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22 June 2013 at 10:47 #12751
Ah, found the Fourth Doctor…
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21 June 2013 at 21:06 #12724@phaseshift Cheers. A lot of love for Delgado in the third one. Thought you’d like that.
21 June 2013 at 19:11 #12699@arkleseizure Ah yes, forgot about that one, flying sharks an’ all. So 3 out of 7 (I think) not set on Earth.
21 June 2013 at 14:54 #12694@topperofgallifrey “Voyage of the Damned” was mostly on a spaceship and most of “The Doctor, the Widow and the Wardrobe” is in an alternate world entered via a wardrobe. So not always on Earth.
Any more questions?
21 June 2013 at 14:23 #12692@phaseshift Brilliant, utterly brilliant. Thanks so much for that. I’m off work today and guess what I found.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zx2GLlTg0h4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DlDLKj88OI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90ljmtuMUEw
Fourth Doctor currently missing unfortunately.
21 June 2013 at 09:16 #12689If you have a lot of spare cash you can bid on having tea with Matt Smith, all in the aid of 2 autism charities.
20 June 2013 at 00:07 #12645@ Everyone especially @Shazzbot @phaseshift and @htpbdet
In an effort to avoid people wasting your valuable time (and the types of spam we got today) I have removed the “Send friend request” option and the “Update” option. I will be trimming things even further in the next few days. I guess it was too much to hope that people would just use the site in the way it was intended.
@phaseshift Apologies, only just spotted you were moving posts today. Thanks for doing that. The system is not ideal as it doesn’t update the activity links, but like you I can live with that.
19 June 2013 at 23:30 #12641@scaryb Thanks.
I haven’t actually implemented the “you can only PM a friend” fix yet, so you can still PM anyone. I think I’m going to get rid of the friends thing (and updates), so am looking for another way to block spam PMs (as I’d like to keep PMs). Have a lot more time on my hands as of tonight so should all be good shortly.
19 June 2013 at 21:46 #12615@phaseshift @Shazzbot Jeez, I’m away for a day and all Hell breaks loose. I’ve deleted the spammer and yes, now that I have a bit more time on my hands following today, I’m going to pare back this site so that it can only be used the way it’s supposed to be.
So no updates, no friend requests etc. The only people that seem to use them anyway are the newbies/spammers.
19 June 2013 at 21:08 #12610@Shazzbot Yeah, you’re probably right. My apologies to @tennantmarsters2013 I was tired and quite stressed last night and overreacted. But only by a bit. You do like your questions don’t you?
19 June 2013 at 00:35 #12512How did Jack turn into The Face of Boe?
That is almost up there with “What happened to Geoff?” I’m glad @chickenelly told you to go look it up.
You were kinda almost out of the woods until I got in tonight and saw that. Really, must you try my patience and my (almost regained) faith in you?
You’re back on my naughty step. Sorry.
EDIT. I’m quite tried of you and others posting vacuous questions. One more vacuous question from you and I will delete you. May sound harsh to you, but I don’t want you wasting the time of valuable contributors such as @chickenelly and @htpbdet
So comment as much as you want, but no more questions without any substance.
18 June 2013 at 18:48 #12497Very silly. Even the daleks like a bit of cosplay.
http://meghanmurphy.deviantart.com/gallery/30374770
18 June 2013 at 00:45 #12475@dontplaywithfood Apology accepted. Thanks. I had no problem with the avatar and would be happy to have it back. I actually thought it was quite fun. Just try and rein it in a little and make intelligent posts, as I know you are capable of, and you’ll be welcome here.
Sorry if I’m coming across as a hardass, but we’re trying to be a bit different from the rest of the internet. We may be fighting a losing battle, but the more people we have on board who would like to take part in decent conversations, that engage and stimulate, the better. We started that way and we’re trying hard to maintain it.
And if you fancy doing comedy, there are plenty of photos that require crazy captions if you head over to the blog (we’re not completely serious – well, I am but some of the others aren’t 😉 ).
18 June 2013 at 00:08 #12468@dontplaywithfood And once again you enlighten us with your Wildean wit.
Really, please try to contribute something interesting, or leave. One of your posts has shown you have it in you.
We’re not an “anything goes” forum here. This is not a comedy stage. We want people who will join in the conversation and make the forum better. We’d rather stay small, with fewer members, than allow everyone in and see standards slide. You are, I’m sorry to say, making standards slide.
So this is a gentle warning. I’d love to see you make some posts along the lines of the one you made a short while ago about Eccleston. Please try and keep the comedy routine either incredibly funny (so far it hasn’t been) or keep it to your self.
