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13 May 2016 at 06:28 #52285
@puroandson Yes, I was looking at Music for Two yesterday. It has gone onto my wish list! I have Bela on a recording called Perpetual Motion, which is a sort of grab bag of classical stuff from Bach to Debussy and many things in between. It’s gorgeous. I saw him here at the Folk Festival a number of years ago, with Abigail Washburn, which was a delight.
Now, here’s something cool for you. For my birthday, I asked for and received the latest from the Scottish band Lau, and the title track is something else. It’s a long listen, 17 minutes, and features the Elysian String Quartet doing a lot of stuff that’s pretty far out there. On first listen, I found myself thinking, “Whoa you guys, what have you done?” But the more times I’ve listened to the track, the more it has drawn me in. An absolutely haunting piece of music, where the quartet, the folk instruments, and Kris Drever’s gorgeous voice, are melded perfectly seamlessly. I’m finding that I can’t get enough of it.
And look! It’s on YouTube. 🙂
12 May 2016 at 00:56 #52262@puroandson Thanks for that! I don’t have enough Bela Fleck; I might have to do something about that. I love the pairing with Meyer, and Professor Google tells me that they have done a few things together. 🙂
10 May 2016 at 17:10 #52249@doctordani I agree. It would also be impossible to experience what the Doctor went through in Heaven Sent without lasting impact! I like the idea that the Christmas episode is like a punctuation mark to the finale of S9. A purification (in Heaven Sent) followed by catharsis (the battles fought with others and self in Hell Bent), and then a healing, as he rediscovers River and gets that glorious 24 years. When next we meet the Doctor (with Bill), he is a fully recovered and grounded individual once again. (I hope he keeps that lovely crankiness, as to me, it is a critical part of 12’s personality.)
10 May 2016 at 16:54 #52248@TheConsultingDoctor @missy Isn’t it sad that this has to be qualified? That we’ve come to a place where love isn’t considered a naturally manly emotion unless it is either sexual or familial? The deep sense of caring and protectiveness that Sherlock and John come to feel for one another over the course of the show felt very satisfying to me, as both of them are portrayed as damaged and isolated when they first meet. It could be an equally effective arc in a male-female relationship, if our culture didn’t make it just as difficult to portray non-sexual love between men and women.
10 May 2016 at 16:36 #52247Hi, all! It’s my birthday today and the sun is shining. In the spirit of kids’ birthday parties where you both receive (gifts) and give (loot bags), I am requesting some music. What tracks fill you with joy? You can’t have too much joy. My loot bag for you all contains these two:
9 May 2016 at 01:27 #52220@mersey @puroandson Interesting discussion!
I think that if you view the Doctor through the lens of his past, you find a person who has more often than not tended to a positive, enthusiastic, somewhat wide-eyed view of the cosmos. But like all of us, there are times and situations in life during which one is sometimes sidetracked. The Doctor has clearly gone through phases of being more negative, more anxious, more sad, more sober.
I could imagine that regeneration might be accompanied by a massive hormonal shift, necessary to all that rebuilding of cells and molecules. Imagine the shift that would be caused by an entirely new injection of thirteen more lifetimes’ worth of regeneration energy! I think of my teenage son, an essentially happy-go-lucky personality who has at times struggled through periods of gloom and negativity as he has made his way through puberty; then I look at myself, now currently through the euphemistically-named “change of life”, another basically cheerful person fighting every day the tendency to be cranky and snarky! When I look at Series 8 through this lens, I almost think that CapDoc was going at it from both ends… gloomy, negative, cranky, irritable, and feeling massively superior to those around him! In Series 9, he had come out the other side of his hormonal fluctuations and settled back into the mature, experienced, but essentially positive character that is who he really is.
