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]

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]

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

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….

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

I think bonkerising will…[Read more]

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

Thank me later.

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….)

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  “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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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.

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]

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]