17 June 2013 at 23:50 #12463@Shazzbot Cheers, have no idea why you didn’t get an email or a mention. Have you checked your spam folder (as there were several links in those comments which may mean the email gets wrongly identified as spam).
If they’re not there then yes, it will take too much out of my day job to research, at least for a week or two. I will look into it eventually though.
17 June 2013 at 23:42 #12461@dontplaywithfood I saw @phaseshift told you off the other day. Please try to restrict yourself to one post at a time. It’s not big and it’s not clever to take up the whole recent posts feed.
Your first post above is great, thanks very much, proper insight. The other two I think everyone could have done without. Just saying.
17 June 2013 at 23:34 #12459@Shazzbot Can you link to an example post where you’ve been mentioned and not got an email and it hasn’t appeared in your mentions, then I can look into it.
Cheers.
17 June 2013 at 23:03 #12450@chameleon4rch Okay, you had your chance. I’m deleting you. If you have any complaints you can email me. My address is on the home page.
17 June 2013 at 22:58 #12449@chickenelly That’s exactly what my Mum and Dad said to me this weekend. “You seem to be doing the job the BBC should be doing” And I kinda feel that we are.
I was looking at the schedules on BBC3 and BBC4 this weekend and there wasn’t anything there that couldn’t have been dropped for an episode or two of BG (or even AG) Who.
But hey, as long as we’re having some fun, eh?
17 June 2013 at 22:40 #12444As suggested by @bluesqueakpip , we needed to do a couple of Moffat’s two-parters in one go in order to fit them all in before the 50th, but you don’t have to do them at the weekend, you can take all week if you want.
And next week all you’ve got for homework is episode 2 of “Talons” and “The Girl in the Fireplace”. Promise. Now that’s what I call a great Saturday evening.
17 June 2013 at 20:05 #12441@chameleon4rch Right now I’m guessing you’re either a spammer or a sad middle-aged man with no friends who needs to use a little goth-girl picture to get anyone to pay attention to you.
No matter, either you reply publicly here why you made so many friend requests without ever posting anything, or I delete you 3 hours from now – that’s 11 o’clock UK time.
Look forward to hearing from you 😉
14 June 2013 at 21:01 #12301@miapatrick Head on over to the new “Talons of Weng-Chiang” thread linked to from the home page. The whole first episode is there for you to watch. 😀
And feel free to get the conversation going after you’ve watched.
Episode 2 will be posted next Saturday. We’re doing it like it used to be done – a week between each part – just for fun!
14 June 2013 at 19:41 #12296@phaseshift @bluesqueakpip @scaryb @janetteb @whisht (and everyone else)
I’ve added topics for “Talons” and “The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances”, both linked to on the home page. I’ve embedded YouTube links to the first episode of Talons.
I will post on Saturdays in future but am away this weekend.
Look forward to seeing the response. It’s a fun experiment.
14 June 2013 at 18:24 #12270Hi @htpbdet great to see you posting again. And as always, it was my pleasure. And your nephew seems a wonderful young man who loves his Uncle very much.
In the “teach a man to fish” vein, you should be able to reorder your posts yourself.
Just go to the post you want to move. At the right-hand side above the “Publish/Update” button, there is a publish date, which you can change (I think). The posts are ordered by date so that’s how you can move them around.
And yes, you should be able to edit them too.
If you have any problems though, or don’t have the permissions, please let me know and I can either increase your permissions or do it for you.
14 June 2013 at 00:44 #12251@pedant Already have reCaptcha, but actually thinking of removing it. Was my first line of defence but as @whisht says, also blocks humans. Have a lot smarter spam defences in place now. Big ‘fuck off’ walls. But the PM thing took me by surprise. Must have been a human sign-on followed by a bot. Give me a few days… well, maybe a week, have to go up to Scotland at the weekend for my Dad’s 70th. After that, I’ll get my ‘big bot swatter’ out.
@whisht I kinda like the thinking behind reCaptcha – isn’t really evil – helps digitise books. May be for Google’s benefit at the moment, but Google won’t last for ever, but the digitising of the books will.
13 June 2013 at 21:01 #12241@bluesqueakpip I expected that. There’s a lot to be gained just from Moffat’s now familiar tropes of repetition (from “I want my Mummy” to “I don’t know where I am”) and “Everybody lives” and will look forward to it.
So do we do a BG Who and an AG Who each Saturday? Could be interesting… and not too taxing.
13 June 2013 at 20:18 #12237@bluesqueakpip The way I structured the site to start with was by Doctor and by episode, and I think I’d like to keep it that way. Is just tidier and leaves room for scalability. If someone 10 years from now wants to know what we think of The Empty Child, or Talons, it will all be in one place.
