@shinymcshine

Well, dear, I did call bullshit on the other thread. And I thought you said you were leaving? 🙂

@juniperfish “interrogate the whatsit.”

Are we post-modern again?

*just kidding*  all’s good.

@troygorsline

You’re the one I like.

This is hilarious. I’ve seen the episode once. Everything is upside down.

Puro with drips.

@Juniperfish

I think the Quakers “do power” better than almost anybody else … Their concept of “elders” as a rotational and time-limited function within the community has prevented the abuses of power so frequently found in other religious iterations favouring a permanent class of priests.

That, and the fact that women, from the 17th century b…[Read more]

@arbutus

“@juniperfish I really like your take on all this, especially “a refraction of light in the universe””

Thanks 🙂 The new Doctor’s outfit is always a topic of much conversation, following a regeneration, whether (s)he is male or female embodied, so at least we can say there has been no less scrutiny of previous Doctors’ atti…[Read more]

Finally got another viewing in. More thoughts about it all.

The Doctor seems to have finally moved past the Time War, having regretted, forgotten, and done penance. This may mean that, for awhile, she is more of an open book, less of a mystery. I’m okay with that (although it seems that there will still be the occasional mystery!) We’ll see wha…[Read more]

@juniperfish  re #64600

I think “connotations of greater informality” =  pejorative.

@Cathannabel yes, that sounds really good to me. I think mum meant something like this. I do know Russell’s tea-pot and from a brief discussion before she nodded off on Sofa we delved into how low pitch is modelled in experiments across species and she m…[Read more]

@pedant @juniperfish @miapatrick and others commenting on naming.  I’m sure I’ve done the Jodie thing but it does jar for me, in conjunction with other Doctors, because I never naturally say Matt/David/Christopher/Peter.  I’m trying to either use the numbers (not in itself free of contention but still most of us get who we mean by Nine, Ten etc) o…[Read more]

@juniperfish  I hope the writers’ room has had some deep conversations about authority and a female-embodied Who. 

Exactly.  There are other aspects of this, of course, than costume; voice pitch is another, and it’s a doozie, IMO.  I’ve seen studies supporting the idea that humans find lower voices (in both men and women) more impressive and a…[Read more]

@pedant  @juniperfish

I’d never given it any thought, but now that you have drawn my attention to the matter I realise that I think of her automatically as Whittaker.

In an academic context I have been accustomed to refer to people, whether male or female, either by their title and surname or by their full name, so that comes naturally now. My…[Read more]

@juniperfish @ichabod

Eccleston

Tennant

Smith

Capaldi

Jodie.

There’s part of the challenge, right there.

English doesn’t really have informal vs formal address in the way that other languages do (eg: vous vs tu), but we inject it in other ways without even trying.

@mudlark  perhaps my ageing brain has a problem processing  words delivered at machine-gun velocity.

For me, it’s that plus the swallowed consonants — but I had trouble with “Deep Throat” for the same reason, and I’ve been watching with subtitles on ever since.  It helps a lot!

the redesign of the Tardis interior; at first glance it seems vi…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip – I thought the comment about people putting stuff in him was a reference to the bomb thing last week. But then it was Graham who said it… I like the theory. I’m inclining to Ryan’s dad being her actual son.

@juniperfish – that was the impression I got, but as @cathannabel suggests, the truth could be more interesting,…[Read more]

@JimTheFish   I too saw a certain amount of Matt Smith, this week, but both this week and last, I’ve been seeing Davison rather than Tennant. It might be that she undersells that bright sunny aspect a bit, so it recalls for me more of Davison’s cheery but restrained demeanour. And I never minded the cricket outfit, so that may be why I’m okay wi…[Read more]

@ardaraith @miapatrick @mudlark @juniperfish: this site being this site, we were always going to find something to theorise about.

So, my main worry is that they might try to incorporate the Spockification of the Doctor attempted in the film (I am 100% happy that 8 is officially one of the Doctors but I prefer it when we politely ignore the half…[Read more]

@ardaraith @miapatrick @mudlark @juniperfish

On rewatch Timeless Child definitely came over as much more significant than at first – telling her something she did not remember, and revelling in knowing a secret that it wouldn’t tell.

It occurs to me, with hindsight, that Chibbers is a much more likely candidate that Moffatt to take a crack at an…[Read more]

Couple of passing thoughts on third (or possibly 4th, can’t remember) watch:

@thane16 @whisht

I thought the closing music more industrial (steel town) than military. The drums had a metalness to them, and fit in with the new mechanically-minded Doctor.

Also, I think the burst we got when JW stood up for the first time is from the opening theme…[Read more]

@juniperfish I think my favourite bit was in the AG one – “Spacial Justice Warrior”. Just genius.

@JimTheFish That sounds horrifying! 🙂 I have a friend who lives very near Blackpool. She’s not a Doctor Who fan but she knows I am and is a fan of free drinks and a free night out (like most of us probably). If no one else can go I’ll see if she…[Read more]

<span class=”useratname”>@bluesqueakpip</span> Yeah Sheffieeeeeeld!  Re JW, yes, there was the whole regen confusion thing going on which will pass as it has done for all of them, but meantime there was more than enough there to make me hers.

Funny you mention that ‘I’ve got a plan – well, I will have’ as being different cos I thought it echoed…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

I’m not the only low-brow type to have noticed this little Freudian twist

True, but then, as the patient said to his psychiatrist after the latter started asking questions centred around his response to inkblot patterns; ‘What do you expect, if you insist on showing me all these feelthy pictures?’

@thane16

‘ – who knows, there c…

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@thane16 @juniperfish @jimthefish @craig

I must confess, the frothing range of the Angry Virgins has been one of the joys of the past 18 hours or so.

@juniperfish

It was a warning not a lure!

I keep wanting to make “Ever Fallen In Love” jokes, but it is the wrong Shelley.