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I'm re-reading The Hobbit at the moment. Gandalf might not be a conjurer of cheap tricks, because he's only packing the expensive, high-caliber stuff.

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CeruleanRuin,

There are also things like cuckoo clocks and a reference to a train.

CeruleanRuin,

As someone who browses almost exclusively 9n my phone, I appreciate having a moment to pause it, flip my phone sideways, and adjust the resolution because YouTube always defaults to crappy.

CeruleanRuin,

I had that one! There was a Borg game in the same vein, but it wasn’t nearly as entertaining.

CeruleanRuin,

At the very least, the music is great and the writing is full of great jokes and also some pretty compelling sci-fi scenarios that would have fit perfectly in the series. If point and click adventure games aren’t your speed, find a walkthrough (theynarent hard to find online) and refer to it whenever you’re stuck.

CeruleanRuin,

Rated TV-PG

violence, sex, nudity, fear, substances, language, gore

CeruleanRuin,

Really love the music in this one. Bringing in the piano really hints with the deeper emotional themes pulling at Paul, who is diving into a world that’s entirely new to him but might find himself gasping for the air of the world he’s lost.

CeruleanRuin,

You don’t actually have to watch it. You also don’t have to complain about it in literally every thread about it.

CeruleanRuin,

All part of being a Doctor Who fan.

For naming purposes, we really only number the ones who are the “main character”, so John Hurt and Jo Martin don’t get numbers per se, and David Tennant gets 10 and 14 because those are treated as distinct and separate characters, while 10’s “fake-out” doesn’t result in a distinct incarnation so doesn’t get numbered separately.

Basically, lots of asterisks in the numbering, but the numbers are more for fans being able to easily differentiate them in conversation than anything. They’re only rarely referred to in the show itself.

CeruleanRuin,

Hartnell will always be the First Doctor, no matter who that character was before that. So we can call Jo Martin the Zeroth Doctor, as some have, and number the rest negatively if we ever learn about them, or we can just refer to them by a descriptor, like the Fugitive Doctor.

It’s also unclear now when exactly the character first took the name “Doctor”, but what is more clear is that the numbering is a convention for the viewers, not really for the characters themselves.

CeruleanRuin,

I’m going to refer to it as the sonic studfinder. Because it looks like one, and it found Ncuti.

CeruleanRuin,

I’d be willing to bet that if they do a UNIT spinoff, it will be a special detachment with a specific mission, and Donna will only appear in cameos. Kate Stewart might be like an Amanda Waller, monitoring their progress from HQ and only rarely getting directly involved.

CeruleanRuin,

Like an engineer doing turbo lift maintenance, this works on multiple levels.

CeruleanRuin,

Its definitely a case of “um, yeah, your application to ever join the Federation has been denied, pending you not having incredibly stupid laws”.

CeruleanRuin,

And this right here is why I don’t do Xitter or Tumblr. Getting this worked up over esoteric personal details of C-list podcast hosts is just not worth my time or mental energy. I’m glad there are people like you to keep things straight like you did here, but my god, these keyboard warriors have way too much time on their hands.

Litigating a stranger’s legal troubles isn’t their job. There’s literally a system for that already.

CeruleanRuin,

“I heard Chief O’Brien saying he just wanted to sip on some hot Nog. You really think I have a chance?”

CeruleanRuin,

I wish they would bring back Lorca. Jason Isaacs was the best thing about that season.

He’s also gobsmackingly good in that new Cary Grant miniseries.

CeruleanRuin,

When asked why she was spending so much time alone with him, she protested she was merely helping him to upgrade his RAM.

CeruleanRuin,

It’s especially annoying, because this particular reindeer didn’t even actually exist at all until this song.

It’s literally saying “this thing I am making up right now is going to be super popular.” It’s quite the called shot.

CeruleanRuin,

Po-tay-toes. Boil em mash em stick em in a stew.

CeruleanRuin,

Stop putting the idiots on the podium and handing them the mic.

CeruleanRuin,

Coffee, black.

CeruleanRuin,

Lol, the headline makes it sound like they were just so belligerent about being told to stop taking pictures of themselves that they flipped the boat out of spite.

CeruleanRuin,

Can you explain the title of the thread to me? What is a “such opinion”?

CeruleanRuin,

My opinion is this: if you can’t be bothered to use proper grammar and spelling and express yourself clearly, you should shut the fuck up.

CeruleanRuin,

I’d argue this is true of most entertainment. It works though. Cookies aren’t good either, but they trick my brain into thinking it’s happy for a few minutes. I’ll fucking take it.

CeruleanRuin,

In the distant future, advanced beings who may or may not be descended from us (or our creations) will develop the ability to recreate everyone who has ever lived in history. A small subset of these beings will be assholes who believe it is their job and their right to judge all those recreated people and serve judgment. One of those recreated people will be a copy of me.

