I followed the UK election story with a great deal of interest, and the ensuing conversation here as well. Wonderful that intelligent discussion can take place on politic matters as well as fictional ones! And I have enjoyed reading the family histories that people have shared.

@JimTheFish    I completely understand your fears. When our Co…[Read more]

Really interesting posts. Enjoyed reading your views and personal histories @PhaseShift, @Mudlark and @Purofilion. Oh how I hate that post election feeling of betrayal and despair after which we sink into a kind of stoic apathy. I do wonder if democracy is now dead, because those, whose privilege it was supposed to undermine have now learned how…[Read more]

@PhaseShift   My reaction was rather stronger than ‘Oh bugger’ and I am still alternating between steam-coming-out-of-the-ears angry and a mood of profound despondency at the prospect of (probably) at least five more grim years of this incompetent and economically illiterate shower doing their best to finish destroying all the good that was es…[Read more]

And just to echo@Craig — do go out and vote if you haven’t done so already. Myself, I will be spending this evening toasting every SNP win with a double Laphroaig — if the polls are remotely accurate, I may be dead in the morning…. 🙂

@bluesqueakpip — grew up not a hop, skip and a jump from Dunoon and I’m not sure I’d describe it as being in…[Read more]

@PhaseShift  Good Heavens, Dickens!  How could I have forgotten Dickens, one of the most successful hacks of all time?!  Maybe we’re talking about the confusion that has succeeded the time-honored division of fiction writers into “gentleman authors” who *could* write fiction because they had other sources of income, and pen-pushers (another te…[Read more]

@burrunjor — It looks like you’ve been successfully put right but just to add my tuppence.–

First of all, what makes you think that Delgado and the 3rd Doc didn’t want to shag each other? I think you could make (and some have) a pretty good case that they do. Personally, I have no problem believing the Delgado and Gomez Masters are one and the…[Read more]

Just spent far too much time in the pub for the middle of the week, but such a joy to catch up with everyone’s recent contributions. Thank you all so much; I’ve missed being in here recently, some great conversations and memories shared.  So many places and ages and experiences and yet we come together happily in this little corner of the…[Read more]

@purofilion  — missing an ear, mangled eye — for a minute there, I thought you were talking about the War Doctor, at least as I would have imagined him!  Doesn’t the Doctor grow back missing bits, if they’re not too large and complex?  I seem to recall — a hand?

@bluesqueakpip — The missing kids of Jesus — I’m just working off the norms of…[Read more]

@BarbaraLefty     Thank you for your kind inclusion on a list of amazing people! And thanks to you to, for your lively and thoughtful contributions. There is a synergy on this site that is pretty unusual, in my experience. Many different approaches, interests, and personal styles create magic!

I admit to missing the acerbic comments of @PhaseShift…[Read more]

@Bluesqueakpip @JimTheFish @FatManInABox @PhaseShift

I’ve started a new blog which can be found here:

BBC approved Doctor Who series 9 spoilers and trailers

However I think policing this forum could become quite difficult, and the forum could become quite boring, if absolutely nothing about series…[Read more]

@Craig, @FatManInABox, @JimTheFish and @PhaseShift – firstly, is it time to start up a Series 9 blog? So we can discuss official production-team approved spoilers where those who wish to be utterly unspoilered can avoid them?

And secondly, should @Lisa‘s #38133 be moved, because it gives away a rather important piece of information? Admittedly,…[Read more]

@PhaseShift  — Farscape!  I loved that show; it was deeply weird, visual wonderful, and obsessively relation-snippy, since the crew of — Moia? –not sure of the spelling now — spent a lot of episodes onboard (alien location shooting must be vastly expensive, and when they did it, they did it well).  It was also *smart*, and the lead ch…[Read more]

@Phaseshift Gods love you – what a lovely exposition of fan relationships to Doctor Who.

And @Barbaralefty Gods love you too – I suspect you’ll be posting fan fic on A Teaspoon and an Open Mind http://www.whofic.com/ before you know it 🙂

Indeed, in terms of the transfer from fan fiction to text,  Xena had two episodes written by a fan,…[Read more]

Dear @phaseshift, that was one of the kindest, most thoughtfully mentorish things I have seen on this site and that’s saying something. Thank you for that demonstration of writing to inform, not offend. I shall certainly try to take a leaf out of your book in future.

I have been through a bit of a process regarding fanfic since my original post,…[Read more]

@Craig Thanks for posting about “The Man in the High Castle”. Looks good. And a helluva pedigree 😉

@Phaseshift Don’t know if you kept on with RTD’s  Cucumber, but various friends, whose opinions I usually agree with, and who agreed with you re #1 have come round massively to say it’s really come into its own on the next 2.

*sigh*

Too many…[Read more]

@purofilion — good that you’re enjoying Angel. It is a great series but I’d say you’ve still to get to the stuff where it really finds its own identity. I’d say for a good part of the first season, it’s still finding its feet and falling back into ‘kinda like Buffy’ mode. But by the end of s1 and certainly by the time you hit s2, the difference…[Read more]