@thetinker

I thought it was the same gadget that was the homing beacon, so logically (yes wrong sci-fi show) it was to call the blue vase thingy to earth

@pedant

Interesting counter points and I’ll accept it wasn’t fridging.

There were however several payments paid to victory, possibly accidentally the train driver, the loving brother, the…[Read more]

@Rob
Well, Chibbers also said that the stories were all standalone and single episode – and we’ve just gone into Episode Two with everyone stranded in vacuum and a still-missing TARDIS. So he’s clearly absorbed Rule Zero: The Showrunner Always Lies. 🙂

What he may mean is that you don’t need to know why the Gang are hanging about in space if you…[Read more]

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<Waves at comrades, old and new>

@ScaryB I thought you’d like the Delia Derbyshire tribute in the theme tune! Did you see she got honoured with a posthumous PhD last year?

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/nov/20/delia-derbyshire-doctor-who-theme-co-creator-posthumous-phd

@JimtheFish  “The VC was probably relegated to a broom cupboard s…[Read more]

@pedant I kinda like the Doctor Barbie. I like to nudge my niece in the direction of strong female characters. I’ve bought her a Black Widow Funko Pop! toy in the past, told my brother to show her the CW’s Supergirl, and the Wonder Woman movie.

Even yesterday I told him he should take her to Aquaman as he saw the trailer and responded that my…[Read more]

Well, that was pretty damn good and easily Chibnall’s best work on the series. Long may it continue. It didn’t have the sheer energy of The Eleventh Hour (but what could?) but I’d say it was a stronger introductory story than The Christmas Invasion. Tonally, Whittaker seems to be pitching her Doctor somewhere between Tennant and Smith and that’s…[Read more]

@pedant Noooooooo, you tempted me to read the Daily Fail’s review and now I need to bathe my eyes with salt water.

The reviewer moaned (at great length) that Jodie’s Doctor wasn’t more “Beyonce” or “Daenerys Targaryen”. Now I have a weird “All the Single Ladies” dance routine as performed by the new Doctor and companions flashing before my eyes.…[Read more]

Just remembered that spoons were involved in the creation of the new sonic screwdriver.  ‘I’m the Doctor  …. and this is my spoon’!

@pedant

PS Apparently the Daily Mail has been spectacularly predictable.

Which is why, though I try to be broad minded and tolerant, I’m allergic to the DM and tend to feel the need to disinfect my computer if eve…[Read more]

@Pedant Yeah – and loving the new/old theme.

@pedant

A little nudge from some birds (possibly Osprey) told me Mr P has a birthday! And on the same day as the New Doctor. Hooray& and hip hip; hip hip…..

(LOL, I’ trying to keep up….      😉

Puro and Thane.

@mudlark  It is difficult if not impossible to imagine that anyone who watches and enjoys Doctor Who and who understands what the Doctor stands for could ever have voted for Trump

So true.  The Doctor really can’t stand bullies, can she.

@janetteb  If only there really were a Doctor..

If only . . . !!

@pedant  Hoodezfield!  My old stom…[Read more]

@pedant

Your father’s situation was indeed grim, both for him and all of you who had to witness it and I sympathise.

it is an anti-coagulant so for those at risk it is, if not a wonder-drug, at least a pretty damned cost-effective supplement.

Exactly so; and in my case the aspirin is supplementary to hydroxycarbamide, which acts directly on the…[Read more]

@pedant

That’s awful for your dad, Mr P. It would’ve been painful to go through & also to watch. Awful.

And I didn’t explain myself well.  It was sufficient evidence of my own foolishness.

The aspirin issue was my own fault. Had I been a normal patient without the susceptibility to nasty ulcers, nurofen would’ve been fine. Had I actually read…[Read more]

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@missy @pedant @mudlark @whisht

Funny Story.

I was diagnosed with Crohns, right. I was told: “don’t take aspirin or disprin.”

About 10 years later, some awesome headache relief appeared in the name of “nurofen.”

I was working hard & studying but not into studying labels. I took 2, sometimes 3 & it was AMAZING. So much better than Panadol!…[Read more]

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