@lisa   Oh, I like your take on the youthful Doctor/Master connection — very nice!

@theviking   Sorry that link isn’t working for Deep Breath; I don’t know whether you might find that episode on Youtube or not, but it might be worth a look.  Good luck!

@crieshavoc  That could work as a pattern for the development of a young hotshot brain into some one breaking free from rigid expectations that understanding your enemy is pe…[Read more]

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@purofilion   Um, don’t want to do spoilers, but the, ah, black leather and — want to go over to Spoilers?

@purofilion   We had no kids in the house at that time, so I never noticed the ratings for Farscape.  I’d have judged it as fine and dandy until The Chair, not just because it was extended sadism, but because as I recall there was a fairly clear erotic charge to those scenes as well — which would probably fly right over the heads of k…[Read more]

@Wisht    Ah, the great Vincent Price . . . How well I remember cowering in my seat with my eyes covered while that same sister jeered at me for not understanding that it was ALL MAKE-UP — we were seeing “House of Wax”, which would have scarred me for life had I been so foolish as to believe her and continue watching.  And to think that, de…[Read more]

@PhaseShift  What??!!!  Shooting gamma rays — !  Bizarre and strange barely begin to describe it . . . is there a type of bedrock that doesn’t irradiate us?  I have read that building bricks are supposed to be significant emitors, but I’ve gotten the sense that pretty much everything is, one way or another, which means that beings living clo…[Read more]

@PhaseShift  re “The Magical Negro”, a trope that does hark back, IMO, to “The Noble Savage” (see Tonto, the Lone Ranger’s sidekick, as a sort–of transitional figure between these two categories: a “savage” who is noble enough to pretty much ignore his own people and their ongoing oppression and go off to help a White hero out of scrapes with…[Read more]

@PhaseShift — Farscape: yep, that was me, on the torture issue.  It’s very much a personal limit thing, of course, since an awful lot of stories, great and small, are *about* the protagonist being wrung out and driven by terrible events up to and including actual torture, and where you start feeling heavily manipulated by extended scenes of…[Read more]

Well, hot diggity dog — I am the Doctor!  I’m not really 2,000 yrs old, though, even if I sometimes *feel* that way.  But “many mistakes”?  Um.  Yas . . . might as well cop to it.  Still chuffed, though.

Best of all, the long wait is nearly over — Anybody know how the schedule works?  Will they be done with all the actual shooting — and proba…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip   Ha, well, good; my disposition isn’t that cheerful these days, and I don’t recommend it to anyone else.

As for the calculations — damn it, *this* is why I generally stay far, far away from time travel (in my own work, anyway, and often in the SF of others): I just can’t keep all these fixed points + all the moving ones in my…[Read more]

@theviking  Here <http://www.dailymotion.com/us&gt;; this seems to be working.