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More than mine's worth.

Grated carrot. If making a vegetarian dish, it helps beef up the consistency, for want of a better term.

>> I know that. That's why I went on to say "in New Who".

That'll teach me to read using beer-frothed glasses.

Responses to the above post belong in an altogether different thread.

>> Time-Lords: No thanks. Smartest thing RTD did was ditch 'em.

If only he had. Unfortunately, Ecclestone's second episode needlessly explained everything.

>> Just a thought, but how about an episode set entirely on board the TARDIS? It's not been done . . .

Yes it has, but not since 1964.

>> Susan says she was born in the 49th century . . .

The untransmitted pilot, that would be it.

How would I bring back Who? In all likelihood, without success but:

1. Create a sense of mystery surrounding the Doctor. Keep any reference of the Time Lords to a minimum and NEVER have the Doctor mention that he is one. Ditto Gallifrey and his being Gallifreyan.

2. Time Lords. Boring as fuck. Reintroduce them as something that truly embodies the nature of time rather than the myrmidons of the snore they are. Stories featuring Time Lords should also be used sparingly and, again, NEVER have the Doctor refer to himself as being such. His simply not denying it should suffice.

3. No changing history. The occasional apparent temporal paradox is fine but, when it comes to sci-fi/fantasy, resetting the timeline is far too often lazy and/or anti-dramatic.

4. The Doctor's sexuality? Shurely you jest. He's too busy exploring the universe to care for anything so mundane.

5. The Doctor's TARDIS. Make it spooky, not weird. Candelabra. Shadows of otherwise invisible cats and moths. Dust and cobwebs. This is somewhere people should be only be if they truly have to. And again, the Doctor has neither the time nor the inclination for housework or full repairs.

6. The stories. Bonkers ideas, yet with internal logic. Develop character arcs as a complement to self-contained and ongoing plotlines. Make it family-orientated, fun for kids, shit-scaring for adults. Sci-fi. Fantasy. Horror. Maybe throw in an occasional episode of kitchen-sink drama. Make the Historicals a regular indulgence. Use not only established genre writers but try out those who aren't necessarilly associated with cult television.

7. Take it seriously. Especially the comedy.

>> She was definitely from Gallifrey. Not sure if she was ever confirmed as his granddaughter in the conventional sense.

IIRC, it was only decided that Susan should be Doctor Who's granddaughter to avoid any implication that he might be banging her over the TARDIS console.

And if I'm not mistaken, Susan claimed originally to be from the Forty-First Century or something, although I don't think she specified that it was necessarily Earth's.

The denouement to Cracker: One Day a Lemming Will Fly.

Works even better if you've been sucked in by the two preceding stories. Shame the second season was disappointing, the third, shite.

I know there must be, ooh, just loads of WOW moments I'm forgetting but, if we're talking special effects, that bit in the opening titles of Galactica 1980 where a cylon craft goes on a suicide run.

Fuck CGI. The modelwork here not only has convincing weight and scale, THE CYLON CRAFT SCUDS AND SPARKS OFF THE DOCKING BAY FLOOR AND WALL IN GLORIOUS SLOW MOTION.

And not being a big fan of BattleArse Galactica, I've absolutely no idea the scene from which it's taken.

I'm currently in New Zealand and, as far as I'm aware, the latest season isn't being broadcast here, yet. In fact, if I hadn't received a sodding text from a chum telling me, I'd have been none the wiser new Who was even back.

OI! DD! Stop arsing about on the T-shirt thread and start giving us culinary tips on yer man Campbell's!

There's one line in the lyrics I've never been able to fathom.

'Ulysseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees, no one else can do the things you do . . .'

'Ulysseeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeees . . .'

Something about sniffing pots of glue?

>> Whatever else he may have been, Jesus seems to have been a great leader and a man of peace and, as such, I believe his life is worth remembering.

But which Jesus? 'Yeshua' was by no means an uncommon name, which is the point exactly. Depending on scholarly reliability, the full name of Barrabas the rebel freed by Pilate in place of Jesus, was Yeshua bar Abba, meaning 'Jesus, son of the Father'.

>> Good call on the figs though - are you someone else whose childhood bible was the Reader's Digest Book of Strange Stories, Amazing Facts?

Heh. I do believe I still have a copy, although I can't say for sure if it was that particular tome that informed me the Bible not once refers to Eve then Adam founding Le Crunch Bunch.

I dunno, though. I kinda like the whole bonkerness of Original Sin; although for the Roman Catholic Church to feel the need to come up with the Immaculate Conception as well does highlight the whole daftness of it.

Or maybe it was something to do with their wearing apple macs to hide their shame of political correctness.