Dr. Duh!

[IlarMeilyr]

Dr. Duh may not do harm. Very few programmes (British spelling matters, damn it!) cause harm.

But Dr. Duh is still dreadful drek.

 

[BDBoop]

Just five more episodes to 'Blink!'

 

[IlarMeilyr]

Just five more episodes to 'Blink!'

^ whateverdafok dat is.

 

[BDBoop]

Much closer now, we're on a marathon viewing session, chinese takeout included.

"Doctor Who" Blink (TV Episode 2007) - IMDb

 

[BDBoop]

Apart from the obvious issue of there not being enough David Tennant this time around, this has got to be one of the single most brilliant episodes of any TV science fiction show ever. It’s mind-bending even grading on a Doctor Who curve, but — more importantly — even grading on a Doctor Who curve, it’s real science fiction. It explores our relationship with and conception of time in such a way that it makes us look at it anew… or at least consider how we might look at it anew if we could achieve the same kind of “nonlinear, nonsubjective viewpoint” the Doctor has: we’d see time as “a big ball of wibbly-wobbly timey-whimey stuff.”

It’s the kind of story that could only be told in the SF genre; this new Who has been really good at that. And it’s also been good at using SF for doing what I’ve long considered the point of SF, the deep-down point, what you get to when you boil away all the trappings: SF is a controlled experiment in figuring out what it means to be human. How much can you change about what we take for granted about our humanity before what’s left is no longer recognizable human? As a quick non-Who example, the controlled experiment of, say, Robocop would be, What happens when you take away our fleshly bodies? Are we still human if we’re “just” a brain in a cyborg casing? The answer, is this case, is yes.

?Doctor Who? blogging: ?Blink? | FlickFilosopher.com

 

[IlarMeilyr]

I didn't even have to "blink" to miss it.

 

[BDBoop]

Shit, I'm sorry. I was in the wrong thread.

 

[Mr. H.]

Quite a few episodes are lost on me, but there are many that just blow me away. It's all in the writing and scripting. Brilliant.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

Shit, I'm sorry. I was in the wrong thread.

There is no excuse.

 

[BDBoop]

Shit, I'm sorry. I was in the wrong thread.

There is no excuse.

I'd have been back to you sooner, but I was standing in the corner, wearing a hair shirt and self-flagellating.

Did I miss anything?

/wipes blood from fingertips

 

[IlarMeilyr]

Shit, I'm sorry. I was in the wrong thread.

There is no excuse.

I'd have been back to you sooner, but I was standing in the corner, wearing a hair shirt and self-flagellating.

Did I miss anything?

/wipes blood from fingertips

No no.

That ought to suffice for such a minor transgression.

 

[thanatos144]

I will have to say Doctor Who is a damn sight more interesting then the progressive communist utopia that is protrayed n star treck.

 

[BDBoop]

There is no excuse.

I'd have been back to you sooner, but I was standing in the corner, wearing a hair shirt and self-flagellating.

Did I miss anything?

/wipes blood from fingertips

No no.

That ought to suffice for such a minor transgression.

You are far too kind. I'm going to go remove a fingernail, since I am obviously undeserving of such kindness.

 

[IlarMeilyr]

I will have to say Doctor Who is a damn sight more interesting then the progressive communist utopia that is protrayed n star treck.

Well, in fairness, they did label star trek "science fiction."