@PhaseShift

In @JanetteB‘s absence, a couple of suggestions for Babylon 5 (a real guilty pleasure!) would be the arc episodes “The Coming of Shadows” from season 2, and (among many from the excellent season 3) “Point of No Return”, “Severed Dreams” (both about the conflict with an increasingly fascist government on Earth), and “Shadow Dancing” a…[Read more]

@PhaseShift @JimTheFish @FatManInABox

Some great choices From Blake’s 7, Nightmare Man, The Stone Tape, The Flipside of Dominic Hyde – all quite Dr Who-y…

I also just thought of Dark Season (for the RTD connection).

Also RTD’s Casanova, but I can’t find that online for us all to watch.

What about SJA, or K9 & Co.?!?

Got to agree with…[Read more]

@PhaseShift – One more show that sprang to mind (And is available on youtube) is The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy.

It has a strong Dr Who link in the form of Oolon Colluphid, the author whose book is seen in Destiny of the Daleks (& of course Douglas Adams, who script edited that story).

@MartyB  @PhaseShift

I too have been thinking about the guest blog idea, but with Christmas so imminent, I agree that it is hard to give it the attention that it deserves. Yes, you would want to listen to it just for fun the first time, and get analytical later on. I do feel that a blog post is a little weightier than contributing to a…[Read more]

ah @ScaryB – wonderful – xmas music!

Now that is one helluva track (never come across that one before!).

At chez Whisht (and assorted workplaces who are stoopid enough to allow me to put music on) this album always gets a spin. I genuinely love it.

@Phaseshift – its time for xmas, but its also time for…[Read more]

@thommck, calling dibs on the second sofa. It’s MY color.

@FatManInABox and @PhaseShift,
Any sign of 10 Time Lords a leaping during your cleaning and shopping? My true love promised them to me, but I’m worried they’re time locked.

TardisBlue

@MartyB You post as much Van the Man as you like, as far as I’m concerned!

(LOL’d at @Whisht‘s Mr Scruff)

@Phaseshift‘s recent On the Sofa post reminded me how dire Xmas shopping music is. The alternative Xmas soundtrack starts here. This is for Keef (aka Mr Riff), who’s 70 today 🙂

@MartyB I loved your comment re’ McGann and Ecclestone in the hideous costume. The former pulls it off but the later just is wrong, wrong, wrong. I think because although he does have cat that missed the tray look (all hail the mighty @Arbutus. (nice to have another cat person about)) he  can play the clown whereas Ecclestone can’t. He looks a…[Read more]

@PhaseShift

I knew that my Kennedy assassination theory was correct…deny it as you may…

Oh, just posted and its completely disappeared.  Ok, here goes again.

@Timeloop I was expecting something to do with the red/blue shift references from various episodes.  (and, noting that ‘shift’ is an archaic word meaning ‘dress’ hence Clara’s red/blue dress?  )  I hope we may still see something on this in the Christamd episode, along with an…[Read more]

@Timeloop My own conviction was that we would see something to do with the red/blue shift (and one, archaic, meaning of shift being a loose dress thus clara’s red/blue dress symbolism?) Maybe this was all superfluous detail, maybe we will have some explanation in the Christmas episode.  I’m also thinking of the ideas re there being two doctors…[Read more]

@Timeloop

a) Good old @Phaseshift

You’re not going to let the age thing go anytime soon are you. 😉

Apologies for having to drop out. Our local telephone exchange is having improvement works to increase internet speed. In the fine tradition of UK workmanship, this means that everything has become much slower, or like yesterday, non-existent.

btw – as @Phaseshift himself said (damn I can’t find the right post) ‘Moderator’ isn’t a position of seniority.

Its just one of us (yes all of us who come and read – yes you) putting their hand up and saying “yeah, I’ll put the extra effort in and help out”. And he has done a lot of that to help shape where we are.

but he’s just a normal bloke…[Read more]

@purofilion  @PhaseShift

May I just add the perspective of a new member who has followed the blog for a long time but not contributed until recently? A new member (as opposed to a troll) can feel particularly sensitive to criticism. In my own experience, what prompted me to join this forum (something I have never done before) was the erudition,…[Read more]