But on the home page I can take off the latest episodes and post links to our current conversations on the older episodes.
I’d rather try that first. If it gets confusing then we can maybe stick to one thread. But I think it will work, especially if there’s a week between each, and I signpost it correctly on the home page.
I’m much more in favour of focusing on BG Who myself as I think a lot of you have analysed the AG Who episodes in extreme detail already, and most members have probably seen them, but BG Who may be a foreign country to most. But if you want to do it again, feel free. I’m happy to join in.
13 June 2013 at 20:05 #12236@pedant I’ve got a lot of anti-spammer registration stuff installed already, after the first few weeks of spambot sign-ups. Unfortunately there are poor people employed for a pittance to register with sites then pass the login details to the spammers. Registration is pretty blocked to bots right now, but not to real people.
But I’ll check it out. What I’d like is something that stops automated, multiple private messages once they can actually log in, as that seems to be my only weak link at the moment (well, that is until the next one!).
13 June 2013 at 19:46 #12231Sounds good. Doctor Who deserves to stay a Saturday ritual, after the football and before Basil Brush!
Unfortunately I’m not at home this weekend, my Dad’s 70th, but may be able to sort something out before and just make it live from my parents’ house.
Talking of which, football is probably how I got into Doctor Who as a kid as my parents weren’t that interested, but my Dad was interested in the day’s results as he used to be a player. Then I just watched what was on afterwards. As it’s his 70th I’m feeling a bit sentimental.
He scored a ton of goals but this is what he’s most famous for, sitting on the ball against Rangers, and creating a winning goal in the dying minutes. They banned sitting on the ball after that 😀
Our very own Guardian also has a soft spot for the moment, even as recently as last year (and Scott Murray is no relation).
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/blog/2012/dec/14/joy-of-six-showboating
Anyway, that’s enough to probably make his day!
13 June 2013 at 19:03 #12227I was being a bit flippant, but I do actually think if we can interest AG Who viewers in BG Who the BBC will sell a lot more DVDs and it will benefit everyone.
So I’m happy to start whenever. I can post the first episode of Talons tonight if you want, although someone, I nominate @jimthefish, will have to explain the giant rat (as I know you don’t like it) to those used to the questionable wonders of CGI.
On that note, I just read that Michael Shannon (playing General Zod in the new Superman film) wore a green, skin-tight motion-capture suit during filming and his whole costume is CGI!!! I found that slightly depressing, unless his costume does some amazing acting.
13 June 2013 at 18:18 #12222@phaseshift @bluesqueakpip @scaryb @janetteb @whisht
This is coming back to the idea I floated when we just started, before the new series began, that we could be like my Mum’s book group. I’d still be up for that. Discuss an episode a week.
And while, like PhaseShift, I’m not a huge fan of breaching copyright, I could easily embed the whole of, say, Talons of Weng-Chiang or Caves of Androzani on this site via another site that hosts old episodes. At the moment the BBC seems to allow it, or they just don’t know about it, but somehow I doubt that as they show up in a quick search.
I’ll use the excuse that we are actually promoting BG Who and will actually increase interest and DVD sales of BG Who in the long run. Just like the fact that people who illegally download music also buy more music than those who don’t. Well, that’s what I’ll be shouting when they drag me away in chains.
13 June 2013 at 12:35 #12201Hi everyone, am back home after a 7:00am meeting!
Apologies for the spam. They do keep me on my toes, the buggers. Glad you’ve taken it in good humour.
I’ve had a quick look into it, and it looks like one way to stop it happening again would be to only allow private messages between members who have “friended” each other. What do you think about that solution?
I’ll keep looking to see if I can find a more global solution in any case.
13 June 2013 at 05:56 #1219112 June 2013 at 21:44 #12177@tennantmarsters2013 Maybe you caught me on a bad night, maybe I’m wrong, but I’m not going to lose sleep over you never posting again. Feel free to come back when you can contribute something meaningful to the conversation that’s not full of grammatical errors and spelling mistakes. You’ll be most welcome. I promise.
12 June 2013 at 21:29 #12173@tennantmarsters2013 You’ve been warned. Asking what people think after one sentence is an obvious sign of trolling. My rules. I don’t have to justify them to you.
12 June 2013 at 21:05 #12167@tennantmarsters2013 What happened to Geoff? What happened to any other character you’ve seen in any other episode? It’s a ridiculous question without expanding on it. You could have explained that you thought he might be a recurring character because… etc.
