The Doctor Who Forum | ichabod | Activity https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/ichabod/activity/ Activity feed for ichabod. Tue, 29 Sep 2026 09:48:28 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 4bc1fd2775952ff59a51174e898e78b6 ichabod replied to the topic Part 6 - The Vanquishers in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/part-6-the-vanquishers/#post-72686 Thu, 16 Dec 2021 07:45:24 +0000 @dentarthurdent    Thanks, Arthur.  I couldn’t find a date on it, which I thought was weird.

]]> 08279c31cb72caf16ae5ce4c99058a28 ichabod replied to the topic Part 6 - The Vanquishers in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/part-6-the-vanquishers/#post-72679 Wed, 15 Dec 2021 03:35:38 +0000 @missy  — thanks; here’s hoping!  And here’s hoping this link works, for a long and interesting look-back with Moffat that sounds as if was taped just before Chibnal’s seasons started.

]]> cba9ff1293d22de83577af1b28f3ed90 ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-faces-of-the-doctor-2/page/2/#post-72665 Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:44:04 +0000 @dentarthurdent — yep.  I think those fans who where whining that Moffat was “Americanizing” DW may soon begin to realize how good they had it with Moff, and how bloody awful this shift through idiot Chib-bits to Davies might become, if there really is an American connection.  American pop entertainment is witless and awful, by and large, and y…[Read more]

]]> 24096991af97f22795003f3013cffffd ichabod replied to the topic Part 6 - The Vanquishers in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/part-6-the-vanquishers/#post-72664 Mon, 13 Dec 2021 11:16:19 +0000 @juniperfish — Thanks for the explanations!  I completely missed the Azure and Swarm thing about their species being wiped out by the Doctor and Division: when?  Which Doctor?  And why?  The Doctor, whichever one, tried to wipe out TIME?  What the hell?  Surely the Doctor – *any* Doctor — would know better than to try to do that, and then botch…[Read more]

]]> 0e5e609a1670a4e499a2e92d868890a7 ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-faces-of-the-doctor-2/page/2/#post-72656 Thu, 09 Dec 2021 10:15:01 +0000 Oh, my effing gods —

In other words, “superheroes” all the way down, idiotic and meaningless battles all the bloody time, utterly meaningless BS to thrill 14 year old boys of any physical age. I’ll end up curled up in a corner…[Read more]

]]> 1a32ceda540aca12c9a60b0dd05eaadd ichabod replied to the topic Part 6 - The Vanquishers in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/part-6-the-vanquishers/#post-72655 Thu, 09 Dec 2021 08:19:50 +0000 This wrap-up was crazy-making.  I’d re-watch to see if it could be made sense of, but I think I’d rather chew rocks.  It’s almost as if Chibnal said to himself, “So, they thought my first two runs were flat, simplistic, and slow, did they? I’ll show ’em!”

Well, he showed me, anyway.  There was much too much going on, much too fast for ne…[Read more]

]]> c7d6628095bb6460294674f0089ec09a ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-faces-of-the-doctor-2/page/2/#post-72527 Thu, 25 Nov 2021 09:53:15 +0000 @missy — Hell, the inside of MY Tardis looks better than all that melty wax with lights inside — and I don’t even have a Tardis!

@dentarthurdent — 57 of anything is a bit much for me — I’m trying to clear out tons of detritus (lived in this house since 1992, so you probably imagine; sort of.  Why isn’t the Tardis chock full of space…[Read more]

]]> 3794595433632313d3744c513507b416 ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-faces-of-the-doctor-2/page/2/#post-72467 Fri, 19 Nov 2021 07:05:15 +0000 @davidwho — She must be awfully old by now; like most of us . . . !  But yeah, she did a nifty job.  Thanks for the reminder.

@dentarthurdent  — Yes, yes, a pact!  No dying til RTD is back in the saddle and DW takes off again like the wobbly, wild-eyed rocket it’s always been, at its best.  And yes on music, too.  I have somewhat, ah, odd-i…[Read more]

]]> 56d0151a8443bcdc8852f5aaddc208bc ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-faces-of-the-doctor-2/page/2/#post-72455 Thu, 18 Nov 2021 09:40:36 +0000 @dentarthurdent   “A neolithic sex toy” — PERFECT!  I hate that bloody mess of a Tardis with quite a few fibers of my being.

