@roger429

Ah yes, so syzygy came from a show my son loves (and me too) called The OA. Except he had also learnt that, in astronomy, it’s an alignment of three bodies including a celestial body like the sun.

Also, practically, my son and I are both holders of the same name -and in poetry, and music, particularly during Homeric times (the music,…[Read more]

@Roger429  OK. I will thanks. That’s a long way from here (evening). I’m about to go & play 2 football matches one after the other. So night and evening won’t come for another 6 hours!

Action’s fine! I remember at 12 loving Buffy FOR the action. Later, there came (ahem) different elements I liked.

I really liked Eccleston’s first episode “Rose”…[Read more]

@roger429

I take your point. Agreed. But. Many of the original dr who stories actually were historical stories. At 17, I’ve seen, probably, 11 of these thru a period in ’63, ’69 with the Dr Original (Dr O not Doctor No!) & Pat Troughton.

Man, were some SO slow. I realise today, when you put a piece like Rosa up against ANY episode in the 60s and…[Read more]

sorry @roger429

That was for @pedant basically.

Syzygy (young one of the pair).

@pedant @roger429

I have listened to that so many times and I never thought it was smutty. I mean I have been singing the lyrics and now it’s so obvious. Proves that in writing and in music you really have to PAY ATTENTION.

@pedant @roger429

Your comment makes sense @pedant. I forget that the BBC has a variety of “expectations” as the ABC does here. I think Rosa was great. And one more was awesome. But I liked quite a few. Rosa was studied in class -and is still being studied with the next round of students.

Young Syzygy.

@roger429

Handy tip: if you are going to resort so early to the “lazy writers” trope you will get pretty short shrift around here.

Let’s take Rosa, for example: a tale that had to accurately capture the pervasive and institutional racism of 1955 Alabama, in order that those unfamiliar with the story could understand the import of what was…[Read more]

@roger429

(General TV is for non-Who telly)

4 episodes not at all on Earth and It Takes You Away largely in an alternate dimension….

That’s actually about par for the course, same as Capaldi’s last season. The one before only had two non-Earth stories, the one before three (counting the Moon as Earth orbit, rather than alien). Pertwee’s…[Read more]