9 May 2016 at 01:13 #52219@TheConsultingDoctor @ichabod
I’ve been reading this discussion with interest, and your last post has reminded me of something. There have always been the “buddy movies”, in which (usually) two males of disparate personality are forced together by circumstances and form a bond. Usually, these movies have been action-oriented, with varying degrees of humour, and occasional forays into the arena of actual emotions. I don’t know whether it occurred to any portion of the viewers to try and “ship” the characters in these films– if it did, it perhaps happened somewhere out of mainstream view! But nowadays, film and in particular, serial TV, tends to want to go much deeper into emotional territory that used to be touched on more lightly most of the time. This, perhaps, sets up a show like Sherlock for more of these assumptions, that sexual attraction must accompany deep emotion. I agree with Moffat’s view that what is essentially a “buddy film” is being viewed through a sexualized lens. I guess if this is what turns people’s crank, then so be it. Personally, I find it pretty limiting.
8 May 2016 at 03:03 #52204@puroandson What is it about creating large flames that is so satisfying? Now that we are into bbq season here, I love marinating things in olive oil and then dumping them in the grill basket. Every time I give them a stir, the resulting flame up just warms my heart (not to mention giving everything a pleasantly charred flavour). A five-foot flame in the kitchen, might make me a wee bit nervous, however! 🙂
@lisa Kudos to you for volunteering for your party of choice. Far too many people complain about the state of things, and can’t even be bothered to write a letter to their representative, never mind volunteer or show up at a rally. Not mention the boneheads who won’t vote. This drives me mad. You will always be able to take comfort in the effort you made, even if you don’t get the result you want (although I am still refusing to believe that America will actually elect Trump!).
7 May 2016 at 05:38 #52175@ichabod I was thinking more of the one off “companions” like Journey Blue, or even recurring characters such as Kate Stewart. But even companions, really, in the BG days, were often snarked at or given an earful by the Doctor on occasion. Almost every BG Doc did it at some point, particularly with certain companions. Even Nine let Rose have it on a few occasions. I think the extreme affection and protectiveness that the Doctor had for Amy and Clara, who have been the Doctor’s only Companions in a long while, has caused us to forget what many of the previous relationships were actually like.
I rather like the idea of Bill’s relationship with the Doctor starting off a bit less warm and fuzzy. It would be rather fun, in fact, if they didn’t really like each other at first, and the growth of respect and affection could be a journey rather than something instant. In any case, just seeing a new face with the Doctor will be refreshing as it has been a long time.
7 May 2016 at 05:22 #52174I wouldn’t say I love housework as such, but I mostly don’t mind it. I am free to let my imagination go off where it likes and I can still claim to have been productive during my day! And like Puro, I don’t love the “sweating and weeding”, but I do love watching things grow (when they do). Every year certain things are lovely and others are duds. Right now, my old fashioned “rambling” rose bush is covered in yellow flowers, and a certain violet clematis on my patio has more blooms on it than I have seen in a long time. The daffodils were gorgeous too, during their time. On the other hand, I don’t think my lettuce or peas are going to do much this year as it has already gotten too hot for them! We have had an amazingly warm and dry spring so far this year.
@puroandson I’m glad your autumn has finally come. Such a relief for you (and the birds, too, obviously!) I hope Son’s bronchitis is getting better?
@winston My mother has a big garden at her place in Alberta, and I have fond memories of my son as a little boy, pushing around a plastic wheelbarrow filled with straw, and helping her harvest peas and raspberries. At home, I would take him with me to the garden centre and be unable to refuse to buy him all the flowering plants that appealed to him, despite the challenge of where to put them (our yard is small). There is still one pot on the patio that is “his”, and I plant the same annuals every year that he liked to plant. He is always pleased to see them. Every child should have a chance to garden.