And *I* can remember, as a little girl living on Manhattan’s very un-gentrified West Side in the forties, burly men carrying enormous blocks of ice up the stairs of tenements for people to put in their ice-boxes; and the g…[Read more]

]]> be32668a04f4ac7e8eb3368520e65499 ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-faces-of-the-doctor-2/page/2/#post-72453 Thu, 18 Nov 2021 07:53:43 +0000 @davidwho  — Oh, I don’t forget the eyebrows!  I treasure the memory.  Thanks for congrats on making it to 82 — I forget about it a lot of the time, but then I have to get up and walk somewhere . . . and boy, do I remember!  The Doctor is very old; I can relate!

@mudlark — thanks for the reminder about birthdays!  Libras are the best, espe…[Read more]

]]> bf70c900d3a4a502109fa4570692db34 ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-faces-of-the-doctor-2/#post-72434 Wed, 17 Nov 2021 10:55:47 +0000 @blenkindsopthebrave — dear Brave Blenx, thanks for your welcome and encouragement.  Just passed my 82nd birthday, so I can only hope to hang on long enough to see what Davies will do to rescue the wreckage of the show I loved (well, we all did).

@davidwho — I like your speculation re CapDoc and River.  One of those examples of less is more -…[Read more]

]]> 389c7f916f83d6af400c8ec53abbe9c0 ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor (2) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-faces-of-the-doctor-2/#post-72410 Tue, 16 Nov 2021 01:49:14 +0000 I’m having a tough time with this Flux story, I have to admit (so I’ve been quiet here about the show for a while).  In fact, I couldn’t stick with Chibnul’s most recent episodes, partly because the sound balance is (at least on my TV) awful and I can hardly hear what people are saying (or shouting) over the damned loud, lurchy music.  Either I…[Read more]

]]> 30ff325416198705a32a31049abcf4a0 ichabod commented on the post, Fish fingers, custard & kindness — Looking back at the Steven Moffat era https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/sidrat/fish-fingers-custard-kindness-looking-back-at-the-steven-moffat-era/#comment-4555 Thu, 12 Aug 2021 03:48:36 +0000 @missy — and here am I, even later at reading this essay — really enjoyed it, and the responses.

Missy,  yes; I too have reminded myself of what brilliance and daring Moffat and Capaldi brought to DW, and […]

]]> 0fdd3c85d5a3f0728d201fc7f450966c ichabod replied to the topic Revolution of the Daleks in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/revolution-of-the-daleks/#post-71309 Sun, 03 Jan 2021 07:09:30 +0000 @missrory: I miss the snappier conversations and quiet moments of Twelve’s episodes; a lot of the equivalents here are more like characters lecturing each other, and more telling than showing.

Yes, and yes.  I just don’t like the way Chibnal is writing this.  Everybody keeps explaining stuff to each other, and if there’s a rhythm to the scen…[Read more]

]]> 7588d6a017aaea6d7a26a076ee73bfff ichabod replied to the topic Doctor Who memories in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/doctor-who-memories/page/9/#post-68126 Mon, 23 Sep 2019 07:42:28 +0000 @pedant — Ha!  Wonderful!  There’s jargon, and then there’s self-satirical jargon, but such nuances do tend to get lost outside the fold.

]]> 2ab020b17155d71ef6760c4a66b3b010 ichabod replied to the topic The Kebab & Calculator in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-kebab-and-calculator/page/11/#post-68123 Sat, 21 Sep 2019 23:12:12 +0000 @missy — So sorry to hear about your OH.  I wish you both the best in dealing with it.  The last “good” news I had about cancer was that my opposite number, my daughter-in-law’s mother (who started her own life-long war with this disease when her son went through a bout of it in his teens), died of a recurrence of her own cancer — aged 92.

]]> 383f325a328eba1162803ed8561413e9 ichabod replied to the topic Doctor Who memories in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/doctor-who-memories/page/9/#post-68122 Sat, 21 Sep 2019 22:52:02 +0000 Winston: Maybe a female Doctor will get a whole new bunch of people watching and loving the show so it keeps going.  . . .  I always understood that to be politically correct just meant being polite and kind and being considerate of everyone no matter who they are.

