Wedge

Anyway. Look at the URLs, they don't look like the official URL. The only URLs that actually mimic the main URL as opposed to using a deliberately different domain are the ones that historically cause the most fuck-ups: Korean, Polish, Russian.

You may think you're being wonderful and doing this for us, and had you actually asked first there's a chance it would have been better received, but doing it without our permission is only going to piss us off, especially since I know, as I said, how much crap was caused by this behaviour in the past.

The bottom line: it looks like it's an official site, and it isn't. We do not want to be associated with that, because any crap that happens over there spills over here too. I've seen it before, more than once.

I have no objection to a fan site, in whatever language you want but I do NOT want it with the main Wedge name. wedgefans.ru would be fine, as would wedgeunofficial or whatever. But using the wedge name on its own gives it an air of officialdom that is simply wrong.

Exactly. It's very lightweight and exists primarily to be an anti-injection layer, though in $smcFunc's case it's also pretending to be a DBAL as well (but isn't really)

What do you mean by nested sets? What I think of as nested sets is probably not the same thing you're thinking of.Why should that be a surprise?

Frameworks should be about saving time and energy in writing, by giving you something pre-prepared. All too often people substitute in a framework because they don't know how to do it themselves.

Now, I'm in the state where I've used most of the frameworks and don't like many of them. What I invariably find with them is that I spend almost as much time tweaking the framework because it doesn't do exactly what I want, as I would have done doing it from scratch anyway.

Also, I'd thoroughly avoid Zend Framework because it's huge and extremely bloated. A setup where using multiple components together could require 300 files *per pageload* seems thoroughly wrong to me.

This one is more 'I like dinosaurs. Dinosaurs are cool. And this guy wants to SELL them.' I suspect the death of thousands of Silurians is only part of his wrath.

Oh, Waters of Mars was awesome. "Once upon a time there were people in charge of those laws but they died. They all died. Do you know who that leaves? *Me!* It's taken me all these years to realize that the laws of time are *mine* and they will obey me!"

Yes, Eleven is only as smart as Steven Moffat, however, Moffat the puppet-master is far more devious than RTD as puppet master.

Oh, that's new. Never been angry before.

I sort of chalk that up to never having been that emotionally invested in his companions like that before. It's sort of like the reaction he had during The Idiot's Lantern, after Rose's face was 'stolen':I see it as a continuation of that, except this time it's his fault. The Wire was not down to him, but the whole thing with Madame Kovarian, the Silence, the whole fact they had kidnapped Amy, the whole Melody Pond setup was solely because of how dangerous he is.

That's really the one colossal difference between Tennant and Smith's Doctors... Ten ran round the universe, seeing what there is to see. He encountered things that he didn't like, and he dealt with them. But mostly it was a reactionary thing.

Eleven on the other hand is a little less reactive and a lot more proactive, and mostly that's down to the fact that he feels responsible. He feels responsible for everything that's happened - because he *is* responsible. It weighs heavily on his mind, and a lot of the nervous energy is overcompensating."Your voice is different, but the arrogance is unchanged." - Davros, The Stolen Earth.

Eleven is clever, probably cleverer than Ten was, if that makes sense. He sees the plan beyond the plan, except not the plan behind that. The entire Pandorica setup was a very clever trap, but it was so well designed that he didn't realise it was a trap until it was too late, mostly because of his arrogant insistence that the Pandorica was a myth.

The way he dismissed the Alliance was mostly to buy time to actually get to examine the Pandorica, not to actually make them go away - he knew full well it would merely buy time, "That should keep them squabbling for half an hour", not realising they were all there together anyway.

In reality that's just feeding into his ego, and under other circumstances he might have realised it was a little too easy to make that happen.

It actually fits in better with the colour scheme in Weaving than the previous iteration does. I'm still having the 'BECAUSE I'M BATMAN' vibe though :P

Yeah, I can understand that.

What strikes me is that he's playing it like Troughton. Or, more accurately, he's playing it like Troughton, except what Troughton would have done in 4 25-minute episodes, he's doing in a single 45 minute episode. Compressed brilliance, you might say.

On the other hand, it is a little different to Tennant's legs in running/piston mode every 5 minutes. And it's better than hearing "I'm sorry, I'm so sorry" every other episode, which grated on me.

It's also possibly a sign of something bigger. He knows what's coming, and "we almost possibly have a chance" to fix it. This is the eleventh hour (pun completely intended :P) for the Ponds. Something big is happening and he's trying to stop it.