The Doctor’s playground:

https://www.facebook.com/futurism/videos/517431408436063/?theater

@puroandson  Son of Puro — Ah, that’s hard.  Lamb and fluids, here’s to ’em.  Thinking of you both tonight.

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@puroandson I would love to write an impassioned plea to Capaldi to stick with 2017 but I fear he may step down too. . .   to me, Moffat presided over the best years of Who by a long shot. I loved RTD but Moffat blew me away -and many others too.

Me too.  But I think we all understand that if he’s not comfortable staying on with CC in charge (…[Read more]

@jimthefish  Re CC as Moffat’s successor Show runner:  He might rise to the occasion. Quite apart from anything else we don’t want to become the Chibnall equivalents of the wailing anti-SM brigade. Let’s judge him on the work.

Sounds good to me.  Even if his writing skills aren’t that great, he might come up with some good arcs and find excell…[Read more]

I am full of foreboding, but fending it off with a cheap but tasty red table wine which lives in a wire wine rack on top of the fridge (no cellars around here, to speak of).  I do see that Steven Moffat has done, as he said in an interview recently, “a ridiculous amount of Doctor Who” and must be ready for pastures new.  But I hate it that he’s t…[Read more]

@toinfinityandbeyon   Yep, just came across this — so it looks as if they’ve found their crucial spare part.  I’ve got mixed feelings about this, since “Broadchurch” bored me to death, but what the heck — the only *really* difficult bit is waiting til spring of 2017 to see what they come up with!

A year; a whole year!  The reasoning makes se…[Read more]

@pedant   [Moffat] tries not to back future writers into corners – nor be backed into a corner.

That’s exactly what drives the plot obsessives crazy.  They want canon at any cost, but Moffat protects the flexibility of the show by keeping some issues undefined or unresolved.  I think some of the obsessives can’t tell the difference between plot-…[Read more]

@janetteb   You go, girl!  That’s exactly my idea of a solution.  If ever there was a TV show that invites the viewer to fill in gaps and obscurity with their own ideas, DW is it — and that’s part of the fun, IMO, part of the invitation to the viewer to be more than just a passive watching of events.  Love that aspect of DW, although I know tha…[Read more]

@pedant   Thanks.  It’s never bothered me that much, but I know some fans have tied themselves in knots over it . . .

@puroandson  PuroSolo  Damn.  I left off the “g” — Pangborn, not pan-born!  Yes, that’s the duet.  And if you know Mozart, you really don’t need to know Pangborn, just to keep things in perspective . . . !

@puroandson  PuroSolo, lecture your heart out, I know just about enough to follow and enjoy.  Have you ever read an old SF novel by Edgar Panborn called “A Mirror for Observers”, SF/fantasy, beautifully written and containing as a crucial element, as I recall, a performance of the Waldstein?  I think I learned to aspire to write evocatively ab…[Read more]

@grannym  @purandson  I have to admit that I haven’t looked back at BG Who much — I saw most of the classic series as they aired, and enjoyed them for the novelty of this shape-shifting (within limits!) space grampa and his traveling companions, in what passed for outer space on tv in those days; and for the UK wit, which has always appealed to m…[Read more]

@craig    Egad, man, that’s fun!  Thanks.

@puroandson  PuroSolo  — Well, maybe someday I’ll get myself invited to an Ozzie SF con, and swing by — not likely, but you never know . . . Thanks for the kind thought, anyway.

Poetry — I only have a few scraps of it engraved on the inside of my skull (“From too much love of living . . . ”  Just found that misquoted on a page about Sw…[Read more]

@doctordani   Capaldi’s doctor is an odd mix of being the most stand-offish and the most accessible, which therefore makes him the most complex and three-dimensional. I think he’s so likeable because of his flaws, and because of the depth the man who plays him brings to the party.

Too true.  The melancholy Scot air that Capaldi uses goes much d…[Read more]

@pedant    Also, look around you. There’s actually intelligent discussion going on, right now, but you you are too busy being outraged to partake.

Oh no, you’ll drive Stampy away, and it really is a bit too much fun to keep him/her around a bit, n’est pas?  That said,  ain’t it always the way?  Too busy being “clever”, that one, to even try to…[Read more]

@pedant   Yup!

@doctordani  . . . introducing ambiguity about the ‘hybrid’ had a greater purpose here, and was a set up for that discussion between him and Ashildr about why he’s so preoccupied with protecting Earth, i.e. because he’s half human

Well, it keeps that bit of kerfuffle alive, I suppose, and anything that maintains DW’s flexible backstory is worth…[Read more]

@purandson  PuroSolo — You are so welcome!  Just think — 20,000 Strand cancellations would be significant even today.  “Justifiable homicide” indeed!  I’ve read some of ACD’s comments in correspondence.  I went through my Sherlock Holmes phase like almost everyone else, in my teens, and read at least one biography of ADC — and that was well…[Read more]

About ACD and Holmes, and the reaction to his “death” —

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160106-how-sherlock-holmes-changed-the-world