6 May 2016 at 06:11 #52154@puroandson I think Donald Trump is his own focus group. 🙂
5 May 2016 at 22:34 #52150@ichabod That’s a lovely anecdote and very illustrative. I think that the Doctor has moved back and forth between authority and anti hero. Capaldi’s Doctor, it seems to me, can be both. We have access to his inner workings in a way that BG audiences didn’t, and Clara of course has seen his vulnerable side, but I would think that the other people he has come across in his travels of Series 8 and 9 would see him much differently. Although even they question him, because nowadays, I don’t suppose audiences would be content with even one-off characters who said nothing but, “Yes, Doctor”, and ran to do his bidding. Anyway, I almost feel that CapDoc shows up strongest when he is challenged. He can use a few well-chosen, acerbic words to put them in their place!
5 May 2016 at 22:29 #52149@whisht Don’t you disrespect focus groups… without focus groups, there would be no new flavours for ice cream or vodka coolers. 🙂
5 May 2016 at 22:27 #52148@puroandson Yes! The last few episodes of that season were killer. It was actually one of the high points of the whole series for me. That finale was incredible, a sucker punch to the gut and such a great payoff for the previous five seasons of assholery that we went through. One of the many great things about that show was how the writers (and Hugh Laurie with his characterization) wouldn’t let us completely like House no matter how much we wanted to! We want to romanticize an antihero, but there was no romanticizing of House. Continue to enjoy, it’s a roller coaster.
Sorry Son is not feeling well; hang in there and enjoy the telly. 🙂
4 May 2016 at 16:41 #52125@bluesqueakpip I agree that the line when originally written did not yet have an explanation. I love yours! The Wedding of River Song seems to have derailed the assumption that I think most viewers made, that he would have told her his name as part of a marriage ceremony, and if you think about it, “There’s only one time that I could” seems to mean something stronger. Because his name is such an important secret, he would only share it with someone he loved and trusted beyond even the usual love and trust he has for his companions.
And as for your timeline that ends in the middle, I can only think of this line: “Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.” 🙂
2 May 2016 at 05:53 #52053@puroandson Responding to this bit over here so as not to get modded.
I do find that getting one’s hands dirty, in the soil and planting something is the best relief of all (something primal and ancient perhaps?).
You remind me of my son when he was three, starting preschool for the first time. He instinctively dealt with his stress at the beginning by spending all his free play time at the play doh table, rolling dough and cutting it up. It suddenly became his favourite activity. I think getting tactile with things is very good for us, on the whole. I have read a lot lately about natural ways of balancing hormones, and certain types of “restful activities” tend to come up. Gardening is definitely a good one! Spring is here on the west coast, actually we have had a lot of very summery days recently, and I’m out taking another shot at making things grow. Whatever the failures, something always succeeds, and it makes me feel good just to look at the things that are flourishing.
2 May 2016 at 05:35 #52048@puroandson I agree totally about Paul McGann! Although, to be a bit fair here, part of my feelings about his Doctor (based on the film and even more on Big Finish) were strongly influenced by the long years of Tennant/Smith, both of whom are considerably younger than I am. I enjoyed many things about Ten and Eleven, but I sometimes found myself thinking wistfully back to a time when the Doctor was older (and sometimes even wiser!). I know that Matt Smith did an outstanding job of playing “old man in a young body”, but it is undeniable that the young body in question could actually be my son. Peter Capaldi has solved this for me, as I can now go back to finding the Doctor likeable and a bit scary at the same time, rather than thinking “Have you eaten today, young man?” or whatever. 🙂 John Hurt is of course an undeniable treasure.
30 April 2016 at 04:58 #51992@puroandson Okay, that’s 30 minutes Mr. Arbutus and I won’t get back. And I foresee more minutes going the same way in the future. I especially liked the guy getting pizza delivered while on a five-hour train trip. 🙂
30 April 2016 at 00:17 #51984@pedant No, they would not have liked that. We don’t like to think that this kind of behaviour can happen here, but of course it can, and does. We have exactly the same percentage of goons and buffoons as anyplace else. And in Vancouver, we do like to think that we are all chill all the time, but it ain’t so. I get proof of this every time I drive my car.
29 April 2016 at 20:39 #51982@pedant Thanks for linking. You make so many good points, not all of them limited to sport. I should probably stop being surprised at how ready people are to believe whatever line is being fed, the spin and the stereotyping, and how little interest there often is in knowing the facts of a matter.
