For those who are interested in all things Who related, there’s apparently going to be a K9 movie.

K9, for all you who did not ride to school on dinosaurs, was a robot dog from the 56th century picked up by Tom Baker’s Fourth Doctor, and Louise Jameson’s Leela in a serial about a giant virus – I think it was called Invisible Enemy.   The c…[Read more]

@nerys   I’m the opposite myself.  But I recognize that the showrunners are opting for emotional and relationship payoff, and shorting rationality and coherence.   I don’t necessarily see the two as being opposed.  But I do see a prioritization of one and a rather shrifty attitude to the second.   Eh, so it goes.

@bluesqueakpip   The thing you have to keep in mind with McCoy is that the first two stories  Time and the Rani and Paradise Towers were commissioned before McCoy was even hired on as the Doctor.  They were literally writing these stories for a blank slate.  In particular, Pip and Jane Baker were initially writing the Rani story for Colin Bake…[Read more]

For the record, the Tharils were a race of ‘Lion-men’ encountered in the Tom Baker serial, Warrior’s Gate. They were a race that exhibited time sensitivity, and could shift through time and space. They had once ruled a vast empire, where they were notable for their cruelty. By the time the Fourth Doctor encountered them in E-Space, their empire…[Read more]

Is anyone else surprised that the Lionman didn’t turn out to be a Tharil? Especially given the references to the Tereleptils and Captain Jack?

@purofilion I’m sorry for whatever it is that has you hanging about in a hospital. I hope for a full and happy recovery for any party involved, or barring that, freedom from pain. As for my father = he fought cancer for 12 years, he lived the life he wanted, and when he passed there was no pain. There’s much worse things. Ultimately, death…[Read more]

@purofilion Dude, by now, you should know what I am like. I am insanely detail oriented and massively inclined towards precision. That translates to being a giant pain in the ass. But I don’t know any other way to be. And frankly, I just buried my father less than a week ago so I’m not really enthralled with or invested in the whole social…[Read more]

@purofilion. I blame the Monk. Or the Rani. Or I just accept that the Doctor Who universe is just not the same place as our universe.

@Ichabod Hmmm. Kaput. Well, in geological terms everything is pretty fast and shocking when you get to human beings. But the decline of the Norse… that took place in different ways, over decades or a century or two. It’s kind of hard to fix. The Newfoundland settlement at L’Anse au Meadows (sic) seems to have been abandoned quickly. It…[Read more]

@purofilion I really have to wonder if you were dealing with Electric Eels rather than regular Eels or another species. Electric Eels do not breed in captivity, and from my understanding, occupy only shallow, silty/cloudy lakes and ponds in a narrow region of the tropics of the new world – the Amazon and Orinoco, pretty close to the equator. I…[Read more]

On reflection, maybe we shouldn’t be referring to the big bad critter as the F.King. It could be misinterpreted.

@purofilion It was brief. I was trying to coherently condense 500 years of history, subsistence economy, the nature of a marginal culture whose very marginality lead to the development of certain skill sets, two major climactic…[Read more]

@purofilion Did you ask me about Norse? I thought you did, but I can’t find it here.

Kasterborus is the Constellation in which Gallifrey and it’s star system is located.

That doesn’t make any sense at all because a Constellation is simply a random assortment of stars which looks kind of like a shape or pattern when viewed from a certain vantage point.

I’m not sure if our sky actually has a Kasterborus constellation.

It’s…[Read more]

@purofilion Okay, I’m going to make this quick. The Norse were marginal pastoralists who eked out a living on a mixed subsistence package in Scandinavia. Essentially, they were pretty close to the arctic circle and a lot of the southern agricultural package based on grains didn’t work. The most northerly grain was barley, which was used to make…[Read more]

@purofilion Good lord no! This and the Alternate History forum are the only places where I post about Doctor Who. I’m just a gigantic nerd is all.

@purofilion Actually, Plainolddave’s experience wasn’t uncommon. In North America, Doctor Who played on the PBS (Public Broadcasting) stations, that was exclusively Tom Baker. Tom Baker’s Doctor had a whopping 41 serials available, so what PBS would do, was they would run each serial as an individual movie on Friday nights. It was popular, so…[Read more]

Ah, update.

http://scifi.stackexchange.com/questions/3518/when-does-the-doctor-cease-being-president-of-gallifrey

Okay, near as I can work it out from this –

The Fourth Doctor was President of Gallifrey for an extended period into the Fifth Doctor period. He was usurped by Borusa in the Arc of Infinity and Five Doctors, but at the end with…[Read more]

Not a bad episode, overall. Some nice moments.

@Jeff Maisie’s all tied up with Game of Thrones for the foreseeable future, so no, I don’t think she’d be available as a companion.

Okay, people are going to hate me for this but….

* They didn’t call themselves Vikings. They called themselves Norse. Viking was what they did. Viking was the act of jumping in a ship, sailing off to some village, beating the crap out of everyone, stealing their stuff and making off. No big deal.

* They didn’t actually wear horns on their…[Read more]