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7 years, 3 months ago - View
Whisht replied to the topic General Music thread 3
@barnable – yeah, not a good year on all sorts of levels.
But I’ll play something I’ve played here before and that I know raises a smile with a few, because its christmastime and we really should try and feel….. christmassy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hM2dV0vtOd0
And always happy to hear more from this awesome album, so I’ll do it if…[Read more]
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7 years, 8 months ago - View
Whisht replied to the topic General Music thread 3
oops – I’ve not replied to a bunch of people!
@bluesqueakpip – always liked that Jules cover and REM is one I’ve always tried every few years to think “do I really like them?”
@barnable – cheers, not heard in a long time and actually bothered myself to listen all the way through and raised a smile when it was sorely needed!
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8 years, 6 months ago - View
jphamlore replied to the topic The Witch’s Familiar
@Barnable: If the Doctor preserved the time line which I believe he did, then old Davros is shown before the Doctor even arrives with the sonic screwdriver stays the same.
@Kharis: I speculate this episode is not parenting, it’s office politics.
Think of Clara as a new temp hire who has no shot at ever becoming permanent staff. The Doctor and…[Read more]
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8 years, 6 months ago - View
Kharis replied to the topic The Magician’s Apprentice
@purofilion Teachers are modern day martyrs for sure. Â We tend to use the teacher’s love for their students by treating them like crap and overworking them. Â Why? Â Because most people know that the teacher’s heart bleeds for their students so it is known that they will sacrifice their own life, time and health. Â Very Clara. Â I don’t know why peop…[Read more]
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8 years, 6 months ago - View
PaperMoon replied to the topic The Magician’s Apprentice
@lisa to be honest, I thought Moffat intended as a joke and that’s how I took it. 🙂
@ichabod darn, I thought it was the Doctor who said it. Never mind, I still think there’s the possibility that there are two disks, or, as you say, Missy has tampered with it. I wonder how Ohila managed to get it to Missy? Maybe that’s just irrelevant, we jus…[Read more]
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8 years, 6 months ago - View
ichabod replied to the topic The Magician’s Apprentice
@bluesqueakpip  If you insert a living being into a time-stream, someone who should never have existed, how long will they live?  Possibly, like all those Claricles, precisely as long as they’re needed.
Whoo, that is *cold*. Â But yes, I can see it. Â It could work, and be quite horrible — if Clara has never *been* anything other than a pawn in a…[Read more]
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8 years, 6 months ago - View
JimTheFish commented on the post, I walk with heroes. This is my power. Not to let them take me. Not me. Angel Season Five.
@barnable — good points on Illyria. She has definitely learned something since her rebirth and it’s definitely Wes that’s been an influence on her.
Not sure about the Slayers coming into save the day though. […]
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8 years, 6 months ago - View
JimTheFish commented on the post, I walk with heroes. This is my power. Not to let them take me. Not me. Angel Season Five.
@barnable — yes, I have a lot of love for season five and I think A Hole in the World/Shells is possibly my favourite two episodes of either show. Certainly Fred’s death is the most affecting regular cast death […]
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8 years, 6 months ago - View
ichabod replied to the topic General Music thread 3
@Purofilion  @Barnable  Thanks!  Good, good stuff . . .
My sister’s doing well. Â The hospital is only a few blocks away, and I spent the afternoon there with her, cracking up each other and the nurses. Â I think she’ll be going home in a day or two; then we start the re-orientation of her eating habits etc., and probably mine too since we two…[Read more]
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8 years, 7 months ago - View
JimTheFish commented on the post, The trust is gone. Don’t be using my phrases when the trust is gone. Angel Season Three
@barnable — yes, the characterisation work is great. I think some of the best writing done in the Buffiverse and possibly in genre TV in general is in the character arc of Wes.
Is this your first time watching […]
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8 years, 8 months ago - View
ichabod replied to the topic Deep Breath
@Bluesqueakpip  Thanks for the diagram — it works, until I look away from it . . . told you, I have trouble with time travel stories.  So I’ll stick with the simplest explanation I can find, until The Big Reveal — whenever that comes (and it better be in S9, or there’s gonna be trouble).
@Barnable  Well, the Doctor is supposed to use brains, no…[Read more]
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8 years, 8 months ago - View
JimTheFish replied to the topic Earthshock part 1
@Kharis — I’ve taken the liberty of slightly amending your post as it teetered dangerously close to spoiler territory. Although these are very old stories, we take the approach on these rewatches that there might be some seeing them for the first time so we avoid discussing anything that didn’t actually feature in the episode in question.
Hope…[Read more]
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8 years, 8 months ago - View
blenkinsopthebrave replied to the topic Earthshock part 1
@Barnable and @JimtheFish, I think the explanation of the androids is simple: the makers of the show wanted to save up the surprise of the Cybermen for the end of the show. Remember, the Cybermen had not been seen on Who for 7 years (in Revenge of the Cybermen with Tom Baker). Having them come back after such a long time was really big news, and…[Read more]
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9 years, 1 month ago - View
JimTheFish replied to the topic General Open Thread – TV Shows
@barnable, @purofilion et al-
OMWF is incredibly layered. Look at Giles’s ‘Standing in the Way’ sequence. It’s not just the lyrics telling you the place Giles is in at that moment and foreshadowing his departure in the following episode, but the staging tells us lots about where Buffy is, reinforcing her denial. And on top of that you get ASH…[Read more]
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9 years, 1 month ago - View
IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan commented on the post, Death is your art. Every slayer has a death wish. Even you. Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Five
They never show Glory has that power.
Sorry – that’s attention span failure. She has never used her power because until just before hand she did not know where The Key is, so was circumspect about who […]
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9 years, 1 month ago - View
JimTheFish commented on the post, Death is your art. Every slayer has a death wish. Even you. Buffy The Vampire Slayer Season Five
But I have a solution that makes that part better. The general’s gold necklace could be a wide range perception filter. Glory has her memory perception filter, so I think the necklace idea is not […]
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9 years, 1 month ago - View
JimTheFish commented on the post, Talkin’ violence, strong language, adult content. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1
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9 years, 1 month ago - View
IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan commented on the post, Talkin’ violence, strong language, adult content. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1
But I don’t understand blaming Donald Sutherland at all, since an actor just follows the Director’s instructions
That’s the point – he didn’t. He bullied the director, because he could (he has quite a […]
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9 years, 1 month ago - View
JimTheFish commented on the post, Talkin’ violence, strong language, adult content. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1
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9 years, 1 month ago - View
IAmNotAFishIAmAFreeMan commented on the post, Talkin’ violence, strong language, adult content. Buffy the Vampire Slayer Season 1
I don’t know what Joss Whedon said about his real intentions, so this is just my theory about what happened.
He said he would never cede that much control again (and really resented he Kazuis having a […]
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