@ichabod

Okay, I do not remember 12 being able to “leave at any time”.

In that case you did not pay sufficient attention, which is far enough. Moffat’s writing is unforgiving of those who don’t. But it was spelled out clearly, in text.

But anyway, it was Time Lord tech not a fanwank British institution (which for realism would be a 48 hour wat…[Read more]

@mudlark

You’re one of those weirdos who doesn’t dunk, aren’t you? 😉

@ichabod

A dark, gloomy….custard cream dispenser.

@ichabod

As was repeatedly stated, he could have left at any time. So maybe add “stubborn” to “patient”.

 In a show like this, where anything goes

So it would be fine to make the Doctor half-human….

@bluesqueakpip

Um. There’s The Wedding of River Song, where he’s regarded as a crazy Soothsayer and it’s Amy who rescues him.

In an alternate reality where time had stopped working. Kinda undermines a Time Lord, that.

There were several stories in the Moffat era where the Doctor was imprisoned for months – but it always turned out that he had a r…

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Have just been through a whole chuck of this just listening to the music.

You know what? It’s bloody fantastic. A while back I mentioned that there was something very Blue Veils and Golden Sands about one of the bits on his site, and I feel that even more now. Delia Derbyshire would have recognised it as a direct descendant of her body of work…[Read more]

@shinymcshine

The fall needed more setup.

Why? The story wasn’t about the fall, it was about the landing, and its impact. An already odd day for Graham, Grace, Ryan and Yaz was about to get a whole lot odder. And we the viewers knew something they didn’t, which made it rather delicious.

One of Moffat’s strengths (apart from command of metaphor,…[Read more]

@wibblywobblytimeywimeystuff

I suspect it’s one of those things that gets filed under the general heading of “it just does”.

But given the level of Time Lord tech and the fact that the screwdriver itself can cope with anything (except wood) I imagine the Tardis can work out how to hijack it and add the requisite software.

@cathannabel @thane16

Somewhere in the deepest recesses of my memory, I have the thought that the Royal Air Force did some research into the impact of different vocal styles had on the authority of air controllers. It found that female voices had a timbre to them that pilots (sometimes coming from quite stressful situations) responded to better…[Read more]

@shinymcshine

Contrapuctual

First off, falling out of the sky and crashing through the roof of a train should be dramatic

Why? Could you point to the page of the Big Red Book Of Rules For Stories that says falls must always be played straight? Buster Keaton and Charlie Chaplin must have regretted their entire careers when they read that.

I would…[Read more]

@miapatrick

Personally would rather refer to them as Christopher, David, Matt, Peter, Jody simply because I find these easier to spell, but it’s true, she does seem to be ‘Jody’

*circles bait*

*thinks better of it*

@cathannabel

In the Usenet days the convention (and I don’t think it was any more than that, plus a bit of micro-bandwidth manag…[Read more]

@juniperfish @ichabod

Eccleston

Tennant

Smith

Capaldi

Jodie.

There’s part of the challenge, right there.

English doesn’t really have informal vs formal address in the way that other languages do (eg: vous vs tu), but we inject it in other ways without even trying.

@mudlark @miapatrick

I’m with @bendubz11. Apart from oreos which, besides being and American affectation, do something deeply unsettling in your digestive tract if you eat a whole packet.

Not that I’m allowed any sodding biccies at the moment.

@XAD4

One aims to please 🙂

(Did you see my gif of Dinas’s fledging? Can’t recall if I tagged you or…[Read more]

@ichabod

but I had trouble with “Deep Throat” for the same reason

I really hope you meant “Deep Breath” there!

On the other hand….

@thane16

Never said stories aren’t important!

But when you have a quiet moment read up on the research into the reliability of eye witness accounts.

@craig @nearlysane

Apparently have have a 7 season arc planned.

@craig

Have binged it about 4 times now. It is simply outstanding, really rewards repeat viewing and the short-season format serves it well. Not a single filler.

Maximum Derek.

@nearlysane

Inside No 9 is great – a sort short form Black Mirror.

I knew there was something else I’d noticed but took ages to find.

“Bonuses and snaketraps”

Snakes and Ladders.

In space.

@jimthefish @geoffers et al

Oh, and where the hell did those sunglasses come from?

From dialog just before Graham complains about getting sand in his eyes:

“Oh, I forgot I put stuff in these pockets”

And then, after given the shades to Graham

“Like and old pair of mine…I say mine; can’t remember…. etc etc”

So was directly addressed in…[Read more]

@thane16

Bookmark your last post here and come back to it once you’ve read the first 50 pages or so of the book. Seriously. That’s an exercise you won’t regret.

But maybe not just now.