control. Actually, back then, there wasn’t a remote control.
I also acquired a detailed knowledge of Crossroads, Coronation Street and Emmerdale Farm (now Emmerdale).
As an adult, I flatly refuse to watch any soap unless I have to. 😈
28 January 2015 at 12:54 #37656Hee hee, yes I think pretty much everyone went “Huh?”
Not me. I was ‘Maybe Dawn was living in LA?’ Very accepting of people turning up out of nowhere, me. I blame an early diet of Australian soaps – never previously mentioned relatives arrived on a regular basis. 😉
[Puro: the answer is more complicated than ‘she was living in LA’.]
28 January 2015 at 08:40 #37654@Purofilion – I suspect the ‘Easter’ line was RTD pulling David Tennant’s leg. RTD is an atheist; David Tennant is not. In fact, he’s the son of a former Moderator of the Church of Scotland. 😉
The Doctor himself is definitely not religious – but since meeting Father Octavian, he seems to have become more accepting of people who are deeply religious.
As to our friend – he could be having us on, but if not, I’d repeat that he needs to see a priest or a minister. Spotting the difference between ‘you need to see a doctor’ and ‘we need to call in an expert’ is, after all, part of their job. 🙂
27 January 2015 at 23:32 #37643If you are starting to see demonic conspiracies in your life, and in the lives of other people, then you need to talk to a priest or minister about it. Okay? Not a bunch of random people on the internet.
27 January 2015 at 12:10 #37633@purofilion
Thank you. I hope it didn’t include too many spoilers for you, but glad you enjoyed it. Best wishes to Boyilion as he starts at his new school. 🙂@janetteb – hope you enjoy it!
26 January 2015 at 10:16 #37620@rob
Thank you. 🙂25 January 2015 at 23:26 #37610@purofilion and @pedant
Danny Strong was one of the few non-main cast actors to appear in the unaired pilot (most notable for having Wrong Willow in it) as well as the series.
Yeah. Danny became their first port of call whenever they needed a generic student-of-the-week getting put on, ignored, bullied, you name it. The generic student would turn into Jonathan.
Danny Strong is now an extremely successful scriptwriter.
25 January 2015 at 00:40 #37594@juniperfish – it’s not so much the thigh high boots as the strange shape of the cream section of the jacket. From the back, Astrid looks like she’s in a neck brace. 🙂
Then there’s the reveal that the Doctor likes a vest and long johns. In fact, we’ve seen that so often (twice for the Smith Doctor), that I suspect Gallifreyan underwear tends to the thermal. You can take the boy out of Gallifrey, but not the Gallifreyan underwear off the boy…
Yes, there’s some definite flirting going on. Astrid is very obviously the Doctor’s type. She’s beautiful, she’s adventurous, and she may be mixed up in something dodgy; even at this early stage, the Doctor falls for the bad(ish) girls.
Troughton does indeed create a quite menacing dictator; the accent provides an easy marker between Salamander and the Doctor, but his menacing and confident dictator is quite different to the diffident and clown-like Doctor. I look forward to seeing more of this.
23 January 2015 at 22:55 #3755323 January 2015 at 22:01 #37544Sherlock shooting someone in cold blood in the head? I don’t think Conan Doyle would have approved
Holmes: If you had killed Watson, you would not have got out of this room alive.This is in The Adventure of The Three Garridebs, just after Holmes has thumped the guy with his pistol, so he’s telling someone who’s half-concussed and fairly helpless that, yes, he would have shot him in cold blood. Then there’s the death of Moriarty (in Doyle), plus Holmes (and Watson) shoots at Tonga in The Sign of Four.
So while it’s a bit of a departure (she says politely), it’s not uncanonical that Holmes might kill someone – given that they had Watson being the one blackmailed. The Doyle Holmes threatens, but in the Gatiss-Moffat adaptation, he carries it through.
23 January 2015 at 18:58 #37519He is however living in optimism that when he reaches the promised land of uni, he will neither have to take any humanities courses ever again, nor have to write any papers that will require the use of anything other than the internet for research purposes.
As the owner of a BSc, you can tell him from me that universities have discovered the internet. Actually, universities helped invent the internet. And they know how to reference the internet, because Universities believe in referencing the way I believe in the Trinity. 😈
I can go into very boring detail if you want, but using the internet for research purposes just means that you have to learn how to reference internet pages, articles from an online journal and even computer programs in your bibliography.
Or even electronic books. ::shrug:: I’ve done bibliographies that consist almost entirely of online sources; I did a lot of Comp Sci courses. If anything, I find them more of a pain than the ones where sources consist almost entirely of dead trees. 😀
Over here, the job of teaching about biased sources is largely given to History. We do hear ‘don’t use Wikipedia’ a lot, though. ‘Don’t cite Wikipedia’ would be more honest, I think.
22 January 2015 at 22:09 #37497what do you tell the Year 10′s who argue that there’s no need to learn how to write a proper bib
That – without a bibliography – you will FAIL the first essay you write at university? 😈
Automatically. Thems the regs. So it’s best to learn now.
22 January 2015 at 21:53 #37493@purofilion
Once you’ve reached the end of your Buffy and Angel watch, you can have a look at my fanfic novel, if you like. 😳
Once you’ve reached the end, though, because it’s set after the end of the television series.
Yes, everyone has a fanfic inside them. 😉 Though, truthfully, the difference between the best ‘fanfic’ and ‘professional writing’ is often rather like the difference between amateur and professional actors.
Namely, the one is doing it for fun, the other gets paid.
22 January 2015 at 10:17 #37466@saberconcepts – yes The Beginning box set is a good place to start, providing you remember that The Tribe of Gum was broadcast on the grounds that it was the only script they had ready. 🙂 The first story that really captured the public imagination was The One With The Daleks.
While it’s not technically an old episode, the drama-doc An Adventure In Space and Time will tell you quite a lot about the Lambert/Hartnell period.
Otherwise – if you go along to our forums listings, and check out each Doctor, you’ll see the stories we voted to rewatch. Those are also a good place to start for each Doctor.
21 January 2015 at 10:15 #37454I’m beginning to pine for lack of Dr Who on TV!
BBC3 on Fridays. This week it’s Into the Dalek at 7.15pm. Deep Breath should be on iPlayer.
Clearly BBC3 doesn’t think it’s too soon to do a Capaldi rewatch…
😈
18 January 2015 at 21:46 #37383@Purofilion and @thekrynoidman
Pierce Brosnan has cheerfully admitted that he didn’t go beyond ‘it’s filming on a Greek Island and Meryl Streep’s in it’ when deciding to accept the role in Mama Mia.
Some things you just have to say ‘yes’ to, and damn the torpedoes. 😀
17 January 2015 at 22:32 #37358Actually, Beer Bad got nominated for an Emmy.
::Pause::
Okay, it was for Outstanding Hairstyling. But it did get nominated. 🙂
I vaguely recall that they had to write it, because Fox was after some kind of anti-drugs funding. It shows.
17 January 2015 at 11:08 #37347I would go for Web of Fear myself, but I do have a suggestion.
In memory of the late and sadly missed @htpbdet, could we watch The Enemy of The World? That was where his avatar came from.
I remember, when we were all excited about the rediscovery, that he said Enemy of the World should preferably be seen before Web of Fear.
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