@winston so interesting that so many anxiety dreams centre in on childhood, adolescent childhood at that. Says something about what our schooldays can do to us. Here we are, with bills in our names, tax due, having to make rational decisions to keep ourselves in homes with food etc. And what do we return to for stress dreams? The so called…[Read more]

@juniperfish and now I’m thinking of the Never-ending story, with the serpent on the book cover and the endless progress of destruction and re-creation. You’re right, it makes the serpent some lovely imagery.

@jimthefish re: going forward, it would be possible to spin this in a positive way for the Doctor, I suppose. The Doctor now knows who she…[Read more]

@janetteb I also love the work and hate the deadlines, and yet I rarely produce a thing worth any effort, let alone finish it, without a deadline

@dentarthurdent see I’m the complete opposite. But mostly because I’m much better at the work than I am at social atmospheres. Mind you, I’m in humanities for a reason, I’m ridiculously right-brained…[Read more]

OK I’ve said something on these lines before but, if he has nothing else, he has the audacity.

How interesting to hear much of the same story from a different perspective – first a heartbroken Master realising his beloved, loathed frenemie is the most important figure in Timelord history, to the shattering of his ego and sense of self. And now…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent I don’t know so much about campus’ – my undergrad and my current Masters are with the OU. I have almost exactly the same dream, only it’s about going back to school for some strange reason, I can’t find the room, or the timetable… or actually quite work out why I, being the age I am (which is always my current age in the dream)…[Read more]

@scaryb I have of late discovered that if my diss work is becoming disheartening and tiring, doing a little work on probate application (without will) and estate valuation reminds me how, overall, and relatively, fun academic work is…

@janetteb, @winston, @blenkinsopthebrave, @dentarthurdent, @nerys, @mudlark, @missy,  thank you all. And yes, I live with my partner, who actually found her (I didn’t see her) and he’s been fantastic, doing most of the sorting through of things in her rooms upstairs (she was something of a hoarder) while I try to plug on with finishing my disser…[Read more]

@scaryb oooh, Claire as Timelord! I like it, especially the idea of an Angel possessing a Timelord- either knowingly or unknowingly. I suppose it might be possible that she’s had a very through mind wipe of some kind, and the visions are being used to supply information she needs to know, memories hidden as visions – so that in some way she really…[Read more]

@mudlark oh I like your Moffart explanation, and it would fit with the overall theme of lost memories. But I agree, Chibnal might just leave it at ‘it was just the premonition’. But the premonition really doesn’t match how she responded to seeing them, in my book, so I will be a little irked, if so. I could have sworn she reacted particularly to…[Read more]

@jimthefish I think Chibnal has been, if nothing else, audacious and ambitious in his run, though it didn’t show as much in the first season (which I like, but I like mostly for the storylines that didn’t really depend on being in Who). I can imagine RTD dialling it down a bit and restoring the madman in a box, @mudlark. But I don’t know how much…[Read more]

@mudlark re the Division – excellent summery. I would say one thing we’ve seen with the Time Lords is despite how they present themselves, they’re not always the beneficent force they like to present themselves as (cough, British empire, cough), and their major flaws are arrogance and hubris.

I wonder if all this can explain – in addition to…[Read more]

@mudlark ah, re Clair, the impression got from the latest chapter was that they were saying she’d seen them in a vision, which is why she knew them, and then got sent back in time. Yet in Chapter one, it definitely felt as though she had met them, they just hadn’t met her yet. I may have misinterpreted in the last chapter, or it might be that she…[Read more]

I’ve liked this series so far, but I also think this was one of the best episodes. And I still think this series will work even better once binged, which isn’t ideal for a Who season. But we are, to be fair, being given much to speculate.

The potential connection between the Angels and the TimeLords has been discussed, I think, since the Angels…[Read more]

@Craig, you created, as I remember, this site as an act of great kindness, as well as in your own enthusiasm, when a group of people on t’other place really wanted to keep talking about a Christmas episode – was the it Clara Snowmen one?

And I’ll admit, though I’ve found stuff to like and talk about, that urgency hasn’t been there in the current…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave agree re authority, and it rather irritates me that the first female doctor appears to have been chosen for this lessening of authority – somewhat mitigated, of course, by the other female doctor of her past, who oozes easy authority.

@mudlark re: ‘he doesn’t even seem to like his assigned human very much’ to be honest he rather reminded me of one of mine, down to ‘give me back my human’, and including the palpable contempt and insistence on protecting him whether he asks for or wants it or not.

Hay I managed to get in at last!

Which is great because this new series is at least providing much to think about (and bonkerly speculate). But also because I’m struggling to follow – this might be a problem with this run, I’ve already seen I’m not quite the only one but it’s also because…

We came home from spending the night away on the 31st…[Read more]

Hello everyone!

I know I haven’t been very active recently, but I’d like to ask a favour even so… I hope this is OK to post here.

In March I co-presented a talk on increasing visibility of dyspraxia in university systems for a conference on accessibility hosted by my university (the OU). One of the points I made was that at the moment the best…[Read more]

Hi everyone!

Having finished the taught module of my MA last week (which ran from October 2019) I finally have time. (I should have had time anyway, it’s a part time module, but I’m really slow). And the best thing to do with time, I thought, and the most appropriate, was to subscribe to Britbox and watch BG who.

And one thing that’s struck me…[Read more]

@nerys the only thing that got me was the glimpse of a news item that I think said she had just been ‘elected party leader and Prime Minister’ which just feels odd. The Conservative party vote on their leadership (sometimes) but not at the same time as a general election, and no one is strictly ‘elected’ Prime Minister.