@lisa That’s a good point about the SJA vibe. Definitely getting it now you mention it.

Though it does come with the downside of making me irrationally mad that Luke has never become a companion. Especially considering how perfectly he’d have fit CapDoc. (Just an aside, with regards to how to refer to JW’s Doctor, WhitDoc feels right to me, it…[Read more]

@pedant  A dark, gloomy….custard cream dispenser.

Dash it all!  Now I want one of those.  Only, chocolate mousse for me, thanks.

@thane16  The colourised sequence reminded me of the interior of sclerotic bowel.

Er — yes.  I was trying to put my finger on it — uh, trying to come up with something visceral like that . .

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@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]

@lisa  Jodie is trying to make her mark as the ‘all Doctors combined’ alpha female Doctor

Some comments I’ve seen have pointed out Jodie throwing bits of the other Doctors into her performance, but I have to admit, I’m not seeing that, and I remember that in interviews before the season started she said that she hadn’t watched DW before, and w…[Read more]

@toinfinityandbepond: I know, hence the ‘wonderful’ 😉

@Lisa, it was a great twist on that story. I didn’t quite like the emotional blackmail element of the film, or the idea of putting this greater value on his life. Theoretically, would someone less special just be left to jump?

In this episode there was an element of Turn Right, what if One…[Read more]

@lisa

Yes, the TARDIS was ringing the Cloister Bell during the Regeneration, and then seemed to not only open the doors, but turn herself so that the Doctor had no choice but to fall out.

Given the shot of an interior which is seen, as the Doctor is falling, in a mass of flames – it may be that the TARDIS has ejected the Doctor for her own…[Read more]

@lisa and @bluesqeakpip Yes Trump has said he was going to “rip up Nafta” as the worst deal in history and that Canada has treated the US “very unfairly” and without respect.For a man who seems to demand so much respect he has very little for anyone else.
Being Canadian what Trump says and does has great impact on my country..all the fear ,…[Read more]

@steve-thorp

The Great Easter Kerfuffle was complicated by the speed with which the National Trust changed their website – but Sky managed a before and after shot.

So not quite fake news. Poor old Cadbury was fairly embarrassed; while they’d sponsored Cadbury Egg Hunts at the National Trust/National Trust for Scotland, they’d been very careful…[Read more]

@lisa

Be careful of believing the Telegraph.

Just after Apil fools day, they ran a story where they claimed that the National Trust had banished mentioning Easter in the publicity for its Easter events, and also managed to get Teresa May and the Archbishop of York to make comments on the bogus story. When I checked on the National Trust’s…[Read more]

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@cathannabel:  We’re on this Forum because we care about Doctor Who.  Some of us are feminists, SJWs even, some aren’t.  Surely all of us want  the show to be successful, to continue to capture the imaginations of children and adults, to retain the loyalties of long-standing fans (I’m one of those, I go back to the Troughton era) and to attract n…[Read more]

@lisa  So I’d very much like to see her as a sort of “Orlando”. Throw in some episodes where the Doctor meets some historic figures. I like those particular episodes very much! Oh- and give her a very Bloombury outfit and a visit to meet Virginia and Vita 🙂

Oooh, you really have it in for the haters, Lisa!  You want their heads to *expLODE*…[Read more]

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@lisa

I don’t get why  Rose/1o   irritated any one and River/11/12 didn’t?

i think it did grate on a few, especially as river hung around far longer than rose. but for the most part, i believe everyone was simply used to the romantic side of the doctor by then, because of the thing with rose.

in my headcanon, 10 was still emotionally closed…[Read more]

@lisa @tardigrade @genek1953

I’d prefer to see Jodie play a Doctor who is female (rather than a female Doctor). Whilst I don’t think the gender element should be down played, I do think the essentials of the doctor’s character and behaviour should remain essentially the same. I think the point of having a gender change character should be to show…[Read more]

@lisa @genek1953 “Time Lady” has been used by Missy in AG Who:

DALEK: You are a Time Lord?
MISSY: Time Lady, thank you. Some of us can afford the upgrade.

However, I actually think it may be a good time to ditch the Time Lord/Lady terminology altogether, as it’s not just the gender of the term that’s the issue. The modern connotations of “Lord”…[Read more]

@lisa @genek1953

I dont see any reason why which Lord shouldn’t be genderless if that’s what Chibnall wants.

If you want to be very specific (in terms of British peerages etc), then Lord is actually used as short hand form instead of the correct title (Duke, Count and the female equivalent Duchess, Countess etc). Traditionally wives of Lords…[Read more]

@frostfair

I dont think the dynamic should be that different. How would you write the relationship between the Doctor and Amy/Rory, for example, differently because the Doctor is played by Jodie Whitaker instead of Matt Smith. I dont see anything that would need to be changed from that Moff wrote. Yes of course, Jodie will play a different…[Read more]