So who's the sucker with low self-esteem?

Rose and the Doctor have a code word that they use in conversation with mutual friends to signal that all is well, they're just not together right this very minute because they are, in fact, discrete lifeforms who have their own stuff to do and whatnot - under such circumstances, each will say that the other is in Barcelona. It simply didn't come up here; Kitty was too bemused to ask.

(Points to Geoff for coming up with this.)

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Although, as I watch the qualifying for the Spanish Grand Prix, it occurs to me to wonder how, under this system, they tell people where they were on the rare occasions when they've actually gone to Barcelona. "Actual Barcelona. In Spain. Not Space Barcelona or Metaphorical Barcelona."

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Two options: They either say "Barna", which is a real-world nickname, or just say they've been to Catalonia. :)

Or the otherwise, when she's off filming Professor Enigma and he's a bit tired and just wants to have dinner with some friends instead of bother her while she's a-filming.

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Right, and I was just musing about the occasions when they actually go to Barcelona, and whether that might confuse their friends a bit. It was a pretty weak joke, I admit, but I'm flailing a little today in general. Although I did just give myself the image of Rose going to the Spanish Grand Prix without the Doctor, and his reply when someone asks him about it being, "Oh, she's in Barcelona. And also in Barcelona, oddly enough." :)

>Or the otherwise, when she's off filming Professor Enigma and he's a
>bit tired and just wants to have dinner with some friends instead of
>bother her while she's a-filming.

Or worse, risk ending up on the show again...

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"Oh, she's off in Spain somewhere."

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This made me think of Top Gear, which then reminded me that Jeremy Clarkson plays Professor Enigma's version of the Master... Which led me to the frightening thought that Jeremy "More Power! what does this button do?" Clarkson has possibly been in the control room of a working TARDIS... :)

Somehow I think that the Phoenix has about the same view of Jeremy that the TARDIS has of Clara in the show.

Not yet, at least; he was in Rose's first series of Professor Enigma, which was shot before her first visit to Gallifrey (and for that matter, before she went to New Albion). At that time, the Professor's TARDIS was still just a set.

If he returns in series 2, well...

>Somehow I think that the Phoenix has about the same view of Jeremy
>that the TARDIS has of Clara in the show.

"Hammond, what in the galaxy are you doing here?!"

"He is not here. I am the Phoenix voice-visual interface."

"Why do you look like Richard Hammond?"

"I am programmed to assume the appearance of someone you esteem. Out of several billion available images, this one best fits that criterion."

"You are such a cow. Turn that off this instant before somebody sees you."

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<snicker> That's nearly as funny as the original scene.

Seen the new Gaiman episode yet? And next week is The Big Finish, where The Question is asked. Wonder if we'll get an answer...

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And now I'm picturing Vic Sage investigating the Doctor....

No, not yet. The horror aspect is my least favorite part of the show, so I'm afraid I need to take a few steps back and get a bit of a run-up before I take on an episode with a title like "Nightmare in Silver". :)

(OTOH, the ghost story episode was my favorite so far this year. OTTH, that's probably because it turned out not to be a ghost story.)

>And next week is The Big
>Finish, where The Question is asked. Wonder if we'll get an
>answer...

Of course not, don't be ridiculous. That shit's gonna get dodged like an oil company's taxes. Answering it would be like rolling out a new formula for Coca-Cola.

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It isn't actually a horror story, more of a "whisky-tango-foxtrot, what did Gaiman just do with the Cybermen!!!" story. There was one point where I was sure they'd have a brief Girl Genius riff, but the setup scene was funny enough to work without one.

And I'm looking forward to the repeat this Friday, I'm sure I missed a few of the in-jokes because I was laughing so hard at an earlier one.

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Brian

There's a weird thing that happens to me: I have various fandom lobes that go into hibernation and then reawaken again at apparently random intervals. My Doctor Who one has been largely dormant for the last couple of years - basically since the last episode of series 5, although I think I did watch the first ep of series 6 when it originally aired - and has only just begun stirring for no reason I can consciously name. However (and this is perhaps the oddest part), during that hiatus I still collected the episodes as they were broadcast and diligently curated them into the archive I keep, so now that it's waking up again I don't have to go out hunting around for things. Sometimes it's retroactively handy to be a bit neurotic about these things.

Anyway, having heard bits and pieces from the field (as it were) in the meantime, I know (very broadly and incompletely) what went on in series 6 and the first half of 7, but I haven't actually watched most of it. I kind of still don't really want to. Much as I did about his predecessor, I have... reservations about the way Mr. Moffat treats his cast. (The characters, not the actors. I'm sure he's perfectly lovely to the actors.) But that's neither here nor there for our purposes here right now. We all know by now that I'm a soft-hearted git and that's why the UF universe is a no-kill character shelter. :)

Anyway, all of which brings me obliquely round to the answer to your actual question, which is, yes I have. Not all of them, but I've seen "The Snowmen" and "The Bells of St. John", and I have the others stashed away for when I don't have quite as much work to do. I'm giving the New Girl her fair shot, because I have long prided myself on not hating on the new kids just for the sake of hating on the new kids.

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In fairness, in a setting where you don't have to worry about the actors leaving, and without the mentality that their leaving means the character has to die/be lost forever, I suspect they're all around there somewhen.

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Well, yeah, exactly - hence, for instance, Professor Tyler.

It's the latter part I don't understand, but then I have a marked aversion for shutting doors behind me like that. Even in the actors-leaving situation, I'd be much more inclined to find some other explanation for not seeing them on screen, in case I needed them again later and the opportunity presented itself. But anyway. As I said in conversation with one of the Suspects the other day, between Steven and me, one is a professional television producer and the other is some guy in the woods, so make of that what you will. :)

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On the other paw, where would we have been if they'd done that with Sarah Jane Smith?

S.

Well, quite. Or the Brigadier in 1975, for that matter.

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And there's another Gaiman-penned story coming up. After "The Doctor's Wife", I may have to put nets either side of the TV to catch my socks.

BTW, the season climax is <redacted> - the brief episode preview we got a few weeks ago deliberately said nothing about the last one.

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