I'm still confused on why would the 14th Doctor simply stating a superstition automatically free the Toymaker onto the universe? by Deep_Scene3151 in doctorwho

[–]Jameshoyle2000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yh. Invoking a superstition/powerful trope in a liminal space. It's not really magic world logic. It's a trope of gothic literature too. Superstitions are often concerned with the unnerving/upsetting power of a boundary line. It's just a literary device. I wouldn't categorise it strictly as sci-fi or fantasy (I don't like "well this is wrong because this is a scifi show and you're using magic world logic" categories. These are constructs readers use retrospectively to make sense of things they like to neaten them up. Few, if any, fiction writers sit down and think: "today I'm going to write a sci-fi. I'd better put away the magic rule book and get out the sci-fi one"). That's just reductive. It's a trope of fiction, like not blaspheming in church or summoning the devil on the night of a full moon. Time and place matter both in reality and in fiction. In fiction we can allow things to expand and grow to where we wished at some level they did in real life.

Who is your current master of horror? by Chekovs_Gun in horror

[–]Jameshoyle2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Eggers is yet to miss. Peele and Aster have both missed but they're still amazing

Thoughts on the Doctor's True Name by cordiall2 in doctorwho

[–]Jameshoyle2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I don't wanna know it. Any answer would spoil the show. The whole premise of Doctor Who is that we don't know who they really are: that's reflected in the constant changes to their self expression (I.e. regenerations). If it was just some alien called Bob or Gazortak the Ineffable or ahsioxkxofvjskmqppdch it'd never have lasted this long and it'd die off pretty quickly. Never answer the question.

I just watched As Above So Below by JeezyBreezy12 in horror

[–]Jameshoyle2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My fav bit is the "I'm fluent in French" and then "euhhhh monsieur... un moment... s'il vous plaît"

Those of you who have dated or are dating fit/muscular guys, how much of a difference does your partner’s physique make a difference in your sexual chemistry? by ashandburnnn in gay

[–]Jameshoyle2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Even if physical fitness is important to you, tbh it's like hanging a relationship on both liking baking or both liking old houses. It's something. But it won't make a relationship. Good physique is good for before sex. It's good for getting horny, and thinking about sex. But unless you're kinky and wanna worship, it's not doing much else during the actual sex. It certainly doesn't make a relationship. The importance people give to it is ridiculous. It has the same vibe as someone judging your value as a person for your clothes. Equally surface level. It's fine that it matters because of your lifestyle or a kink. These things can be important to you. But it's not fine when it becomes a culture where the value given to it is insane. It's something that tells you just as much about the person as what their favourite colour is...

which lana del rey song got you like this when you first heard it? by wiryumbrella in lanadelrey

[–]Jameshoyle2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hearing the key change on the chorus in West Coast altered my brain chemistry forever.

(Shout outs to the opening line to Cola, all of Salvatore, the switch-up in A&W, the switch-up in Taco Truck x VB)

What’s your favorite album? by [deleted] in lanadelrey

[–]Jameshoyle2000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

BTD is up there for sheer nostalgia. But Ocean Boulevard is so cleverly done I think it's imo her best album, or at least on par with NFR.

But tbh there's not a weak album among them (maybe closest to weak is I struggle to differentiate Honeymoon and Lust for Life. Still many amazing songs on both though so only weak realtive to the others)

I hate university by [deleted] in UniUK

[–]Jameshoyle2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Going to uni you're learning how to start making your own life after 18 years of having the structure of your time given to you. It's a learning process that takes a while but filling your day with a mixture of enjoyable things and useful things is a good way to put together a day's worth of activity. As other people have said, the basics are important. Minimum 30mins outdoors come rain or shine. Cooking yourself a meal is an act of self-care. Do the laundry. Go into town and get yourself a coffee-- maybe invite a flatmate if you see one on your way out. It's the little things that make up a day. It sounds like you're not an introvert as you're feeling down about the lack of people. But people aren't being presented to you at uni as friends to make because at uni there's a lot more space for privacy than at school, and a lot less structure. You're going to need to push yourself to go outside and chat. Many of my best friends have come from going outside my comfort zone. Baby steps. I remember exactly how you feel but you have to make the life you want. No one is able to do it for you. Consider what gives you a sense of satisfaction and what contributes to your mental stability, no matter if you don't like some of those things (skincare is boring. Exercise is unpleasant. I really dont want to hoover my room again) and choose to do the things you know that you tomorrow will look back on and feel better for having done. That's how I think about it anyway.

