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@JimTheFish

The future of commercial-supported free-to-air television is bleak, if it’s not already in its death spiral

Well, it’s not quite the end of days yet but I think you’re right. The future is definitely online and streaming and I’m guessing eventually Who will find a home on a BBC equivalent of Netflix.

Getting off-topic, but it’s so…[Read more]

@jimthefish: How charming, such fun. thank you for posting.

Missy

@pedant @jimthefish I’ve checked the spam and there’s nothing new in there, apart from obvious spam. No members’ posts. Hmmm.

@tardigrade @jimthefish

There seems to have been some issues with post getting treated as spam. @Craig was trying to get the bottom of it, but….algorithms.

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I think the ££-joke is probably meant to signify a sense of humour … and a sense of humour signifies autonomous intelligence

That makes a lot of sense and, although I didn’t consciously note it at the time, it may have been something which registered subliminally as supporting my conclusion that the em…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Hopelessly out of touch. So far I’ve watched both episodes of this series on Iplayer.

Sorry if this comment is duplicated- I posted it earlier and for some reason it didn’t show up…

@thane15

… but I really saw that the ‘rent’ was satire.

I recognise that this is largely a throwaway line essentially to camera and the ££ eyes were a joke the writers couldn’t resist, but did the Vardies know that it was a joke? :-). Honestl…[Read more]

@jimthefish:

Oh dear, I didn’t mean Christel  Dee, I meant Rove McManus – I thought he was the presenter?? He introduces it and sits in the centre  asking questions.

I finally found the self portrait of Van Gogh, but only after I paused the scene with the Book, and pressed fast forward.

Such a shame, their are so many posts that I’d love to re…[Read more]

@Thane15

… but I really saw that the ‘rent’ was satire.

I recognise that this is largely a throwaway line essentially to camera and the ££ eyes were a joke the writers couldn’t resist, but did the Vardies know that it was a joke? :-). Honestly, I can’t see them having any concept of rent as we’d understand it.

I understand “smile” wasn’…

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@mudlark  Wheat and other cereal crops, like all grasses, are wind pollinated and require no intervention on the part of insects or micro robots

Maybe this wheat has been engineered to be artificially pollinated because of some weird quirk in the weather patterns?  Or the vardies just like flying around and have made a job for themselves that l…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

I did suggest on the Guardian that the mind wipe was really to save the Vardy from the justifiably furious humans. They killed people’s mums. Yes, they were following their programming, but the Doctor’s assessment of sentience suggests that they don’t have to.

So they’re probably guilty of manslaughter (robotslaughter?). Put the two…[Read more]

@mersey and @jimthefish

The “meaningless clues” vs “extra level of detail” debate re Moffat and teams’ work (on Who and Sherlock) does get to the heart of one of the elements of his work which can be both wonderful and infuriating.

Sometimes the clues have really gone somewhere, narratively speakng, like the build up to ganger Amy – first…[Read more]

@jimthefish

That’s my main charge against Steven Moffat. He leaves too many meaningless cluess (don’t tell me he doesn’t, he does). Look how it works in Agatha Christie’s books or any other really good detective novel. You usually know all the clues, know all the suspects and yet you are still surprised at the solution. And that’s the trick!

I…[Read more]

@geoffers:

A member (sorry can’t remember who) said that they thought that PC tried to hard, at least to start with. I don’t agree, he was right into the part from the very first moment you met him, he just clicked. Although I liked MS ( I liked all of them) it was he, in my opinion, who was trying too hard at first. I was astonished that you…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Also, remember the dreamcatchers in S6.

Re the bird, it did occur to me that it might be a Dodo (think about it)…

@jimthefish

Oh that’s really nice.

I’m just loving this series so far. As others have pointed out, the plot of this episode wasn’t exactly ground-breaking, but was interesting and effectively done. Nice visuals. As with last week’s, I’m enjoying the calmer pace. @JimTheFish mentioned Tom Baker. I felt that connection in many ways from the start of Capaldi’s run (despite the wardr…[Read more]

@jimthefish It certainly felt “dialed in”. I zoned out and worked on writing through most of it. Sad to say one of the few things I really noticed is that one episode is black and white. I thought they had stopped scrapping Who by the Pertwee years. Clearly I was very wrong about that. Quite a few stories were recovered from ABC (Australian…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

Strictly speaking, the Doctor and Bill are not going back to the Victorian era. At the time of the frost fair of 1814 George III was still technically king, though in a somewhat precarious state of health – hence the Regency, his grand daughter Princess Charlotte, at that time second in line to the throne, was still alive and V…[Read more]