@denvaldron  The planned production fell through due to lack of funds on my part and lack of time on the director’s part, but I’ve been looking lately at reviving it as a slightly less ambitious project. I’ve gone back to my original idea of giving it a sort of indie feel rather than a full-on TV style adventure.

At the moment I’m doing what I…[Read more]

Thanks all for the welcomes.

@denvaldron  Fortunately I’ve learned how to walk away from online arguments since my last foray into forums, Den. I’d strongly recommend it to anyone! Don’t get involved in endless back-and-forth bickering, if someone disagrees with you, that’s their prerogative, but don’t get drawn in if they provoke an argument.…[Read more]

@ichabod;

I’ve thought that about Steven too. You only haver to see how he sits on a chair, with a sort of swagger. *grins*

He is quite sure of his own genius and doesn’t mind showing it but I don’t care, the man is brilliant.

Finally saw the video, thank you so much ichi, loved it.

@denvaldron: Although i shall keep out of the ongoing d…[Read more]

@DenValdron

See, if only your original post had been that concise instead of hogging a board, for which posts of that length are not well suited, like a fat man in the back seat of a Boeing 737…

You didn’t come up with a theory, you saw the face of Jesus in the smoke and wondered if it was the same face of Jesus as when the same people set a…[Read more]

@DenValdron

Fucking hell. Writers recycle ideas, while producers and their lawyers understand intellectual property law.

Who’da thunk itzzzzzzzz…

(T’Pol, in Star Tek: Enterprise was going to be called T’Pau (Spock’s mother (grandmother? Can’t remember, don’t care) but then they realised they would have to pay a fuck off big residual…[Read more]

Finally got to watch and enjoyed far more than I expected after reading all the comments this afternoon. Certainly not one of the best but that does not make it bad and  I suspect it will improve on re watch but might not be an episode that invites repeated re watches.

@Phaseshift, That uniform did indeed seem like a nod to B.5 There have been…[Read more]

@denvaldron: Maybe the Zygons modified the Skarasens to be more like giant earthworms.  After all, something was needed to dig all of their tunnels …

@DenValdron

I’d imagine that in the forty (or thirty) years since we last saw the Zygons, they’ve discovered how to produce lactic fluid in the lab.

More canonically, Strax claims that he’s gene-spliced himself to produce magnificent quantities of lactic fluid, so it’s reasonable to suppose that the Skarasens are now happily swimming undisturbed…[Read more]

@DenValdron     @Bluesqueakpip

Both are great explanations. This also makes more clear the problems that the Doctor had in The Angels Take Manhattan, where, in reading the book from the future, the Doctor was turning things into fixed points, because if he knew they would happen, he couldn’t prevent them happening.

@DenValdron and @Purofilion

I agree with DenValdron – the climber can be saved, but only if the Doctor hasn’t seen him die. The fall has become ‘fixed’ by the action of the Doctor seeing it.

I talked about this in my blog Wibbley Wobbly, Timey Wimey – specifically, it’s the bit where the Doctor visits Blackpool and breaks his arm – but doesn’t,…[Read more]

@denvaldron

Is that why the audience seems to be going away? The ratings this season have been between 2/3 and 1/2 of previous seasons. I don’t think this is explained by changes in television

I invite you to make whatever point you have on ratings in a blog, setting forward whatsoever point you wish to make. Simply because it’s not the f…[Read more]

DW is ONE TV show, that went on a significant hiatus. This is why I call current programs S34 instead of S9; Jon Pertwee was the Doctor for S9.

The key word is ‘significant’. And much had happened in between, both in the world of Who and in the world of entertainment generally. It’s foolish to try and assert that it’s a case of ‘it was off air…[Read more]

The question of the Doctor as romantic lead is interesting too. I think that the Doctor in all his incarnations is fundamentally a very attractive character. A lot of the qualities that seem to be basic to him are qualities which I think are generally appealing. So it seems perfectly believable to me that when he appears in a physical guise that…[Read more]

@DenValdron

The ratings this season have been between 2/3 and 1/2 of previous seasons.

Oh for heaven’s sake. Please try to understand how ratings are put together before commenting. Who’s viewership has been around the 7-8m mark since the return, other than a substantial peak during the Tennent exits specials (to around 11m).

However, in 2005…[Read more]

@denvaldron

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.

I disagree; I don’t think the…[Read more]

@DenValdron

Hmmm… yes, I agree you could see the second and third McCoy series as Absurdist in the sense of Pinter or Stoppard. There’s frequently a sense of a menace in the background that we, the audience (and our audience avatar, Ace) can sense but don’t really understand. Ghostlight is definitely a story of people trapped in an…[Read more]

@DenValdron

Old news. It’s even on IMDB.