I’m looking at “cutting the cable” and I was looking at channels available over the broadcast airwaves.

I saw a channel I had heard of before – RetroTV or RTV.  As I was surfing, I saw a scene that I thought looked a lot like Classic Doctor Who (…[Read more]

I’ll put that together soon and let everyone tell me that I’m a scoundrel because left out their favorite episode.  LOL.

I’d would have liked to put them all in but I was…[Read more]

do actors paint a world on the writer’s canvas, with the brushes of the technicians?

That’s not bad.  Let’s see what some others can come up with.

That reminds me of…

“That’s a fairy tale.”

“Doctor. Aren’t we all?”

I was thinking last night about how much we love the surprises in the plots that the writers throw at us. And how much we love the surprises in the way that the actors portray their parts.

And a thought popped into my head…

“The actor is the canvas that the plot is painted on.”

I thought, that SOUNDS deep, it’s…[Read more]

@ob-wan I don’t believe that ‘Pete’ Capaldi (has he been introduced as such?) is…

Please, Please, PLEASE…

…do not put my name anywhere near a comment like that.

I already have enough people trying to read INTO what I write instead of reading what I ACTUALLY write.

LOL.

I said that he hadn’t been “well-received unive…[Read more]

Sorry I have had a chance to revisit Romana.  Got tied up with DW News and talking about lawyers and life in general.

After all, do you think PC’s contract pays him for making one show in a year?  There’s probably a clause in every TV actor’s contract about the show going off the air or suspending production.  I r…[Read more]

After Gap.  Thanks to you both.  I never would have gotten that.

@allonsy

“If I wasn’t cursed with Comcast, which has a data cap on their Internet, I would drop the cable and just use Hulu.”

My limit with Comcast Blast service is pretty high.  But I’m an old guy so I may not be using as it as fast as a younger person might…[Read more]

I’m tired and probably just too dense, but I can’t seem to figure out what “AG Doctor Who” stands for.

A little help, please.

I will now have to find an alternative way of catching up on the show (maybe Hulu or Amazon Prime).

I have Amazon and I really don’t like it.  I’m going to drop it before my renewal date.  I don’t like the s…[Read more]

If we’re going to go much further we should probably move this to the Sofa.  I’ll try to put it into perspective and then if you have any other questions – please put them there.

In the US, any lawyer can be a trial lawyer, but many don’t have what it takes, so they join a firm or refer their clients to others for a referral fee.  Most s…[Read more]

My first thought was maybe the BBC thinks that BBC America is losing $$$ because of the other outlets.

Perhaps they want to expand the Doctor Who offerings.  I had seen that they were playing Classic episodes on Saturday mornings (Tom Baker, or course) a short time ago but I checked their schedule and don’t see them anymore.

Hopefully…[Read more]

According to CinemaBlend –

Sadly for us and any who might have come after, Netflix will be pulling Doctor Who from its streaming service on February 1, 2016…

Official confirmation that both series collections of Doctor Who will be soon gone from Netflix is disappointing, considering that there have been false alarms in the past about…[Read more]

No, of course not, Mersey.

It just seems that some of my opinions don’t match with the orthodoxy of other forum members.

And to be fair some of them seem to take that very personally while I’ve just been trying to defend my conclusions.

One of the big brouhahas was because I mentioned what I thought was “a minor technical point”.

You…[Read more]

I did mention lawyers.  I used to work with lawyers.  In this case I mean “lawyers”, as in American lawyers/attorneys – not Barristers/Solicitors.

In America there is an expression among lawyers that I mentioned…

“Are you going to believe me or your own lying eyes.”

It refers to trying to trying to trick an eyewitness into getting c…[Read more]

Welcome!

I’m a Yank myself.  I would send you a much longer greeting but it’s getting a little late.

I’m sure we’ll have a chance to talk in the coming days.

Kharis changed their profile picture

LOVED the blonde Romana.  Hot in a very cool kind of way – The Doctor’s Mrs. Peel (without the cat suit *Darn*).

I keep hoping that they’ll figure out a way to bring her back.  Not Lalla Ward, obviously, but I would like to see the character make a comeback considering that she played such a big pa…[Read more]

No, the point is that the use of the word is correct — both mine, and Moffat’s and RTDs. And yes, it is a rationalisation because reason was used…

You are using the word “rationalization” incorrectly…

Attempt to explain or justify (one’s own or another’s behavior or attitude) with logical, plausible reasons, even if these are not…

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OB-Wan: And it will never be correct no matter how much you may rationalize it to yourself.  The definition of words aren’t going to change to suit your musings.

jimthefish: Not my musings, no, but with the musings of enough people… So, no, afraid you’re wrong there.