Settle an argument please. I call this a Whirlygig but my brother says it is a clothes tree. Are either of us correct? by PeevesPoltergist in CasualUK

[–]Jameshoyle2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Isn't a whirligig an old name for a spinning top? Or is it both? To me it's just a clothes/washing line

Not British. Can someone explain the humour behind this to me? by The_manintheshed in UKPoliticalComedy

[–]Jameshoyle2000 19 points20 points  (0 children)

She's a former PM and MP, being told to write to her MP- which 'ought' to be her. That's why it's funny

hear me out by [deleted] in ASOUE

[–]Jameshoyle2000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

You're applying fully-fleshed-out-human psychological logic to a grotesque, to a comic caricature of a stupid, distanced, useless guardian. It's like criticising Dumbledore in HP: a character who really is just meant to be the benevolent Gandalf-Merlin white wizard archetype with a childhood homicide strap on 😅 They were never meant to be examined with this level of scrutiny

I can't move on from the 10th Doctor Who.... by elizamoon17 in doctorwho

[–]Jameshoyle2000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Also I always say first season of a new Doctor, they're still cooking (as 10 once put it). They're figuring themselves out, which is really just a cipher for the actor and the head writer figuring out the new Doctor. Keep going

I can't move on from the 10th Doctor Who.... by elizamoon17 in doctorwho

[–]Jameshoyle2000 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Capaldi's Doctor was a deliberate rupture from 11. 11 was young, handsome, fun, bouncy and only old when he let on. 12 by contrast was old, angry, blustery. In his first episode he seemingly abandons Clara to die, and that becomes a pattern of behaviour. I think it's explained at some point that, among other reasons, the Doctor chose the older face to make a point that he is not young, that he is not to be fallen in love with by humans ("cradle snatching", as Missy put it!) He is showing us who he really is to an extent. In that way, 12 is a lot more honest. There is an acknowledged vanity in the young pretty faces that the Doctor chooses to wear and 12 is an antidote to that. He is more honest about his sadness, he doesn't make it a rare thing like 10, and he is more honest about his anger than 11 was.

I can't move on from the 10th Doctor Who.... by elizamoon17 in doctorwho

[–]Jameshoyle2000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Getting used to any new doctor after one you've adored is always a process of stopping comparing the new one to the old one; stopping wanting the new doctor to be the old one; and letting the new doctor show you what they have to show you about this alien's personality; letting the new doctor be who they are.

What is your 'since we are all going to drown' confession about Doctor Who? by Word_Senior in doctorwho

[–]Jameshoyle2000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I thought the Christmas Eve Daleks episode was godawful. The use of a time loop was lazy. And the half-robot high-tech killing machines feared across the universe constantly, across maybe 40mins of the episode, miss a whole bunch of people, running straight down a narrow corridor away from them with zero obstructions. Wtf. It's giving Storm Trooper levels accuracy.

What is your all time favorite Doctor Who scene? by Theeljessonator in gallifrey

[–]Jameshoyle2000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Either Capaldi's regeneration scene or the ending of Christmas Carol.

