@cathannabel

Oh, I never doubted that – but the idea that a blue doesn’t make sense (and for a young cop to say it, at that) made me chortle.

@thane16

hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha

Tip for future reference: only quote the bit you want explaining 😉

PSA: Public Service Announcement.

Example: See above. Being precise is also important, and anecdotes are rarely precise.

(curious feature of discourse: it is easy for a discussion about something big to get derailed by the…[Read more]

@ardaraith @miapatrick @mudlark @juniperfish

On rewatch Timeless Child definitely came over as much more significant than at first – telling her something she did not remember, and revelling in knowing a secret that it wouldn’t tell.

It occurs to me, with hindsight, that Chibbers is a much more likely candidate that Moffatt to take a crack at an…[Read more]

“only the one in town’s green. This don’t make any sense.”

That made me LOL. Twice now.

BBC APPROVED SPOILERS...

BBC APPROVED SPOILERS...

@bluesqueakpip @mudlark

There was indeed the mention of a a medipod (or similar) for Yaz, and Graham saw Ryan regaining consciousness in something along those lines.

@Craig

Little bit puzzled by Matt Strevens comment that the new Tardis would be more analogue that before. All of the AG Tardises have been very much organic and/ or steampunk,…[Read more]

@mudgodson

Commas are your friend.

@miapatrick

Definitely heard Timeless Child, but took it to be a taunting of the Time Lord’s (…er….moving on…) base insecurity.

Enjoyed that.

Hints of an *whisper it* arc.

Some less-crisp-than-it-could-be-dialogue-editing more than offset by the redesign of old Sexy.

And two of my theories shot down in flames.

@craig

Thanks Craig – shall watch with interest while trying to ignore my gloaty vegan friend!

@thane16

Excellent question.

It means that one needs to be very, very cautious of generalising from personal experience. That doesn’t in any way negate those experiences, but underlines that it is from a specific point of view in a specific set of circumstances. It is, in essence, storytelling. Now, nobody (least of all here!) is going to…[Read more]

@mudlark @cathannabel @craig @jimthefish

Thanks all – much appreciated.

No agony, but a lot to absorb (in a non-sugary way).

@notime

Ah, gotcha.

They’d usually be called the opening credits (terminology differs from the US, I believe, where the opening credits would be the bit AFTER the main titles, where the action has started and various writers, producers etc etc  names would appear), or title sequence as @thane16 says.

Anyhoo, in one of the…[Read more]

@notime

Did the UK viewers get an intro segment

What do you mean by intro segment?

@missy

NI is nothing to do with funding the NHS. It is used to find the current state pension pot. The NHS is funded out of general taxation.

But anyway, when talking about free everybody knows it means free-at-the-point-of-delivery. Nobody is ever invoiced for having a medical emergency, even if it turns out to be a false alarm.

@all

OK, before the flurry of next-episode posts, could you have a watch of this vlog  (I think that’s what they are called) about my diagnosis and, even better, pop over onto YouTube and give it a thumbs up? I’ll probably make a short series, so a ‘subscribe’ would be ace too (even though I’m not really doing it for the audience so much as to…[Read more]

Couple of passing thoughts on third (or possibly 4th, can’t remember) watch:

@thane16 @whisht

I thought the closing music more industrial (steel town) than military. The drums had a metalness to them, and fit in with the new mechanically-minded Doctor.

Also, I think the burst we got when JW stood up for the first time is from the opening theme…[Read more]

LindaLee has spoken…

@kharis

“Every show a self-contained story” sounds to me like a return to 100% “monster of the week” and no need to bother staying for the end, because there’s no chance of failure, and everyone ends up exactly as they started so the next “self-contained story” can toddle on without any continuity with what came before.”

Literally don’t really ge…[Read more]

@thetinker

Well spotted. No idea. Doesn’t seem to be his phone.