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From: "Mickmane" <ATH@kruemel.org>
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Subject: Re: Anybody Got a filter for all this stupid political and religious arguements going on?
Date: Sat, 15 Mar 2025 09:59:00 +0100
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On 15.03.25, Blueshirt  <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:
> Mickmane wrote:
>> On 13.03.25, Blueshirt  <blueshirt@indigo.news> wrote:

>> I'm excluding the current one now, I don't have him on any
>> list yet. He needs some actual Doctor scripts, not whatever
>> they've been doing so far. I want to like him, but they have
>> yet to give him something brilliant to do, with all the hectic
>> problem solving while babbling stuff only a Time Lord
>> understands (possibly).

> Yeah, the scripts have generally been a bit of a let-down of
> late... when the 15th Doctor got a chance to be THE Doctor, I
> thought he showed a lot of promise.

When did he get that chance?

> I'm hoping for some more consistency from the scripts in S15/S2.

I'm just hoping for more actual Doctor. :P

>> Did he run from anything yet?

> He doesn't do a lot of running... he does seem to cry a fair bit
> though.

And he's supposed to be the one who's recovered from past traumas. Did  
they forget that?

> Oh, and he did some singing once too.

Unfortunately.

>>> I wasn't the biggest fan of his main companion
>>> mind you (Clara) but Doctor Who companions in the modern era
>>> tend to be written to make it all about them and their
>>> lives. So I tend to prefer it when the focus is on the
>>> Doctor.
>>
>> Don't mention Clara. She turned out like the proverbial
>> visitors and fish.

> Well, I wouldn't have said Clara was THAT bad!

She didn't start out bad, but hung around too long.

And almost became some kind of (un-)doctor, can-do-everything-super- 
smart. Was she someone's Mary Sue?

>> I don't feel that way about any other companion of the new
>> series. There wasn't that much about the others' lives, nor
>> did they hog the stage so much.

> Companions hogging the stage is becoming a bit of a Doctor Who
> trope.

Nope, don't see it.

>>> Hopefully that will change when the new season returns in
>>> April.
>>
>> You think religious nutters will stop posting, or everyone
>> else will at least stop responding to them?

> Well, somebody seems to have quietened them! Either Kermit or
> the new fella. This place has been as quiet as a morgue the
> last few days. In fact, it's probably the quietest it's ever
> been!!!

Kermit? Who's that, and why do you call him that?

New fella? What did he do?

> Maybe they have become born again RADW-ers?

Haha.

>>> I never doubted it. The term "impressive" can only apply to
>>> one Doctor!
>>
>> I knew you'd recognize him. :) (And that he's your favorite
>> classic, too.)

> My favourite Doctor, full stop. Jon Pertwee was THE Doctor... as
> he sang himself in his hit record of the 1970's! :-)

Ah yes. :)

>>> The excitement level here doesn't seem to have gone much
>>> above zero!  :-)
>>
>> How can you get excited, or even find it, among all the noise?

> You have to read between the lines! ;-)

Where you find next to zero, as you said. :P

-- 

Mickmane