Just to add to the ongoing Netflix story. If you’re watching Who on UK Netflix then get your watching in now as it may not be there after April. In fact, I’d assume it isn’t going to be.

@allonsy — DVDs are cool n all but don’t let it curtail the comic book consumption too much….

@wolfweed—

Big hello to the wolfy-weedy one. Good to see you’re still around….

@craig, @pedant, @allonsy—

I’d put money on there being an aggressive Who promotion on the BBC online store over the summer…

@OB-Wan— Capaldi’s contract will be based on x amount of episodes, not on him being contracted for any specific period of time. We already know that he’s been contracted for s10. When they’re broadcast is probably beside the point.

All the current reports have filming starting in early March (slightly later than usual, which is what led to much…[Read more]

@riker666— welcome to the forum. Interesting list. Generic bookies’ list, of course, but interesting. Not convinced by Richard Madden. Bit square-jawed and lacking in quirk for Doctor material I would have thought. But you never know. Vicky McClure’s inclusion is an odd one. I don’t hate it but can’t really see that happening. My bet would be for…[Read more]

@puroandson— There’s been no definite announcements yet but I think the smart money would be on that happening. Not sure if they’d actually have someone cast already but you never know. However, I’d expect to hear soon that PC will be standing down.

Just to add, I really hope it’s all ready cast. I’m not sure I can face all that endless…[Read more]

@craig — who can tell but Netflix has been getting a lot of stick from content providers for not making it hard enough for VPN users overseas to access the US content. And they have a lot more Who up than the UK site does — including Capaldi’s first series. Considering that the Beeb has just opened up their own online download store, maybe they…[Read more]

This isn’t really news as such but it is a nice piece by the mighty AL Kennedy on writing The Drosten’s Curse….

While I’m in no hurry to see Capaldi go, it’s worth bearing in mind that with the exception of JNT, whose run saw four Doctors come and go, it’s been far more usual for a new producer/showrunner not to inherit an old Doctor. Not to say that that couldn’t happen now but I’d put a significant wager on Capaldi going in 2017.

I’d expect us to be face…[Read more]

@OB-Wan— I’m shutting this conversation down now because it’s getting childishly personal, unpleasant and utterly pointless. For my part in that I apologise to the forum at large.

You are NOT the boss of me and I am not interested in tailoring my posts to please you. I will continue to use caps when I feel it’s appropriate to emphasize my p…

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@pedant— Yes, that’s a list I find very hard to disagree with at all. I suppose Buffy is unique in a show that if someone else tries to cite an episode other than The Body as the best episode you automatically know you’re talking to a crazy person.

Currently binge-watching Jessica Jones which is just great and I think definitely follows in…[Read more]

@kharis — no problem at all. I’m sure there will be lots of things to look forward to in CC’s tenure. Change is good and has been the mainspring of Who’s continued success.

Yeah, the Graun is not for the faint-hearted and is basically Moffat-hating ‘why can’t it be the 1970s no more??’ central. The temptation is always to dive in (when the wise…[Read more]

@OB-Wan — FFS. No, the point is that the use of the word is correct — both mine, and Moffat’s and RTDs. And yes, it is a rationalisation because reason was used — i.e. arguments with evidence. I offered definitions and reasons — you on the other hand just choose to ignore them and basically dig your heels in: ‘I don’t accept this definition so…[Read more]

@Kharis — That post also cropped up on the Guardian announcement of Moffat’s departure (which quickly turned into the bile-fest you’d expect.) It’s a bit of political point-scoring by the poster and nothing more. Moffat’s going is little to do with austerity cuts. As he’s said himself, he was going anyway, has if anything stayed longer than he’d…[Read more]

@OB-Wan—

On reboots and language in general.

And it will never be correct no matter how much you may rationalize it to yourself.  The definition of words aren’t going to change to suit your musings.

Not my musings, no, but with the musings of enough people then they do. Words change their meanings and even their spellings all the time and th…[Read more]

@puroandson—

Sorry to hear about your mum. Send Puro my best wishes….

@OB-Wan—

There are right words and wrong words to suit every occasion.

True, but this is not one of those occasions. You’re being painfully literal. Again. And to repeat, there’s nothing actually incorrect with the usage of the word, for the reasons outlined above.

But since you live and die by dictionary defintions, here’s the OED on the…[Read more]

@OB-Wan—

Words have meanings attached to them

Yes, they do but once again it’s a great deal more nuanced and complicated than that. In almost every case it’s not a one-to-one correlation (and let’s not open the can of worms of signifier and signified and to the relative instablity of the relationships between them). Let’s just say that there’s…[Read more]

@OB-Wan—

 I can just imagine how much RTD and SWM would be laughing at us for spending so much time discussing such a minor point.

On the contrary, I’d say they’d be chuffed that their work is continuing to engage and involve even more than 10 years after transmission. What writer wouldn’t.

It seems you have leapfrogged over the posts where I…

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