@xad4  @pedant

That’s awesome! Mum loves those ospreys and I really liked just sitting there, last winter (here) and holding a hot chocolate listening to the wind and the birds and watching them fly about.

Thanks @pedant and @bluesqueakpip for your advice and ideas about identity. The teacher said I could use John Searle to support my thesis…[Read more]

@bluesqueakpip Hey The Gang!

Thank you SO much. That is SUCH a help. I’m already motivated to think Jack is the same Jack  -and by that I don’t mean my facts are changed to suit the theory -but that other philosophers have already indicated jack is jack.

I don’t think we’re supposed to mention Kant or Freud/Jung yet which I’d like to do. Kant…[Read more]

@alpackahacka sorry, there, missed your name! Also welcome to the site. Good place, this.

🙂 Thane.

@missy Hey. No worries All good. I agree.

Alpackahacka  love your moniker and picture.

I think you’re right. He would be an enemy? Makes sense.

@whisht Happy late birthday to you! Mum thinks it was 2-3 weeks ago! Belated returns

To anyone intelligent: which is all of you.

I’m doing this thing in philosophy called Jack’s Problem. Jack sits in…[Read more]

@whisht LOL

thought this applies to our now older regeneration considering the diamond he had to smash thru and the different names they had for him.  probably someone else posted it well before I did though.

@pedant  I think you would also like Pink Floyds ‘shine On You Crazy Diamond’

@pedant

Mr Fish Man! Thank you. I obviously mucked that up. Mum would’ve been embarrassed -she still will be.

And I’m trying to make sense of John Locke. Mum says “economist” and “determinist” and my teacher and philosophy tutor says “Locke is a memory believer”

😈

Must post a song on thread -a Pink Floyd which fits the Doctor -one of…[Read more]

@missrori Big mistake there. I know Mark Knopfler’s from Glasgow and the British world of music so what I meant to say was “wishes from Australia” Anyway, hope you know what I mean  🙂

From Thane.

@missrori @jimthefish

Hello there Miss Rori, Maybe this song from Australia will cheer you up?

@craig

@jimthefish @whisht

The Lana Del Ray is the same as similar to Creep. There’s no way round that. The middle 8/12 *cough * reminds me of something .. from Sgt Peppers or Revolver actually. That’s happily nicked, studied as well.

“All art is illusion but then try to touch it and there’s nothing to hold on to…..I wanna get off, but I keep…[Read more]

@jimthefish @whisht

Hallooo! You called the friendly musician? Please press 1 for sales;  2 for technical difficulty and 3 for possible truth and fact mixed with fun.

Yep, Jim, the chords of the 50s are as much of a cross-over as the early 60s. And this has happened before.

Mendelssohn’s famous Octet contains bars from The Messiah- if you…[Read more]

@pedant

uh?? Turn my nose up at Ashes to Ashes? Did I?

“good Lord”

Thane

@mudlark @Ichabod

Alright! That’s awesome. I mean your response, Ms Mudlark. I don’t think Mum saw it that way (or she might have?) and actually I didn’t either and what was really good in your response was the bit in bold:

the basis of my criticism was, not that it was done, but that it was done rather clumsily in what was otherwise an anything…[Read more]

@jackheartlesss

well, that is an unusual handle? jack harkness? Ah, from Capt Jack, I presume?

Well, the short answer is any time lords can regenerate into different genders.

And that’s also the long answer. In my opinion it should have happened before and according to the evidence a female regeneration was planned in the 1960s or early…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

thanks for that! Will check that out.

Thane

@blenkinsopthebrave

Absolutely right Mr Blenkinsop. Dad introduced me to that movie:  A Matter of Life and Death

@mudlark and others: On the issue of over-egging the sexism I thought it was ironic and necessary.

Mum and I are watching re-runs of The Bill from 1983 to 91 and the continuous sexism is in your face for the 25 minutes episode. It’s…[Read more]

Halloo to all.

After a re-watch I read some less alluring comments on social media (but haven’t read these pages yet!) which inherited and bred more of the same: “nothing happens in this Special, the Doctor’s [just] his own enemy. There are no baddies.” It’s frustrating to behold the incapacity of some of those people to capture the importance of…[Read more]

@missy Evenin’ ! I remember you mentioned that awhile back. With this branch of movie/series making sometimes a contract is drawn up including a particular end date?

So if the new showrunner wishes to engage Murray’s services again then I think Chris Chibnall would seek a discussion about a new contract.

I remember RTD (on his DVDs) talking…[Read more]

@pedant Yes, “we are all stories in the end.” The ‘how’ and ‘why’ is oftentimes irrelevant. As I said once on the latest Sherlock episodes we know the A and the C sections therefore the B has been ‘done’ or explained and Moffat trusts us to work it out anyways.

The A to B and A is/= C isn’t to  be confused with Locke or Reid by the way 😉

@tardigrade

On Locke; dualism; and on memory as identity I think that’s why Thomas Reid calls in his (The) Brave Officer Paradox- which considering Lethbridge Stewart, works well 🙂

Thane16

absolutely fantastic piece this was. Puro and I were checking the ceiling for dust. It was modest,  subtle and generous in spirit showing how the Doctor’s changed since his first appearance. As some people above contested, his laughing, jokey and hugging personality IS this Doctor: he no longer needs that carer but now he finally remembers her. I…[Read more]