It won’t be me, but it will believe it is me. So I should care a little bit about what my actions will do to affect that, maybe. Except I don’t. It’s actually out of my hands, like everything else.

CeruleanRuin,

Weight class is already built into wrestling at all levels. If it’s such a concern, build it into other sports, like you said.

CeruleanRuin,

I was with you right up until the end there.

CeruleanRuin,

For anyone who hasn’t watched the third special yet, rest assured that Wilf is okay.

CeruleanRuin,

You see, the secret is that humans - and especially children - are incredibly self-centered, and will rarely bother to think of the other people in the world at all. Santa is for them, not other people.

CeruleanRuin,

The more I think about it, the more I think the mavity bit is more than just a silly time travel joke. They didn’t have to sacrifice several minutes of precious story time just to land briefly in Newton’s orchard to set that up.

The episode wouldn’t have been any different without that cold open. But they went out of their way for it. I think there’s a good chance it’s either a tease or a primer for some other change to come in the future.

CeruleanRuin,

It hit just the right balance for me. The situation was whimsical, but the implications were existentially terrifying.

CeruleanRuin,

That’s the thing about humans. They can hold two opposing ideas in their head simultaneously.

CeruleanRuin, (edited )

RTD has always understood well that the Doctor’s greatest adversary is himself. Here, they basically took the entity from “Midnight” and expanded that idea just about as far as it could go, while also alluding to some lovely cosmic horror concepts from the classic series - namely the Great Vampires, said to be great shapeless beings from beyond the galaxy who could take any form they chose.

With the Doctor’s ominous comment about invoking superstition out here where all things are possible, I wonder if he is afraid that he just created the Vampires. They might have come anyway, but he just gave them their name, and their ties to old world Earth superstitions. It’s another chicken and egg thing.

CeruleanRuin,

That’s the “take my hand” pose. He’s saying “come with me, you’ll be taken care of.”

CeruleanRuin,

People rag on the Volume just as much as they rag on “too much CGI”, the same they used to say “too much green screen” or “too many rubber suited aliens”. It’s all just storytelling tools, and you either suspend your disbelief or you don’t based on the strength of the writing. If you can show me a seemingly endless corridor with giant hydraulic pistons that reconfigures every ten minutes, and that’s actually a part of the story, that’s pretty damn great in my book, no matter how it looks.

And just for the record, I thought this looked great too.

CeruleanRuin,

And lord, that moment when the real Donna gets left behind as the station starts to explode and you just see it on her face that that she knows this is it for her, that really got to me. Tennant and Tate are so insanely good in this episode.

CeruleanRuin,

I suspect the mavity bit is either a tease for an upcoming plot point about changing history or just a running gag that will get called back later.

They didn’t know Newton misheard them. Couldn’t have. Donna said it as ‘mavity’, and the Doctor gave her a momentary odd look. But then when he said it as ‘gravity’, she didn’t know what he meant and he corrected himself to ‘mavity.’

What that means is that history was changed, and the word is now ‘mavity’ and always has been. Nevermind Latin etymology and the fact that of course Newton didn’t actually invent the word but only popularized this specific use for it.

The point was that the change affected Donna but not the Doctor, because he’s a Time Lord. Whether it’s just a joke or a hint at something to come remains to be seen.

CeruleanRuin,

Probably would be seemed stranger to most people if they weren’t decomposed - they’d assume she wasn’t really dead. Best to supercede scientific accuracy for the sake of clarity.

CeruleanRuin,

For 5 million in gold? Introduce me to Fido.

CeruleanRuin,

“Garak to Chief O’Brien. Our universal translator seems to be malfunctioning.”

CeruleanRuin,

Well yes, but don’t feed assholes and bigots either.

CeruleanRuin,

Why else would he be writing about a movie that came out twenty years ago?

Might as well write an article about how shitty you think Lawrence of Arabia is.

CeruleanRuin,

Maple Films’ edit is pretty good. Chops out the majority of the dwarf backstory, all of the wizard side quests, and significantly cuts down the superfluous action sequences, resulting in a strong narrative which follows Bilbo’s story exclusively, as it should.

CeruleanRuin,

Can’t argue with this at all, but the books aren’t for everyone.

CeruleanRuin,

I love that one because it actually feels like a place someone could live in, rather than just a cold and sterile control room for a ship. I love 11’s wacky junkpile for the same reason.

I’ll admit when the TARDIS went ballistic I was really hoping it would come back with some scorch marks or something to make it more interesting.

CeruleanRuin,

This is generally true, with two notable exceptions. The first you mentioned, when Nine became Ten. Eleven got a second new TARDIS partway through his run, and then Twelve stuck with that second one, though he redecorated a bit.

CeruleanRuin,

This one feels somehow like an empty stage, waiting to be filled with props and actors. Which I suppose is appropriate, given how these Tennant specials are meant to be a sort of palate cleanser before the next course.

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