@DenValdron

This is pretty conventional wisdom.

And that’s a lot of people’s problems with the episode right there, because the underlying premise of the episode?

Everything you think you know is wrong. In this case (as in several previous Series 8 episodes) conventional wisdom is wrong.

The big moon rocks are dealt with, incidentally. One…[Read more]

@DenValdron

But you know what? It’s a big world, and there’s certainly room for all the people who like KtM. But that also means there’s plenty of room for me. It’s a good thing.

An excellent thing, indeed.

Hmmm. You didn’t write ‘A Billion Days of Earth’ by any chance.

Naw.  Didn’t have time . . . : )

I’ll go answer a couple of other thing…[Read more]

@purofilion & @denvaldron—

I’m can’t really reply to Den’s thoughts on KtM because I didn’t really read them, only gave them a quick scan for compliance. But I wouldn’t get too exercised by the ‘sound and fury’ business as I’m sure you know it’s a quote from Macbeth being pressed roughly into service by Den.

On which note, however, can we make…[Read more]

@DenValdron    Also Judy Merrill — I was just thinking of a novel she wrote with Cyril Judd, pub. 1952, that remains (in memory, at least) a piece of SF that I loved to bits. She wrote short fiction on her own, but I can’t think of another novel-length piece by her (with or without someone else). And yes, women were being kept in the kitchen a…[Read more]

@DenValdron   Oh, no argument there — I was one of those lots of girls who read SF/F/H as a little, and then a bigger, kid; but nobody was thinking of us “invisibles” in their writing or editing, except for a handful of people.  The field itself was indeed oriented toward young males, and the SF editors by and large clung to that idea long a…[Read more]

@DenValdron

Someone once said that the golden age of science fiction was twelve

But to be fair, that someone was a complete moron

@Purofilion

I’ll be the dissenting voice on Fringe. I am on my second attempt at watching, at the prompting of a friend (having bailed the first time after about 15 episodes). It has two problems for me: one is that…[Read more]

@DenValdron   Good commentary, thank you.  Star Trek was very influential in what must have seemed later a surprising way.  When I started going to SF conventions in the mid-seventies, I was part of a substantial wave of women invading convention-space in vocal numbers (the fan boys *hated* this, but mostly seem to have gotten used to it now).  E…[Read more]

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Hear, hear, @purofilion.

@DenValdron — there’s no doubt in my mind that @burronjor was engaged in a trolling exercise and merely sock-puppetting the same crappy views that he’d been espousing on other sites.I believe @phaseshift and others were 100% correct in the way they treated them and I certainly make no apology for any of my posts on this…[Read more]

@denvaldron @jimthefish

i think torchwood could come back (with jack as the lead, or a completely different cast), but only if it is first revived in the next series of who.  that would be the easiest way to generate interest in it (as with its first go round)… promotional tie-in to the larger franchise.

but… would moffat be willing to help…[Read more]

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@DenValdron

You’ve made a good argument, but the matter simply isn’t definitive.

I don’t think that @Burrunjor has made a good argument throughout his small tenure at the site. What we have is someone who doesn’t want the Doctor to eventually become a woman. He sees the transformation of The Master into a female form as a step on the way. He d…[Read more]

@JimTheFish (I think)  re Osgood’s death: “. . . it was a significant character beat for both the Doctor and the Master. It emphasised that for all her whackiness, Missy is dangerous, lethal even. And it showed the Doctor that by not taking Missy seriously enough, he ended up getting someone killed. Of course, his battles with the Master lead to…[Read more]

@DenValdron @JimTheFish @Craig As the Doctors said in the 50th —
“Loving the posh gravity of brave words Dick Van Dyke” — or in other words
very interesting recent conversations here although a bit snarky but oh well still entertaining
– thanks folks 😉

@DenValdron Many thanks, and no problem. We’re all still learning here – this is new. We’re trying to do something different. We’re trying to be a place where we’re all friends with a shared interest, and what we have in common is what brings us here.

I would like this to be a party for my internet friends. And at my party no one gets angry with…[Read more]