Robert Kelsey’s words that you quote, and your own thoughts about the way in which ordinary people are manipulated by corporate and media interests into attitudes that are in nobody’s interest, resonated strongly. I have pretty much given up following major league hockey, where fan vitriol has become pretty awful, even to the extent of occasional occurrences of violence and rioting, and despite talking the talk, teams still persist in treating their players like hired thugs or battering rams. Players who spent their careers as “enforcers” are starting to die of concussion-related issues (drugs and suicide not least). We all talk about this problem in the culture, but there is still huge money in it for corporate interests, and fans still go on supporting the violence with their dollars, and being gulled into believing that disrespecting rival teams and their fans in the most unpleasant ways is acceptable. Even their own teams aren’t spared when fans aren’t happy with results. Those of us with athletic children are now seeing these attitudes starting to contaminate youth sport. Kids diss each other during team handshakes, coaches shout abuse at their own players, players are encouraged in cheap shots and borderline or outright illegal plays, and I won’t even get into the behaviour of some of the parents. All because people are being encouraged into a belief that there is always an “us versus them”, whether in sport, in business, or in the functioning of our nations and cultures.
Frustrating, incomprehensible, and so, so sad.
28 April 2016 at 22:21 #51965@craig Personally, they don’t bother me especially. I just delete them and carry on. That being said, I’m in favour of whatever makes things easier for you and the other mods. No one wants this site to be a lot of work for you!
28 April 2016 at 18:46 #51949@puroandson But are you against caged people? Could we cage Donald Trump, for instance? Some people in Canada have been asking if they could build a wall along our border as well, to keep Trump out.
As to Son’s persuasive essay, well, it depends upon whom he has to persuade. I’d say he gets the concept of pathos as a rhetorical tool very well! My son had to do one last year, and he wrote on why the school day should start an hour later. He included a vivid description of what he personally goes through every morning (he is so far from being a morning person nowadays that he is pretty much the Platonic archetype of The Teenager). His classmates found it very persuasive indeed, so much so that they chose him to represent the class in the school-wide oratorical competition. This was a great triumph for him as English is not one of his strongest subjects. Had metaphors or symbolism been involved, I doubt he would have done as well. 🙂
26 April 2016 at 17:08 #51919And here’s what I actually came here to post! For anyone interested in the earliest of early music: Extreme Retro. A reconstructed, millenium-old tune.
26 April 2016 at 17:01 #5191826 April 2016 at 16:50 #51917@pedant Wow. I haven’t listened to Damn the Torpedoes in years. I have it on vinyl, which I can’t currently play, so I went onto YouTube and listened to the whole thing. I couldn’t believe how well I still knew every track. Here it is, everyone who has never heard it go listen at once.
24 April 2016 at 20:14 #51869@Morpho Which is why I’m a little disappointed that, yet again, the feisty companion is cocky under fire from what are supposed to be terrifying killer aliens. To be fair, it wouldn’t make much of a show if the companion were seen to respond to the Dalek threat the way I likely would, i.e. by throwing up or passing out! 🙂
It’s true that Donna was often unfazed by things, but there were times when she was good and frightened. I always loved her in the Sontaran two-parter, when she was stuck in the TARDIS and the Doctor needed her to come out and help him, and she was so paralyzed by fear that he had to talk her down. It was very endearing. Similarly with Clara in Deep Breath, trying to escape the robots. That scene was very frightening, due in no small part to Clara’s absolute terror. (I actually thought that Jenna Coleman always did “terrified” really well!)
24 April 2016 at 20:11 #51868@miapatrick with quite an old doctor, a young companion really makes sense, just as pairing Eleven with River so often made sense You have given me something to think about here. I now wonder whether the reason that some companion pairings worked especially well for me was related to contrast with the Doctor. Offhand, I would say that Nine and Rose, Ten and Donna, and Twelve and Clara were the AG pairings that saw the most disparity between the two, whether in age, style, or personality. Of course, during the BG run of the show, the Doctor tended to differ more obviously from the companions because the style of the Doctor as written usually stood a bit apart from norms of Earth culture.