Thank you, Winston; nicely put.  The “origin story” that I’ve read about the ter…[Read more]

]]> 0b743ef5482cf30b0d259a8df3b312c6 ichabod replied to the topic General Music thread 3 in the forum Music https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/general-music-thread-3/page/20/#post-67276 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 10:02:33 +0000 @thane16  Yup, just can’t stay away — civilized and intelligent conversation is much to be prized these days, and youse guys have it.

Yeah, “Innocence” wasn’t wonderful, just pleasant, and that mostly because Nighy is such a pleasure to watch at work.  Speaking for myself, I can’t stand reading Christie — it’s all timetables, “fixed” clocks, a…[Read more]

]]> b790dedb2b08e46ba78becd92035d813 ichabod replied to the topic General Music thread 3 in the forum Music https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/general-music-thread-3/page/20/#post-67272 Wed, 23 Jan 2019 08:51:47 +0000 @thane16  Speaking of Nighy….there’s a strange series -an Agatha Christie – starring the venerable Nighy  that looks  horrorific. Has it been well received in the UK?

Hi, Puro — if you mean, “Ordeal by Innocence”, I saw that on Netflix, I think, and enjoyed it, but I haven’t seen anything by way of reaction to it.

]]> a05df46be3c4b276bff272202e83aaa4 ichabod replied to the topic Forest of the Dead – S30 (4) 9 in the forum The Tenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/forest-of-the-dead-s30-4-9/page/2/#post-66900 Sun, 23 Dec 2018 21:34:55 +0000 @missy  Me, too.  Me, too.

]]> 838bd3253f158e8d68a53d92163880ad ichabod commented on the post, On joy. https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/sidrat/on-joy/#comment-4454 Tue, 18 Dec 2018 04:27:46 +0000 Just read this for the first time — I’d missed it, somehow.  That’s a nice clear summary of what we’ve seen happen, here and elsewhere.

]]> f48fca355800f092aae7c12fd65178f3 ichabod replied to the topic The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-battle-of-ranskoor-av-kolos/page/3/#post-66676 Sun, 16 Dec 2018 05:52:36 +0000 Yes, you’re right!  I remember that one — I saw both versions, and frankly I can’t remember what, if any, differences the differences made.  But of course that says more about me than about the movie . . ,

]]> f7272ca9bc4fc22e3080e91ec1385e3b ichabod replied to the topic The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-battle-of-ranskoor-av-kolos/page/3/#post-66663 Sat, 15 Dec 2018 19:28:48 +0000 Yes, I’d love that — maybe some day, but I doubt it — unless BBC thought they could make Big Bucks from selling that on DVD.  There may be contractual problems with coming around later to do that, too?  At any rate, I doubt they’ll bother . . . maybe some day after the whole program ends.  But I rather have the program keep going, and just im…[Read more]

]]> 4973d93dcbd6ed73d93d8f58bc93543b ichabod replied to the topic The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-battle-of-ranskoor-av-kolos/page/3/#post-66649 Sat, 15 Dec 2018 09:10:47 +0000 @kevinwho  My thought was maybe Graham could have articulated it. I know when I used to watch TV dramas, they’d almost always let the hero express moral superiority over the villain during the climax. So maybe some of us were wishing we’d get something like what I made up over on the fan creativity thre…[Read more]

]]> 54db9a30eac564bb9ac3d9b73b887a9a ichabod replied to the topic The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-battle-of-ranskoor-av-kolos/page/2/#post-66642 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 19:34:08 +0000 @bluesqueakpip  . . . series 12 is on its way and will be returning to BBC One in early 2020

Good!  Thanks.

]]> da389e9f7cbf20c8f89d4139ea164c6a ichabod replied to the topic The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-battle-of-ranskoor-av-kolos/page/2/#post-66628 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 06:33:37 +0000 @bluesqueakpip  . . . the BBC has said ‘early 2020,’ so it’s not two years at all.

