@juniperfish

The power of three!

You have to tell a Celt something three times before it’s true. It’s TRUE!

I still think I would go for Oppenheimer, though I sadly admit I haven’t seen either. I am unique. And sad. But not really bothered. 3 hours is a bit much.

Did 15 say that? The ‘dot did dat dinni?’ 15 might be wrong. The Doctor can be wr…[Read more]

Watched this late… I was away. Curiously, the view from my hotel window reminded me of The Sunmakers.

Slightly amazed that no one has mentioned Barbie The Movie. Yet. Or am I being so uncool you will have to mute me?

More seriously, this might reference Azimov, not just Caves of Steel but other short stories that examine the trap of tech. Must h…[Read more]

@whohar

Stingray. Probably irrelevant, but ‘Sea of Oil’ 1965 included the immortal line ‘Hell, we weren’t trying to invade. We just wanted the oil.’

@mudlark

Yes, dark skin and blue eyes are neither here nor there. Eurasian populations reveal Neanderthal ancestry. Other populations reveal interaction with Denisovans, for whom we have no distinguishing information apart from their DNA.

The question of why there is a 2-4% inheritance level is complicated. At some point somewhere this…[Read more]

@janetteb

‘IF you ‘create’ a replica of a person…’ as a Spartan might say.

‘ALL their thoughts and memories’? Well actually we used a bit of AI. All paid up. Just to give it that extra fizz. And the knowledge to turn on the cat filter. The kids think AI is so cool. Whereas actual oldies are just gonna embarrass themselves sooner or later.

Graha…[Read more]

@whohar

Moffat’s knees… my own little theory; a record scratched worse than anything by the Loon.

The BBC had increasing issues/were reorganised to have issues with Moffat’s sexual politics/atheism/undiverse writing buddies, but mainly his treatment of The Great War anniversary and the need to sell DW to a streaming service. Series 9 & 10 were…[Read more]

@mudlark @janetteb

River had two human parents (assuming Vashtra wasn’t covering for 11); the third strand of the triple helix is apparently a vortex generated mutation.

Human dna might look radically different when sampled at different points over a long time span. Cheddar Gorge Man seems to have been really quite dark with blue eyes. You d…[Read more]

@pufferfish

really? Boom was in the C24th? I can’t remember 15’s exact words but he didn’t seem to think so.

@janetteb

Has anyone ever measured the proportion of Doctor’s companions who were female? Obviously the numbers are overwhelming. That being the case it’s actually a bit pointless to start moaning about Bechdel Who.

But Moffat did seem to have a problem here… Doctor’s wife, Doctor’s mother in law, Doctor’s guardian angel… it isn’t enough…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

no crazier than any other theory.

Or did 15 recognise the woman who pointed? (Of course we don’t see anyone)

Also, 3,000 odd year old diagnosis of Ruby in Boom; if that is a subjective biological age for Ruby, why did abandoned Witchy Ruby turn up her toes in her eighties? Does she regenerate? So has she regenerated b…[Read more]

@cookgroom

Large parts of 73 yards do not bear logical analysis… part of what makes the story so scary. Of course there are issues with scary. The Hamlet test: the ghost ain’t supposed to make you titter; you are permitted to experience fridge logic, but this is my point. Reckon nobody knows…

re 10/14 (is that something to do with cb radio…[Read more]

@juniperfish

Yes I think we may revisit Mad Jack aka ‘big-stick crazy-hat’. My personal candidate for Emperor of Death.

RTD’s big challenge this season would seem to be making all the mad stuff add up. Watch out for red buttons, Artron energy and American Diners

@juniperfish @whohar

Marti… yes I should know better. If you ask a lazy question, then immediately lazily qualify it, you maybe shouldn’t ask the dumb question.

The relatively mild criticism of that part of the story (not from me) was levelled, I believe, in context of the TERF wars. Marti and her trauma was considered ‘sprayed on’ to the sto…[Read more]

Roger ap Gwillam. Hrothgar son of Wilhelm. The reknowned spear from the helm of desire.

I think Donna would have something to say about that.

Some people have said ooh Trump! and others Farage (who does raise the hairs on the back of your neck) but the most obvious parallel looks like Kim. That puts us on the map.

Not everyone is liking the…[Read more]

Glyngatwg… Glen something…

sub the initial and ultimate g for a… and you have alyn (alien?) gatwa??!

Old Ruby is apparently using BSL.. I saw a transcription somewhere on the web but can I get it back???

@mudlark @juniperfish

apparently the name of the pub translates as ‘the dead wood.’ The actual pub also featured in Torchwood!

The full Big Bang 73 numerological analysis was outstanding, juniperfish.

I shall now rewatch to check out the name of the village

@blenkinsopthebrave

Why does no one go to the police? That was when arrived UNIT wasn’t it? Which went well.

I did like the ‘can I pay with my phone?’ moment, when the audience all thought 73 meant 1973

Anyone checked out the name of the Welsh village for Thomasite Llareggyb meaning? I don’t have head for unlikely combination of conson…[Read more]

@thane16

Also… the time energy “factory” in ‘Angels Take Manhattan.’

Nothing wrong with these reminders. Interesting we should both think of (different) Toby Whithouse stories though.

Susan Twist would seem to be a thing. Question is what? Mrs Flood is back.

No. No idea what Russ is up to.

Wow. It seems churlish to reference previous ideas from Who and elsewhere… but…

‘Turn Left’ obviously…

66.7 meters echoes the 66 seconds to ‘phase matter’ in ‘Mummy’ (thank you Perkins)

The ‘ghosts’ in ‘Beneath the Lake’

Inside #9 ‘The Twelve Days of Christine’?? Will have watch that again.

Ghost Story for Christmas 1977, was it ? ‘The…[Read more]

@scaryb @juniperfish

Is there another race… that can regenerate?

What exactly do Mire ‘genetic sticking plasters’ do? When does healing become regeneration? What did it do when combined with the human dna of genius.

I don’t think ‘Splice’, as a name, can possibly be any kind of accident.

Has anyone come any closer to ‘the moon and the Presi…[Read more]