You know, I’m beginning to like this spin-off of yours a little too much. Not sure whether the real Dr Who will be a disappointment from now on 😉

@brewski

Ha ha, brilliant 🙂

“Have you seen my pretty knickers?”

Said with his head in a copy of “Judoon for Beginners” 🙂

@brewski

since its it’s The Master I think instead of Matrix it would be Dominatrix.

ha ha. I won’t be googling that one 🙂

Thanks @handles. That was a bit surreal.

I don’t think I know any tunes about (or performed by) mummies. But here is a nice, upbeat song about the risen dead.

@wisht @brewski

If you did a search for that costume, then…

It’s strange, I’ve started getting some very unusual adverts in my Facebook sidebar.

But loving the incompetence angle!

Me too 🙂

On that note, could I suggest:

– Speaks 5 billion languages. Badly. Often resorts to pointing and shouting in Gallifreyan.

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@brewski

I’m thinking of something in black leather.
Or possibly rubber…

I like it. Very Matrix. (I assume you’re thinking of the Matrix? I did an image search for black rubber/leather costumes and – well, the less said the better.)

@brewski

That’s inspired, I love it 🙂 Have you had any thoughts about the costume?

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@badwulf I’m developing an addiction to TV tropes now, by the way 🙂

@fatmaninabox

It totally spoils the story if you can’t just *believe* in the fatman. 🙂
Ooh, I like it. Can I adopt that as my motto? 😀

(Tea through nose moment.)

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@badwulf

The Doctor’s actions could therefore only be seen as responsible to Courtney if he already had knowledge that the detonation was aborted somehow.

There is another option, I think. When Lundvik asks “how do we kill it?” the Doctor says they can kill the creature with nukes “if they still work”. That’s a pretty big if – and Lundvik d…[Read more]

@arbutus

there is more than one theory regarding the origins of the moon.

And not all of them are as believable as the giant space egg idea: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship_Moon_Theory

The policeman in Deep Breath says that he thinks the dinosaur has laid an egg – does he have a troubling grasp of biology? Or does he perhaps know…[Read more]

@phileasf I really like your Amy’s memories explanation for everything, and the Moon Dragon as a metaphor, and thought your point about the Doctor being/not being an officer was brilliant!

Re: the Doctor not knowing the future. In Cold Blood, humans and Silurians negotiate their respective futures on the Earth (the Doctor does not involve…[Read more]

I got off to a bad start with this episode and the whole “she says she’s gone off the rails because you told her she wasn’t special” thing… It was that slapped-in-the-face-with-a-wet-fish feeling that I sometimes get when character and plot points are established via a one-sided dialogue. (What’s that Lassie? Timmy fell into the well?)

But…[Read more]

@whisht Yes of course, the time war book – I’d forgotten all about that

Won’t be able to watch tonight’s episode for a while (as a friend has somewhat annoyingly decided to get married today).

But to sum up – things I’ll be watching out for this week:
Suppression of human instinct/emotion/thought
Chess references
Theme of…[Read more]

@purofilion I definitely think the show has been drawing attention to (hammering us over the head with) its own fictionality for quite some time. (“The Pandorica? But that’s a fairy tale” “Oh, Doctor. Aren’t we all?”) The Pandorica is just a story – then turns out to be real – ah, but then we learn that it is a fiction after all – constructed from…[Read more]

Hello @whisht. I was thinking only yesterday about you and your crossword analogy from a couple of threads ago. (I think I’ve realised my own approach is to leave the crossword blank, wait for the next day’s paper, look at the answers, and say “I KNEW it”) 🙂

but where’s the fun and learning in that?

I couldn’t agree more.

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@purofilion

My antennae pricked up when you mentioned Brecht 🙂

Casting my mind back bit, I think Brecht opposed a naturalistic “copying of reality” in favour of a very weird, unnatural sort of expressionism. He didn’t want to lull his audience into suspended disbelief. He wanted them to remain alert to the fact that the play was a fiction.…[Read more]

@mudlark

On BBC iplayer, Dr Who is listed in the “Drama and Soaps” category. So still officially “drama”.

When we say “there was far too much (or not enough) drama for me this episode” and things of that nature, we’re using the word in a very different way, I think.

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@oblique I’ve only seen a couple of Sherlock episodes but would really like to catch up at some point. I suppose if Moffat wanted to make a cheeky link between the two, this would be a good episode for it (The lone scientist.)

As to whether it worked – I didn’t even notice it, so yes and no 🙂

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@arbutus As to the notion of drama, my thinking is more in line with yours, I suspect. My (received) idea of drama is something serious. Comedy and adventure and monsters from Mars don’t really fit.

But beginning to re-think my definition based on the comments I’ve read.

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