@PhaseShift    Given the level of knowledge and perspectives we have on the site, is it worth trying to open up a new forum thread – Say Faith, Philosophy, Myth and Reason in Doctor Who or a Blog?

I think this is a great idea. We have already had loads of discussion at various times on this kind of thing. It’s a pretty broad topic, so that peop…[Read more]

And thanks to everyone who’s been keeping the news entries up to date… ish 😉

Particular shoutouts to @FatManinaBox (mostly because of the FABULOUS new horticultural look to your box), @Phaseshift and @Lisa

And… @Craig – a new trailer to discuss did you say? Wooohooo!

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@PhaseShift   The proposed thread for Faith, Philosophy, Myth, and Reason sounds promising.  You could build it (well, a foundation anyway, using some of those older posts) and see if we will come . . . Or keep the earlier posts as an unofficial FAQ on what people have said about these issues that doesn’t need to be gone over again, unless you w…[Read more]

@phaseshift love AC/DC and Black Sabbath (not a fan of metal though).

I’m not sure if it’s particually well known, but I quite like this AC/DC track from the film Last Action Hero. The music video itself is fun because they actually got Arnie to appear in it.

in fact @Phaseshift I hope you’ll be amused to know that I saw the Ozrics at Glastonbury one year and remember dancing very very hard to this one!

Pretty sure no drugs were involved (though memory is hazy, and it was Glastonbury, and it was the Ozrics….).
Think you’ll enjoy this….

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@Phaseshift – he he, me and Metal can remain a fun thread!

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Enjoyed Ride On (mainly as its on the ‘hard rock’ end of the spectrum rather than cock rock perhaps…)

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And really enjoyed Black Sabbath.
Made me go all cosmic, and dig out this little gem playing the background as I type…..…[Read more]

ah yes @Phaseshift – another sad passing.

When I saw the news it was in a really obscure place and I don’t know why I felt so sad. Just something about the mania of many of his characters as well as their decency (though almost always with a hint of perhaps not being so nice).

Coincidentally I was going to post this…[Read more]

@phaseshift, @purofilion and @XTremeZ

That’s interesting and funny about Trek — and I suppose it’s a show that’s probably killed more ‘Gods’ than other. It also struck me that one of the interesting things about Firefly was that it was a SF show that directly engaged with religion and is set in a universe where Faith and superstition is still…[Read more]

@theviking   Sorry that link isn’t working for Deep Breath; I don’t know whether you might find that episode on Youtube or not, but it might be worth a look.  Good luck!

@crieshavoc  That could work as a pattern for the development of a young hotshot brain into some one breaking free from rigid expectations that understanding your enemy is pe…[Read more]

@PhaseShift  What??!!!  Shooting gamma rays — !  Bizarre and strange barely begin to describe it . . . is there a type of bedrock that doesn’t irradiate us?  I have read that building bricks are supposed to be significant emitors, but I’ve gotten the sense that pretty much everything is, one way or another, which means that beings living clo…[Read more]

@PhaseShift  re “The Magical Negro”, a trope that does hark back, IMO, to “The Noble Savage” (see Tonto, the Lone Ranger’s sidekick, as a sort–of transitional figure between these two categories: a “savage” who is noble enough to pretty much ignore his own people and their ongoing oppression and go off to help a White hero out of scrapes with…[Read more]

@PhaseShift — Farscape: yep, that was me, on the torture issue.  It’s very much a personal limit thing, of course, since an awful lot of stories, great and small, are *about* the protagonist being wrung out and driven by terrible events up to and including actual torture, and where you start feeling heavily manipulated by extended scenes of…[Read more]

@PhaseShift – I go for ‘inveterate bullshitter’. 😉 Or as the Tennant Doctor himself admitted:

No idea, I just made it up. Didn’t want to say “Magic Door”

@phaseshift — It is indeed shaping up to be a bad year for losing some much-loved faces. And I think we should probably add Brian Clemens himself to that roll-call of mortality….

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thanks for the insight.

im not really familiar with the details of various radiations beyond the names of a few. I thought both would be deadly to humans, so as you pointed out, if the first was him showing off a bit, if only he had of worn larger shoes then he would of been saved etc. even though I loved how he got his reward by…[Read more]

Good Morning Whosters !! This weekend the Disney XD channel has the first season of Tenant Doc.
in a marathon all day and repeating tomorrow again. I guess its part of the July 4th marathon
programing that all the channels do on holidays in the states. So if you want to catch the early
10th on TV and record it and have that channel well there…[Read more]