The Doctor Who Forum | wordmuse | Activity https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/members/wordmuse/activity/ Activity feed for wordmuse. Sun, 26 Jul 2026 14:22:49 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=2.9.1 en-US 30 hourly 2 7de8bad85fb82126bfdae94553edeee0 wordmuse replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/mummy-on-the-orient-express/page/5/#post-33647 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 23:16:00 +0000 @JimTheFish – yep – different strokes for different folks.

My one real hope, having nothing to do with the story arcs per se, is that enough fans are more like you than like me. 🙂  After all, since that is the way this story arc is going, and since future shows depend in a big way on ratings, the more who like what’s going on now, the more who a…[Read more]

]]> 1664c4a04604f37c76b7c1829a0d0ab0 wordmuse replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/mummy-on-the-orient-express/page/5/#post-33637 Thu, 16 Oct 2014 20:59:10 +0000 I appreciate the thought going into making this a more nuanced conversation. Really, very good. And @PhaseShift, your bit of history helped me clarify my thinking a little bit (though I won’t call it clear).

Perhaps using the phrase “soap operaish” was not really a good choice of words.

So what word or phrase would be good to label the idea of…[Read more]

]]> 1bf3ee6069713b6b95bbfcd39ed637ab wordmuse replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/mummy-on-the-orient-express/page/5/#post-33597 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:52:44 +0000 Hey @JimTheFish –

I did not think you were aiming things at me personally.  But I appreciate that you were concerned about me taking it so. Thank you.

I wasn’t really a fan of the BG Who. (BG is “before gap,” yes?).  So if there is a history of the BG Doctor not really being in the “pantheon of heroes,” does that mean there was a significant sh…[Read more]

]]> 99c845d9da9e7024e9a383a1af800795 wordmuse replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/mummy-on-the-orient-express/page/4/#post-33581 Wed, 15 Oct 2014 04:16:50 +0000 Hi again,

So I don’t have any real disagreements with anything said here about character development in general. But there are still two things that seem discussion-worthy to me.

#1 – The portrayal of Clara’s relationships makes me cringe. She lies when there is no apparent need to do so. I am hoping that this is intentional and part of the…[Read more]

]]> dcd1e6a2e2446e3dfaa0d9c0cf6b9336 wordmuse replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/mummy-on-the-orient-express/page/4/#post-33569 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 21:22:23 +0000 @JimTheFish – I agree with the whole mythos thing relative to DW. So let’s zoom in on the relationships between Rose and Micky, Amy and Rory, and now Clara and Danny.

Rose/Micky – Rose wanted to have a romp; Micky went from being that romp to being a wet sponge. Then he grew up and Rose’s relationship with him shifted through these various…[Read more]

]]> 8be6d56dac3b748856d13661218e4a92 wordmuse replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/mummy-on-the-orient-express/page/4/#post-33556 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:53:18 +0000 Well – let me respond with a bit of perspective. This doesn’t even rate as a 1st world problem. 🙂  So we’re just having some fun here, yes? I mean – it *is* fiction.

So it is within this tempest-in-a-teapot context that we are arguing. We’re certainly NOT discussing what should be done about Ebola as a public health policy. It’s just Doctor Who…[Read more]

]]> e80c4cd4d14193f1fd8d229d79d4fa67 wordmuse replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/mummy-on-the-orient-express/page/4/#post-33550 Tue, 14 Oct 2014 13:44:45 +0000 @MTGradwell – I get what you’re saying (I think), and I mainly agree with you. But when I say its not hard scifi, that means that the authors and actors are asking me to suspend disbelief.  It’s part of the bargain I make with them as I watch.

That said, the minute they start relating the what’s going on in the story to our real world, where one…[Read more]

]]> 59c3f86bc8728217fe6eb1e3a31a1d75 wordmuse replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/mummy-on-the-orient-express/page/4/#post-33524 Mon, 13 Oct 2014 21:40:56 +0000 @MTGradwell – I hope you are right. Both my wife and I had he same spontaneous reaction: “Really? Are we really going to stay in “Three’s Company” territory?

I would love nothing more than to be wrong.

On another note: Doctor Who is not hard scifi. The facts of the real world are no more than props and devices.  For example, in the real…[Read more]

]]> afd0e674f4e283f71fb962284204ac0a wordmuse changed their profile picture https://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/activity/p/37774/ Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:13:12 +0000 0 f844dcd769da980abbf6aa4ed7405a78 wordmuse replied to the topic Mummy on the Orient Express in the forum The Twelfth Doctor http://www.thedoctorwhoforum.com/forums/topic/mummy-on-the-orient-express/page/3/#post-33485 Mon, 13 Oct 2014 10:11:32 +0000 This had the potential to be a really good episode – and it was, right up until the end. I don’t know what it is, exactly – well, yes I do.  There is an artificial strain put into this season that doesn’t need to be there; that doesn’t do a lick of good that I can tell and makes for lots of contrivance.  I speak of the relationship of Danny and C…[Read more]

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