Are you sure?  I’ve only seen “2020”.  If it ends up as September 2020, that will be a pretty long wait.  I hope you’re right, and I hope BBC is being realistic, not just optimistic.

 

]]> 4f31e8b9c22956639618b7dda34536bd ichabod replied to the topic The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-battle-of-ranskoor-av-kolos/page/2/#post-66627 Fri, 14 Dec 2018 06:22:13 +0000 @magickinn  The Doctor has companions who have killed before and that has not been a problem for earlier one.  I can see  several of the incarnations having no problem if Graham did it.

I thought that, too, and it’s bugging me.  I’d accept “no killing the bad guys” as a new rule, a result of what the AG Doctors have learned in their more let…[Read more]

]]> aee9dbeb858b4d30137102ba361186a9 ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-faces-of-the-doctor/#post-66612 Thu, 13 Dec 2018 20:10:17 +0000 @kevinwho   . . . in this last season I’ve sometimes felt that whole episodes aren’t showing me a life lesson, they’re telling me what to think.

Yes, sometimes — because she’s telling her companions, our stand-ins, what to think, but with no detectable (to me) emotion and personally-felt experience behind it.  Good grief, maybe my feeling a…[Read more]

]]> 672a7a38d1751e62338e252b6c3fa0d8 ichabod replied to the topic The Faces of the Doctor in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-faces-of-the-doctor/#post-66584 Thu, 13 Dec 2018 07:25:55 +0000 @thane16  Puro  . . . a few people thought “the Doc, on a TANK wearing sunglasses and playing an electric guitar?” That’s not gravitas! That’s baloney!” Except we describe him like this: proud and noble, dignified, dutiful, lofty enough to shit marble when I don’t think 12 was like that much of the time. @ichabod -would you agree?

G…[Read more]

]]> a74933026bfadf2637292bd2cb13f5ac ichabod replied to the topic It Takes You Away in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/it-takes-you-away/page/2/#post-66549 Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:30:59 +0000 @pedant  Talking animals crop up a lot in Studio Ghibli animations, and this story had a bit of a Ghibli feel to it, with an ending that was honest, rather than shoe-horned in sentimental. Spirited Away? Princess Mononoke?

Gad, yes!  “Spirited Away” sticks with me as the best animated fantasy film I’ve seen — I rarely miss a chance to see it a…[Read more]

]]> ceeae7d01a5edb83e1132261e68bb0f4 ichabod commented on the post, Faces of the Doctor: Peter Capaldi - the quixotic, unknowable anti-authority figure? https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/the-doctors/faces-of-the-doctor-peter-capaldi-the-quixotic-unknowable-anti-authority-figure/comment-page-2/#comment-4450 Wed, 12 Dec 2018 08:25:31 +0000 Same!  Been busy — I flew to Portland OR to see a local production of my one and only stage play, in a converted chapel seating maybe 50, and had a good time — apart from nearly being blown off Vista Point and […]

]]> 8a687d04e9f5a57ac44fb6529164290a ichabod commented on the post, Faces of the Doctor: Peter Capaldi - the quixotic, unknowable anti-authority figure? https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/the-doctors/faces-of-the-doctor-peter-capaldi-the-quixotic-unknowable-anti-authority-figure/comment-page-2/#comment-4448 Wed, 12 Dec 2018 07:14:38 +0000 @thane16  Puro — still here, still watching, but not much to comment on here these days, with Capaldi gone and the new order done with its first whole season (barring one special to go, In January).

(waving)

Ichi

]]> f2ff5ad52faa6b0c09fcab1b0102da0f ichabod replied to the topic The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-battle-of-ranskoor-av-kolos/page/2/#post-66506 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 19:39:59 +0000 @kevinwho  . . . too much standing around and talking

Well, likely true for some people, and that’s part of the supposed SJW “issue”.  Grounding your action, when it’s imminent, in establishing clarity re why we’re going to not-kill the creature trying to kill us — that’s got to slow things down a bit (another reason that the “Bad guy!  Q…[Read more]

]]> d85ee6fe8066dcf554cea9a0c01db6dc ichabod replied to the topic On The Sofa (9) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/on-the-sofa-9/page/13/#post-66501 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 18:41:13 +0000 @craig — JEEZ!  One look at your Xmas card, and I almost called the bomb squad!  At least now I’m awake, though, so thank you, and merry thingamabobs to you and all right back!