@janetteb I wonder what these commenters expected? Cool as I think it would have been to have an older companion, or a male one, or an alien one, I didn’t think this was actually very likely to happen. The new metric for the show dictates youngish human woman, and as they broke the Doctor mold to some degree with Capaldi, they were not likely to do it again with the companion, not at this time anyway. But people will whine, and I’m pretty sure that most Guardian commenters don’t really like the show anyway! 🙂 I had a read on the Den of Geek comments and they seemed a little more balanced.
24 April 2016 at 20:08 #51867Cool! While it’s pretty hard to garner a whole character and relationship from a 2-minute clip, I see potential. I love that her name is “Bill”, and wonder what clues this contains as to her character/backstory. I thought Bill’s questions and remarks were more likely her way of dealing with her fear. And based on her look of glee when the Doctor mentioned “back to 2017”, I’m guessing that she is indeed based in an eighties time zone.
A commenter on Den of Geek made a comparison to Big Finish’s Lucie Miller, and I thought it was pretty bang on. Lucie, who was a fabulous character and really beloved by fans, was mouthy, down-to-earth, and tended to downplay things that we (and often the Doctor as well) would have expected to shock/amaze/frighten her more. She and the Doctor didn’t always get on in the early days, and I think it would be interesting to visit this type of rocky relationship, especially with Capaldi, who does cranky so well. Bill might have to gain his respect over time- a bit like Ten and Donna, but that relationship smoothed out over the course of one episode. It would be fun to have it take a bit longer.
22 April 2016 at 02:54 #5176622 April 2016 at 02:46 #51765Oh crap.
18 April 2016 at 16:42 #51719On another topic, I was so, so fortunate this past weekend to hear Collegium Vocale Gent performing the Lagrime di San Pietro of Orlando de Lassus. It was breathtaking, I can’t remember when I last heard such gorgeous singing. Some kind soul has posted the entire thing on YouTube, so here is a taste:
18 April 2016 at 16:33 #51718Nice list @pedant To your suggestions of compilations that count, I would add Bob Marley’s Legend, and to your Springsteen suggestion, Born to Run (I confess I haven’t kept up with his recent output, but I have all the earlier stuff and they are essential).
(I would have agreed with Jeff Buckley’s Hallelujah as “definitive” until I heard k.d. lang’s. Gives it a run for the money in my view. I believe I have posted it before so I won’t again but it blows me away every time.)
Additionally, @puroandson, how about these?
If you liked the Byrds: Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Deja Vu
If you liked Dylan: The Band, Songs from Big Pink
And because it’s great: The Clash, London CallingA couple of films that Young Arbutus liked a few years back and still considers some of the best (even now that he is fully into his action and apocalypse phase), are The Sting and Casablanca.
12 April 2016 at 07:20 #51629@ichabod I think it would be possible to do both. The darkness, the gravitas, that we find so moving can be provided in many ways, and it doesn’t have to be in such a way that it holds the Doctor back over multiple episodes. Moffat has set the tone already, in his handling of Clara’s departure and the immediate follow up. I did so enjoy seeing Cap Doc just having fun in the Christmas episode, and yet a couple of those moments with River were deeply moving.
Re “acting”, I’m reminded of Peter O’Toole’s wonderful line “I’m not an actor, I’m a movie star!”
@puroandson The only people in this house with a “sleep routine” are the parents. Dude Arbutus has given up even pretending to go to bed at a reasonable time, and we have given up pretending that we think he does. 🙂 (And speaking of that, it’s past my bedtime!)
