@denvaldron —

I disagree.  You seem to adopt a binary yes/no, off/on  approach to canonicity.  Frankly, that’s a dubious proposition and supported by… nothing much.   My own view, which is at least as legitimate, is that it is a matter of weighting and evaluation.

No, I’m not a massive fan of canonicity anyway, which is why I applauded Moffat’s…[Read more]

@JimTheFish @CathAnnabel @DenValdron

I’ve been a bit busy with other things (working on a new social network for a friend… thinks he’s going to be the next Mark Zuckerberg) so have taken my eye off the ball recently. For that I apologise. And for the lack of a Peter Davison episode this weekend. Will be one next weekend. Promise.

Den, the kool…[Read more]

@denvaldron —

 And how are  yours not combative, aggressive and with a bit of ARSE

First of all, the use of ARSE on this site has a very specific meaning — A Raging Sense of Entitlement — used to describe a certain strata of fan,the key traits of which @burrunjor was clearly demonstrating. There’s a blog on it in the archives. I suggest you l…[Read more]

@denvaldron — sorry, but no. What points @burrunjor had to make were done in a combative way from the start and aggressive towards long-standing members of this site. And, yes, I consider much of it trolling, with more than a bit of ARSE about it. What’s more, it’s clearly affected the level of discourse on this thread and to pander to it is to…[Read more]

Ordinarily I’d have said please don’t feed the troll but on this occasion it has gleaned some decent discussion.

Leaving aside the idiocy of most of @Burrunjor‘s post, I concur with most that it matters not a jot what Delgado or Pertwee or indeed the BBC canteen lady of the time thought was the relationship between the Doctor and the Master. If…[Read more]

@JanetteB  @DenValdron  @ScaryB   I loved BG Who as a kid, but now I have a hard time watching the older shows.  They just don’t hold my attention the way they once did.  That doesn’t make them lousy, or invalidate my taste then or now; just c’est la vie, and more my loss than anything else, when I think about it.

As for S8, I liked it, part…[Read more]

Just re reading my post and I see why you missed my point in that paragraph. I was going to list all the things that were good about BG Who but being in a rush decided that they were well understood and did not require listing so my apologies. I think you have done that for me now @DenValdron.

Cheers

Janette

There has been much lunacy between the Delgado Master and Missy. It could be argued that the Master has traveled steadily down the lunacy path ever since The Deadly Assassin (see the conversation over there on the same subject). I’m not sure how I feel about that, and frankly, the Delgado Master was always my favourite, but it’s hard to deny tha…[Read more]

Hi . A couple days ago i posted a Torchwood Miracle Day theory and @denvaldron asked me how my theory explained Jack becoming mortal in Miracle Day . I did answer his question but now I have another answer for his question . My other answer is when The Blessing took Jacks blood it used the Bad Wolf that was connected to his blood to make the…[Read more]

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@DenValdron  Oh, I agree — Frobisher is irrelevant to CapDoc’s face-choice unless there’s some deliberate manipulation going on behind the scenes that *made* him relevant but in a hidden way.  Many fans, though, seem to have no problem bracketing Lobus and Frobisher together as being part what needs to be explained in S9.  I think that’s a pr…[Read more]

well @DenValdron if you will use that grey standard avatar, that confusion is likely to happen.

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@DenValdron Thanks for working these things out. I’ve generally thought of the two previous Capaldi roles together (that is, as both “needing” an explanation (if you’re the sort who needs one — I’m not, but it does keep cropping up). This comes from the many articles and interviews in which both doppelgängers* are raised as if they are the same…[Read more]

@denvaldron We know that ” The Blessing ” took Jacks blood to make every one immortal but , if my theory is right it was not the blood . It took Jacks DNA and used the ” Bad Wolf ” that was locking on to Jacks blood and , formed the morphic field , but the ” Bad Wolf ” was in the form of DNA so that’s why other peoples DNA interfere with Jacks…[Read more]

@ichabod No probs 🙂

@DenValdron Many thanks and I completely understand. I have enjoyed those of your reviews I’ve had time to read although have not quite found the time to watch any of the films yet. But I will. I have also appreciated your earlier writing on this site, and your writings on Edgar Rice Burroughs elsewhere.

We have tried to…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip @DenValdron @ichabod @Pedant and anyone I may have missed.

There seems to have been a bit of growing tension recently. Could I please ask everyone to respect each other’s opinions? I’d like the discourse on here to remain convivial. We’ve done a great job of that so far and I’d like it to continue. As it says in our Etiquette, “…[Read more]

@Denvaldron

As for being concise, that’s just a tool.

No. It is a craft and, in this waffly age of epic fantasy, perhaps the single most underrated. I know many perfectly decent writers who are pathologically incapable of meeting a deadline because they are incapable of writing to  a brief and being concise.

Maybe that is as good a working de…[Read more]