Just spent far too much time in the pub for the middle of the week, but such a joy to catch up with everyone’s recent contributions. Thank you all so much; I’ve missed being in here recently, some great conversations and memories shared.  So many places and ages and experiences and yet we come together happily in this little corner of the…[Read more]

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The behind-the-scenes video had some details on the flat people effect.

Basically, it involved taking lots of 2D photos of the actors and then using the photos for animation.

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Yes, they shot some scenes from the episode in pick-ups, weeks or possibly months after the main shooting block. By which time, Peter Capaldi had had a haircut.

Haircut spotting is always fun – there’s another good example in Time of Angels where Matt Smith’s Doctor seems to leap off mid episode for a quick trim.

@tenthdoctorFTW —

At the risk of playing the heavy here, can we make sure that we try to stay on topic as much as we can? By all means, let us know who your favourite doctor is, as most of us have already done, in the Faces of the Doctor or the Doctor Who Memories thread. I think you’ll find them both worth a visit.

Any Who-related tidbits…[Read more]

@TenthDoctorFTW  HUGS AND KISSES, YOU HAVE MADE MY DAY!  What a wonderful, goofy, clever clip that is!  Where the HELL did you find it?  Loved it loved it loved it!  I’m watching again instead of having dinner, and *that’s* a first around here!

@TenthDoctorFTW   I congratulate your on your courage and persistence; my stepdaughter has been a CFS sufferer all her life as well as being badly dyslexic, and she was working toward a career in theater but decided that the energy demands of that kind of work, and the stress-load, were more than she wanted to take on, so she took another road…[Read more]

@TenthDoctorFTW I would say pretty much the same as Ichabod did in her previous post about
favorite Docs however I favor new who over the older series generally with 4th Doctor exceptions

@TenthDoctorFTW  My favorite was Tom Baker, since it was during his time as the Doctor that my husband and I got really hooked on the series.  TomDoc was so capricious, so fizzily energetic, and so smart that he was riveting to watch.

I thought Eccleston was very promising, but he was gone too soon to make a strong enough impression on m…[Read more]

@lisa   I think MissMaster not only respects the Doctor — she’s utterly obsessed with him, and with some kind of fixation on their childhood days together, which she probably doesn’t remember accurately anyway, being more or less certifiable from way back.   As somebody else noted here earlier, she’s basically a crazy stalker, wants to own the D…[Read more]

@TenthDoctorFtw Its amazing how dominant English as a global language is! I know the Internet
has a lot to do with that. Id bet English was easier for you then ancient Greek. Your English
is quite good.

@Ichabod Yes definitely Mismaster is a control freak! That’s never easy and often unpleasant.
But where is the behavior coming from. I…[Read more]

@TenthDoctorFTW  Yes, I agree, individual taste as well as fashions in public taste have a lot to do with which artists are honored way past their deaths (well, during their lifetimes too, in the cases of prominent artists rather than the ones who are obscure until after death).  Even Shakespeare went through a period of comparative neglect and r…[Read more]

Evening again, preparing for another week by finishing the dregs of that bottle. My tablet died so I’ve been restricted to my phone, which feels like eating soup through a straw, or possibly seeing and encountering the world through @ichabod‘s metaphorical memory straw. I’ve stolen some time on Mr Lefty’s laptop so I can see the breadth and rise…[Read more]

@TenthDoctorFTW  Mmm, now I have to go refresh my memory re Lady Cassandra; thank you!

The thing about art, for me, is that it’s the strongest sort of gift we can give to each other, and also the oddest because it’s only partly a gift at all.  Mozart composed for money, and made some, but wouldn’t the music have poured out of him anyway?  Van Go…[Read more]

@TenthDoctorFTW  It’s a beautiful episode, and having Bill Nighy on hand at the museum was a stroke of genius: an actor with a gawky, fragile look (it’s the way he’s built and how he moves) talking about works of genius that outlast their human makers by generations (with a bit of circumstantial luck) because great art is so much tougher than the…[Read more]

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I don’t like Moffat’s writting, which I thought I was allowed to believe. But clearly as you point out, I’m not.

The drama queen routine isn’t helping. Any idiot can programme a bot to post “I hate Moffat” (or, for that matter, “I love Moffat”). But that will cut no ice here – despite a lot of verbiage you still haven’t expla…[Read more]

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Just imagine trying to have a discussion and try explaining things to people while you’re trying to figure out the right word or expression for every other thing.

I don’t have to imagine.

Then I also have to work out how to spell the ruddy word…

Anyways, regarding:

I don’t like Moffat’s writting, which I thought I was a…

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@pedant — good to have you back. Where you been, man? Hope the move is working out OK.

@tenthdoctorFTW — apologies if you’re offended but that’s about as much of an olive branch as you’ll get. I hope you do stick around but the most cursory flick through this site will make clear that no one — no one — gets to make unsupported assertions,…[Read more]

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Oh my. So much anger, so little clue.

 1)You don’t know me

You aren’t as rare as you think you are;

2)Misunderstandings can be made esily

Like when you rock up in a new place and conduct yourself with the grace of an elk with indigestion

3)English in not my native language s

On the evidence presented to date, language is not your…[Read more]

@purofilion — Just to add that I don’t think you’ve got anything to apologise for in the slightest. I suspect that you were probably right in your earlier asseertion that @TenthdoctorFTW had come looking for a fight. Certainly they should have realised that making unsupported assertions about nonexistent plot holes and then calling for Moffat’s…[Read more]

@TenthDoctorFTW  I couldn’t disagree more strongly.  The Doctor equates “love” here with the implicit promise of the lover to protect the beloved, and CyberDan’s gesture in the next shot is to enclose Clara in an armored, one-armed hug, to drive the point home.  “He will never hurt her,” the Doctor says, in case someone missed the point of what th…[Read more]