12 April 2016 at 07:04 #51628@missy I loved that line. I always felt it was a nice little thumb of the nose to the fans who, between the 50th anniversary and the Matt Smith swansong, spent cartloads of energy trying to figure out how Moffat would be able to convincingly give the Doctor extra regenerations; in the end, “a thing happened”. 🙂
11 April 2016 at 17:28 #51618@pedant Your photos are lovely. The Borth sunsets remind me of ones that I saw over the Saint Lawrence in south eastern Quebec. We were almost to the Gaspé Peninsula, and the river is tidal at that point and as far as the eye is concerned, simply looks like the ocean. The sunsets were some of the most amazing I have ever seen. Some of the Cregenan shots look very much like parts of the western Canadian arctic. My wish list of places to visit in Britain just keeps getting bigger!
11 April 2016 at 17:14 #5161711 April 2016 at 17:05 #51616@missy I thought the Heaven Sent soundtrack was probably the best Doctor Who music ever. And as you say, the bar was already set pretty high!
11 April 2016 at 17:02 #51615@missy To be fair, had River not firmly believed that Smith Doc was in his last possible incarnation, I think she would have guessed fairly quickly who the Doctor was. But sometimes a very strong preconception can make the truth practically impossible to see.
@joamdalf Personally, if I met someone who seemed clever enough but freely said a lot of things that made no sense, peered with great fascination at things that most people would consider horrific, and talked with either great enthusiasm or deep scorn about “you humans”, I would be pretty sure I was talking to the Doctor, no matter what he or she looked like! 🙂
11 April 2016 at 16:56 #51614@ichabod I think it was just brilliant, to have him succeed in bringing her back to a sort of life, not once but twice (in his mind-Tardis in Heaven Sent, and in a sort of reality in Hell Bent) — but the end of their traveling together is the price. So he also fails. And not just the end of their travelling, but he loses even his remembrance of her, so tragic when you consider everything he went through with her from the beginning, and all she did for him. An echo of Donna’s fate (I’ve been watching Series 4 recently and revelling in all that was wonderful about that relationship!). But a mercy in some ways, as from what we saw at Christmas, the Doctor will be able to go forward whole and healed (reset, as many people talked about just before and after his last regeneration).
@missy I’ve never thought of Amy and Rory as having died, because we knew they had each other and lived a full and happy life. The Doctor lost them, but it would be a very selfish, Doctor-centric point of view to consider them dead as a result!
I’d like to think that the Doctor’s new regeneration cycle combined with his giving up of Clara means enough of a refresh that he can return to the Doctor of old, who said farewell to his companions with gratitude and affection, wished them well for the future, and then moved on, the carefree wanderer of old.
28 March 2016 at 05:28 #51484@craig A deathless tune. My son has done a couple of different versions in various choirs, and it reduces me to tears every time. Happy birthday!
@puroandson I agree, the half inch is critical! I am technically 5 ‘ 1 1/2, but I have always called myself 5’2, you have to hang on to your dignity where you can, right? Young Arbutus, 2 years older than Son of Puro, has been calling himself 6’3 for team stats since last fall, but if you want to nitpick, he’s only just gotten there in reality (well, in fairness, it looks more intimidating on a basketball team list!).
I have been meaning to say, as I have been lurking a lot recently, that there have been some great tracks put up here over the past couple of months; and once again, I heard the news of a great artist’s passing from @pedant. I don’t know why I bother with the rest of the Internet, really – you guys are the best!
27 March 2016 at 21:05 #51472Fifteen seconds of glorious Easter music (I would post the entire Saint Matthew Passion, but I guess that would be excessive!). 🙂
27 March 2016 at 21:01 #51471@craig and everyone! Happy Easter, lovely people. As always, thanks for making this such a pleasant place to hang out!
