@soundworld (hope your recuperation is going well)

Good spot on the Edwin Abbott Abbott connection. That’s why Rigsy’s estate is the Abbott Estate ( blog from writer Jamie Mathieson explaining the background to the episode Also includes the drawing he pitched it with)

@Bluesqueakpip Fair enough point re Clara going to the bad being another…[Read more]

@soundworld   The next of my notes was to say how very much I enjoyed your little essay on myth, metaphor, and reality. My reality is always a lot more interesting with a bit of the other two mixed in! And then I looked, and you are off again, this time about the Cyberiad. Very well played.  🙂

@Mudlark   I completely agree about the Doct…[Read more]

@soundworld no worries XD

Woohoo! Brilliant prize, right I’m off. Orient Express. Brilliant. Hmmm…ok, not so good, people seem to be dying here. And there’s some really strange Scottish bloke running about spouting nonsense. Now, what’s this. Oh hello! Are you my Mu…ARGH!

Good news though people! I’m now in the promised land with Missy and I…[Read more]

ok, at the risk of being very, very pedantic. @soundworld  ‘Gallifreyans Using Stealth’ was me  first XD

I liked your post @soundworld “There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

I think Nu Who is more “mythic” in general than Old Who – the latter did often hold up science as a great truth. These days the Doctor rarely describes himself as a scientist (I did love his line about being a doctor of…[Read more]

@wordmuse — Oh, definitely debate away. That’s what we’re here for. And I don’t think anyone on here would say that the show should be immune from criticism. I’d just argue that SM made it quite clear from the off that he was taking the show into a more mythic, fairytale realm, and the moon egg is just an extreme example of it. Like…[Read more]

Not so mello after all, what a shame …

Anyway, I have my bucket of exclamtion/question marks at the ready so hear we go.

Despite the later showing we got to watch this one live! What a fun episode. We had the lights off and my 10y/o was clinging on to me from the start 🙂 It was almost Scooby Doo!

@Oblique: “Mummy on the Orient Express, the…

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@soundworld  Oh you got me thinking about acronyms too!

GUS:  Gallifreyan Using Stealth   😉

@Arbutus @soundworld

I recommend this blog if you want a rundown of TimeLord appearances throughout the show’s history http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/sidrat/time-lords-time-locked-and-im-loving-it/

@blenkinsopthebrave Go into AAiS&T with your usual open mind and I doubt you’ll be disappointed (as a fellow 1st episoder and Hartnell fan) (sorry…[Read more]

@soundworld

I’m not sure that anything is established as such. Many things have been suggested over time. I remember BG episodes that definitely suggested several tiers in Gallifreyan hierarchy: Time Lord nobility, Time Lord middle class, and non Time Lord, were definitely all seen at different times. I would guess that non-Time Lords born on…[Read more]

@soundworld I found this video the other day and there is a LOT to watch out for. Pretty interresting and there are 2 parts to it. The origins of the fez for example (2nd Doctor). Hope you like it. Enjoy.

^^^Wot @soundworld said^^^ re timestreams.

@soundworld I did modify what I said earlier. Amy denied herself to be rescued the first time around. She then allowed her younger self  to flee when she was in line to play the old Amy.

The Doctor never did it in the first place. He only thought he did. I therefore feel there is a difference in the story. He still has to live 400 years until he…[Read more]