Or just listen to the Douglas Adam audiobooks.

Still some of the best audiobooks I've ever heard.

(I've never actually listened to the original radio series, and have never had an issue with the tone or voices of the book. Douglas Adams is actually kind of a good author surprisingly so he manages to get away with not requiring outside listening to get it. Depends on the person I guess *shrug*.)

So just spoiler tag everything then?

Oh those are just the cores? Never mind me then. As you were.

And that's better than you deserve.

Wow... I don't think we even have a word for that many double posts in a row.

There is a little edit button at the bottom there you know?

Having a black background is throwing things off. Instead of being shadows it just looks like it's randomly having giant chunks taken out of it.

I'd be curious to see how it looks on a medium grey background and ground to shadow onto.

I just realized I have absolutely zero desire to catch-up/watch this season anymore. Not in the like, angry, fuck it sort of way, I just have absolutely no desire, it has fallen off the plate of things I care about.

Wow... this season has actually managed to legitimately kill Doctor Who for me. That's...kinda impressive really.

That's very true, I'll echo the episode of the new Cosmos, regarding the major advancements that happened once they actually had proper refined glass for making telescopes and microscopes.

Not to be /that/ guy, but that's kinda what we've been talking about.

Anyways, my reaction when I first heard the news was "ABOUT FUCKING TIME" Granted it doesn't really change anything for non-us peeps, we all still get to the piracy route. So...yah...woo. /sarcasm

We just released the official version of the new opening for Season 7 of Bullskit created by yours truly. I'm really damn proud of how this thing turned out. This plays at the start of the monthly live shows.

EDIT: C-Spin sniped me, but I agree with everything he said.

I'm gonna have to take some time on your last question since I'm not such a Who nerd that I can just pull exact examples at will.

But to your earlier point about questioning a character inside the the universe, and the idea of a character being canon simply by being written. And I always come back to the thought of "What if I were in this universe watching things happen?" As Saniss has pointed much more eloquently than I the characters are written all over the place, they're up, they're down, they're mad, happy. A lot of the time for seemingly inexplicable or simply non-exsistant reasons. So then here's me, in this universe watching that character. Personally I'm going to be wondering what the hell is wrong with them? Are they mentally ill? id they get hit on the head really hard and everyone else is just refusing to acknowledge it? Because as Saniss has also pointed out, the characters, Clara in paticular, since we have comparison points for her from last season, is all over the place, completely unlike how she was written last season (In this same universe). The Doctor on the other hand, is also all over the place, but hey, new Doc, that could be just the way he is now...except no one actually really comments on it, it's just absorbed and accepted, in a way that feels unnatural to the characters around him.

In a weird way it ties into the idea of Hanging a lantern. These characters are all over the place, but no one in universe ever goes "Gee's guys, are you okay? You're actin all manic depressive-y over here." If they had that, idf they could at least acknowledge that the characters are acting weird, and not try to keep trying to convince us that "this is how they are guys, no seriously", I'd be fine with it, cause supposedly they'd have a reason for it. But as is, it comes off as nothing more than lazy writing.

And to your first point. It's been touched on here and there in here. But Doctor Who is about the universe, there is WEIRD SHIT out there man, but it's alien, it's bizarre, there are things at work we can't understand this far out on the edge. But through all of that Earth is shown to be... Earth. Plain and simple. Earth is earth, it's the place we know, weird stuff sometimes comes and visits, but by and large the fundamental physics that we all know still govern this area of space. So when DW just decides to stroll into our neighbourhood and tries to tell us that actually no, one of those core scientific understandings we have about our section of the galaxy actually doesn't hold true, and we aren't even going to give you a reason why, just go with us. We have to call bullshit. I mean we can literally see Earth from the moon, this isn't some far distant weird section of space where physics behave differently. It's the frickin moon for pete's sake.

It's THE primary issue I have with the Robin Hood episode you all seem to love so much. The entire environment of that episode is so completely and entirely unlike that era of earth, that it completely undermines the entire point of the episode.

Basically...you can't say you're showing me my backyard and tell me there isn't a shed there. I know there's a frickin shed there, I built it, I can literally see it there. Stop trying to tell me my shed isn't there, you're making yourself look like an idiot.