@craig – indeed they have, and aren’t we glad? 😀  i confess, i’ve only been able to watch a few eps before tom baker’s run, precisely because the production values and special effects were so, so terribly low. i think story synopses are the way to go for me, for the first three incarnations. [and is that clip from an 80’s “update,” like some of…[Read more]

@craig

I didn’t know that and that pleases me greatly. They worked really well together in ALS.

So, another Sunday night, another episode.

“Rosa” was nearly unsurpassable for me, so all but impossible for tonight to make any kind of mark. But it failed to even get close, I’d have to say.

Spiders, yeah. Frequent baddies, @craig. Empress of Racnoss was a bit meh at the time.

Today’s eight-legged ones weren’t baddies at all, of course, just…[Read more]

@Craig – ahh that’s a cracking good story, Planet of the Spiders, Metebelis III and the blue crystals etc.

Giant spiders have also featured rather marvellously in Tolkein, especially the menacing Shelob we all know and love, and then there’s Aragog the flesh-eater in Harry Potter.

Arachnids in the UK (apart from the Sex Pistols title) didn’t…[Read more]

Thanks, @craig! It is good to know I am no longer Who-deprived.

After sleeping on my first viewing, I still think this was a thoroughly brilliant historical, that in many respects took Who to a new level. Unlike others, I did not have any problems with the coda, as many (most?) viewers would not have been aware of Rosa Parks’ subsequent life, a…[Read more]

@pedant and @anduril Have I been summoned by costume bonkerising!?

(@anduril – my icon is an old reference to the red/blue bow-ties of SmithDoc and the elaborate, some might say obsessive, theorising thereof, in our former home on Dan Martin’s recaps at The Guardian, before @Craig created the Better Place).

In face I’ve been chewing my tail…[Read more]

aw cheers you kind people! It was all thanks to @mudlark and @pedant. I didn’t actually mention the Copland the 1st time around. A major lack of detail there….Big nod to “mudders.”

@msrbahar  “who gives a shit” Yes! But that’s no way to be, really, because to be misinformed is to be held at someone else’s mercy.

I’m very sorry for your loss,…[Read more]

Thanks @Craig and @Jimthefish for modding – appreciated.

And although I often deplore pieces of journalism which are just collections of tweets, some of them, full of positive reactions to this episode, are quite welcome right now, such as this one in the Radio…[Read more]

@craig

No worries. That was the only one that I thought should go. The others provided useful context for the continuing idiocy of some people and the sheer timeliness and relevance of the story.

@bluesqueakpip

Yeah, I saw that and thought you were dead right about it….

@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]

@craig With a title referencing the first ever episode of AG Who,…

OK, I admit that it took me forever to get this. I’m slow sometimes!

@craig

Oh look, we have a fuckwit in the house. [at]oldgitdotcom needs evicting.

@whisht

Thanks mate.

@craig – I think we are at the point where we are going to need a new pub.

I nominate The Kebab and Calculator (again)

Hi everyone.

Great to see so many faces old and new. *Tries to think of a more cyber-appropriate word than “faces”* … *Shrugs and waves.*

Really enjoying reading your comments 🙂 Little Savon is growing fast and becoming quite a handful – leaving limited time to read and reflect. But I finally got round to episode 1 at least…

The pro…[Read more]

@craig  @nearlysane  @pedant  Something I came across in the NYT Magazine section a couple of weeks ago about “The Good Place”:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/10/04/magazine/good-place-michael-schur-philosophy.html?fbclid=IwAR0avBkFnWqcGpb_dk4wv0Jz8gRpVWhRBWR3qz_Iz39XFhIVw-VNOCEmm1c

My name is Ichabod, and I am addicted.  People lov…[Read more]

@craig @nearlysane

Apparently have have a 7 season arc planned.

@craig

Yes, love The Good Place – I can see it struggle to repeat the consistency of the 1st series in the second one. It uses up philosophy ideas at a quite frightening rate.

@craig

Have binged it about 4 times now. It is simply outstanding, really rewards repeat viewing and the short-season format serves it well. Not a single filler.

Maximum Derek.

@nearlysane

Inside No 9 is great – a sort short form Black Mirror.

@miapatrick

“So I’m going to end with the fact that I like the idea of a secret hidden from the Doctor’s memories” — it was time lord tech that erased clara from 12’s mind, i’d love it if they somehow tinkered with his memory long before that… perhaps when they gifted him that huge dose of regenerations, on trenzalore?

“a big bad that kno…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip @mudlark

There was indeed the mention of a a medipod (or similar) for Yaz, and Graham saw Ryan regaining consciousness in something along those lines.

@Craig

Little bit puzzled by Matt Strevens comment that the new Tardis would be more analogue that before. All of the AG Tardises have been very much organic and/ or steampunk,…[Read more]