@Phaseshift – couldn’t agree more. I never do resolutions at any point in the year.

I just do stuff without telling anyone or planning anything. A tad chaotic perhaps but I find it works for me.

🙂

hm, best get those lights on and eke out a few more moments of chrissmassyness.

Just noticed the TARDIS cafe pic – nice one @Wolfweed

@Craig – @phaseshift mentioned a while back about suggestions re  a way of reorganising the blog list…

Could the index page for the blogs be in a smaller font, with less of the actual blog visible? Then it would be easier to see what’s there. I’ve missed a few, but it’s hard to re-find…[Read more]

@JimtheFish and @ScaryB I will certainly grant you that Conan Doyle is not Dickens 🙂

As you say, fish friend, the original Sherlock and Watson are Victorian gentlemen and Sherlock’s clients are generally upper or middle class.

However, Sherlock’s investigations do take him to parts of London other than the West End. For example, he visits an o…[Read more]

@PhaseShift, @thommck, @JimTheFish, @CathAnnabel, @ScaryB

I have really tried, when commenting while on the web, to make a point of avoiding making critical comments on those drongos who engage in ad hominen attacks (whoops, I have already broken the pledge!), but the current culture of incivility and “tall poppy” envy-fuelled hate (agree e…[Read more]

@Phaseshift @JimtheFish

Agree completely with your “tall poppy” comment; I find it thoroughly depressing; especially as it tends to be contagious.

And with @Thommck‘s comment re the “casual viewer” – see my comment above re starting off with The Empty Hearse. What IS a “casual viewer” anyway?  How many of the 8-9m viewers are casuals, and how…[Read more]

@PhaseShift @JimTheFish @Blenkinsopthebrave @Whisht

What I find amusing is all these “critics” complaining how confusing it will be for “the casual viewer”.

Does that even exist? How can a critic speak on their behalf? I, for one, don’t expect to start midway through a series of anything and be able to get up to speed in a single episode.…[Read more]

ha ha – @Phaseshift – have you seen Toy Story 3?

Hope you have your Woody for many years to come.

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jeezus did I just type that?

ah @Phaseshift you’re Master-like scheming is all too transparent!

ok then – which cards do you want to swap?

Be warned – they’re not in pristine condition but perhaps you don’t need that to make a full set and take over the World huh? huh? yeah… yeah – I got your number, ‘Master’.

‘Master’

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Master…

[stares into Phaseshift’s avatar’s…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

Not only have I given up commenting–any attempt to inject civility into the G blogs is hopeless, I now believe; but I have given up reading the comments–there is only so much bile one can stomach.

ah – excellent points @Phaseshift – of course its pretty much inevitable that Who would/should cover Hitler (as in the paradox).

And you’re quite right as to how it works in-show in terms of the wider narrative.
I guess what I found interesting about the conversation was the use of transgressive humour in general, and that the episode didn’t…[Read more]

ah – @Phaseshift – I know, I know – not really a theory, more a naff denouement! Its also one I’d hate (which proves how little instinct for writing or drama is in me!)

What I do like (as you all have said) is that this ends the ‘last-of-the-TimeLords’ shtick, yet also means he can’t bring them back until they’ve proven to the rest of the…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

Thanks for that. I read the explanation(s) on the Guardian (but avoided the comments). Sounds like a hoot. Will be waiting (im)patiently for the DVD.

@Phaseshift,

Alas, iPlayer Global (which I now have) is not the same as what can be seen on the BBC site if you reside in the UK (international rights issues). So it is a matter of waiting for the DVD.

Needless to say, I will have to know and so will read all about it on the Guardian (cannot resist) and then will probably be confronted with the…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

I’m now rewatching the last episode of Sherlock Reichenbach Fall prior to tonights return. Anyone got any clever theories?

I thought you would never ask.

1. There were the obvious hints dropped (via stories in newspapers read in other episodes about renovation work being done on St Barts). Admittedly, Gattis stated in the DVD…[Read more]

@Phaseshift

Then, in a future anniversary, the Doctor could revisit these events, and people will moan that it all sounded so much better in their imaginations and blame whoevers writing the show at that time

haha, that made me chuckle.

I agree though, I like how it opens up possibilities for the Time Lords’ story. No saying which side would come…[Read more]

@PhaseShift  @Bluesqueakpip   Yes, I had also thought that some kind of civil dispute on Gallifrey would seem to be the result of what we have been shown. I agree that it might not have lasted long, because most of the Time Lords do not seem to have been as megalomaniacal as the High Council. I hadn’t really thought about it having all happened al…[Read more]

I’d agree with @Phaseshift and @Juniperfish that time is passing in Gallifrey’s bubble universe. Going by Hide, it’s probably not passing at the same rate.

I’d also go with Phaseshift’s idea that there was very likely a Civil War following the end of the Time War: though it may have been short, sharp and conclusive given that the Master was last…[Read more]

@Phaseshift Happy New Year!

I agree completely that time is (now) passing for the Time Lords in the bubble universe. In the previous reality, when Gallifrey was not in a bubble universe but in a time-lock, then I think they were in a stasis of perpetual war.

It may be passing at a different speed however. Love the idea that a Time Lord civil…[Read more]

btw – may I just say thanks to @Phaseshift (and @Craig et al) for taking a silly little suggestion and creating this thread?

I’m hoping its given people some fun and ability to share something (especially if they’ve nothing quite bonkers enough to say!).

I don’t do resolutions, but this year I will try and post some music less than five years old.

🙂