@Winston  Happy NY to you, also.

Lets all grab a hold 0f 2019 and make it do what its told.

I love that! Using those memory or vision patches the Doctor uses would help. I think in Capaldi’s first season 1 of PC and Clara where she wants the Doctor to find heaven and get Danny back (naturally, the Doctor, practised at Aikido, and fully aware…[Read more]

@bluffme

one more piece of proof the he is trying to fundamentally change how The Doctor is perceived. From Jodie Whittakers portrayal of The Doctor and the writing this season and now a new year’s episode instead of Christmas episode he has changed the series beyond salvation. I don’t believe I will watch next season in protest. I definitely am…

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@kevinwho

Very true, but let’s not make a change like that again! 😉

I’m outraged. Outraged, I tell you (not really). Colin Baker rocks, at least in the handful of Big Finish stories that I’ve heard he does 🙂

I’d stopped watching DW shortly after Liz Sladen left – not because of that, I’d just reached the stage in life where I had more i…[Read more]

@mudlark  I hope you have a wonderful Christmas.

@blenkinsopthebrave  Glad to see you didn’t blow away in that storm you had out there. Your choices are excellent and I really like The Miracle of Morgans Creek. Have a great day!

@blenkinsopthebrave

The regular Xmas films Chez Fish go something like this:

A Christmas Carol (various versions on rotation but more often than not the Muppets win out)
In The Bleak Midwinter (of A Midwinter’s Tale if you’re American. Much overlooked and a great little film)
Home Alone
Trading Places
Gremlins

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@blenkinsopthebrave Not really a Christmas Movie person but we did a TV Christmas special podcast and I did some research on TV Christmas specials. The list was very very long. We featured an early Avengers episode which was interesting as none of the younger people in the group had seen any Avengers at all, or any black and white tv. We will be…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

Apparently Elf scores very highly on polls, but having never seen it can neither confirm nor deny its quality.

Also look at TV

Buffy 3×10 Amends

The West Wing 1 x 10 In Excelsis Deo

And obvious your Who special of choice (When you admire the sun it doesn’t admire you back”.

There’s a Hill Street Blues episode that is just…[Read more]

@winston @blenkinsopthebrave then there’s Polar Express. In its first release to DVD Thane watched it upwards of four times a day over several weeks and into the next Christmas.   😈

I’m now making him sit through it again. I like some of the associated attitudes of kindness, mystery and adventure, thoughtfulness etc. It’s been at least…[Read more]

@thane16 Puro, that’s very kind of you. But I couldn’t have done it without all of you.

I know @blenkinsopthebrave is concerned about the level of engagement or conversation recently (which, although I liked the latest series I would lay some blame at). I am going to take some time over the holidays, have a think, see what the New Year special…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave      I suggest:  Scrooged   with Bill Murray because I really can’t stand watching Bruce Willis walking barefoot through all that glass. I actually cover my eyes till its over.

I also suggest Chevy Chase in Christmas Vacation because I like the comedies.

@blenkinsopthebrave

Oh, now, that IS weird. Yesterday’s conversation: “what film we gonna watch?

“Scrooge”

“yes, but I want diehard 2, or any die-hard film too. But I like the plane one.”

LOL.

@blenkinsopthebrave. I can only speak for myself but I have not been posting lately mostly because I am simply too busy with other obligations. It is always a busy time of year for most people I think. I have been struggling to keep up with discussions and I confess some of the arguments from new posters coming in only to express reactionary…[Read more]

@craig  @blenkinsopthebrave

I understand you don’t wish to have us discuss or talk to certain posters. But if attacks occur then a smart and sensible response should be permitted by us. As long as we try to stay above that cranky and furious level -remaining level-headed, I suppose. I hope you don’t delete the comment on this page because it…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave

I recall discussing this exact point with you too -last year, actually!  I sensed a change but I do feel there are new posters with inclinations toward writing, editing and bonkerising with aplomb 🙂

I also thought, independently of you (clearly timey whimey), about chickenelly, thomck (sp) tardisblue? But others have…[Read more]

@clarkkent1967

I think @margaret-blaine above had some excellent points.

One of the things I found useful when joining was reading as many posts as possible -to get a sense of the site, its posters, academic or not, those who are published writers or not, involved with music as a career, or with experience in acting and script-writing.  Over…[Read more]

@craig That’s awesome!! I have this odd feeeeling. Timey-whimey: I can imagine the original writers and producers watching something like this and between them, saying “uh? That’s OUR Tardis.” That’s a ….a …cyberman….dancing the tango?”

Like a channel blip for CAL in that Library.

@Winston I’m sorry. Yes I recall now, Ontario!  Snowmen, Ah…[Read more]

@blenkinsopthebrave  Mrs Blenkinsop and I just watched the last episode of series 10 . . . Looking back on that episode, I feel that Moffat could not simply do grand emotion, but grand emotion that was almost operatic.

Nothing “almost” about it — I think it’s the operatic intensity that really caught me up in the Moffat era, because I am a…[Read more]

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@blenkinsopthebrave and @Craig

Shouldn’t this discussion be in BBC Approved Spoilers?