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10 hours, 35 minutes ago - View
nerys replied to the topic Empress of Mars
@ps1l0v3y0u I like ZChib. It’s a keeper.
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15 hours, 23 minutes ago - View
ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic Empress of Mars
Well… is it genetic heritage that makes you a Timelord? Or in vitro exposure to the Time Vortex? As per River, immediately following the Roman kissogram party in volving two humans (presumably in the room with bunk beds)?
Surely, the Mondassians specialise in human conversion because, as Dalek Sec pointed out, we get e…[Read more]
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18 hours, 32 minutes ago - View
Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Empress of Mars
@ps1l0v3y0u @nerys Interesting point about the High Council lady. Is it possible that Bill is an orphaned Time Lady? And the Doctor ‘stole the President’s wife’. Is the Moff hinting that Bill might be the Doctor’s (other) daughter? (But if so, shouldn’t she have regenerative powers? Maybe not, if they were a technological feature…[Read more]
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1 day, 2 hours ago - View
ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic Empress of Mars
Yes. Amy says something like that. The Doctor is the ‘damsel’ in ‘the husbands of…’ Donna introduces the idea… by her absence. “Things went wrong…” (The End of Time)
The point being… I think… is that The Doctor benefits from interaction (even with Rusty?) whereas The Master, in his thirst for power, never considers it……[Read more]
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1 day, 9 hours ago - View
nerys replied to the topic Empress of Mars
@dentarthurdent As to why the Doctor’s doing this (‘adopting’ Bill), I’d hypothesise that he needs the companionship. Who was it who said the Doctor shouldn’t be alone, it wasn’t good for him. River?
I seem to recall both Amy and River telling the Doctor he should never travel alone. And then in “Listen” (after the Doctor goes on a tangent abo…[Read more]
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1 day, 23 hours ago - View
Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Empress of Mars
@ps1l0v3y0u Well Bill did have only the one series to develop in. Some might say getting turned into a Cyberman was rather too much ‘development’ 🙂
Although the professor-student relationship can be entertaining when the Moff writes it, in small doses, it isn’t really what Doctor Who is about, at least for me. ‘Who’ is relatively…[Read more] -
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ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic Empress of Mars
I’ll leave Eaters of Light for you then.
In hindsight the development of Bill through the series was disappointing. It got squeezed out by the Missy redemption subplot which I frankly didn’t care that much about. So more no Moira, no Penny. They were fun. But maybe that might a bit ZChib????!
There again no further Ira…[Read more]
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2 days, 13 hours ago - View
Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester
@nerys I really liked the first one, Goldeneye. Natalya Simonova is one of my favourite Bond heroines, and Robbie Coltrane as the Russian gangster is one of my favourite Bond allies. And the second, Tomorrow Never Dies, as I said, Jonathan Price as Elliot Carver is the best villain (IMO). And Michelle Yeoh was great as an action heroine…[Read more]
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Dentarthurdent replied to the topic Empress of Mars
@ps1l0v3y0u Well much of that I would agree with (having just watched it) though I found it all a bit Indiana Jones. (Or did I say Edgar Rice Burroughs? One or the other). I much preferred Cold War (and I did like David Warner’s character). I didn’t really notice any dreadful inconsistencies such as in Kill The Moon or even the…[Read more]
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ps1l0v3y0u replied to the topic Empress of Mars
The Empress of Mars
There’s lots to enjoy here and much that could annoy. I suppose. Mark Gatiss obviously remembers the Ice Warriors fondly. So do I. I liked the ‘Alien’ tinged Cold War, the previous IW outing, though David Warner’s Duran Duran obsessed dissident scientist could do with toning down. I like steam punk; it seems idle to point o…[Read more]
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6 days, 11 hours ago - View
nerys replied to the topic The Winchester
@dentarthurdent Yes, Silva was the one with the island and “mommy issues” with M. Bardem played him beautifully!
I didn’t much care for the Brosnan era (though I do respect the fact that he helped to bring Bond back from the brink of extinction). As I recall, Tomorrow Never Dies is the Bond film of his I liked best.
Before Craig, I didn’t really…[Read more]
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6 days, 23 hours ago - View
Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester
@nerys Silva? Was he the guy with the private island? (Reminds me a bit of Blofeld’s ‘suicide garden’ in You Only Live Twice (the book version). As does Malek’s garden in No Time to Die, of course). He was good, as I recall. But I need to re-watch the arc.
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nerys replied to the topic The Winchester
@dentarthurdent Oh, right, thanks for the correction! Quantum of Solace is one I tend to forget. At first I was disappointed in it, then on subsequent viewings came to appreciate it. It was marred by a couple of things: the writers’ strike and disjointed editing of the chase sequences. Apparently Marc Forster was aiming to put the audience into…[Read more]
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1 week ago - View
Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester
@nerys I’m going to have to do a mini-rewatch of all the Daniel Craig Bond films, since I’m quite hazy about them (in contrast to the Pierce Brosnan ones that I know quite well). The mention of an arc intrigues me. No Time to Die certainly linked back to Vesper Lynd who was in Casino Royale I think.
I didn’t find Malek particularly…[Read more]
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1 week ago - View
nerys replied to the topic The Winchester
@dentarthurdent I loved No Time To Die. It’s a natural culmination of the Daniel Craig era, though I admit I was surprised that they ended it the way they did. Having watched all four of his Bond films (Casino Royale was the one that hooked me), I felt that there was a tragic trajectory. I think giving Bond a daughter, only to have him sacrifice…[Read more]
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Dentarthurdent replied to the topic The Winchester
I’m afraid my infrequent choice of movies is much more lowbrow than nerys’s. One I did just watch for the first time was the last* James Bond movie, <i>No Time to Die</i>. (I did say ‘last’ not ‘latest’, I know that’s ambiguous but they did kill Bond off at the end, so maybe it will be).
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nerys replied to the topic The Winchester
In the “what have you been watching lately” vein:
Still Alice from 2014, a deftly devastating portrayal of early-onset Alzheimer’s and its impact on the individual and her family. The film affected me so much that I couldn’t sleep that night.
I was surprised to learn about one of the co-directors, Richard Glatzer, having ALS and being unable to…[Read more]
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