@PhaseShift. Thank you for that summary. You have explained perfectly just why I never warmed to Star Trek in any of its incarnations.

@JimTheFish I’ll second that nomination for a re-watch of The Crow Road. (I haven’t been keeping up with the Capaldi retrospective but will certainly enjoy that.) And hope you enjoy JS&MN when you get round to…[Read more]

@purofilion @janetteB @JimTheFish

Sounds like you are determined to jump down the rabbit hole of Space Opera @Purofilion! If it’s any consolation, I too struggled with Firefly when it was first released to the extent I only watched the complete run after I saw the Serenity film. I now think it is the one of the last great runs of Space Opera t…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

I’ve been having definite superhero fatigue

Me too, and considering that we are old comic book followers good knows what the non-comic book follower makes of it all.

Yes – the changes are slightly troubling and you hope they can avoid a S2 downturn in the way that The Walking Dead suffered under similar circumstances. I guess t…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Jim, I’ve watched all the episodes from the new Daredevil and I really do think it’s one of the best stabs at doing a superhero run on the TV I’ve seen. It helps that it plays to some extent like a remixed Frank Miller “Man without Fear”. Lots of nice nods to that and some great action set pieces/fight work.

Above all though, t…[Read more]

@Purofilion Do give B.5 a try. Don’t let @JimTheFish put you off. We can’t all be “Babbies”. 🙂 The first series is very wobbly,with some feeble scrips and some dodgy acting and season two has its weak episodes but once it really gets going it is immersive. The boys and I occasionally re watch favourite episodes. If you do decide to watch it I…[Read more]

@denvaldron @jimthefish

i think torchwood could come back (with jack as the lead, or a completely different cast), but only if it is first revived in the next series of who.  that would be the easiest way to generate interest in it (as with its first go round)… promotional tie-in to the larger franchise.

but… would moffat be willing to help…[Read more]

@PhaseShift and @JimTheFish I’ll second the latter’s assessment…

Cheers

Janette

@DenValdron

You’ve made a good argument, but the matter simply isn’t definitive.

I don’t think that @Burrunjor has made a good argument throughout his small tenure at the site. What we have is someone who doesn’t want the Doctor to eventually become a woman. He sees the transformation of The Master into a female form as a step on the way. He d…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

much like the ‘fair use’ policy for quotes in book reviews etc. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was.

Fair Dealing – fair use is something different and has no equivalent in English law.

I doubt the writers lose all rights, but I imagine the compensation is more effectively managed and covers all media, rather than first serial use + syndication.

@JimTheFish @purofilion

Ah so it’s a creative proprietary situation rather than a legal issue.

It depends on the contract, and the assorted Equity/ Writers Guild/Musicians Union have powerful sway. The Nation estate owns the Daleks and permission was required to use them. Similarly, in Star Trek: Enterprise, T’Pol was to be called T’Pau (Sp…[Read more]

@pedant @JanetteB @arbutus @Jimthefish

centuries have passed. Have they?

I think it was 400 years between War Doc and Day of… (the screwdriver door unlocking programme).

Between God Complex and Closing Time 11 went on a 200 year walkabout.

I am not entirely sure that each regeneration is an entirely new person as it were. CapDoc tells Clara “I’m still me,” or words to that effect when she receives the phone call from SmithyDoc. To use some outdated Freudian terms, the Id does not change, just aspects of the ego. The greatest change is in appearance there are some changes to the…[Read more]

@purofilion

@JimTheFish pretty much nails it with BSG –  the initial mini-series is superb, but as the show goes on it falls into the Ronald D Moore problem of arbitrary changes to character to suit whatever point her wants to make.

Another from cousin’s Netflix: rewatching Dead Like Me. Only two seasons, but I had forgotten how enjoyable it w…[Read more]

@JimTheFish (I think)  re Osgood’s death: “. . . it was a significant character beat for both the Doctor and the Master. It emphasised that for all her whackiness, Missy is dangerous, lethal even. And it showed the Doctor that by not taking Missy seriously enough, he ended up getting someone killed. Of course, his battles with the Master lead to…[Read more]

@DenValdron @JimTheFish @Craig As the Doctors said in the 50th —
“Loving the posh gravity of brave words Dick Van Dyke” — or in other words
very interesting recent conversations here although a bit snarky but oh well still entertaining
– thanks folks 😉

@JimtheFish  I’ll politely ask you to reconsider some of the comments you’ve directed at me.

@JimTheFish @CathAnnabel @DenValdron

I’ve been a bit busy with other things (working on a new social network for a friend… thinks he’s going to be the next Mark Zuckerberg) so have taken my eye off the ball recently. For that I apologise. And for the lack of a Peter Davison episode this weekend. Will be one next weekend. Promise.

Den, the kool…[Read more]

@JimtheFish

A Raging Sense of Entitlement, you say?   Hmmm.

But in terms of canon, which is what was being originally discussed, it’s utterly irrelevant. If it ain’t on the page, it ain’t on the stage. It’s nothing more than trivia essentially and it doesn’t form any part of the overarching mythology of the show. Yes, it can be taken into a…[Read more]

@JimTheFish   And how are  yours not combative, aggressive and with a bit of ARSE?   You didn’t just make your point.   You did quite a bit of drive by shooting.

Where I come from, Jim, there’s a saying   “It’s all fun and games when someone loses an eye.”   There are better ways.

As to the level of discourse on this Board… well, sometimes…[Read more]

@JimtheFish

Leaving aside the idiocy of most of @Burrunjor‘s post,

In the kindest possible way, even if you legitimately considered Burrunjor a troll and his post as being without merit….

Do you feel that kind of thing  is actually constructive or helpful?   Personally, I’m not a nice person, but I try to avoid that sort of thing…[Read more]