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@purofilion Thank you. I have been known to make mistakes. Especially in the sites early days. But when I did I set @JImTheFish or @PhaseShift on them. I learned from the masters (with the small ‘m’)

@purofilion

“One slip, one word in the wrong sentence, and the family next door would be gone the next morning and all the neighbours would act as if nothing had happened”.

So you think I’m a cowardly inferior from eastern Europe. I’m not sure whether my czech and slovak neighbours would be glad if they knew that they’re cowards and the best…[Read more]

@JimTheFish  does anyone think that we’re being double-bluffed here and that the Doctor is also a Zygon — a decoy provided by the human-friendly faction — to lure out Bonnie Zygon. It just strikes me that he was rather passive in the whole missile sequence and the ‘try not to kill too many’ was a rather sign-postedly un-Doctor-ish line.…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip  I live in an area where children are being groomed by terrorists. This is too serious an issue to NOT make it family entertainment,

Second.  Absolutely.  Talk about it, don’t hide from it, or hide it from kids.  Darkness encourages mold; sunlight kills germs.

@mudlark  Yep, I hear you.  And ever since “Mary Tyler Moore” dealt…[Read more]

@Mersey

And lest you doubt @JimTheFish on the real risk of nuclear war when the Daleks came along, there’s this. Indeed treating such serious material seriously seems very timely:

http://video.pbs.org/video/2295274962/

“27 October at 12:25

53 years ago today, at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis, second-in-command Vasili Arkhipov of the…

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@Mersey

I think it’s too serious issue to make of it family entertaintment even with such strong message.

I disagree. I live in an area where children are being groomed by terrorists. This is too serious an issue to NOT make it family entertainment, because families need to find a way of talking about this. Before their fifteen year old c…[Read more]

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@doctordoctorwho

And do you know where we don’t put spoilers ***AT ALL****? (@Craig/ @JimTheFish …wave yer wands)

@JimTheFish

It’s a scene in The Woman Who Lived that reminded me of it. The one where the Doctor says that the immortals shouldn’t travel together – but strangely, only then mentioned Captain Jack.

Okay, Catherine Tregenna, Captain Jack is a character she’s written for so it’s a nice little Torchwood ref – and non fans are more likely to…[Read more]

@jimthefish  Orphan Black took me a long time to get into and it’s still a case of like but don’t quite love. Tatiana Maslany is going awesome work on it though….

My feeling too; it never became “appointment TV watching” for me, so I missed some episodes and completely lost the thread, so I went elsewhere.  By all means, send in the clones…[Read more]

@JimTheFish      But your attitude seems to be to treat this is the pinnacle of Who achievement, with everything before leading up to it and everything after a corruption of this alleged golden age. In reality, it was not just the coming together of a creative team that worked well, it was cultural flashpoint whose success lies in lots of othe…[Read more]

@arbutus  I think that @JimTheFish probably meant that Twelve is not being written as a romantic lead. But from an audience perspective, he gets my middle-aged heart beating a tad faster–

Thanks for that correction, quite right I’m sure.  And yes, thaaaaat’s what I’m talkin’ about.  The heart thing.  Mmmm.

@purofilion  Oh yes, he sonics phones…[Read more]

The question of the Doctor as romantic lead is interesting too. I think that the Doctor in all his incarnations is fundamentally a very attractive character. A lot of the qualities that seem to be basic to him are qualities which I think are generally appealing. So it seems perfectly believable to me that when he appears in a physical guise that…[Read more]

@jimthefish  he’s not really a romantic lead any longer anyway.

You might be surprised; for at least one sector of DW viewers, CapDoc most certainly *is* a romantic lead — in their own minds and conversations, and certainly in the fan fiction stories they write.  Well, look closely: Moffat said he looks for an actor who is attractive but off…[Read more]

@plainOldDave

it’s a comfortable haven from an ever-changing world;

I’d disagree. Certainly my parents never watched it when they were growing up. It was a very young show when I was a child, not some traditional haven.

As @JimTheFish says, when Pertwee was on, the other shows I remember being on at the same time were Jason King, The C…[Read more]

@jimthefish

That is the first time I watched that and it was pretty funny. Thanks for posting , it gave me a good giggle.  I love the idea of River crushing the sunglasses under the heel of her  expensive pumps.

@JimtheFish

Hello old fish friend.

Glad you are on board with the tarot theme. It was @kharis who first spotted it on here in relation to this series, although @Phaseshift had been talking about Who and the tarot in the previous one, but, I am a believer.

As you say, there may not be a supreme coherence to it, it’s just a piece of symbolic…[Read more]