So, Chris Noth’s character definitely not based on anyone in particular… (Angry Virgin annoyance factor: 5/10);

Dialogue direction and editing much tighter than so far. Wonder where this was in the production schedule;

No aliens…

Touching sequence with Graham and Memory Grace;

Good banter among team Tardis;

But a sense of peril somewhat…[Read more]

I’ve just realised what my issue with the coda was.

I think it was absolutely necessary for the younger viewers – but it was played like a segment of a Blue Peter(1) broadcast. Now I would never dream of dissing Blue Peter, and I really think Whittaker earned her Silver Badge for that scene, and would have been an awesome presenter. But it didn’t…[Read more]

@thetinker

Just to tidy up, I found a tweet from Tosin Cole conforming that the red thing was the bike light (very matter of fact – no archness).

@swordwhale

Never, ever look up pearl necklace on Urban Dictionary…

*whistles innocently*

@juniperfish

I am deeply disappointed that you haven’t yet come up with an elaborate and metatextual theory as to why the Doctors top changed colour.

Are you even trying anymore 😉 ?

@lisa

You both obviously have vested interests in the EU.

*points at lisa

hahahahahahahahahahahaahhahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

*inhales*.

First: that it classic paranoid conspiracy thinking.

Second: at least try to grasp the concept of tiers.

there is ignorance, and there is the kind of wilful ignorance that you…[Read more]

@nerys

Gotta love a bit of Copeland.

If you can find Howard Goodalls contextualising of Variations On a Shaker Hymn it is a fun listen (I think it was part of his Story of Music series).

BTW @Thane16 The Statistical Outlier, have you seen Ready Player One? It a bit of a hoot (though two moments that rattled my suspension of disbelief), but it…[Read more]

@lisa

The Commission is made up of representatives appointed by the democratically elected governments of each member state. What you have said is the equivalent of “Hillary Clinton should never have been Secretary of State because nobody elected her”.

The elected body of the EU is the European Parliament.

The EU is a rules based membership…[Read more]

@kevinwho

Yep – as noted upthread, on the axis of steely resolve and matter-of-fact truthiness.

@swordwhale

Also worth noting that Puro is an actual bona fide proper world class expert on music, with the PhD and years of experience (and a truly great Bowie anecdote that it is worth searching the forum for) to prove it. So if some halfwit says “the music was crap and unoriginal” you can safely take it that any reply from Puro is not just…[Read more]

@anduril

Oh my word – well spotted.

That was a really well stocked charity shop!

@lisa – yes, massively off-topic and completely ignorant about what the EU is and how it operates. You have actually fallen, hook, like and sinker for the fascist version of history (I don’t use the term alt-right since I am not inclinded todo their PR for them), but that is your choice and off-topic.

Anyhoo, as @juniperfish notes, Krasko’s…[Read more]

So, somewhat to my surprise, I made another video – in which biscuits are considered at some length, ( @mudlark, @arbutus @swordhale ) Morrissey and mushrooms are exposed for what they truly are and I get a bit sleep deprived. It goes a bit off-piste.

I’ll let you field this one, @Thane16 the elder…

@kevinwho

Asimov’s comments

tl;dr

It is extremely bad writing form to deploy backstory for declamatory, exculpatory or (in Asimov’s example) revelatory purposes that has not been properly established or foreshadowed. It’s just rank bad writing, although a lot of shows (including on occasion, Dr Who) use it as a shortcut. It’s a sort of c…[Read more]

@kevinwho @jimthefish

While examining the methods and means of those who promote terrorism, do the radicalisation – whether the Bin Ladens or the Brezhnevs or the Prabhakarans- and indeed of those on the cusp of being radicalised, is fertile ground, the front line goons have gone past the point interest. In Krasko’s case as soon as he used the…[Read more]

@jimthefish

The joy of the fans outshouting the wailing fanboys has been a treat for the past couple of weeks. But this week especially.

@swordwhale

I like the new TARDIS interior

I think we may need to form a support group…

Well, I did say the Angry Virgins would be very cross.

@dogboythecat

And a Whovian since the Traughton (sic) days….

uh-hu

@dogboythecat

It might be more convincing if you spelt Troughton correctly.

”social justice” narrative

Or “decency” as it is known outside fuckwit circles.

Which has always been at the core of Doctor Who’s storytelling.

As I said upthread, some of the dialogue was a bit spelly-outy for my tastes, but I have been around the track at least as…[Read more]