@Ichabod

I know of Benford cause I read 1 of his novels about Mars when I went  thru my  space phase.

I think if I recall it was about a rich guy paying for a expedition to Mars?

Elon Musk and Space X  stuff and  getting  a settlement on Mars – but he wrote about

doing  this years before Elon.   That’s only  why I remember it cause its a r…[Read more]

@mudlark

I’ve never been too bothered with Moffat’s (and his writers’) leg pulls. I have no more problem with a bit of hand-wavy oblique reference to Pope Joan (anachronistic art style or not) than with the tendency to chuck the word “quantum” about with gay abandon (or, for that matter, straight abandon and gender-non-binary…[Read more]

@ichabod

‘Timescape’ is one of those novels which has stuck with me, too; much exposition and not a word wasted.  Those in the doomed present who send the messages back to their counterparts in the past cannot avert their own fate but, though they will never know it, they succeed in creating an alternative future for those who receive the…[Read more]

@ichabod and the story of the frog and scorpion:

Are we here to learn to be heroes — ethical, empathic, reasonable, and kind — by simply refusing to be scorpions?  Without hope, without recognition or reward and often without even success, to reach always toward the good because we choose to?

Well, the moral of the story I and others have comm…[Read more]

@thane15  Sorry about that Thane.  I’ll try to be better in the future.  🙂

@ichabod  Glad to hear from you!  Yes, I was actually thinking about “The Scorpion and the Frog” earlier tonight/today (this is a day off from work, and I work odd hours).  Between this gloomy unfolding storyline — so much to anticipate and dread in the coming weeks…[Read more]

(Puro). Stop trying to blind me with science!  *huge grin*

Gin and tonic, my favourite tipple, well, that and Champagne – or what passes as same. You? Hide behind the sofa? Never!

@pedant: The ‘blue object’ mentioned by me, is in the flippin’ trailer. How can it be a spoiler? Or do you mean that I shouldn’t mention it anyway? Sounds a bit…[Read more]

@ichabod It’s nice to know I’m not the only one with the jitters. It was wonderful to watch Oxygen and get to the darker side of this season. While the other episodes this season were fine, there was just a feeling that they were going to be left behind very quickly and the season wouldn’t pick up until we saw something that will carry on…[Read more]

@missy @ichabod

That blue item has been mentioned already in the BBC Spoilers thread, where it belongs.

@thane15

Hallelujah, indeed!

@janetteb   I am thinking that the Doctor’s promise may be about more than just watching the vault. If his promise was to watch over Bill (as I speculated somewhere probably on another thread), then he is free to travel provided she is with him.

You could be right on the money there. Exciting isn’t it, all this speculation.

As for : Chris is sti…[Read more]

@wolfweed: Thanks for that. I am always listening to audio books, if not them, Radio 4 Extra. I shall have a trawl at my library.

@missrori: I’ve never heard of them.

@ichabod: Yes, I do know what you mean, and he does do that! As martin Freeman said about Sherlock, everything is going along nice and evenly, then WHAM you get a shock! I am really…[Read more]

@ichabod   Agh.  My heart sinks . . .

Yes, indeed! Talent over chums anyday.

@ichabod  When Bill finds out what happened to his eyes she’ll be so sad…but perhaps she will be the one who heals him!

Remember the story of “Rapunzel”?  Maybe it will be like that.  😉

@ichabod Exactly.  People with guns to their heads can’t mourn!

Twelve especially doesn’t regard himself as a good man, but rather an idiot who’s still learning.  But more than he has in a while, he is willing to accept that he can’t always be nice, that his good intentions sometimes have bad consequences he has to cope with, and that he can’t b…[Read more]

Hey @pufferfish, the idea that the Doctor may have spent time traveling elsewhere between those last two scenes in “The Pilot” isn’t farfetched — or unprecedented.  The idea floated that the Ninth Doctor had a much longer life than depicted on screen was the basis for the short story “The Beast of Babylon” (from the 50th anniversary…[Read more]

@ichabod:  It makes him a “good man”. 

True, but as he said to Clara – “Goodness, has nothing to do with it.”

Derek Jacobi was a fine Master. He made me shiver.

Puro:  I’m running out of ideas.

And I’ve stopped trying. all will be revealed – eventually. I do enjoy reading all the posts though, and Who knows, one of you might be right.

Missy

@ichabod: *snort*  Was it Red or White wine?

Two things, that have been puzzling me. I know I should mention them on the appropriate threads. But here goes anyway.

In Dark Water, when Clara threatens – and indeed does –  to  throw all seven keys into the lava. thus preventing the Doctor ever  entering  the Tardis again.  The fact that he often…[Read more]

@ichabod     And — how ultimately there’s only “room” for one Doctor in the Tardis, as CapDoc said in S8.  We can have an uneasy and demanding team of (more or less) two Docs for a bit, but not, it seems, in the long run.

Yes. And who but a Doctor travels through space and time with a stolen Type 40 Tardis and a companion?

@fivefaces   [Read more]

@ichabod I must not have any standards, either. I too have loved Capaldi’s magician’s coat, the guitar, the sunglasses, the “fading rock star” aspects of this Doctor. Why wouldn’t he explore that aspect of musicality merged with personality? It seems so very Doctor-like, to play with human personae and see if they fit.