@tardigrade

Tim Shaw found a new level of ineffectiveness, protected by feeble “sniper” bots and personally able to be bested by one untrained old guy with a gun. His only significant power was by proxy, through his influence on the Ux.

Absolutely! He was “pretty crap” as a villain. Graham and “the gang” had been to a variety of places nipping hom…[Read more]

@mudlark

Oh, that’s a lovely dream. And then …to wake. It can be a bleak time, Christmas: despite the white picture-post-cards of trees warmly lit and candles in café windows, there are many who experience misery. Remembering the lost, the fallen and the misgivings of the season…But there’s joy too. In hidden moments.

I remember that two…[Read more]

@cathannabel

As always, a beautifully expressed post. And coincidentally, I was thinking last night of Buffy’s The Body and what an impeccable piece of writing it is. Possibly one of the finest 40 minutes of television I’ve seen.

I love this:

even if they were to say there wasn’t, I’d just quote D H Lawrence: Trust the tale and not the tel…[Read more]

@pedant

Well, ARE we? Playing the Finger the Cumquat?

*This is not a rude, sexist, harassing comment on ANY level – -before the guns come out!

Is it someone who enjoys the …..ding-ding thread?

Puro

@mudlark

Thank you for all this and the diagram -I shall respond! Also, “sand is acidic.”

That’s interesting. I’ve always assumed sand is, well, sand! With a normal pH and not at all acidic. I suspect my brother the geologist would know all this.  But, sadly, he’s too grumpy for questions of that nature. It’s the rocks that done…[Read more]

@seeoswald

It’s called clever. And I’ve been here- regularly for about 5 yrs now, so…you know….read the posts. But you won’t.

Also you’re my age (when my son isn’t me) which makes some of what you write a little ‘weird’ for one so ‘mature.’

@pedant agreed. The show was terrific to me too  @bluffme any dismay was totally understandable but…[Read more]

@seeowald

See how nobody cares?

Binge watch clever DVDs would be my advice. Start with Rectify and you’ll understand, magically, the point of the penultimate episode (that means second-to-last)

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@kevinwho

Bonkers theory:  Great!

Sadly I think Chris has gone for a new set of characters including Missy. Who, at the moment, looks like she’s dead: but looks are deceptive. And like you, I think she’ll be baaaack 🙂

taking the Doc where and when needed.

Absolutely! The Tardis does go wherever she needs to. In this case the Doctor saw just…[Read more]

@pedant @bluesqueakpip @arch this is a really interesting discussion. At home, we’ve been discussing this all morning and fortunately no heads became heated 🙂  (however the Brisbane heat is probably cooking us all so like the ‘feathery,’ confused brains of Paltraki and crew, we keep massaging our heads!)

All that being said I don’t hate the ep…

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@blenkinsopthebrave

You’re multiplying? You’re not caught in a mirror by any chance?

@mudlark

Thank you for the lime information. See, I thought sand was ‘good’ for lavender. I would’ve stolen some from local primary school (they’re renovating and removing sand pits. God knows why: I used to love ’em) but thank you, you’ve saved me from a hopeless life of crime. I thought all clay was a bad thing. In any place (other than  1980s…[Read more]

@miapatrick Agreed!  It’s a terrific episode which benefits from repeat viewings and shows the Doctor in a variety of acting poses: she’s quite “terrified” and yet manages to laugh while saying so without doing a Tennant:

“this is the worst and most terrifying monster in the history of the universe (delivered with immense doctory-ness) and so…[Read more]

@miapatrick Agreed!  It’s a terrific episode which benefits from repeat viewings and shows the Doctor in a variety of acting poses: she’s quite “terrified” and yet manages to laugh while saying so without doing a Tennant:

“this is the worst and most terrifying monster in the history of the universe (delivered with immense doctory-ness) and so…[Read more]

@craig

Well, obviously “cutting off” people might be something Puro might like -but hardly necessary when, like the one she referred to above, do not make  ad hominin attacks -and they/she has not.  As for the other toxic one which led to removing that conversation -that was a really good decision Craig. It’s sad to do but at the same time  I th…[Read more]

@craig

All good! Maybe you could cut off the seeoswald? The poster has no critical value beyond “this is rubbish!” and “rescue the show” and “they’ve gotten worse” which is kinda odd as the last episode was quite the attraction at the local philosophy club, apparently (I don’t darken their doors, not after I mis-translated Latin). Other than…[Read more]

@pedant

Yes, the entire good history of very good telly had many companions/friends/adventurers/fighters.

@pedant . Clearly not at my best: these words together:  “good history” say it all.

The second time Musk announced her death.

Uhn huh. Wh? Why? What a twerp. Yes, he does cool things. Some seriously weird stories climb the hill of turds that…[Read more]