Some interesting responses to my “glowing arse” (thanks @JimTheFish !) post. I just wanted to say that with respect to:

@purofilion

Then there’s Farscape as Phaseshift’s suggestion so I’ll eventually watch that too.

And @JimTheFish

Maybe Mr @Phaseshift could be prevailed upon for a blog to get us all going.

I’d be happy to lead the choir of peopl…[Read more]

@purofilion (and others)

To be fair, I think that response was more to do with the idea that Clara and Amy were very similar by using an extract from Beast Below. The reason it was considered an outlier was that Amy seems to have a view of the Doctor that doesn’t really follow the flow of her story from the Eleventh Hour. It’s too soon for Amy t…[Read more]

@ichabod

Anybody watching “Penny Dreadful”? It’s one black bouillabaisse of a show, and some discussion has arisen about it being centered on a female character, Vanessa, and her Very Weird Problems.

I watched the first series and wrote a bit about it on the last thread here (mainly talking about some similarities with the League of Extra…[Read more]

@Greywurm

Sounds like The Face of Evil to me. Xoanon was a computer who achieved sentience and its new personality was fragmented by an encounter with the Doctor, leading him to suffer a multiple personality disorder. The confrontation you remember sees the Doctor meet him, realising what he’s done. The Doctor proclaims himself to be the D…[Read more]

@fortheloveoftheatre

In the context of what @bluesqueakpip and @pedant have been discussing, I’d probably recommend a low budget sci-fi horror comedy called Attack the Block. The “Block” is a South London Estate that sees itself as the centre of an alien incursion. It’s defended by a proto-gang led by Moses (John Boyega). It’s pretty enterta…[Read more]

@purofilion @janetteB @JimTheFish

Sounds like you are determined to jump down the rabbit hole of Space Opera @Purofilion! If it’s any consolation, I too struggled with Firefly when it was first released to the extent I only watched the complete run after I saw the Serenity film. I now think it is the one of the last great runs of Space Opera t…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

I’ve been having definite superhero fatigue

Me too, and considering that we are old comic book followers good knows what the non-comic book follower makes of it all.

Yes – the changes are slightly troubling and you hope they can avoid a S2 downturn in the way that The Walking Dead suffered under similar circumstances. I guess t…[Read more]

@JimTheFish

Jim, I’ve watched all the episodes from the new Daredevil and I really do think it’s one of the best stabs at doing a superhero run on the TV I’ve seen. It helps that it plays to some extent like a remixed Frank Miller “Man without Fear”. Lots of nice nods to that and some great action set pieces/fight work.

Above all though, t…[Read more]

@purofilion

So sorry to hear about your illness. Best wishes.

Did someone holler for a Mod? Oh, @pedant.

Mods, stop indulging and deal with it.

Fine. Your post has been deleted.

@DenValdron

You’ve made a good argument, but the matter simply isn’t definitive.

I don’t think that @Burrunjor has made a good argument throughout his small tenure at the site. What we have is someone who doesn’t want the Doctor to eventually become a woman. He sees the transformation of The Master into a female form as a step on the way. He d…[Read more]

@jimthefish

Yes, we probably nixed an official retrospective when we first started the BG reviews. Weird how so many Holmes scripts were chosen at the time. 😀 I thought a blog detailing my perspective on his stories might be an idea, tied in with some observations about fandoms reaction to him, and him to them. Anyone who wants to avoid…[Read more]

Just on Robert Holmes, can I agree with @Bluesqueakpip s post on ep 1. He’s pretty much my favourite Who writer of the BG years. I quite enjoyed the aspects of the RTD and Moff retrospectives where we looked at recurring tropes and underlying story themes and I’d quite like to do the same for a couple of earlier writers. I think I’ll put some…[Read more]

@arbutus

I fully agree with others who have said that the scenes in the Matrix are the weak part of the story. I imagine that they were thrown in to placate those who might find the lack of action in the first two episodes a bit pokey. 

Yes – one of them was probably me on the first showing. To put this into context this final episode was sh…[Read more]

I think my general opinion of the election result can be summarised as “oh bugger”.

I used to participate on the Gs Political blogs on occasion until the majesty of Andrew Sparrows politics blogs were ruined by format changes. I hope no-one minds if I info dump my “State of the Nation” thoughts onto here. In keeping with the general philoso…[Read more]

Taking the unusual step (looks up) at putting some news on the News page before I hibernate again….

If anyone doesn’t know the Horror channel has come to freeview and you can watch some Tom Baker on Sat afternoons and Sunday mornings. They seem to be on Key to Time at the moment. CHannel 70.

More interesting still is More Tom. And Leela. On…[Read more]

@DenValdron

Hack is not a polite word, and it should be used sparingly, if it all.

I don’t particularly use it myself, but I should point out that, on this side of the pond anyway, it didn’t always have such negative connotations. It was just used to describe writers who write as a job rather than for “the art”.Fancy that. It’s quite common to…[Read more]

Oh, don’t be such a coy tart @Burrunjor

Of course you’re Joseph on Planet Mondas. Ever since I was pointed in the general direction I’ve been laughing at them. I mean

Joseph on Missy:

He had her want to shag the Doctor just because she was a woman. I mean how sexist is that? Just because the Master is now a woman he wants to shag his morta…

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Gosh – decision time this Thursday. General Election time.

It really has been rubbish hasn’t it? No discussion of substantive issues just lots of “Vote for me, I’m not him”. No confirmation of whether the parties will continue to support UNIT and the valuable work it does. No discussion about Immigration Policy as it applies to wandering…[Read more]