Oh, Jim, try to keep things stra…[Read more]

All the best to your mum.  Hopes for a speedy recovery.

Happy Australia Day!  Kinda funny. It seems a lot like our 4th of July except you celebrate when the British planted their flag and we celebrate when they took their flag and left.

Have fun and know that were we to vote here – you would be the Australian of the Ye…[Read more]

I know, let’s talk about Doctor Who news!

LOL.  Good point, K.  Sorry for the OTPs.  Just kind of got caught up in the give-and-take.

Thanks for the gentle reminder.

Yet you then discuss a brain, comparing it to a computer when a brain is nothing like  a computer…

NOTHING like a computer?   Really?  Are you sure?

Besides comparing a brain to a computer is no different than saying that your voice is like chalk on a blackboard, for example.

Metaphor – a figure of speech in which a word or phra…

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I don’t know if you were tagging me or others on the matter of pronunciation. I think mistakes happen though -its not about not caring.

It just seems strange to me that during writing, editing, rehearsals and filming that NO ONE realized that they were pronouncing Goddard in a very un-American way even though most of them were p…[Read more]

Then we’ll have to agree to disagree about the definition of “reboot”.

@bluesqueakpip

I think ‘reboot’ as a film and TV term really only dates back slightly over a decade…. But what they were doing was nicking a computer term to describe shutting down the old franchise and starting up the new one.

Exactly.  There are plenty of word…[Read more]

Words have meanings attached to them

jimthefish: Yes, they do but once again it’s a great deal more nuanced and complicated than that.

No, it’s not.  You just want to make it complicated so you can pretend that the way you use the words (“reboot” for instance) is correct, when it’s not.  And it will never be correct no matter how muc…[Read more]

Where he plays a “Time Master” in a stolen time machine, wearing a very long coat.

Spot on.  Although I missed the detail that the time machine was stolen.

You see, I’m familiar with the character – Rip Hunter, Time Master – from the old 60’s comics.  But I can’t claim to remember much about it, except that I enjoyed the s…[Read more]

(E.g. as a nuclear scientist would you take Merriam-Webster’s definition of fission as the last word on the subject. Of course you wouldn’t.)

Whoa.  Never said I was a scientist.  I worked as a technician in a plant.  But I had six months of school from 9-5 studying thermodynamics, metallurgy, nuclear physics, radiation calcul…[Read more]

I do want to go through the Classic Who episodes first!…  any suggestions where I can find something a bit more complete?

Hulu says it has 413 Classic Doctor Who episodes available for a subscription.

Subscriptions start at $7.99 a month.  But as with any plan, watch out for the fine print.

Gee, I should sign up for that.  I’m ge…[Read more]

IMO, if you are introducing someone to Doctor Who and having them watch the show on their own, I wouldn’t recommend this episode as a introduction

I totally agree.  In fact, I recently put together a watch-list for a co-worker to get her to the 50th Anniversary episode without giving her so many episodes that she would just quit.  I end…[Read more]

…in the rebooted show.

Just a minor technical point – the show hasn’t been rebooted.  “Rebooted” implies jettisoning the past stories and starting over.

An ‘opinion’ is a conclusion or stance arrived at via evidence and argument.

It seems you have leapfrogged over the posts where I detailed my evidence and argument. No problem, it’s all there, just take a moment to review it, please.

The first is that a traditional DEM tends to be consequence free.

That is an opinion.  And even if it…[Read more]

Ob-wan, it really doesn’t matter how often you quote the dictionary, or what your opinion is. You keep phrasing your argument in a way that suggests that you don’t understand the concept you’re discussing.

I could very well retort that you don’t seem to understand plain English – that you’re just trying to complicate a very simpl…[Read more]

The Cinderella example is pretty flawed.  We’re told well in advance the conditions and consequences.  Forgetting the time, while sudden, is neither ” a character or thing that suddenly enters the story”.

I’m actually perfectly happy with the argument that The Parting of the Ways, taken as a single episode, contains a DEM… Wit…

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Which is, Bad Wolf cannot be a Deus Ex Machina, because we expect Bad Wolf to turn up. We just don’t know what it is.

