@craig

All good! Maybe you could cut off the seeoswald? The poster has no critical value beyond “this is rubbish!” and “rescue the show” and “they’ve gotten worse” which is kinda odd as the last episode was quite the attraction at the local philosophy club, apparently (I don’t darken their doors, not after I mis-translated Latin). Other than…[Read more]

@pedant @bluesqueakpip @miapatrick

Yeah, this doesn’t contradict anything that was coming out of the rumour mill. Whittaker and Chibbers were always going to on board for s12, as far as I know.

Not sure about spurious though. A single source so far but I’ve seen no denials of a delay or a split season. I wouldn’t be massively surprised if either…[Read more]

@pedant @thane16 Yeah, I had quite a few replies so went with a majority vote rather than a unanimous vote. Hope you don’t mind.

@pedant

Yes, the entire good history of very good telly had many companions/friends/adventurers/fighters.

@pedant . Clearly not at my best: these words together:  “good history” say it all.

The second time Musk announced her death.

Uhn huh. Wh? Why? What a twerp. Yes, he does cool things. Some seriously weird stories climb the hill of turds that…[Read more]

@pedant

Hey, we’re in the Solitract!

Erm, HOW do we get back?

Hang on, tell me exactly how many eyes, teeth and arms you have, because you could be a PRETENDER! A sentient universe eating our actual universe and the two can’t co-exist. We’ll go all “kaleidoscope” with our hands.

Test question: who SAID that? (I liked that description). Great…[Read more]

@kevinwho Who’s saying sorry? Who’s saying so??  Who? Who?

LOL. No need! The above is Mss Evangelista who was ghost looping (not those words, though).

Ah, @pedant Hannah Arendt. Now we’re talking.

Yes, the entire good history of very good telly had many companions/friends/adventurers/fighters.

Billy Shipton was central to the plot of Blink – wi…

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@pedant

oooh, I’m hearing Giles say it and I’m thinking still when he’s in school librarian mode, so I’m going to go for s2 or s3.

(rummages around on IMDB.)

I’m going to go for I Only Have Eyes For You…..

@pedant

It’s an interesting analogy and I think it’s definitely there but (and this feels oddly like something we’ve discussed on the Buffy threads) its kind of comparing apples and oranges. Who has not been ensemble show for a long time and I suspect that the way its mythos has panned out means that it never can be again.

The issue I think is…[Read more]

@pedant and @cathannabel (and @ everyone else),

that body of work stands and will stand, with some of the finest 3 minute pop songs ever crafted. And some of the most memorable lyrics. Pete Shelley, RIP.

Cath you’ve said better than I why the Buzzcocks were so good and the sadness of hearing about Pete Shelley.

As a kid at the time I’d…[Read more]

@pedant – we were gutted to hear of Pete Shelley’s death. Only 63  – we expect to be losing some of the old guard (as sad as we have been to see some of them go) but that’s far, far too young.  When punk arrived, I was initially utterly loyal to prog. I couldn’t see why people should want to embrace what seemed to me so often to be ugliness, in t…[Read more]

I was going to post ‘Mirror Man’ by (The) Human League but it seems @pedant beat me to it so here’s a frog related song instead.

@swankycriminal   @pedant

Partly, they were “all” there to save Gallifrey at that moment in time. They do not, and cannot, remember ‘out of the cup of soup’ which is how they knew to keep Gallifrey frozen IN that moment (though the Gallifreyans were said to be living normal lives -but in a hidden part of the universe).

It was almost like a…[Read more]

@pedant Ashamed to say Ghibli is unknown territory to me.  I know.  I must address that!  Still mystified by the connection that’s niggling away in my head.

@thane16 I hope your Dad enjoys it.

@pedant Yes, it was (in Scotland at least) after my Dad did it. The story goes that one of the Rangers’ players had done it the year before against Hearts. So my Dad thought “If I ever get the chance to do the same…”

But then it lead to a winning goal – against Rangers no less, the biggest team in Scotland -…[Read more]

@pedant You tend to keep an eye out for the thundering bellends or the shouty-boyz. I wonder if anyone moaned at Yaz’ “that’s shocking parenting” comment?

The “PC” Brigade will no doubt pick up on how “we parents should be allowed to parent our off-spring however we damn well please, whether a blind kid’s abandoned in a house all day and night or…[Read more]

@thane16  @ichabod I think you might like this one?

You’re right; for me, this story had a pleasingly disconnected feeling that I think came with the “through the looking glass” echo — first time I felt that they dared to take off without a clear flight path to an expected landing place (except that a sort of resolution between Ryan and Graham…[Read more]

@pedant – Mirror in the Bathroom – fairy nuff ! Tight as a gnat’s …. hm maybe I shouldn’t do rhyming.
The other ‘mirror’ songs in my collection are all unsuitable and so I’ll link to something by Arctic Monkeys (from the album referenced by the t-shirt).
Snap out of it – perhaps quite appropriate.

But I’ll also link a song which is me trying to…[Read more]

@pedant

On Heaven 17 Lookee! It’s Justin Beiber time travelling with eyeliner.

Well, no, not really, as that’s offensive to musicians.

@whisht

Great doco!  @Cathannabel I think I posted a comment on the Sofa or Pub about Human League/Wikipedia/Bowie etc. But I could have imagined posting it (that happens a bit).

The thing with this Forum,…[Read more]

A very Doctorish take on Through the Looking Glass, and perhaps the best and most imaginative episode so far this year. The initial misdirection was neatly done and the concept of an alternative and lonely universe yearning to connect with ours was compelling, though it rang faint bells and I’m not sure it was entirely original. As @pedant says,…[Read more]

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Thanks for the help. Totally missed it, twice!