]]> 8e4ad7bea798a032be619a134ca1c7ad ichabod replied to the topic The Battle of Ranskoor Av Kolos in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-battle-of-ranskoor-av-kolos/page/2/#post-66479 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:44:06 +0000 @rob  This is one of the good things that has come out of the regeneration it makes you think about equality,  hopefully it will make me a better person just by making me think about it.

I’d say so — one of the clear signs of a knee-jerk reactionary is automatic outrage at the fact that The Contentious Issue *has been raised* — “SJW!  …[Read more]

]]> 0531faf4f0bfbadc8bc4cdfbe39601d1 ichabod replied to the topic On The Sofa (9) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/on-the-sofa-9/page/13/#post-66478 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 08:00:40 +0000 @blenkinsopthebrave  Mrs Blenkinsop and I just watched the last episode of series 10 . . . Looking back on that episode, I feel that Moffat could not simply do grand emotion, but grand emotion that was almost operatic.

Nothing “almost” about it — I think it’s the operatic intensity that really caught me up in the Moffat era, because I am a…[Read more]

]]> 627e8061f5e6203df042f6c58b9bc541 ichabod replied to the topic Spoilers (4) in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/spoilers-4/page/4/#post-66477 Tue, 11 Dec 2018 06:55:05 +0000 @thane16  Those who hated Moffat are actually (according to a mate who scours youtube when he’s feeling twitchy) wanting him “back.”

Holy crapolli, didn’t I say so?!  I did.  But you don’t need a crystal ball to see it coming — isn’t it always like that after a hand-off?  Speaking for myself, I don’t actually long for Moffat to come back — I…[Read more]

]]> b2965e83489745e380258d5d7400c2d4 ichabod replied to the topic It Takes You Away in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/it-takes-you-away/page/2/#post-66436 Mon, 10 Dec 2018 18:46:20 +0000 @miapatrick To me the high concept of this series is that the monsters are not just monsters.

Yes, that seems to be a theme here — consistent with a Doctor who’s “heroic” on a deliberately smaller scale, so her companions can share in the heroics on a human scale, instead of having to stretch hard to help rescue a  planet, a species, a u…[Read more]

]]> 27cc8d65413976e19e81d541366b0876 ichabod replied to the topic It Takes You Away in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/it-takes-you-away/page/2/#post-66213 Wed, 05 Dec 2018 17:39:06 +0000 @kevinwho  Yes, I think that’s part of it.  I’m not picking up cues of reflection; thinking (except about how to solve the immediate problem); or really remembering rather than just ticking off a box from the past.  So maybe it’s more a matter of the pacing of the episodes (for those who share this reaction).  They’ve set it for youth, new…[Read more]

]]> 570ca96bf5f1ab489574ef11dad579fe ichabod replied to the topic It Takes You Away in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/it-takes-you-away/page/2/#post-66196 Wed, 05 Dec 2018 05:30:45 +0000 @thane16  You make a good case; and I’m not really looking for an extension of the Moffat/Capaldi tone.  I agree that that was taken as far as it could go within the parameters of the show, and wrapped up pretty well in Season 10.  I don’t miss it, certainly not pining for a repeat; I’m just missing a sense of emotional continuity between that an…[Read more]

]]> 006cf5fef93bda92db0301be73200a64 ichabod replied to the topic It Takes You Away in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/it-takes-you-away/page/2/#post-66193 Wed, 05 Dec 2018 03:51:23 +0000 @arbutus  @thane16  But to me, the baddie was the solitract: luring people with promises of “forever.”  Or not even the solitract, but the refusal to accept reality, let go of the past, and let the dead rest.

Oh, yes; it is our clinging to the past that can never be authentically re-created again for us in the present, that is what’s being declin…[Read more]

]]> 64837b96a6fca9f71dc25bbe4a990ea2 ichabod replied to the topic The Ghost Monument in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-ghost-monument/page/4/#post-66192 Wed, 05 Dec 2018 03:41:27 +0000 @mirime  ‘Timeless Child’ is interesting. I’m torn between wanting to know more and thinking it should just be left as a mystery. There’s such a risk of disappointment and I’m not confident in Chibnall’s abilities yet.

