• Miapatrick replied to the topic Eve of the Daleks

    @charlie-cook I did wonder because it sounded close in concept, and it’s weird how the brain jumbles things while keeping the essence. I’m definitely going to look for it, it looks very interesting. I do like me a time loop!

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic Eve of the Daleks

    @charlie-cook it sounded intriguing so I did a quick search and couldn’t find it (as I’m sure you’ve done) I did however find out about another film about time travel from Spain, Timecrimes (<i lang=”es”><b>Los Cronocrímenes) </b></i><b></b>only he goes back in time an hour and it’s someone else who d…[Read more]

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic On The Sofa (10)

    @blenkinsopthebrave oh absolutely me too. I did watch and like Who with RTD, enough to feel a little apprehensive at a change. But Moffat made me fall in love with it. But I’m reminded of one of my A level class back at school. I thought the teacher was excellent, I thrived in that classroom. Another student got so overwhelmed she burst into tears…[Read more]

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic On The Sofa (10)

    @devilishrobby interestingly, to me, The Flux story worked, for much of the run, precisely because it was about the archiest arch following I’ve seen in a long time. He’s not as good at Moffat at stringing together independent stories into an overall story, but the less independent the stories, the better his work seemed to play out. And even with…[Read more]

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic The Winchester

    @dentarthurdent not at all, it is helpful. The main thing to remember is not to worry about writing anything ‘good’, just write something, and then you can make it good. Theoretically.

    One problem is I have three printed out drafts (as a rule I re-word better when I’m typing the whole thing out again) but I still haven’t landed on exactly what I…[Read more]

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic The Winchester

    (sorry again about the ramble I seem to be able to write on for ages about absolutely anything under the sun, anything, other than the conclusion for my dissertation).

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic The Winchester

    @winson – so glad for the good news about your granddaughter

    I really feel for children and teenagers at this time, this is becoming such a chunk of their developing years. I also have two friends with even with two shots and a booster have little to no protection. One had cancer the year before Covid and was still having treatment earlier this…[Read more]

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic Eve of the Daleks

    @nerys that last line – that is <i>precisely </i>the problem I encounter when proofing my work.

    @devilishrobby my main problem with spell checkers is that at one point I kept accidentally clicking ‘add word’. Which didn’t even have the effect of eliminating the squiggly lines, because I rarely misspell a word the same way twice.

    Although we m…[Read more]

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic Eve of the Daleks

    @dentarthurdent having just spent a fair part of the day peering at the most readable scans of books by Haywood and Defoe I can find, with nothing but chaos in the plain text offering I greatly appreciate your efforts.

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic Eve of the Daleks

    @dentarthurdent yeah that would be more like the relationship with the Master…

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic Website comments (2)

    @devilishrobby though I’ve noticed they seem to have changed their comment to the more innocuous but deeply ironic given the nature of their original complaint ‘role on Russel’. A switch so provocative it definitely seems to confirm troll.

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic Eve of the Daleks

    @nerys plutonic/platonic, I think. I never noticed my spelling was so atrocious till the ubiquity of typing. My handwriting was always so bad no one noticed 😉

    (Ironically a chapter of my dissertation revolves around the significance of switched vowels, either as misspellings or miss pronunciations or works with common origins  (virtue/vartue,…[Read more]

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic Eve of the Daleks

    @dentarthurdent heh, not sure I can actually blame that on a typo, my brain insists on thinking vowels are pretty much interchangeable. Took me a few minutes to find it even when you pointed it out!

    Yes, the Flux season especially bought her out a bit more.

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic Eve of the Daleks

    I think this was a very good episode. Pretty stand alone, but with two important threads from what’s happened before.

    I noted about the last flux episode about how she rather skipped over that line, not that what she didn’t wasn’t clever and pretty justifiable in a battle sense, but that was rather the Doctor’s line – although they seem a little…[Read more]

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic Part 6 – The Vanquishers

    @juniperfish yes there was, behind the exuberance, a kind of cold pragmatism behind the Doctors actions. Rather than prevent two genosides, make it three. a heartfelt sorry to Karavanista and the realisation that the Doctor abandoned him (there was a double meaning I think when he said ‘if I talk about it I’ll die’, literally, I have no doubt,…[Read more]

  • Miapatrick replied to the topic Part 6 – The Vanquishers

    Mmmm.

    Doctor’s parentage theory still, I stubbornly assert, yet to be disproved. Nor have my hopes of a RuthDoc regeneration scene completely died. With her encounter with Time, I’m assuming what we’ve been given instead of a tying up of threads is a set up of her final crisis. I wouldn’t expect more than another hint from the New Years special,…[Read more]

  • @bluesqueakpip I agree Chibs is very much building on Moffart here. But if your comment about the Master – also somewhat on RTD. (of course every one would be to an extent), particularly the relationship between the Doctor and the Master. I think RTD showed them looking into the time vortex, as something baby timecards had to do, and both Doctor…[Read more]

  • @mudlark this is interesting because to me Moffart’s conclusion, assuming it was a conclusion and not just a breathtakingly effective bluff of the hybrid prophesy didn’t quite work for mewas one of his least satisfying conclusions. As you say, the existence of Me made it ambigious – but only because she was a human who had been changed, and we…[Read more]

  • @scaryb good point!

    don’t get me started on the closing of the Graun thread. Only one time has it still been open in the morning. If they don’t want to mod it overnight, I can’t for the life of me see why they can’t, as sometimes has happened, reopen it later.

    And yes, very Chibs, it’s good to know he seems to have hit the mark over the adoption…[Read more]

  • @jimthefish yes I feel that it ‘fixes’ in a way that part of eight’s film. I’ve always been happy to see eight included in AG Who, but that revelation has always been kind of sitting there, tactfully ignored.

    And yeah, Chibs – I didn’t think I’d be saying this after his first run of episodes, but ambitious is definitely the word. His second gave…[Read more]

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