@mudlark Glad to hear that your date with your new hip is now firmed up! Based on my own family members who have done this, it should change your life for the better! @whisht, my mother-in-law has had both hips and three shoulders done. We call her the Bionic Woman. 🙂
26 March 2016 at 23:52 #5145326 March 2016 at 23:47 #51452@thedentistofdavros I agree with your assessments, although I would put Four and Romana as my favourites. I also agree with those who voted in Four and Sarah Jane! I also thought Rose had a better chemistry with Nine than with Ten, reasonably so as her character was designed for Eccelston’s more subtle, rougher-around-the-edges Doctor. Agree also with those who thought that River was fabulous with Twelve! I found it honestly easier to understand her looking up to this Doctor and loving him. (I was most convinced by her relationship with Eleven in their very last appearance together, when he had frankly aged a bit; it gave him a little extra gravitas that helped with that relationship. Their last goodbye was a heartbreaker!) @janetteb, Seven and Ace are also a good choice.
@winston @puroandson My most vivid insect experience was seeing the shadflies, or mayflies, in northern Ontario. We were on a cross-Canada trip and had just driven from Winnipeg to Kenora, and parked the car to walk through the town and have a coffee. It’s a very watery region, lakes everywhere, and we were crossing a footbridge and realized that it was coated in large dying insects. I had never even heard of these before! It felt creepy and vaguely apocalyptic, even though they wouldn’t actually hurt us, unlike the vile mosquitoes and black flies, but the sight of them everywhere gave my son the shakes. Eeww.
9 March 2016 at 01:12 #51240@dalektor Having conquered the Universe and destroyed everything not Dalek-kind, they would no longer have a purpose. Their society would become corrupt and would ultimately collapse in on itself. Finally, a tiny group of visionary Daleks, understanding what the Daleks had done to themselves, would set out on a quest, in search of some remaining spark of life somewhere in the distance reaches of space. When they found what they sought, they would hide themselves away and embark on the long process of encouraging this life to evolve, in the hope that eventually, Dalek society could heal itself, when it once again had something to fight.
3 March 2016 at 03:17 #51161@tardigrade @winston When I watched this again recently, it came as a pleasant surprise how much I enjoyed it. I remembered having been really irritated by the Reaper monsters as I found the concept unconvincing. I would far rather have had a rational reason for why Pete’s death couldn’t be changed, which would have been easy to do given the importance of Rose in the universe. We saw this done much, much better in Turn Left.
However, I did find that this time, I was better able to appreciate the character aspects of the story. I liked the examination of the way in which we rewrite our own history, as Jackie had essentially created a better Pete and a better marriage, free of a lot of the pettiness that seems to have been there in reality. Although Rose couldn’t save her father, she did allow him the chance to be, very briefly, that better Pete. I thought that was quite lovely.
3 March 2016 at 02:54 #51160I adore Capaldi and loved his solo turn in Heaven Sent, but even so, I wouldn’t want a whole series of that! I doubt that it is a minority view. 🙂
I would enjoy an older companion. I’m currently going through Series 4, and remembering all over again how much I loved Donna (I just finished the Sontaran Stratagem two-parter and there was the scene at the end when the Doctor reappears in the teleporter, alive and well, and gets a big hug from Martha and a punch in the arm from Donna, followed by a look of deep affection. That just about summed her up for me!
As we have moved back to a more mature Doctor I think an older companion could work very well. A bit the age of River Song, maybe. (I’m not sure I would want River herself full-time; I find I enjoy her best in smaller doses.) I agree that a male/female pair might be fun (not necessarily a couple). Really, a lot of companion-types could work very well, but a change from the very young-and-perky twenty-something female would be nice.
3 March 2016 at 02:37 #51159@winston I quite seriously thought you said “happy trolls”. And that “you have been busy” was somehow referring to yesterday’s spammer. And it all made sense somehow, for about 10 seconds. 🙂
26 February 2016 at 17:29 #51112@whisht I don’t remember if you posted that track before but it’s great. For the birthday of the Superior Whisht (which I can’t believe, btw, I’ll bet he says the same about you!), with no hints as to the kind of music he likes, here is a gorgeous tune chosen at random from my favourites. Couldn’t quite decide which version to post, so I went with an understated classic.
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