• @mudlark @troygorsline

    Worth noting that head covering (extent/ requirement) is much more cultural than religious. None of the women of the Bangladeshi (once East Pakistan) family I used to live next door to routinely covered their heads, and few of those in the neighbourhood did, other than on ceremonial occasions (when they were spectacularly…[Read more]

  • Mudlark replied to the topic Demons of the Punjab

    @troygorsline

    The dupatta (the long scarf worn with a salwar kameez), or the end of a sari might have been drawn over the head in public or in the presence of strangers, but not necessarily in informal circumstances and not within the family. It might have been expected when Graham and Ryan appeared, but wouldn’t have been imperative. The custom…[Read more]

  • swordwhale replied to the topic The Tsuranga Conundrum

    @troygorsline I also thought of Stitch… much of the P’Ting is a similar sort of indestructible potential weaponized creature… dangerously cute.

    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

  • JimTheFish replied to the topic The Tsuranga Conundrum

    @troygorsline

    I think we are all taking the color of the shirt too far

    Ah, you must be new around these here parts….

    @rob

    It did strike me that some of the sets did look quite TARDIS-like. Maybe they were part of an earlier redesign and just repurposed….

  • Whisht replied to the topic The Tsuranga Conundrum

    So, couple of things.
    Firstly, @pedant – thanks for the hint to try using Search on the Forum (I don’t think I’ve ever done that before!!).
    @juniperfish – thank Pedant for this link to that mention of Radio Times and red and blue by Phaseshift

    @troygorsline – [ahem] “theories more insane than what’s actually happening”.

    I think bonkerising will…[Read more]

  • @troygorsline

    Go to the search box and enter “bow tie”.

    Thank me later.

  • @troygorsline

    Pfft. This is the home of bonkers theorising.

    Get with the bonkers programme!

    (Although, come to think of it, @juniperfish, you do need to reverse engineer Eccleston into the colour changing universe….)

  • Craig replied to the topic Rosa

    @troygorsline I didn’t see that episode, but hopefully you’re being nice. I’ll have to look it up. I tried to be measured in my comment as I know it’s a difficult subject.

  • thane16 replied to the topic Arachnids In The UK

    @tardigrade

    you can see why the Doctor might come across as lesbian- relatively short hair, androgynous clothing

    Big tick there.   Mum now has short hair;  wears dad’s T-shirts and his 3/4 long trackie-dacks.  In America or the UK you might not know those. In Australia it’s tracksuits in stretch fabric.

    I apologise for such a long post. I was tr…[Read more]

  • @msrbahar: ‘you think they don’t discuss such matters in casting and production?’ we already know they do. We know this because they were very open about the fact they wanted to cast a BAME actor for Bill (which to some people translated as ‘she only got the role because she’s black’ as though this requirement cancelled out every other part of the…[Read more]

  • thane16 replied to the topic The Woman Who Fell To Earth

    aw cheers you kind people! It was all thanks to @mudlark and @pedant. I didn’t actually mention the Copland the 1st time around. A major lack of detail there….Big nod to “mudders.”

    @msrbahar  “who gives a shit” Yes! But that’s no way to be, really, because to be misinformed is to be held at someone else’s mercy.

    I’m very sorry for your loss,…[Read more]

  • Juniperfish replied to the topic Rosa

    @Troygorsline and @mudlark and @kevinwho and @margaretblaine

    Krasko was also, with his “bad boy” smirk and haircut, very like some of the current alt-right leaders, like Richard Spencer, for instance.

    So I don’t think he was lacking in nuance @kevinwho , just written with a different kind of nuance.

    Alt-right ideology wants to turn back time.…[Read more]

  • Mudlark replied to the topic Rosa

    @Kevinwho  @Margaret-Blaine  @troygorsline

    Complaints that the character and motivation of Krasko weren’t explored in any detail are, I think, beside the point because, as Darth Valaryn suggests, the real monster of the episode is racism itself. Krasko is not all that important beyond the fact that, in the context, his interference is the r…[Read more]

  • thane16 replied to the topic Rosa

    remember how Puro would get pissed off?

    This is happening to me now.  Every few posts there’s a person saying “Britain was never segregated” or “even though Alabama back then was easily the most racist place in America,  not everyone felt that way.”

    1. Don’t forget Mississippi @texasferrets  (Texas? Mmm)

    2. Most people DID feel that way in th…[Read more]

  • Bluesqueakpip replied to the topic Rosa

    @troygorsline

    The South would not have been at all tolerant – they would have ordered her to the back of the bus, too

    Yes, I was a bit ‘suspension of disbelief’ about that too – so I checked. It seems that Malorie Blackman and Chris Chibnall got it pretty much correct in their research, because while Yaz would have experienced social prejudice i…[Read more]

  • Arbutus replied to the topic Rosa

    @troygorsline     It’s a bizarre irony that so many white people in North America feel that we own it, after having stolen it from non-whites in the first place! But that’s clearly the root of the problem. In Canada as well, there are those spouting the “they will take over our country, change our culture” nonsense. Like you, my hope lies with t…[Read more]

  • thane16 replied to the topic The Ghost Monument

    @shinymcshine

    Well, dear, I did call bullshit on the other thread. And I thought you said you were leaving? 🙂

    @juniperfish “interrogate the whatsit.”

    Are we post-modern again?

    *just kidding*  all’s good.

    @troygorsline

    You’re the one I like.

    This is hilarious. I’ve seen the episode once. Everything is upside down.

    Puro with drips.

  • ichabod replied to the topic The Ghost Monument

    @troygorsline  I found that Tardis interior very dark, gloomy, confusing, and cluttered-seeming.  Looked at it again, and I thought, this looks like the Tardis that 12 would have ended up with, while his Tardis interior would be much better suited to JoDoc.  All that gloom and smouldery orange just seems so divorced from the cheerful optimist wi…[Read more]

  • Mudlark replied to the topic The Woman Who Fell To Earth

    @troygorsline

    It is possible that the Doctor, in mid regeneration and still a bit confused, thought that anything referred to by an acronym, even A&E*, sounded worryingly bureaucratic.

    More probably, though, it was just an off-hand way of dismissing the suggestion without having to go into lengthy explanations.  Apart from the fact that the…[Read more]

  • @troygorsline and @toinfinityandbepond

    Both the ER and UNIT, I’d guess. Maybe, in her confused state, the TARDIS as well.

    The Seventh Doctor regenerated into the Eighth when an ER doctor called Grace presumed his double heart beat was fibrillation.

    I also took it as a ‘we’re not going near UNIT this series’ quip. Whether she’s also ‘not going…[Read more]