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Well, I don’t know if there’s any official definition, but fantasy seems to range from Harry Potter to Alice in Wonderland to those curious pseudo-mediaeval novels that start ‘Sir Edric sat pensively on his mighty charger as he surveyed the broad sweep of the Homelands, and pondered when the marauding hordes of the Hilldwellers would…[Read more]

@winston   No excusing needed.   The more the merrier, I for one am perfectly happy to hear from others in the room.

Sci-fi and fantasy are adjacent genres and frequently blur into each other.   I would have rated the ‘Hitch-hiker’ series as strictly scifi but as ps1l0v3y0u pointed out, it strays into the edge of fantasy on occasion.   I used to…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent    @blenkinsopthebrave  @ps1l0v3y0u       I like when Who does fantasy now and then. In fact I describe it to people as a sci-fi/ fantasy series. Obviously it can go too far for but I do like it. Sometimes it feels like sci-fi takes itself too seriously and leaves me behind trying to figure it out. Fantasy feels like sci-fi gi…[Read more]

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Well, old Who did sort of stray into fantasy with e.g. The Greatest Show in the Galaxy. As nuWho has done, such as Rings of Akhaten. I agree, it should try to stay on firm sci-fi ground, but it frequently strays.

The line between sci-fi and fantasy can get blurred. A favourite comparison/contrast of mine is…[Read more]

Have not been around for a while (real life can be a bugger sometimes)

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Agree with you both. I would argue that when RTD2 introduced fantasy front and centre to the Who universe he created an intractable problem, that shows up clearly in the “death of death restores life” rubbish at the end of his season. Who began li…[Read more]

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I agree about UNIT, I was never very happy about it as a dumping ground for old Companions. (And as a supposedly elite agency, one has to wonder what special skills a randomly-chosen person who happens to become an associate of the Doctor’s, is likely to have. I suppose one could argue that there’s something about some people that…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u Well, I’d be okay with this episode if it wasn’t for the cringingly bad, bordering on parody, upgraded Halloween masks that the five villains wore. IF they’d just stayed in their ‘human’ disguises until the time came to inhabit another human (like the Slitheen or Family of Blood did), it would have been adequate and not inviting…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u   Oh yes, of course there are titles, just 2 1/2 minutes in.   Somehow I missed them.

The carnivorous megaslugs – I seem to recall there being a suggestion that they were created by the Dot / Matrix.   (I call it that because of the parallels with The Matrix, though obviously that was even more intensively in control of its human…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u Not yet. Been busy all day recording a podcast on Dr Who, the Twin Dilemma so it can only be a vast improvement.. I am introducing one Doctor each year. We only watch one episode, (thankfully in this case)  though usually the rest of the gang watch the remaining episodes of the chosen story before recording. We did not put them…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent yeah metric for short distances, imperial for long distances! Petrol in litres and gallons. It’s bonkers!

My theory is The Woman is the Doctor. The perception filter is working in reverse, so as well as Ruby being conspicuous, things appear warped to Ruby. So the Tardis, which she sees as full of life, excitement and escape,…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u     You said (on 25th May)    “I saw a transcription somewhere on the web but can I get it back???”

(See, I do read a lot of these threads!)

Might that have been on Chrissie’s transcripts site at  Chakoteya.net?   (It’s the only one I know of)

@ps1l0v3y0u     Well, it’s my personal choice to avoid reading too much into a story, since I can get quite enough political insanity from watching the news, and I like my fiction to be escapist.   And also, I find such interpretations are frequently able to be skewed to suit the preferences/prejudices of the viewer.    (Having said that, I just …[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u     Well, I don’t think this is really the forum for political discussions, so I’ll keep my views to myself (not that I think they’d surprise anybody.)   You do have a good point, that the US and Europe was supporting Ukraine with military tech.   (Vastly to the benefit of the military/industrial complex, by the way.)    But a quite d…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u    If you’re referring to current political events (like, the US elections/Ukraine/Gaza) I sympathise, they can be very – distracting.   Though I find I can usually switch off my real-life awareness and just immerse myself in the story.   Whatever happens in Real Life (TM) in the next few weeks, or four years, ‘Boom’ and the Doctor…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u    Be interesting to see your observations.

@janetteb    I’m flattered, but slightly abashed that my comments were so brief.   Yes, it’s a classic Who story in the Moffat genre.   I think I might re-watch tonight and see if I’m impelled to fill out my comments a bit.

@ps1l0v3y0u     @nahh   I have always thought it would be great to have a more alien companion,just to change things up a bit. Maybe even an android or cyborg or a robot.

I think the human companion is there to connect us to the Doctor through them and let us travel with him. I also think the human companion provides a contrast, the Doctor is a…[Read more]

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Agree with you. Bill had a lot of potential, and it was a bit of a sudden ending. I will say, pretty creative way to not completely kill her off. A watery atom-restructuring entity seems way too powerful to me to just be casually thrown into the plot like that though. Isn’t that just absolute power?…[Read more]

@dentarthurdent   @ps1l0v3y0u   In 2005 we took a road trip to British Columbia that would take us 6 days. I planned for months and remember thinking how great the internet was when I ordered maps from every province along with other tourist info. I planned every step of the trip and spent a lot of my drive with maps spread out on my lap. The tri…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u    You are correct about the A-Z.    But (I seem to recall) there was some earlier confusion with grabbing books off the stacks and trying the code on them (I need to re-watch to figure just what they were doing).   My suggested procedure would, I think, have been far the quickest in finding duplicates.    The A-Z would have been an ex…[Read more]

@ps1l0v3y0u     Sherlock and algorithms – I’d have to point out that my suggested method of comparing the books is last-century stuff.   Dating from the 80’s when everyone had a home computer running Basic and wrote little programs on it.   Probably the default these days would be to use a spreadsheet but – in 99% of applications – that’s absurd…[Read more]