I’ve read your post on the Companions topic. It’s okay, but please try to improve your spelling/typing.
And don’t ever end a post with “What does everyone else think?” again or I WILL delete you. I don’t want to see it again. Got that?
People who post long, thoughtful articles can get away with that. At the moment you can’t.
If people like your post they will respond.
12 June 2013 at 20:49 #12164Okay @tennantmarsters2013 Thank you. This is a place for discussion and theorising, so please do that in more than one sentence. We’ve had quite a few people on here doing exactly what you have been doing, posting one sentence questions ending with “what do you think?”. They are trolling and want other people to do a lot of work for them so they can laugh at them from behind their keyboard. That is not the sort of post we want on here. Please give us your theories, but back them up with evidence from the show.
A post starting “I just watched Amy’s Choice again and I think The Dream Lord is The Great Intelligence because…” followed by a couple of paragraphs is exactly what we want.
What we don’t want is you asking what happened to Geoff. You will be ignored.
I’ll take you at your word for now though. You’re on my “Must try harder” list instead. 😉
12 June 2013 at 19:29 #12161@tennantmarsters2013 Please tell us in a more lengthy post why you think the Dream Lord, for that is his name, seems like The Great Intelligence. Otherwise, given your posting history, I will think you a troll and you will join quite few others on my “Consider deleting” list.
11 June 2013 at 19:16 #12140@htpbdet has provided me, via his nephew, with a typically lengthy new blog post on Tom Baker’s Doctor. You can read it here:
http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/the-doctors/tom-baker-the-eccentric-alien-infant/
From his nephew: “He said to tell you he cut out two whole pages. He said you would probably laugh.”
😀
10 June 2013 at 00:21 #12113@scaryb Thanks for the link to the Gaiman tribute. Banks’ death hit me harder than I thought it would, perhaps because it has all been so sudden.
8 June 2013 at 08:45 #12039@wolfweed Another great scoop for British journalism, another low blow for them as well if it’s true.
What happened to everyone keeping a secret for the fun of it? Or just because of ethics and good manners? Sometimes I wish life were more like Anna Karenina.
Still, I hope it’s not that smug twat Dominic Cooper, that may actually stop me watching. Saw him first on stage in The History Boys and haven’t been able to watch him since without thinking violent thoughts, and I’m a pacifist.
Sorry, where are my manners! 😀
7 June 2013 at 23:04 #12024@WilburManot Please give me a reason not to delete you in 24 hours time.
A cogent argument would be be preferred. If I don’t get one, you’re dust.
6 June 2013 at 19:57 #11944Billy Bragg as the next Doctor?
The screwdriver business just gets me confused
Could be a whole host of older Doctors here:
5 June 2013 at 23:36 #11921It’s not really a quirk, it’s the way it’s supposed to work. If you paste a name that’s already linked to a forum member, then @ mention it as well, if it didn’t ignore the @ mention then it’d create a link to a link to a forum member, then the world would probably spiral out of its orbit or something!
The person you’re responding to still gets an email, and anyone reading can still follow the link to the person’s profile.
If you’re going to copy and paste names (in visual mode), I’d say leave off the @. No need for it. Look how I just linked to you by copying and pasting, and without using “pedant” at all.
5 June 2013 at 23:16 #11914Sorry, I should have added, if you are copying and pasting you don’t need the @ symbol at all, that’s why it is happening.
See: Timeloop
5 June 2013 at 23:13 #11912Oh, so it’s not that the name is not the link, just that the @ symbol is not part of the link.
That’s not really a big issue for you is it? Really…?
I thought you were @ mentioning people and it wasn’t turning into a link at all.
The reason that happens is because you copy and paste the name (in visual mode), which is already a link, so when you submit your post it checks and sees there is already a link, so doesn’t create another link using the @ symbol.
Without copying and pasting: @timeloop
With copying and pasting: @Timeloop
5 June 2013 at 18:12 #11891@Shazzbot Done! I don’t think PhaseShift and JimTheFish know how to do that yet. Must let them know.
5 June 2013 at 15:07 #118854 June 2013 at 17:02 #11837Cheers @scaryb , braver than me!
@darkenfasl Why didn’t you say “Over at the South Wales Evening Chronicle we’re running a poll on who you think will be the next Doctor, we’d love it if you took part” instead of being all mysterious about it? You might have got some takers.
4 June 2013 at 16:39 #11833@pedant Cheers – URL has been deleted.
@darkenfasl That URL may have been genuine but masking it via bitly makes it look dodgy. Please don’t do it again. And if that is all you signed up to post I’d request you delete yourself. If you’d like to contribute to our little community though then please feel free.
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