Loved it! Bought my first sonic and found a reasonable facsimile of the Doctor’s coat at Goodwill. And a tardis hat at another thrift shop.

This forum is great. Carry on.

Gawd, the wait for the return is gonna be a loooooooooooooong one…

Quality doesn’t equal taste is perhaps the wisest thing here: (I personally don’t  like Picasso, pepperoni pizza, pepperonis or romance novels)(but apparently some of those are l […]

that’s not storytelling

so kudos to Chibnall & Co.

also @thane16 good insights! and this: “Mum just added this:Like ‘red- shirts’ but different and worth a closer inspection”

I’ve been loving this entire season, this…[Read more]

I suppose one could get all mythic and pick this apart, well, mythically. Yes, it is very faerie tale.

The sentience that was in opposition to the regular universe, and gets kicked out echoes many religious legends of Fallen Angels and Tolkien’s Morgoth (who famously sang along with the creation but horribly out of key, because he…[Read more]

Had to look up “gurning”… totally enjoy Jodi Whitaker’s enthusiastic childlike sense of wonder high energy Doctor. Yep.

I was wondering about the not-period-clothing thing too (I’ve spent some time IN period clothing in the Society For Creative Anachronisms and the Longship Company, including marching into odd…[Read more]

so I posted my brief story here: https://swordwhale.wordpress.com/2018/11/24/a-brief-foray-into-internet-epic-fail/

with pics and all

you guys are great, carry on

gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhh

Ohhhh that esplains why my post has also sailed off into hyperspace…

@bluesqueakpip well thought out, and I feel you nailed it

@ Margaret-Blaine I never thought of “accentism”…to the American ear, it’s all Brit (and fun)… but we have the same thing with certain […]

As someone who’s done a wide variety of crappy jobs (many literally involving poop: stable work, farm work, wildlife rehab work…we will not discuss beaver poop or dead rats that owls stash in x-yule trees)(though the really crappy jobs were food service etc)… I am now an arthritic achey person on social…[Read more]

As someone who has a love/hate relationship with tech in general and Amazon in particular (and don’t get me started on voice menu robots that you have to wade through when you call a business… which is where I begin conversing like a mariner, singing (badly) bleep you bleepity bleeping robots to the Hallelujah chorus,…[Read more]

Interesting to see the views of Jodi Whittaker’s Doctor. I seem to remember a description, in an interview about the new series; “fizzy energy”.

I think I relate to it as a fabulous well channeled version of the ADD brainstyle, with bottomless brilliance. Since we’re only six episodes in I…[Read more]

Meaning, Hero Girls, adventure, heroes who aren’t warriors but save the day, humor, exotic locales (including Sheffield), a quirky spacetimeship, random forays into living history (which I grew up to do a lot of), space the final frontier, aliens…

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I thoroughly enjoy everyone’s critiques of the show (I may learn something as a writer), but have to put in my vote for I LOVE THIS DOC AND THIS SHOW SO FAR!!!

Sorry, not sorry about the stuck caps…

>D

@miapatrick Of course this same culture that denounced the infidel muslims also rediscovered a lot of the classical literature of Europe through the work of islamic scholars and absorbed a lot of of the scientific work of the Islamic empire , often by Latinising the names of Arab scholars and absorbing them into the cannon.

Wow, cool historical…[Read more]

yep.

Having voted (Pennsylvania, US), I am sitting here hoping for the Big Blue Wave to wash away the Orange Menace…

many people are quite energized, but had a long conversation w…[Read more]

Which just shows how influential that was..

I’m actually loving this series so far, perhaps it fits my taste well, adventure with a bit of humor, and great character development. (Yaz will get her day, I’m sure.) Comparing it to some critically acclaimed dramas on the BBC that…[Read more]

I see your points about Who delving into US politics. I perhaps just enjoy the “view from across the pond” at our silliness. Nice seeing an outside viewpoint.

But sure, let’s see what else the season has to offer. I enjoy the weekly vacation in BBC land.

I dabbled in various martial arts to the point where I run from danger…. ok, limp from danger (bad knees)… I did learn one really good tai chi form and do it often… if not very well. 😉

Lovely that the Doctor is rooting for the spiders.

And He Who Shall Not Be Named was the truly scary thing… noo no nooo noooo nope train to nopeville we’re gonna elect someone…[Read more]

I too am very angry about the attack on trans rights, because it is a nasty and deliberate attempt to break-up the power of LGBTQ+ by atomising it, and the architects of the attack know exactly what they are doing, as trans-folk have reached less critical mass support amongst the “general populace” than lesbian and gay folk (bisexuals are sti…

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Please translate “jumper” to us Americans.

I thought it was “sweater” as in John Watson’s jumpers.

The lovely @janetteb mentioned the Doctor’s T-shirt as a jumper.

I usually think of jumpers like this…

(me, back in the dark ages of the 80s, when I had knees)

omg I did not notice the color of the Doctor’s T-shirt changed!!! I had to look up stills from the episodes.

Maybe she has not-empty pockets now…

good username, anduril

3 shadows…

photographer artist smacks head in disbelief that she did not notice this

or the shadows may have been somewhat vague, due to the proximity of the suns to each other

or they couldn’t afford the CGI

or the extra lights

I think Tatooine had the same problem…

OK, I hope I’ve got the right forum page here…

As I remember, the original Who was supposed to inspire kids to enjoy history.

Here on the Chesapeake Bay, specifically on the Chester River, in Chestertown (Maryland), a couple of “time machines” decided to have a sail one day… and it turned into a party…[Read more]

OMG… what did I just see….

I adore Capaldi

(snorts milk and Oreos out nose)

thanks

He’s no big warrior leader; he has to cheat to even have a chance of passing his people’s test. He’s not even a great warrior who fights other warriors – more a serial killer of worried brothers, random drunks and kindly grandfathers. A murderous, cheating bully.

@bluesqueakpip I feel li…[Read more]

Too adult? If Who isn’t giving 7-year-olds nightmares, it isn’t doing its job.

@pedant … bwaaaa haaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!! >D

Perfectly describes that lovely balance of fascination and terror that makes the Whoniverse unique…

I don’t have much knowledge on the details of it, nor a schooled opinion. Best of luck with it tho…

I’m trying to survive the trumpocalypse…

bwaaaaaa haaaaaa haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa

Is the Doctor still the President of the World????

I would so hang out with you guys, Amaretto or no… but preference to dark beer like muddy pond water teeming with life (see: Chespeake Bay area’s “Flying Dog Pearl Necklace” or “Sweet Baby Java”)…

sadly, it requires a very long sail…

(Viking ship Sae Hrafn, Oakley MD, me firing (camera) shots over the bow of my kayak…)

“Pearl…[Read more]

Stich AND the tardis hat…

(shout out to Community Aid in Hanover Pennsylvania USA)

I’ve gone through many changes in the last two years, and feel in need of “regeneration” myself. This deep dive into what that means for Doctor Who […]

well done, well done…

Doctor, WHERE ARE U??????????????

I’ve been aware of Doctor Who since I discovered fandom in the late 70s, but was unable to watch it on a regular basis until Capaldi (my TV provider is a thirty foot antenna, and the BBC is […]

Thanks for the info on the fabulous Puro!

fandom …is….awesome…!!!

Thanks for clearing up “Puro” !

(here I was thinking this was akin to allonsey)

Puro — Ah, thanks for that clip from Close Encounters — I can’t watch that end sequence (and its rich, playful score) without tears these days — it seems like some message from the past of a different planet, one still full of curiosity, good will, and the confidence *not* to meet a ET visitor with guns blazing.  That’s not us any more (if it eve…

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