Well, that will probably the point that we’ll have to end on.  It doesn’t appear that either of us is going to be able to move past this central point.

In my opinion it doesn’t matter if the words “Bad Wolf” are sp…[Read more]

And your argument is that “they mentioned the words Bad Wolf before”.  Along with a reference to the heart of the TARDIS.

If you look at the definition of DEM you will see that there is nothing in it that forbids such vague foreshadowing.

It matters not if the words are sprinkled here and there.  And merely mentioning the heart of t…[Read more]

The explosive properties of Blinovitch Limitation Effect is visibly failing in the Big Bang; it works with the Sonic (to the extent of a small spark) when the universe starts collapsing in the Roman era, doesn’t work at all by the time Amy meets Amelia, and has never been seen since in any of the TV episodes.

Now that I’ll c…[Read more]

Dues ex machina – a character or thing (i.e. Bad Wolf) that suddenly enters the story in a novel, play, movie, etc., and solves a problem that had previously seemed impossible to solve – Merriam-Webster

Sorry Jim, but I know the definition of DEM and I saw the episode with my own eyes.  NO amount of lawyer-ing is going to convince me t…[Read more]

“…Moffat, if he learnt one thing from Whedon, learnt that events have consequences.”

But even Whedon couldn’t stick to that.  Spike dies in a heroic sacrifice full of pathos and grace to save the world – oh, wait, he’s back.

The only thing that Whedon hated about it was that the network announced that Marsters was joining the show…[Read more]

like RTD, he tries not to back future writers into corners – nor be backed into a corner.

But that’s the beauty of a science fiction show – it’s REALLY, REALLY hard to back yourself into a corner without being able to come up with a way out.

I agree with your point, but EVEN IF they declare something as canon, if they want to change t…[Read more]

Adam, played by Bruno Langley, was the boy genius In DALEK and THE LONG GAME, therefore appeared in the credits

I guess I didn’t really say that very well.  I meant in the opening credits BEFORE the “Doctor Who” title card.  I wasn’t trying to include guest stars per se unless they got billing in big letters “above the title”, so to s…[Read more]

Well, I guess that’s “an answer” for those who can’t live without one.  Like ichabod, I never really cared once Danny was removed from the chessboard.

But it’s kind of funny that Moffat would give an answer and then turn right around and say that that answer doesn’t mean anything… “Nothing is actual till it’s in the show.”

Maybe he…[Read more]

Their IT guy just said, (paraphrase) – “I downloaded the fourth series of Doctor Who.  Tom Baker is amazing.”

That’s kind of what I meant when I said…

“Perhaps it’s like people who have a Doctorate who get insulted if you call them “Mr.”  Maybe she was saying that she was much more than JUST a companion.”

But my point was that I don’t think that eliminates her from ALSO being a companion.

On the face of it, that seems a little strange.  I mean can you imagine someone saying “She’s my wife, but she’s not my companion”? (And what if she heard you?)

You can be a companion without being a wife, but can you be a wife without being a companion?  I know that Doctor Who and River are not a conventional couple and they may n…[Read more]

“Oh, OK. I think I saw Batman when I was very young -the series and I liked it. I was about 5…”

Well, I could read before I went to school because I was reading comic books, like Batman. Even though they were pretty tame back then I still had an appreciation for the Dark Knight. When they brought it to TV I was around 10-years-old…[Read more]

“you seem really familiar to me? Do I know you?  Maybe you’re at school with me?”

LOL.  No, young man(?).  I’m much closer to the end of my race than the beginning.  Oh, to be 14 again.

“Anyway, hallo and welcome to the site. It’s good to have new members all ways . So let me extend my welcomes.”

Thank you.  I’m sorry I didn’t respond…[Read more]

Take a look back at my first post and see that the very next thing I know I’m being called names and being “instructed” by some *****ss about how to write posts to satisfy his ego.

(Although @puroandson did post a very nice welcome, but I’m afraid it got lost it the crossfire.  I should try to make up for that.)

Most b…[Read more]

Surely there must be someone on this board who isn’t a pompous a**.  Know anyone?

Sack Moffat?!  Sacrilege.

I may not be entirely happy with the current episodes but Moffat has certainly proven his worth.

According to tardis.wikia the only mention of prostitutes has been in books and audio, with the exception that “The Next Doctors” companion, Rosita Farisi, was apparently a prostitute before she met HER D…[Read more]