@Kevinwho  @Margaret-Blaine  @troygorsline

Complaints that the character and motivation of Krasko weren’t explored in any detail are, I think, beside the point because, as Darth Valaryn suggests, the real monster of the episode is racism itself. Krasko is not all that important beyond the fact that, in the context, his interference is the r…[Read more]

@thane16

I don’t think that sounds very “restaurant-y” does it?

Not particularly, no.  Brandy snaps are fairly easy to make and rolling them before they harden is the trickiest part. But if I were in a restaurant and brandy snaps were on the menu, whether with cream or strawberries or both, I would almost certainly order them. Unless profit…[Read more]

@Arbutus

I’d be thinking of gingersnaps.

In which case we appear to be in accord, since ginger snaps are an alternative name for what I referred to as ginger nuts 🙂  Brandy snaps, which I think I mentioned in another post, and which don’t always contain brandy but do contain ginger, are another matter. Usually filled with whipped cream, but wh…[Read more]

Whilst I was compiling the above ( I touch type fast but paradoxically write very slowly) I see that I was forestalled by others commenting on the planning of the protest. Coincidence or serendipity, but not plagiarism.

Yesterday I read a review of the episode and numerous comments (overwhelmingly laudatory) on a US site which is primarily political but which does occasionally feature references to Doctor Who. It seems that I was right in my recollection that Rosa Parks’ protest was planned beforehand, and according to one commenter, several people on the bus…[Read more]

@thane16

Sadly I don’t think The Civil Rights Movement can ever be over.

Certainly not yet, anyway, and in some respects it can seem as if things are slipping backwards. The current, blatantly partisan attempts in some States to remove black and latinx voters from the electoral rolls, on the slightest pretext or none, is on depressing sign, even v…[Read more]

@tardigrade

The time displacement device appears to have been capable of sending people forward to the 85th century, from memory. If its ability to send people backwards is similar, then Krasko could have ended up around 6000 BCE.

That detail hadn’t fully registered yesterday evening but, despite my flippant comment above*, I was assuming that he…[Read more]

@ichabod

Happy birthday.

Reminders of the passage of the years aren’t necessarily welcome, but it’s still a good excuse for a celebration 😀

@pedant

Picky picky!  I wasn’t thinking *that* far back, and in any case I wasn’t expecting anyone to take me seriously 🙂

@pedant

I didn’t say he would survive 🙂  The DNA of his carcase landing in the ooze could kick start a chain of evolution or, alternatively, if he landed a billion or so years later he might land on a critical insect, or give a significant therapod terminal indigestion.   Or not.  I tend to the belief that if there are time travellers and th…[Read more]

@Juniperfish

WhitDoc (I like it) is ready to take on that fight, not as that antithesis, the War Doctor, but, like Rosa as a grassroots resister, one small, important, action at a time.

You have expressed it perfectly. And just as small interventions by a time traveller could divert the course of history, we are shown, from the perspective of a…[Read more]

@pedant

The console’s crystal thingy goes up and down;

According to the article in the Radio Times, it’s supposed to be a Time Crystal and a main power source. Not sure where that leaves the Eye of Harmony, but the Tardis has renewed herself and maybe there was a bit more involved than refurbishment and redecoration.

@JimTheFish

Vinette R…

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@Bluesqueakpip

Bloody hell, I remember the old days, we had proper trolls back then

Indeed we did, and real rickety-rackety bridges for them to live under 😉

Back in the old days BG I was generally not so keen on the episodes with a historical setting because the errors, however minor, tended to bother me.  Not here, although the narrative…[Read more]

@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]

@ShinyMcShine

You don’t like what Chibnall has done so far, fair enough. Speaking for myself alone and on the evidence so far, I don’t think that he is as good a writer as Moffat, at least as far as Doctor Who is concerned, and I have some misgivings about the direction in which he appears to be taking the show. The one thing I would never accuse…[Read more]

@pedant

An illogical inference. I’ll happily dunk ginger nuts any day, and chocolate digestives – though once has to be very quick about the latter, so that the chocolate is in a partially melted state but the underlying biscuit hasn’t disintegrated. For that matter, I’m also partial to dark chocolate coated ginger nuts, and brandy snaps, both of…[Read more]

@pedant

A dark, gloomy….custard cream dispenser

Given my views on custard creams, dark and gloomy is entirely appropriate for a dispenser of same 😈

Have you or anyone else here read the article devoted to the design of the Tardis in next week’s issue of Radio Times, or spotted my brief comment on same over on the Sofa?  It offers a few de…[Read more]

@Arbutus

Her insistence on learning the facts about the planet and its history suggest that she’s more of a field researcher than a back-in-the-library type.

A kindred soul in that respect, but libraries have their uses once you come in out of the field. I wouldn’t trust anyone who published without references 😉

Next week’s Radio Times contains a piece on the new design of the Tardis, plus a double page spread covering the changes in design over the past 55 years. Without going into detail, the impression I get is that they may have ignored some established concepts such as the eye of harmony, and that the designer Arwel Jones did, as I suspected, intend…[Read more]

@Miapatrick

It seems that we had the impulse to comment on the same subject at almost the same time, except that you virtuously migrated to the more appropriate location.

I’m not sure, though, what you mean by saying that white chocolate contains no cocoa. It’s more accurate to say that it contains only the fats extracted from the cocoa bean,…[Read more]