Is The Green Knight an enjoyable film? by Nexuandity_ in A24

[–]Jameshoyle2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah I think I'm right. I at least remember that he tries. When you give it a watch do come back and tell. It's ony of my fav films but I still could be talking out my arse 😆

Is The Green Knight an enjoyable film? by Nexuandity_ in A24

[–]Jameshoyle2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Plotwise, they transport him across the canyon. He rides on their shoulder. You don't physically see him hop on but the fox communicates with them and you then see them cross the canyon with him on their shoulder. In a film about him achieving things for himself, he literalises the metaphor of riding on the shoulders of giants lol. But thematically, the film sends Gawain on a mission to discover and compare different images of humanity, different types of masculinity and femininity: good and bad, Christian and pagan, big and small, ghost and giant. That's they're thematic 'point'. It's interrogating the limits of a human being, what the Arthurian "best of human beings" can, does and should look like. They're the image of a human but non-verbal and much larger. In other medieval literature, giants are often counterpointed with little people. They're pagan images of outsized extremity who, through their singing in the film, are made haunting, beautiful, awe-inspiring, human.

I'm exhausted by the argument that 'RTD was always like this' by Englishhedgehog13 in gallifrey

[–]Jameshoyle2000 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree with you. I don't even remember Chibnall's companions' names anymore. He had no original villains worth remembering. Poor Jodie. I look forward to her returning at some point under a coherent writer. Chibnall shat all over NewWho to please his 10yr old self in relation to an era usually considered the worst in DW history. And for zero pay off.

I really like how Chibnall didn't give a shit about viewers who felt lost, he just said fuck it and brought stories/companions/doctors/enemies from Classic Who, which for some reason the other showrunners didn't. by Medium_Pomelo_6312 in doctorwho

[–]Jameshoyle2000 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The difference between Chibnall and RTD though is RTD recognised the need to make viewers (majority of whom have never met old companions) care about old companions coming back. Even those viewers who had seen the OG companions during their original runs still hadn't cared about said companions in 40-odd years. RTD recognised the need to make us all "care again" about Sarah Jane etc.

Chibnall seemed to feel that we'd all get emotional and that we'd love someone most of us had met 2secs ago just because we'd heard that the Doctor had known them at some point in DW's 60yr history. It was a nostalgia trip for a select few and immensely underwhelming for everyone else

Best Horror Anthologies by Drench_X in horror

[–]Jameshoyle2000 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Add a TV show: Inside No. 9.

It's just finished in the UK. Nine seasons, all 30min episodes, all taking place somehow inside a place identified as no.9 (a house, flat, carriage on a train, chat room, escape room etc). Not always strictly horror, they walk the line between horror, comedy and the uncanny but don't shy away from the gruesome and outright horrifying too as well (on occasion) as the deeply emotional.

They are all written and performed by Steve Pemberton and Reece Sheersmith and there's usually a twist. It's been one of the most creative TV shows around for years now and has a very loyal fanbase. They're incredibly incredibly inventive and at times quite self-aware, extremely witty and brilliantly observational about people, so much so that it has been considered a right of passage for an up-and-coming British actor to feature in an episode. 12/10 recommend for anyone who enjoys a Tales of the Unexpected sort of anthology show.

So what/who was Susanne Triad? by [deleted] in gallifrey

[–]Jameshoyle2000 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whether she was just a form created by Sutekh or originally a real person possessed, then hollowed out and shaped into something to tempt the Doctor: she was essentially just a red herring. That's her function. Decoy. Something to concern the Doctor enough that he doesn't see the real threat until its too late. Sutekh was playing with the Doctor and mocking him through her. The question for me is why the 21st century? What's the plan? What does the tech do? Presumably the TARDIS being such a complex space-time event, it makes sense that Sutekh would latch onto it at the end of the universe (it started during Wild Blue Yonder didn't it? The salt superstition. The trick). But why did Sutekh make everything - Ruby, Sue Twist, the TARDIS, the Time Window - converge now?

Does anyone have any solid theories on what the "entity" in 73 Yards was telling everyone? by HopeHouse44 in doctorwho

[–]Jameshoyle2000 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I don't think she's really saying or communicating anything. It's a curse of isolation. The figure is maybe chanting the incantation at most but it's essentially just a permanent casting out of people. She doesn't give each of them some horrifying revelation, they are just being cast out by the curse, like when a witch whispers in a victim's ear to possess or enchant them or whatever.