The Doctor Who Forum | elbalk-kev | Mentions https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/elbalk-kev/activity/mentions/ Activity feed mentioning elbalk-kev. Mon, 27 Jul 2026 02:07:14 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 191d3c22763b3ec27bde4a1aad5227ea Spider replied to the topic Last Christmas in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/last-christmas/page/6/#post-36910 Sun, 04 Jan 2015 01:27:10 +0000 @elbalk-kev  As already said I think others here have already summed it up. I basically don’t agree with most of what you say, but you do make some good points and I myself have rolled my eyes countless times at the bad science in Doctor Who. In particularly recently Kill The Moon and Forest Of The Night which just pushed things over the top over…[Read more]

]]> 5f9196e858277e0b0cf63b95bf9bb5c6 Mudlark replied to the topic Last Christmas in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/last-christmas/page/6/#post-36897 Sat, 03 Jan 2015 22:22:03 +0000 @arbutus   The Master as Wile E Coyote  –  absolutely spot on! Brilliant 🙂

@elbalk-kev   There is not much I can add to what has already been said in response to your post; I pretty much endorse the views expressed by @JimThe Fish, @arbutus and @pedant.  The only authority I can bring to bear on the subject is that of someone who was (at least…[Read more]

]]> 09950b2df9d23e7e4666825e613c244c IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan replied to the topic Last Christmas in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/last-christmas/page/6/#post-36893 Sat, 03 Jan 2015 19:40:18 +0000 @elbalk-kev

What are these dream crabs? Where did they come from

Explained here for the benefit of plot obsessives.

Well, I’m here to say that some of us are paying attention.

But not you, apparently.

 It stood the test of time because the internal logic was respected

You have clearly watched very little Who. The amount of contradictory cruft bui…[Read more]

]]> 612dc87db3da4e4d5181bb878e4593c7 Arbutus replied to the topic Last Christmas in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/last-christmas/page/6/#post-36889 Sat, 03 Jan 2015 19:16:32 +0000 @elbalk-kev       While you aren’t the only viewer who would like to see a different approach to the science in Doctor Who, I don’t think it’s fair to simply reduce that criticism to a generic one of “bad writing”. I think that the underlying themes of AG Who have always skewed toward the metaphysical and emotional; RTD brought in the character-d…[Read more]

]]> fcc0cc043f26c801e05047fec7669a08 JimTheFish replied to the topic Last Christmas in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/last-christmas/page/6/#post-36888 Sat, 03 Jan 2015 19:09:10 +0000 @elbalk-kev — I suspect @pedant will be along in a moment for a proper word, but in the meantime, I’ll have a nibble on this tasty bait.

 The original concept of the show was to be a children’s’ science show

It really wasn’t. Historical educational definitely, but the scientific content has always been more or less total drivel.

As it matu…

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