Me too; I’d love to see that bloom into something gripping, something to help anchor this Doctor to her own deep past maybe,…[Read more]

]]> 6bc0c5c12003a309b994991ca0c6d72e ichabod replied to the topic It Takes You Away in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/it-takes-you-away/page/2/#post-66190 Wed, 05 Dec 2018 03:23:53 +0000 @thane16  She’s completely a new person but she still has, deep inside, those memories, that sadness and that loss. It isn’t front and centre. This world is not just about the Doctor anymore. It’s like she steps back to serve. Or, almost, like she’s an idiot in a box, stepping in and out to help when she can.

Agreed — that’s clearly the intentio…[Read more]

]]> baeeaceedcc72ba410356f47bd109909 ichabod replied to the topic It Takes You Away in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/it-takes-you-away/page/2/#post-66175 Tue, 04 Dec 2018 20:17:14 +0000 @arbutus    I’d like to think that the Doctor’s offer was more of a “take me instead”, spur of the moment attempt to save Erik, and that she only realized afterward that she wouldn’t be able to stay.

I like that better, too.  What I missed, though, was some — sense of connection between Doctor and the Solitract — it’s a being from an old Gallif…[Read more]

]]> 7b5fbcf44786467d0316dba6f4fa798f ichabod replied to the topic It Takes You Away in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/it-takes-you-away/#post-66146 Tue, 04 Dec 2018 06:37:04 +0000 @notime   It didnt even try to trick the Doctor or Jaz with memories

Wonder why it didn’t try to draw Ryan in, maybe with a double of his father . . . ?  Or does it have to be a siren — female, singing to men of assured and deathless love?

]]> 5ac75b059d76828325d94aa3305bd172 ichabod replied to the topic It Takes You Away in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/it-takes-you-away/#post-66145 Tue, 04 Dec 2018 06:33:00 +0000 @thane16  @ichabod I think you might like this one?

You’re right; for me, this story had a pleasingly disconnected feeling that I think came with the “through the looking glass” echo — first time I felt that they dared to take off without a clear flight path to an expected landing place (except that a sort of resolution between Ryan and Graham…[Read more]

]]> 3350b00a200fa3ad6cdef38b347305ad ichabod replied to the topic The Kebab & Calculator in the forum General https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-kebab-and-calculator/page/5/#post-66026 Thu, 29 Nov 2018 06:27:30 +0000 @thane16  Happy birthday!

]]> c8395110610b94d62420315b45ad776f ichabod commented on the post, Out of the comfort zone https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/sidrat/out-of-the-comfort-zone/comment-page-2/#comment-4439 Thu, 29 Nov 2018 05:28:06 +0000 @miapatrick  the actors did seem to be working to that reading,

They certainly didn’t shy away from it.  Now I think I see something to watch for here: the emergence of this disparity as an ongoing but not ” […]

]]> 060d8ff92c0483b6d909e35314c41bb1 ichabod commented on the post, Out of the comfort zone https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/sidrat/out-of-the-comfort-zone/comment-page-2/#comment-4437 Tue, 27 Nov 2018 20:07:50 +0000 @miapatrick  I always liked Danny for pointing that out, it seemed to slightly deflate Twelves self image as a wayward rebel. He was a wayward rebel who reeked of privilege.

Yep, neatly put.  I liked that in D […]

]]> c15fb4564fd731dcce8f3cc5d7605a97 ichabod replied to the topic The Witchfinders in the forum The Thirteenth Doctor https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/the-witchfinders/#post-65950 Tue, 27 Nov 2018 04:16:22 +0000 Enjoyed it, might watch again because the ending was so rushed that I can’t sort it out clearly in my head.

I did wonder, though, if the Morax thing would say “imprisoned in the hill or war crimes”.  What, no denial, no self-justification?  Odd.  And I wondered why the Doctor didn’t have some reaction to the high-handedness some deep space Nu…[Read more]

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